Helping Businesses Become the Brand AI Recommends
The future of marketing starts with AI Search.
Search has changed. Customers no longer just search Google. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI platforms for recommendations.
The businesses that earn those recommendations aren't simply optimizing for search—they're building brands that AI trusts.
I help organizations adapt their marketing strategy for this new era through AI Search, brand authority, customer experience, reputation, PR, content, and search visibility.
Maria’s passion for search marketing and business development is at the heart of her approach.
The future of marketing isn't about ranking higher. It's about becoming the most trusted answer. I help businesses navigate one of the biggest shifts in digital marketing since the introduction of Google.
By combining AI Search strategy, search optimization, brand positioning, customer experience, PR, reputation management and content strategy, I help organizations increase visibility where today's buying decisions are being made. Marketing has become connected again. Offline experiences influence online discovery. Brand reputation influences AI recommendations. Customer experience influences visibility. Everything works together. This is the approach I bring to every client engagement.
Based in Toronto, Canada, Maria Fiorini is a seasoned marketing leader with over 13 years of experience in search optimization, digital marketing, and business development.
With a proven track record of driving growth, she specializes in helping organizations increase qualified sales leads by improving online search visibility. Her expertise spans Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), ensuring businesses are discovered wherever customers search.
By combining analytical thinking with creative strategy, she develops integrated search programs that deliver measurable business results.
Maria's holistic approach extends beyond search optimization to create connected marketing ecosystems that help businesses grow with confidence in an evolving search landscape.
How I Help
AI Search Visibility Assessment
Understand how AI sees your business today—and what it will take to become the brand it recommends tomorrow.
Most organizations have no idea how they're represented across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. This executive assessment provides a comprehensive evaluation of your organization's visibility, credibility and competitive position in the era of AI-powered discovery.
You'll leave with a clear understanding of where your business stands today, where opportunities exist, and the strategic priorities required to strengthen your presence.
Deliverables
AI Search visibility audit
Competitive landscape analysis
Brand authority assessment
Reputation & review analysis
Executive briefing
Prioritized 90-day strategic roadmap
Ideal for
Organizations looking to understand how AI currently perceives their brand before investing further in marketing.
AI Search Strategy
Build a marketing strategy designed for the next generation of search.
AI has fundamentally changed how people discover, evaluate and choose businesses. Success is no longer driven by SEO alone. It requires a connected marketing strategy where search, brand, public relations, customer experience and reputation work together to build authority.
Working alongside your leadership team, I'll develop a practical roadmap that prepares your organization for AI-driven discovery while strengthening your overall marketing ecosystem.
Areas of Focus
AI Search Strategy
Search & SEO
Brand Positioning
Public Relations
Reputation Management
Customer Reviews
Content Strategy
Social Proof
Customer Experience
Authority Building
Measurement & Executive Reporting
Ideal for
Organizations preparing for the future of marketing and looking to align teams around a modern, AI-first strategy.
Executive Marketing Advisor
Executive marketing guidance without adding another executive to your payroll.
As AI continues to reshape customer behaviour, many organizations need strategic leadership more than additional execution. As your trusted advisor, I'll work alongside your executive team to provide ongoing strategic guidance, challenge assumptions, identify emerging opportunities and help ensure your marketing evolves with the changing landscape.
Think of it as having an experienced marketing executive in your corner whenever you need one.
Ongoing Support Includes
Executive strategy sessions
Marketing leadership coaching
AI Search advisory
Campaign and initiative reviews
Executive presentations
Thought partnership
Quarterly planning
Performance measurement
Ideal for
Leadership teams seeking experienced strategic marketing guidance without the commitment of a full-time executive.
A modern marketing framework for the age of AI.
The Full Circle Framework™ is my strategic methodology for helping organizations become the brands AI recommends. Rather than focusing on rankings alone, the framework evaluates and strengthens the signals that influence modern discovery. It recognizes that AI doesn't simply index websites—it assesses credibility, authority, reputation and relevance across your entire marketing ecosystem.
Businesses don't earn recommendations because they have the most keywords. They earn recommendations because they've built a brand that is credible, relevant and trusted.
The Full Circle Framework™ helps organizations align every aspect of modern marketing—from AI Search and SEO to brand, PR, customer experience and reputation—creating a business that people trust, customers recommend and AI confidently surfaces.
Are you recognized as an expert?
Establish thought leadership through industry expertise, media coverage, partnerships, digital authority and brand credibility.
Would customers recommend your business?
