Founder and CEO Scott Salkin of Allbound, a cloud-based marketing and sales automation tool for companies with indirect sales channels and reseller network, is no stranger to startups and the AZ tech community. While he built IDS Marketing, he’s also delved into the AZ Tech Council and launched Startup Connect AZ, an all day educational session … Read more
Good news! Your time spent playing Fruit Ninja just might be useful when crafting your influence online. That is if you can abstractly take your slice and dice skills to a piece of content to produce an intricate multimedia campaign. Matthew O’Brien, founder of Mint Social, was a super ninja at AZ Tech Beat’s Lunch and Learn when he … Read more
If you have all this data at your fingertips, but not sure how to utilize it to build your business, our guest speakers Tracy Diziere, a veteran marketing consultant, and Don Simpson, business insights & analytics manager at Appointment-Plus have some tips to help you start making big data driven decisions. At the October AZ … Read more
You may be a food aficionado or a technology geek, but unless you’ve been living under a rock in the last few months, you’ve probably heard about the potato salad guy who raised over $55,000 on Kickstarter and launched the first-ever PotatoStock charity festival. However, most Kickstarters are not as lucky when trying to raise … Read more
Article co-written with Becky Brisley When a company sets out to raise money on Kickstarter, the founders hope they raise enough to make it and continue their project. For OBD Solutions, a company that specializes in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of OBD cables, interfaces, software, and development tools, they had an overwhelming response for their Kickstarter campaign. … Read more
The biggest mobile conference in Arizona is returning September 19 for its fourth year, bringing developers, designers, and entrepreneurs together to share their visions for the future of mobility. “All of the founders of the mobile meetup have been in the mobile space for over a decade now. We wanted to make sure we could … Read more
Autumn may offer up some cooler weather with the monsoons, but something even cooler that is happening in Arizona is the CEA Innovate! conference which is focused on the growing technology industry across the country. Created by the Consumer Electronics Association to take a progressive look at the rising technology industry, CEA Innovate! is a three-day conference … Read more
Attendees of the February Free Lunch Friday walked away with helpful information from Tom Rusling, general manager of iAcquire, who gave insight into content marketing, the importance of verifying authors on Google and domain authority to a sell out crowd. Rusling expressed, “Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher … Read more
Startup Weekend brings its next event to Northern Arizona University on April 4-6, 2014, to help novice entrepreneurs gain knowledge and experience from seasoned entrepreneurs. Startup Weekend is an international organization geared towards advancing the startup ecosystem in the local community in which they are located. NAU and the LaunchBox Student Incubation program have teamed … Read more
Attendees of the January Free Lunch Friday are still buzzing about Todd Hartley, CEO of WireBuzz, who discussed how to move up in Google rankings through authentic content. Hartley spoke to the sold out Free Lunch Friday Phoenix crowd at Axosoft about the utilization of Google+ for small businesses. Even though the social features of … Read more