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New Features Offered by Dasheroo Email Marketing Partners

September 1, 2016 by Janine Popick·0 Comments

At Dasheroo, we take great pride in the fact that our dashboards integrate with many of the top email marketing platforms.

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to email marketing or have been relying on this strategy for many years, there’s always room for growth.

In this post, you’ll see the newest features offered by Dasheroo’s top email marketing partners. Let’s get started!

Constant Contact

Last month, the Constant Contact team shared a blog post about a few recent changes and additions.

If you don’t have time to watch the video about the newest features, here’s a few to get excited about:

Next-Generation Editor
Advanced reporting features
New PDF Importer

Thanks to new features like these, it’s easy to see why Constant Contact remains a major player in the email marketing space.

Get your free Dasheroo dashboard for Constant Contact!

AWeber

For many years, AWeber has been a top choice of internet marketing professionals and small business owners. There’s many reasons for this, including the fact that the platform is always updated with advanced features.

Most recently, the company announced two new features:

The ability to use tags to trigger multiple campaigns (more here) – What’s great about this is that if you want to target a group of people on your list you can use tags, you no longer need to spin up a new list every time you need to deliver a new series.
An update to the Broadcast Archive feature (more here)

These features, among others, have been rolled out this summer. And if you know anything about AWeber, you know its next announcement will be coming soon.

Get your free Dasheroo dashboard for AWeber!

Campaign Monitor

Overlooked by some, provider for small businesses, in fact we use them from time to time here at Dasheroo.

You can review all of its features here, including those that have been recently added to the platform.

Recently, they released a few marketing automation tools for its users it’s pretty slick. Check out the video.

Campaign Monitor also introduced its new App Store with more than 200 partner apps and integrations.

Get your free Dasheroo dashboard for Campaign Monitor!

VerticalResponse

For email and social media marketing, VerticalResponse is hard to beat. Not only is the platform simple to use, regardless of experience, its feature list is always growing.

They just introduced its Pro+ features. With this full service approach to email marketing, users can take advantage of many benefits:

Save you time
Save you money
Generate top notch results

If you don’t have the time, experience, or desire to manage your own email and social media marketing campaigns, Pro+ is an option to consider.

Get your free Dasheroo dashboard for VerticalResponse.

Remember, no matter which one of these email marketing providers you choose, you can bring your data into your Dasheroo dashboard, free!

3 Email Marketing Tools To Use Today and Their 3 Top Features

May 11, 2016 by Janine Popick·0 Comments

With more than 80% of B2B and B2C companies using some form of email marketing technology, there is no time to waste. If you aren’t using this marketing strategy you’ll continue to fall behind the competition.

But where do we start? If this question continues to weigh you down, here are three tools you should implement today:

1. Campaign Monitor

Check out where in the world your email is being viewed using Campaign Monitor!

Described by the company as a service that “makes it radically easy to create, send and measure the impact of your email marketing campaigns,” you can’t go wrong by choosing Campaign Monitor. Frankly we use them to do our weekly email communications.

Top 3 Features of Campaign Monitor

Drag-and-drop email builder with auto-save.
Variety of reporting and analytics tools. Worldview enables you to see REAL TIME where in the world your email is being viewed…geek out!
Access to email automation tools, such as drip campaigns. This is a killer feature.

2. VerticalResponse

Create autoresponders like this when someone joins your list using VerticalResponse!

Are you interested in reaching your audience via email and social media marketing? Well, VerticalResponse brings together the best of both worlds. We know, most of our team has either worked for or co-founded this company!

With the ability to create professional emails in minutes, thanks to a variety of customizable templates, you can be up and running in an hour.

Top 3 Features of VerticalResponse

Super awesome HTML editor and image manipulation tools to make your email the best it can be!
Powerful autoresponder tools to thank your new subscribers when they sign up for your newsletter.
Send up to 4,000 emails to 1,000 contacts every month, free of charge.