Create exceptional customer experiences that generate positive reviews, loyalty and genuine advocacy.
Can AI discover and understand your business?
Build a strong technical and content foundation that improves discoverability across search engines and AI platforms.
Are you answering the questions your audience is asking?
Develop content that aligns with customer intent, demonstrates expertise and provides meaningful value.
Does your reputation support recommendation?
Strengthen the signals that build confidence—from reviews and testimonials to consistent messaging, social proof and brand reputation.
The Full Circle Framework™
MARIA FIORINI, STRATEGIC MARKETING ADVISOR
“Digital marketing has come full circle.”
For years, businesses focused on getting found. Today, they need to be recommended. As AI reshapes how people search, discover and make decisions, success is no longer determined by SEO alone. It is influenced by every interaction your brand creates—from customer experience and reviews to public relations, content, reputation and authority.
In other words, marketing has come full circle. The businesses that are successful online are the same businesses people would recommend offline. My approach reflects this shift. Rather than treating SEO, AI Search, brand, PR and customer experience as separate disciplines, I help organizations connect them into one cohesive strategy that builds visibility, trust and long-term growth
13+
Years of digital and search executive marketing leadership.
$7M
Generated 7 million dollars in 7 years from SEO lead generation strategies.
62%
Of B2B leads are generated from effective search marketing.
Book a Strategy Session
If your marketing strategy still focuses on Google ranking, you’re already behind. Let’s build a strategy that helps your business become the company AI recommends.
Is your business ready for AI Search?
Hire Maria to enlighten & inspire your audience.
Beginner mentee and advocate
for women in business.
Maria takes pride in being a mentor for students and beginners in SEO and an advocate for women in business. She strongly believes in the power of sharing information and is enthusiastic about simplifying ideas particular to SEO and career leadership skills.
She excels at motivating and inspiring others by simplifying complex ideas with unique concepts.
Student workshops
Workshops for marketing agencies and in-house marketing teams
Panel speaker
TedX speaker
Keynote speaker
FAQs
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Maria helps businesses kickstart and improve their SEO and AI search strategies with the goal of increasing sales leads, brand trust and awareness.
She provides her clients with a comprehensive search strategy, step-by-step plan and road map which are easy to implement for businesses conducting recommended steps in-house, or intuitive to oversee for businesses outsourcing recommended steps.
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Maria’s search marketing advisor service consists of the following steps:
Step 1: Maria will host a discovery call with you to learn more about your industry, business and bottom lines.
Step 2: Maria will then provide you with a formal package of recommendations on how to strengthen your website and overall web presence to help increase your bottom line.
Step 3: Maria will then host a formal virtual presentation to review recommendations, ensuring you have a complete understanding of SEO, AI search and next steps required.
Step 4: Maria will be available to answer any questions that arise for one month, starting from the date you begin implementing her search strategy. Ongoing consulting is available beyond the one month period by request.
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Maria’s advisor services will help support your designated internal resource responsible for overseeing external providers who impact your online presence. By educating you and your staff on SEO and AI search, Maria will ensure you have the knowledge required to efficiently assess current and future service providers ensuring they execute with due diligence, quality work at a high level on behalf of your company.
Working with Maria will allow you to ask external providers the right questions, hire the right proponent and provide you the ability to double check their work, ensuring you receive top notch service and results.
Maria offers ongoing consulting for businesses requiring additional support managing external marketing providers.
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Maria’s SEO and AI search advisor services will help support your designated marketing resource by educating them about SEO and AI search and helping them become familiar with advanced search marketing strategies.
Her clear and concise blueprint for your business, accompanied by a simple step-by-step plan and road map will allow your marketing resource to easily follow and execute recommended next steps as well as set up performance tracking reports to allow you to monitor and measure your ongoing SEO and AI search results.
Maria will be available to answer any questions that arise for one month, starting from the date you begin implementing her recommendations.
Ongoing consulting is available for guidance beyond the one month period by request.
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Maria’s forte is simplifying complex ideas. Her motto is, “anyone can do SEO and optimize for AI search, you just need to know what steps to take.”
Maria’s step-by-step breakdown will help you easily follow and execute recommended next steps as well as set up tracking and performance reporting to allow you to monitor and measure your ongoing results.
Maria will be available to answer any questions that arise for one month, starting from the date you begin implementing her recommendations.
Ongoing consulting is available for guidance beyond the one month period by request.
