Beth Guide

Beth Guide is a search engine optimization (seo) consultant, digital marketing consultant, public speaker, educator, activist and local TV news personality for Fox26 in Houston. She is also the founder of ACTWD and Seo411. In May 2019, she became an activist, fighting for homeowner's rights against bad actor home builders. She has worked with Congressman Dan Crenshaw and the United States Army Corps of Engineers in a situation involving home builder Perry Homes.

Guide is a graduate of William Paterson University of New Jersey with a BA in public relations. Guide worked for the Bergen Record as well as the New Jersey-Based Wayne Today, where she was able to interview then former President Gerald R. Ford and won various photojournalism awards. After arriving in Houston, Guide worked as a freelance writer for Gibbs and Soell as part of its work for Dow Chemical.

ACTWD

In 1998, Guide founded ACTWD, a web design and web hosting company which became the parent company to the popular Web Hosting for Idiots brand. The company specializes in small and midsized hosting. The company earned a registered trademark in 2000

SEO411

In 2008, Guide founded SEO411, a marketing agency. SEO411 is recognized throughout Houston as well as nationally as leader in the business community and was nominated in 2019 as Lone Star Colleges Small Business of the Year.

Since 2003 Guide has worked with the Bauer College of Business SBDC mentoring small business owners about website ownership, and digital marketing. In 2010 she added the Houston West Chamber of Commerce and Houston Northwest Chamber to help mentor business owners. In Sept 2019 she joined the HCC Center for Entrepreneurship to help new business owners succeed.

Guide was featured in the Houston Chronicle after leading homeowners in Kingwood to protest at a recent Town Hall with Mayor Sylvester Turner regarding flooding.

Guide is on the 2020 primary ballot for precinct chair

Born in Catania, Sicily, Guide immigrated to the United States in 1968 and lived in the New York City suburb, Wayne, New Jersey. In 1974 she earned her citizenship. In 1990 Guide moved to Houston and settled in Kingwood. She works with animal rescue groups, including the local-based VAP and supports organizations like Twyla's Friends.

She currently serves the Board of the Elm Grove Community Association, the Memorial Woman's Business Network,as well as Spectrum Fusion a group dedicated to helping adults with Autism. Guide was featured in the Houston Chronicle for her work with Autism.