3. Emma

It’s easy to set up a lightbox form on your website with Emma!

Here is how Emma describes its service:

“Emma helps you build smarter email programs that maximize the power of marketing’s most effective channel.”

Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well, it will sound even better once you learn more about Emma.

Top 3 Features of Emma

Pricing that fits any and every email program.
Option to code your own HTML, great for advanced users that know how to code and want an awesome delivery mechanism.
Super cool lightbox forms that can almost double your subscription rate!

Make Your Move

Email marketing is not dead. In fact, it’s more powerful than ever before. Which one of these email marketing tools will you use to improve this area of your business?

P.S. Check out the awesome apps Dasheroo integrates with for your email marketing dashboard!

Track Our Startup! Release: Pinterest Analytics & More Google Campaigns

October 27, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

We got Pinterest out into the wild, so if you’re an avid pinner for your business you’re going to love the Pinterest analytics we’re giving you to track on your dashboard. Check out all that we’re offering here! Along with Pinterest we were able to also release a bunch o’ awesome stuff:

New Email Marketing Dashboard Insights

Now you can track email subscriber growth for each list in your account for: Campaign Monitor, VerticalResponse, AWeber, Emma, Mailchimp, Constant Contact and Get Response.

New Google Analytics Campaign Insights

We dove back into Google Analytics and created a few more insights for Campaigns that users were asking for.

Top Keywords by Sessions Leaderboard – Bar charts tracks the different organic keywords and the revenue that these keywords brought in.
Top Campaigns by Sessions Leaderboard – Bar chart tracks your Google Analytics Campaigns by Sessions.
Top Keyword by Revenue Leaderboard – Bar chart that tracks the different organic keywords and the revenue that these keywords brought in.

We also fixed a few bugs that hopefully you didn’t see so I won’t list them!

What else is going on? Isn’t that enough? No.

So we’re in Austin today. So far the co-founders got together for the first part of the Mind Meld yesterday, today the whole team is together. We’re going to share a bunch of data with the team, then go out and have some fun in this amazing city. Watch out Austin, I’ll post some pix to Instagram. Love this town. Oh, Uchiko, here we come, that’s right, land-locked sushi, but it’s the best ever!

One more thing we’re pretty excited about on the food train, James went to school with the Thomas who started Republic of the Sandwich in Austin, yep, we got takeout. If you’re in Austin it’s awesome, check them out!

Janine wrote some killer articles for Inc.com this week, Want to Get to SEO Perfection? It’s Time to Revisit Your Keywords! and Stop Wasting Time-5 Important Tasks To Outsource to a Virtual Assistant.

We got amazing mentions in Bill Brelsford’s blog for his marketing consultancy Rebar Business Builders entitled Getting The Most Out of Your Dashboard and we’re pretty stoked about it. He’s a great person who knows more than a thing or two about helping business grow by analyzing business analytics. Thanks Bill!

Ok, time to get back to the meeting! – John

Track Our Startup: Dasheroo Invited to the LAUNCH Scale Demo Pit!

October 12, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

We were so excited and proud that Dasheroo was nominated to host a demo table at LAUNCH Scale as a Top 100 company most likely to scale! Holy Moly! We’re even happier to be invited to the Top 100 Demo Pit!! If you’re in San Francisco today or Wednesday (sorry for the short notice!) you should go to this event! Stop by and say hi to Josh or Alf.

Back to Scaling…

We are ready for Q4 I tell ya. We’re tracking our numbers for the early part of Q4 and it’s looking good as far as website visits, converted leads and new customers finding value in what we provide (i.e. paying us!) Onward and upward as they say.

New Stuff We’re Working On…

We’ve been working on a few new integrations like Pinterest. It’s not been easy and it’s our #1 requested integration but they recently opened up their API to give us data for your Pinterest analytics. So they’re up next!

