Helping businesses make sense of digital marketing since 2017.

The work started in Brooklyn in 2014, when Thomas Paradiso-Mescia founded The Social Media Gurus. What began as a focused social media service quickly became a hands-on education in what small businesses actually needed from digital marketing.

We spent our early years literally walking through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, meeting with local shop owners in Williamsburg, restaurant operators in Bay Ridge, small business owners in Park Slope, and people all across the borough who needed a digital presence, but didn’t exactly know how or where to start.

Three years in it was starting to become crystal clear that social media services alone weren’t enough for the businesses we were working with. They simply needed more. They needed websites. They needed to show up in search. They needed a full digital foundation, not just a consistent social media posting schedule.

Along the way, we heard story after story about agencies overcomplicating things, leaving a lot of business owners feeling confused or, even worse than that, ignored. Like they didn’t matter. So we expanded our capabilities and rebranded as Creative Visions Digital Media Group.

From the start, we chose to operate differently: clear communication, transparent pricing, honest recommendations, and consistent follow-through.

This is also the year that some of our longest-running client relationships began, partnerships built in Brooklyn that are still going strong nearly a decade later.

At the end of 2020, we made a personal decision. After years of helping businesses compete in New York City, we moved our offices to upstate New York, which felt about as far from Brooklyn as we could get without leaving the state.

What we found was a market full of genuinely good, hard-working people running strong businesses whose online presence often didn’t reflect the quality of the work behind them. That was a gap we already knew how to help close.

After planting ourselves firmly in upstate New York, we started building relationships the same way we always had: face to face, one business at a time, listening first and figuring out what each business actually needed.

Our client base expanded naturally from there into Binghamton, Elmira, Cortland, Syracuse, the Hudson Valley, Westchester, and back down to New York City, where we never really stopped working.

Around this time we also transitioned to a 99% remote model, which let us serve these markets without ever sacrificing the attention that’s always defined how we work.

In 2026, we made a deliberate decision to go deeper rather than broader. We narrowed our service lineup, made our pricing public and crystal clear, and rebuilt our entire model around the outcomes businesses actually need.

After more than a decade in this work, we know what tends to help and what tends to waste time. We still serve clients across New York and beyond, but the way we work hasn’t changed: one business at a time, with personal attention and real accountability.