Mac Frederick
Founder & CEO of Momentum Digital
Mac Frederick is a college athlete turned entrepreneur, currently serving as Founder and CEO of Momentum Digital. He co-founded the agency in August 2015 after leaving Google, and has spent the decade since helping small local businesses compete online. Along the way he has grown the agency to a team of more than twenty and worked with hundreds of small businesses across Philadelphia and beyond.
Strengths: entrepreneurship, creativity, Philadelphia SEO, Google Ads, networking, and business development.
Weaknesses: organization, patience, and skateboarding.
From College Soccer to Google
Mac grew up in Greencastle, PA, where he found entrepreneurship early by trading baseball cards on eBay. His dad is a successful business owner and entrepreneur, and his mom is a retired teacher. Having similar aspirations, Mac aims to run successful local businesses that help other business owners, while also being able to adjunct teach at Temple University. He took a D3 soccer scholarship to Virginia Wesleyan for two years, then transferred to Penn State and traded sports for business, graduating in 2013 with a degree in Advertising (3.9 GPA) and minors in Business and Entrepreneurship.
Upon graduation in 2013, Mac was recruited by Google and went to work for them for two years in Ann Arbor, MI. A year into the job he got bored and started a phone repair company, Ann Arbor iPhone Repair, where he taught himself all about SEO. Around that time he was beginning to develop confidence in his ability to start and run his own agency, so he took a leap of faith and partnered with a technical co-founder to start Momentum Digital in August 2015.
Building Momentum, 2015 to Today
The mission has not changed since day one: give small local businesses the digital momentum they need to compete with bigger players.
He also still owns Phone Repair Philly, which he started in 2015 with $1,000 and grew 6000% in 24 months into a four-location operation and the #1 electronics repair company in Philadelphia. It doubles as his proving ground: every local SEO and Google Ads tactic Momentum sells gets tested on his own business first. You can see how that thinking plays out in our client case studies.
Momentum’s sister company, Momentum 360, handles immersive virtual tours under the same roof.
Why Momentum Digital?
Why Momentum?
“My entire mission is to help small business owners and those who aren’t savvy with digital media, because they need it the most. Hundreds of businesses die every single day because they can’t keep up with SEO, social media, websites, and what to do to compete with the competition and bigger players in the digital space. The sad thing is, I know a lot of people like that, and they are the type of people who built this country. Those are the people we want to help and who we can provide the most value.
Philadelphia is the perfect place for this too because we’re rather anti corporate, anti-franchise, so there’s a lot of small businesses to work with. Knowing what I know about SEO and digital marketing makes me feel good and as if I’m actually making a difference and providing them with the digital momentum they need.”
Mac now runs both companies and has no plans of selling or moving anytime soon. He was recently featured in an article and video by CBS talking about how he exploded into the Philly entrepreneurial scene — as well as a Fox34 Article.
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Lance Bachmann Interview
Having mentors in your industry is paramount. To be the best you have to be around the best and think like the best. For the past decade Lance has been hustling in the digital marketing space to create a name and brand for himself, and boy has it worked. During my interview here you get a chance to see into the perspective of his life and how he started and grew 1SEO to the beast it is today.
