Lyon Marketing Group

This company is seemingly scamming people. I paid for a service and followed their rules and they did not render that service. They tried to flip the switch on me, but I am not easily backed into a corner. I am on the side of lawfulness and what they are doing is not lawful.

My experience with these scammers has been unfortunate. I should have done my research before going here and giving them any money. The photos do not look professional for the thousand and some dollars they want you to pay for them (if you get that far. Look at what they display on their site), they don't manage talent as they claim, EVERYTHING you do costs money. Just to see them for the first time to sign a contract costs money, and this contract does not guarantee anything to you! And I have reached out to numerous people that they featured on their site. None seemed to have had pleasant experiences, and one said she was never paid to do promo for them. Not to mention they have fake 5 star reviews on Google ... It's sad that preying on people who want to actually do something about their careers is how these people make a living. Stay far away.

I wish I could give negative stars. Heather and Laurie were extremely rude. They are scammers! Do not trust them. Ya'll can keep the $20 because clearly your sham of an organization needs it.I honestly thought I was going to get some good advice about starting my career in acting but Heather blocked me after I wouldn't commit in writing to registering for the talent connection convention.Heather basically wanted me to commit to paying for the Full registration for the convention without even having a conversation first.How is that ok? You took my money for a $20 dollar consultation fee and never talked to me or even gave me a conversation. Do NOT Waste your money. What a shameful and disgraceful company!!!!

I love how this company focuses on marketing careers and not booking. I also like the education information and professionalism the staff displays.For marketing material in the acting modeling industry they know their stuff. And are connected to reputable agencies in Chicago New York and LA .

The office was clean. That is the only positive thing I can say. My daughter and granddaughter just drove in for a consult. We did not see the $100.00 fee expectation and was not prepared for that. We stated that it was sneaky in the email and then we were treated with absolute disrespect from that moment on. We were insulted, accused of wanting something for nothing (which we not expect or ask), told to leave the application and was threatened to you all call the police for taking the paper...I had to get the children out very fast, I could not them here this utter level of unprofessional and disrepect! !!! We have never been shown such disgusting behavior. There was no compassion for our oversight, only name calling, insults and utter rudeness. ...how can you run a business like that. ..you should be ashamed. ..I will only tell others of this disgusting company.

They are a scam and unprofessional look at there response on the picture. Waste of time. There not an agency just a school. They just try to sell you packages and are Rude through email too.

this company is a scam and should be shut down. They attempt to charge actors for jobs and training. actors NEVER have to pay for a job. Super unprofessional.

Very fraudulent company. They make charges to your debit/credit card without sending a receipt or explaining the charges. They are charging my account every two months without an explanation. Even so, you can't contact this company as their phone is now disconnected and their physical business address has been vacated. My bank is working with me now to have the fraud section dispute two charges. Futhermore, the two charges were different amounts within two months a part and unexplained. I will also contact the BBB on this matter. DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT GO WITH THIS COMPANY TO HAVE THEM REPRESENT YOU. Read and take heed of all the other comments made against them.

Very clever company, the contract clearly advises that there is no guarantee to whatever they offer you. What puzzled me was what were they really offering? The company wanted me to sign a contract, but only provided 4 days of training for a talent showcase. Also, they couldn't provide all of the days that will be set for the training days. Why would you require all my personal information but cannot provide all your information? Now if an acting agency who normally requires no fees until the job is given, why do you need a marketing agency?? My advice, do your research before signing their contract. Be mindful, anyone can open a business license & anyone can take you to court with a signed contract.

DECEPTIVE!Do not use this company. They are sneaky liars, and very deceptive. A couple of years ago, they called me after I answered an ad looking for models. I should have used my better judgement but I was excited about an opportunity. I was young then, but not a minor, so I did go the appointment. What will happen is they will try to get you alone (so there's no one to talk you out of signing a contract) and pressure you to sign papers saying you'll give them hundreds or thousands of dollars for a package which is supposed to promote you, and that they'll give you a list of agencies that can help you. Anyway, of course I bent to the pressure and the people there are really condescending. They talk to you like you're beneath them. There was one guy named Jason and his boyfriend (I don't remember his name). Anyway, to even have that first meeting they charge you like $150. Then they called me back a few days later to get my model shoot, they had some random guy posing as a makeup artist to do my makeup and hair and it looked TRULY AWFUL...I don't think he knew wtf he was doing, I looked like a clown. The pictures they took were absolutely crappy, their editing was worse. A few weeks later they gave me some photos and a disk, and the list of talent agents that's "supposed" to give me a big break and pushed me out the door. Since then I've heard NOTHING from them but of course they continued taking money from my bank account threatening that i'll go into collections. This is a shady business that is not up front about what you're purchasing. They prey on young people wanting to break into the business. They are just selling PHOTO PACKAGES. For some pictures on a disk they charged me about $1000. Unless you want to spend thousands of dollars on crappy photos that you could get at The Picture People then I would avoid this place. Not legit at all...read the other reviews. You have been warned. Also, Jason was the guy who left that dumb review about taking pictures of a puppy on here. how special.