Courtesy Audit
June 2026
Digital Footprint Audit

You sell
first impressions.
This is yours.

Broad Branch Partners
Luxury real estate & infill development · Washington, D.C. metro
The walkthrough

Hopefully your website is the only identity crisis you’re having — online, the firm shows two co-founders, two brokerages, and a footer stuck in 2022. Quick to fix, and better you hear it from a friend.

Prepared by
Growth matters.
A favor, not a pitch.
Scope: public-facing presence only.
Confidential
For Broad Branch Partners
Snapshot
01

Here’s what came up.

Everywhere a prospect, partner, or nosy journalist lands when they look you up. Good news: the assets exist. Bad news: they don’t all agree with each other.

ChannelStatusRead
Website broadbranchdmv.com Strong, needs cleanup Good bones — clean Luxury Presence build, proper meta / Open Graph / Twitter tags, analytics installed. Held back by stale and conflicting copy.
Instagram @broadbranchpartners Live · unverified Exists but isn't linked from the site. Live metrics couldn't be pulled programmatically — a 2-minute manual check is flagged in the plan.
Facebook Broad Branch Partners LLC Live · orphaned Page is published (Bethesda) but disconnected from the website and clearly low-priority.
LinkedIn presence Personal only Leaning on a personal profile. No dedicated Company Page for a firm running a $70M project.
Brokerage profiles Compass / Sotheby's Conflicting A current Compass identity and an old, still-live TTR Sotheby's agent page coexist — pointing people two directions.
Google Business Maps · reviews Not found No profile or reviews surfaced — effectively invisible on Maps and "near me" search. Verify & claim.
Directories Tracxn · BLDUP · Bisnow Present · dated Third-party records exist; founding year and headcount are out of date.
Earned press Bethesda Mag · Bisnow Real asset Genuine, credible coverage of named projects — and almost entirely unused on your own site.

Bottom line:  You’ve got more presence than most boutique firms your size. The problem isn’t reach — it’s that the pieces don’t agree with each other or point back home. A fixable, mostly-free problem (our favorite kind).

Broad Branch Partners — Digital Footprint Audit
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Findings
02

What’s actually broken.

Ranked by what’s costing you trust and leads right now. For each: what it is, why it stings, and how to fix it.

01
Two co-founders. Two brokerages. One website.
Critical
The About page names both Jason Weinstein and Don Mfume Jr. as co-founder in different paragraphs. The same site says the sales arm is affiliated with Compass (homepage) and TTR Sotheby's (the Broad Branch Group page). It reads like two eras layered on top of each other.
FIX → Lock the current truth — present brokerage, present partners — and rewrite every page to it. Merge or delete the legacy paragraphs.
Source: broadbranchdmv.com/team & /broad-branch-group (same domain, conflicting)
02
Live profiles point clients to the wrong office.
Critical
Shane's TTR Sotheby's agent page and his Homes.com profile are still published and still say Sotheby's. A serious $5M buyer who finds those first could call the wrong office. Lost lead, zero upside.
FIX → Update or request removal of the Sotheby's page; correct Homes.com, Zillow & realtor.com to Compass.
Source: sothebysrealty.com (Shane Crowley), homes.com agent profile
03
Invisible where the buyers are.
Watch
No Google Business Profile or Google reviews surfaced for the firm. That's the exact surface where DC-area buyers and sellers look — and where a review moat compounds over time. Right now there's nothing to find.
FIX → Confirm whether a profile exists; if not, create & verify one for the Bethesda office, then build a simple review-request habit.
Source: no GBP / Google reviews returned in search
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Findings · cont.
04
Your socials exist. Nobody can find them.
Watch
Instagram and Facebook are live, yet nothing on the website links to them — the site's only social link is a personal LinkedIn. A $20M+ development portfolio is the most visual story imaginable, and it's disconnected from your front door.
FIX → Link IG + FB site-wide, stand up a LinkedIn Company Page, and run a steady before/after project cadence.
Source: broadbranchdmv.com footer (LinkedIn-personal only)
05
Stale facts and a 2022 footer.
Minor
The footer still reads © 2022, and the founding year appears as 2013, 2015 and 2021 across sources. Small "neglect tells" quietly chip away at trust on a premium site where precision is the selling point.
FIX → Roll the copyright to 2026, lock one founding-year narrative, and push it everywhere.
Source: site footer; Homes.com vs. site vs. Tracxn
06
You’re sharing a name — and search results.
Minor
Several unrelated DMV firms share the name — BroadBranch Advisors (M&A strategy) and Broad Branch Wealth Advisors of Raymond James among them. They compete for the same brand search and can scramble a referral.
FIX → Always pair the name with a qualifier — "Broad Branch Partners · Luxury Real Estate, DC" — in every title, bio & listing to own a distinct lane.
Source: SERP overlap, multiple "Broad Branch" entities

Note: Items 01, 02 & 05 trace to the same root cause — a brokerage/partner change that was applied unevenly across the footprint. Fix the source-of-truth once and three problems collapse together.

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Action plan
03

Un-break it.

Top to bottom, in priority order. Most of it’s free and doable in an afternoon. Hand this list to whoever owns the website — then check it off.

1

Write the source of truth. One short paragraph: current brokerage (Compass) + current partner roster. Everything else gets measured against this.

2

Rewrite the About / Team page to that single story. Delete the contradicting legacy copy.

3

Sweep the rest of the site — Group, Development, footer — so brokerage and names match on every page.

4

Roll the footer to 2026 and lock one founding year sitewide.

5

Fix the external profiles: update Shane's LinkedIn, Homes.com, Zillow & realtor.com to Compass.

6

Request takedown/update of the old TTR Sotheby's agent page.

7

Claim the Google Business Profile for the Bethesda office — search Maps first, then create & verify if missing.

8

Connect social: add IG + Facebook to the site header/footer; create & link a LinkedIn Company Page.

9

Add a "Featured In" strip to the homepage — the 3–4 best Bethesda Magazine / Bisnow hits.

10

Set a 30-min monthly habit: one project post across IG + LinkedIn, and one Google review request from a happy client.

Broad Branch Partners — Digital Footprint Audit
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Beyond the fix
04

Now, the fun part.

Your unfair advantage

A "Project Story" content engine

You don't just sell luxury homes — you develop them. No competing agent can narrate the journey from overlooked lot → approvals → finished residence, because they were never there for it. That's a moat hiding in plain sight.

Turn every project into one repeatable unit of content:

Build-progress reel Blog case study (SEO) 1-page PDF for buyer packets

One project becomes three weeks of content across every channel — and a "[neighborhood] luxury new construction" case study is exactly what ranks for high-intent buyer searches. It compounds into the kind of authority that wins both listings and development partners.


Fix the story first. Connect the pieces second. Then let the projects do the talking. The presence is already there — it just needs to pick a direction and commit.

That’s us, saying it to your face. Happy to walk through any of it — turn the page.
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