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Hospitality Warmth Meets
Digital Cool​

Our Origin Story

GoBeyond SEO was founded with a simple and straightforward mission: to offer exceptional digital marketing results with a high-end customer service experience.

Brian and Trish Saemann took their years of 5-Star hospitality training and countless hours of self-taught lessons on SEO and online marketing to help struggling businesses achieve unprecedented success.

At its inception, small business owners were navigating the murky waters of both the financial crisis and the uncharted world of online marketing. GoBeyond was there.

Through innovative strategy, customized consultations, and hundreds of happy clients, GoBeyond generated millions in revenue for small business owners.

While the world has changed, our mission has not.

Today our team has innovated. Our process has been refined. We’ve adjusted our sails to the changing winds.

Facing yet another economic upheaval, we are here to answer the call.

Go BEYOND is not just our name: It is our promise.

Meet The Team

We develop strategies, create content, build products, launch campaigns, design systems and then some — all to inspire the people our brands care about most.​

Brian Saemann

Trish Saemann

Dan Cooley

Marcie Hardy

Eleanor Thompson

Samantha Robbins

We partner with our clients to understand their business, develop a highly targeted strategy, and implement our simple 3-step system to yield exceptional results.

Contact Us

Email: solutions@gobeyondseo.com
Phone:  (704) 259-4237

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15720 Brixham Hill Avenue
Suite 329
Charlotte, NC 28277

 





















Brian Saemann is a certified inbound marketing nerd and overall marketing junkie. Graduating from the University of Scranton with a degree in Political Science and Philosophy stunted Brian’s career for only 10 years – not the lifetime his professors warned him about. When he isn’t contemplating an inbound marketing strategy, you can find Brian reading Seth Godin, Steven Pressfield or James Altucher. Outside of that he is usually hanging out with his family or daydreaming that he lived on a beach. Brian was recently featured in Salesgenie’s Expert Interview Series. Head there to read his take on effective marketing strategies.

5 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT BRIAN

  1. Brian’s first job was Gravedigger at a Pet Cemetery. He’s not creepy – we promise – he was just too young to work the mower so they gave him a shovel.
  2. Brian fancies himself a “semi-professional” poker player and, according to Card Player Magazine, has 4 career cashes worth $3,087.
  3. Brian used to read the newspaper over the radio to blind people…do they still print newspapers?
  4. Brian often wonders how long it will take for Americans to wonder, “Why do we say roll down the window, we don’t roll anything?”
  5. If Brian could do only one thing on his bucket list it would be to spend the spring walking across the Alps, stopping in every little town along the way.










After graduating cum laude from Georgian Court University with a dual major in English/Psychology and minors in Marketing, Spanish and Philosophy, Trish packed up her ’95 Civic and took the scenic route across the country. Having creatively collaborated with the likes of Saturn, Beauty Brands and Family Dollar, she now shows others how to make the most of their experience and express their message effectively. When she’s not racing all over the Charlotte area, you will find Trish extolling the virtues of good beer or good tea to anyone who’ll listen, cooking with reckless abandon and chasing her red-headed boys through the local parks.

5 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT TRISH

  1. Her foul shot percentage is 84%
  2. As a child she had several exotic pets including: rabbits, snakes, newts, hermit crabs, doves, parakeets, guinea pigs, hamsters, cats and dogs. As an adult, she is allergic to several of the above
  3. Writes poetry, have some poems published in the Library of congress and had dinner with the late Allen Ginsberg
  4. Lived in Reno for 8 years and both dealt and played poker regularly
  5. Can speak Spanish proficiently










Dan is a social media junkie, a film maker and obsessive content consumer and creator from Monmouth County, NJ. For 11 years, Dan has been an acting teacher and theater director throughout the state and New York City. Living the indie artists lifestyle, Dan is no stranger to taking project from conception to distribution under an extremely tight deadline. At the end of the day, Dan’s great love has always been storytelling. His big Irish family taught him the importance of a good yarn before he is able to remember. They also taught him that to really know someone, you must walk in their shoes. Dan tries to bring this to every project that he is involved in.

5 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT DAN

  1. Dan is passionate about helping kids fight bullying. He is he founder of a successful theater company of kids and teens who perform all over the state of New Jersey.
  2. Dan spends way too much time thinking about Game of Thrones and other fantasy novels.
  3. Has a cat named “Lil’D” was raised in prison. (No, really. He was a service cat!)
  4. Dan’s first job was as a busboy. He was so friendly to the customers that the owner called him “The Mayor”.
  5. Dan and his wife Becky are masters at the license plate game








After growing up in the North, Marcie met her prince charming at a college party who brought her down to the good ‘ol south (as southern as Virginia can be of course). Over the years, Marcie and that prince have hopped around to Charleston, SC, Murray, KY, and The Hamptons (yes, in NY) the 20+ years her husband has been a Coastie (US Coast Guard). In all of that, two children were born.

With the first child, Marcie set sail on the journey to learning everything there was about content marketing, SEO and social media. With a BA in Psychology and MSEd in Counseling, marketing to people online is what she settled into quite comfortably. Due to her need to organize and control (because who wouldn’t as a happily married single mom), she jumped right into project management as well to truly help clients achieve Internet marketing success.

5 Things You Don’t About Marcie

1. Her real name is Marcelina, but Marcie is easier.

2. She’s 98% Portuguese (the rest is French and Italian).

3. She has four dogs.

4. She loves NYC and her dream was to live there, but God didn’t feel that was best for her.

5. She also wanted to be a marriage counselor and psychology professor, but again God felt Internet marketing was better for her – and you know what? He was right.









Eleanor is a self-confessed process geek who loves getting into the nitty gritty. Originally from the UK and still possessing a ‘funny accent’ Eleanor has proved that the ability to adapt is key in both her personal and professional life. Having started her career as an analyst in investment banking and moving to client management she learned that working with clients and helping them through process and change is incredibly rewarding. She has been working for small businesses for over 10 years diving in, working on strategy and standardizing process and is lucky enough to love what she does. An avid traveller, cook and sports enthusiast Eleanor keeps herself very active, knowing that trying new things ensures she is constantly developing and using the best of her knowledge for her team.

5 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ELEANOR

1. Eleanor drove across America visiting 27 states, and writing a book in the process. Not a very good book, but we all have one inside us right?!

2. Her favourite sport is sailing, racing numerous classes of boat and perhaps crashing into the odd superyacht.

3. Eleanor has broken both legs and both arms, not at the same time thankfully, doing sport. She loves sport but is evidently clumsy.

4. She spends more time reading than is humanly possible (quoted by family members) and perhaps should have been a librarian.

5. Is addicted to tea and has, unashamedly, become a tea snob.

       

 

 

 

Samantha is a nomad artist originally from New York. A learning enthusiast, she is a self-taught photographer, web designer/developer, and graphic designer. In 2010, she started her professional career in photography and design, building a successful small business in Southeastern NC.

Sam made the transition from photography to graphic and web design/development when she discovered her passion for working with small businesses. She believes that design is a language of its own. Developing an idea or a feeling into an innovative, engaging brand…. It’s a beautiful thing!

When she is not working on her next project, Sam loves to travel with her kids, listen to music and watch reruns of StarTek.

5 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT SAM

1. Samantha is totally into Patrick Stewart.

2. Samantha’s favorite animals are llamas and alpacas. She aspires to have a few of her own one day… weirdo.

3. Sam has been to over ten countries on a mission to try their most popular foods and cocktail beverages.

4. Scary movies are Sam’s jam.

5. Sam is an avid karaoke lover.