Two of us.
Both of us on your account.
Early Media Group is a small firm on purpose. There is no account manager between you and the people doing the work, because there are only two of us and we both do it.
Stacy Earl
Brand · Web · Filling the roomI've spent more than 25 years in marketing — direct-to-consumer work and the business development strategy behind it — getting real people to notice, trust and choose, and building the engine that turns attention into growth.
I've led marketing for a consumer rewards app that landed at #11 on the 2024 Inc. 500, a heart-health platform, and a national healthcare brand — the senior marketing leader at two of the three. In some of that work I was emailing millions of people and responsible for growing both acquisition and retention, the two numbers any business actually lives on.
I've been building websites since 1999, back in the pure-HTML days, and have worked extensively in custom code, WordPress, Wix and Squarespace since. So the site we hand you is built to fit, not a template with your name dropped in — and I'll tell you honestly which platform is right for you.
I also run a small travel company of my own, so I know your world from the inside. The inquiry that doesn't convert. The site that undersells what you actually do. The marketing that only happens when there's a spare hour, which there never is.
25+ years in growth marketing · Led marketing at #11 on the 2024 Inc. 500 · Executive MBA, Johns Hopkins · Building websites since 1999
Robert Earl
Getting found · Structure · Search & AIRobert is an Air Force veteran and a lifelong motorsports fan who has been to every Indianapolis 500 since 2001. For sixteen years he has built affiliate-marketing sites that earn their traffic, and his edge is structure: he organises content the way search engines — and now AI — want to read it, so it gets found and gets cited.
That discipline runs through Racing Passport, his travel companion for race fans who plan their year around the grandstands, and through the licensing guides that have helped more than ten thousand people start real estate careers.
At his core he is a teacher. He builds everything the same way — with precision, patience, and the belief that helping someone understand a thing they care about is work worth doing.
On your account, Robert answers one question: when someone types their problem into Google, or asks an AI, why does what you're selling come back?
16 years in search · Air Force veteran · Every Indy 500 since 2001
We kept meeting businesses whose product was genuinely good and whose marketing was a Squarespace page and a hope.
That's the whole reason this exists. Retreat education mostly teaches the week itself. Marketing education mostly ignores that a retreat is a date on a calendar with a deposit against it and a hard deadline that does not move. We do the second half.
Two rules, both in your favor.
Prices on the page.
What it costs is published. What's included is itemized. And when the numbers don't work in your favour, we say that on the page too — a retreat with seats under $2,500 is told so before anyone gets on a call.
A short client list, on purpose.
We take a limited number of ongoing clients. Not scarcity theatre — just the size where the work stays good and you're talking to the person who did it. When a seat opens, we'll tell you.
You own everything.
Your domain, your hosting, your ad and payment accounts, your analytics — in your name. On a custom build, everything sits in your own accounts from the start. On the fixed-price packages, some of the marketing plumbing runs on our tools while we work together — that's what makes a fixed price possible — and your list and everything it produces still come to you.
We hold a login, not your business. Walk away and the site keeps running, the list is yours, the words stay yours. Nothing held hostage, nothing to buy back.
What Early Media Group is.
Early Media Group is the firm. Two people, two client types, one engine. We do brand, websites, search and AI visibility, email, and the launches that turn all of it into booked seats and booked weeks.
Legally we're SRALL LLC, doing business as Early Media Group. Contracts, invoices and payments all come from that name, so nothing on your side of the paperwork is a surprise.
We also run a small program of marketing workshops for travel businesses. If you came here from one of those, the workshop area is still where it was.
Start with the free audit.
It's the honest way to begin. We tell you what's worth doing, including the parts you can do yourself.