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Maria is a trusted source that can be relied upon to guide your online presence, SEO and AI search strategy in the right direction. Her recommendations encompass search marketing best-practices that comply with Google’s algorithm and Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines.
Although her service does not include execution, her recommendations are broken down into simple steps that are easy for you, your internal marketing resource or external service provider to follow.
For businesses planning to outsource SEO and AI search services, Maria’s plan will include a list of vetted and trusted professionals.
For businesses with internal marketing resources, Maria’s plan will include a list of free tools and also platform subscriptions that will help you perform, monitor and measure your SEO and AI search results.
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Maria’s advisor services are virtual and can support businesses world-wide. Communications, however, are limited to English.
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Maria’s SEO and AI search advisor service consists of the following steps:
Step 1: Maria will host a one hour discovery call with you to learn more about your industry, business and bottom lines.
Step 2: 15 business days later, Maria will provide you with a formal package of recommendations on how to strengthen your website, overall web presence and bottom lines.
Step 3: Maria will then host a formal, one to two hour virtual presentation to review her recommendations, ensuring you gain a complete understanding of SEO, AI search and required next steps.
Step 4: Maria will be available to answer any questions that arise for one month, starting from the date you begin implementing her recommendations. Ongoing consulting is available for guidance beyond the one month period by request.
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Maria is based in Toronto, Canada, however she provides speaking services about SEO, AI search and career leadership world-wide. Her communications are limited to English.
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Maria takes pride in being a mentor for students and beginners in search marketing, and advocate for women in business. She has a passion for speaking about SEO and AI search, motivating beginners to develop career leadership skills, as well as the success for women in business.
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The short answer is that today, all businesses would benefit from search optimization.
Whether it’s for business-to-consumer or business-to-business sales, nearly 92% of consumer buying begins online. Today, we depend on search engines such as Google to point us in the right direction—whether we’re looking for a location, looking up reviews or new ideas, or straight up buying online through e-commerce websites.
It’s important for businesses to be where their customers are, and that’s online. Search optimization helps businesses appear in top Google Search results and in AI conversations for queries relevant to their business.
It’s safe to say that all businesses should have a website and should ensure that their website is easily visible and accessible online. This is done through search optimization.
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SEO is the process of optimizing the front and back end design of a website to improve its visibility and ranking in search engine results for relevant search queries.
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SEO is organic; meaning it does not require you to pay a search engine to display your website in top search results.
Google Ads are paid; meaning you pay advertising dollars to have your website (and corresponding advertisement) appear in top search results.
PRO TIP: It’s important to ensure your website is optimized for SEO before investing in Google Ads. If your website is not optimized for SEO, it will have a negative impact on your Google Ads (in terms of visibility and cost).
Once your website is optimized for SEO, it is strategic to also invest in Google Ads. When businesses occupy the first two ranking positions on Google (with an organic and paid result), they are more likely to attract visitors as a result of increased brand trustworthiness.
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SEO and AI search requires ongoing commitment and effort—it’s not a one and done service. Depending on the industry, it can take several months (or longer) to appear in top Google Search results. This is because Google’s algorithm considers many factors when ranking websites.
When executing SEO, it’s important to remember why search engines like Google exist. And that’s because they want to provide consumers the most accurate, up to date answer. With this being said, Google’s algorithm scores websites based on their experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness (E-E-A-T).
As a result, businesses must keep their website’s up-to-date with fresh content and keep a close eye on competitor web initiatives—making SEO an ongoing effort.
PRO TIP: To reap SEO results quicker, businesses can inform Google when they’ve made updates to their website.
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The beauty of SEO is that it’s data rich. Maria will guide you on how to monitor, measure and control your results.
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AI search is a new way people find information online using conversational AI tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google's AI Overviews, Microsoft's Copilot, and Perplexity. Instead of browsing through a list of links, users ask questions in natural language and receive direct, AI-generated answers that often reference trusted websites and brands.
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Traditional SEO focuses on helping your website rank highly in search engine results like Google. AI search optimization builds on those same principles while also helping your content become a trusted source that AI platforms can understand, reference, and recommend in their responses.
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Yes. SEO remains the foundation of online visibility. AI search relies heavily on high-quality, well-structured, authoritative websites. Businesses with strong SEO are generally better positioned to appear in both traditional search results and AI-generated answers.
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More people are turning to AI assistants to research products, compare services, and make purchasing decisions. Optimizing for both Google Search and AI search helps your business reach customers wherever they choose to search, increasing visibility, trust, and qualified sales opportunities.