Pure Visibility is an Internet marketing company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, dedicated to growing businesses by connecting them to new qualified prospects online. Pure Visibility’s Own Page One™ methodology starts with a commitment to understanding the distinctive positioning of each customer, and surfacing those qualities to receptive audiences through industry-leading analytics based processes. Dedicated to discovering industry needs—and innovating to fill them—Pure Visibility’s combination of creativity, knowledge, and resolve to provide unbiased information on Internet strategies and techniques has earned them the rare combined status of both a Google Analytics certified consultant and AdWords certified company.
Linda Girard, Visionary & Co-Founder
Linda Girard is co-founder and visionary of Internet marketing firm Pure Visibility, responsible for leading the aggressive growth and business direction of the company. Prior to founding Pure Visibility, she ran a search engine optimization business and retained her clientele as the business changed and broadened. A self proclaimed “Internet geek”, she gained a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Telecommunications at Eastern Michigan University unknowingly preparing her for the Internet before its existence. For over ten years, her energy and enthusiasm for all things search engine marketing has been impossible to miss!
In 2008, Linda was recognized by the National Association of Women Business Owners as one of the “Top 10 Women in Business in Michigan”. Linda is a contributor to Create Magazine and former president of the Ann Arbor Ad Club, where she currently serves as education chair. In addition, she serves on the Ann Arbor Chamber Board of Directors, on Eastern Michigan University’s CIS Advisory Board, and on Michigan Innovators’ Board of Directors. Linda is also a judge for the annual international WebAward competition for web site development.
Catherine Juon, Catalyst & Co-Founder
Catherine discovered the power of the Internet back in the days of IRC and UseNet while teaching abroad in the early 1990’s. In fact, she has one of those “Internet changed her life” stories. A Russian Listserv drew her to Moscow to meet a group of students from Eastern Michigan University, one of whom she later married and followed to Michigan (after keeping up a long-distance romance via CompuServe and a Vax terminal).
Since then, technology and the Internet have continued to be a powerful influence in her life, including a stint at the Engineering Information Systems department at Ford where she learned HTML in order to build out the department’s first website. She soon parlayed this experience into her own company, Stretch Media. This is where Catherine’s long love-affair with search marketing began and where she helped clients such as Service Brands International gain visibility online. She was tapped to speak about search marketing for the Ann Arbor Ad Club in 1998 just as Google was coming on to the scene. The biggest industry revolution during those early years was pay-per-click advertising, which continues to be a HUGE driver of business for the clients of Pure Visibility.
(You’ll have to ask Catherine to do her HUGE impression when you see her.)
Catherine has served on numerous professional boards including the Ann Arbor Ad Club and Society for Technical Communication, and has served as a guest judge for the Addy Awards in Cleveland, OH. Outside of business, Catherine enjoys economic development and is also an honorary board member of Great Commission Air (www.greatcommissionair.org), an Ann Arbor based organization providing humanitarian relief through emergency air transport within Guatemala.
Pure Visibility Inc.
201 S. Main St.
Fifth Floor
South Main Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
(734) 213-8100
