Kurt Noer

Founder/CEO, Customer Magnetism

Born and raised in Chicago, Kurt has been in Virginia Beach, Virginia since 1984. Kurt Noer’s first job was for a marketing firm in 1983, designing brochures. In those days, layouts were created by using an old school typesetter which printed out one strip of text at a time on a small piece of paper. This strip of paper was then positioned over a light table using hot wax.

Technology has come a long way since then. Through the years, Kurt has tried a little of everything including 3D CADD design for an architect firm, being a full-time youth pastor and launching an international, full color magazine.

While serving as a full time marketing director for a manufacturing company in the mid 1990’s, Kurt began focusing primarily on search engine optimization. Within less than two years, Kurt took his employer's website from less than 500 monthly page views to over 30,000 per month. The website began to generate literally hundreds of highly qualified leads per month and gross sales increased by over 300% in less than two years. The company was able to decrease spending on other forms of advertising while at the same time enjoy record breaking sales.

Based on this discovery, Kurt launched Customer Magnetism in May of 2000 with Goodman & Company, the largest accounting firm in the South East. Customer Magnetism was quickly profitable and on January 1, 2003 Kurt bought out Goodman's shares and moved their office to Virginia Beach, VA.

Kurt has spoken at numerous seminars and conferences relating to internet marketing and search engine optimization. He is happily married with two beautiful, young daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys time with his family, playing golf, snowboarding and following MMA fights (mixed martial arts).