For Pinterest you’ll be able to track business metrics like:

Total number of boards
Total number of pins
Total number of followers
Total number of re-pins
Total number of comments
Total number of favorites

We’re also working on dashboard insight for Pinterest Reach, Engagement, New Followers, Engagement Rate, Engagement Rate by Boards, Boards Leaderboard, Highest Engagement Pins and Popular Pin Types. Whew!

We’ve been revisiting current integrations we have and adding additional insights for you to include on your data dashboard.

For all email marketing providers like VerticalResponse, Campaign Monitor, AWeber, Emma, Constant Contact, Mail Chimp and Get Response you’ll now be able to track growth broken out by each subscriber list.

Alerts (we had to put this feature on hold for a bit but it’s back!) – You’ll soon be able to set an alert when a threshold is met on a KPI you track in your dashboard. For instance if you want to know the minute you hit 100 Likes on a given day on your Facebook page you’ll get an email!

We continue to work on our Partner program administrative functionality which we’d like to release soon. So if you’re an agency or you manage a larger team of people and you need controls over who sees what data, we’ve got you covered.

Our co-founder James developed the coolest way to export your data into a PDF. He’s calling it Drone and soon we’re gong to release it to all of our users and he’s going to release it as an open source application to the developer community. We’re pretty happy about that for many, many, many reasons!

Now back to work and back to LAUNCH Scale!

Startup Lessons – How We Chose To Spend on An Expensive Event

September 28, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

In case you didn’t hear, we’re knee deep with Salesforce. We spent resources developing a Lightning Component in time for the
annual “Biggest Event of All Time vs. Oracle”, aka Dreamforce ’15. Some of us thought the decision to go ‘all in’ with Salesforce and prioritize developing a Lightning Component a ‘pivot’, you can also call it just plain being fluid.

Anyhoo, I wrote a different post about that, read it here. Nuff said.

So, we spent precious and finite dev & product resources to build a Lightning Component. What does that mean? It means you’ll be able to view any Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in your Dasheroo business dashboard right within the Salesforce.com application, cool huh?

Our friends at Salesforce were impressed with what our team, and especially Alex, developed in a very short amount of time! And I must say, so was I. SFDC was so happy, they invited Josh and I to speak about it at Dreamforce.

So, the next logical decision was: “hell, should we sponsor as well?”, meaning, should we have a booth at the event. It’s a $25,000 investment for a tiny pod alone, not to mention the cost for a rotating crew of 2-3 Dasheroo folks to staff the pod for 4 days.

Exhibiting at events can be very expensive, and I get pretty frugal when that decision comes around. We’ve only exhibited at one other event, the Market New York Expo last May. And that was less than $5,000 for a full 10′ x 10′ booth for 3 days.

So what were the factors I used to make a decision in this case?

Q: Do we want to be 1/2 in or go all the way?
A: We already made a significant investment in product and engineering, so it seemed like a reasonable investment to go ‘all in’ to hopefully build on our relationship and get Salesforce behind us and our Lightning Component. It worked well for us back in the early days at VerticalResponse when we integrated and got listed on the AppExchange and became the most downloaded application at the time.
Q: How close of a match is our market to the Dreamforce attendees?
A: We knew most DF attendees would be larger businesses than our core SMB target, and we’d be asked to compare ourselves to enterprise offerings like Salesforce Wave, Tableau and Domo. So not a great match, but we really wanted to learn from this type of feedback. And what we confirmed was that Dasheroo is more of a complementary offering to the big guys than a straight-up competitor. Valuable info!
Q: Will there be solid feedback and learnings we can use to improve our product development strategy?
A: If you ask some questions and really listen to the folks that stop by your booth, you should always learn some important things. So Josh (VP Product) and James (VP Engineering) spent a lot of time at the booth and heard challenges and needs first hand. For one, a “BI-light” approach, meaning perhaps we should go one level deeper in uncovering trends or the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine’.
Q: What are the all-in costs (inclusive of travel and lodging)?
A: Since Dreamforce is in San Francisco, travel and lodging costs were nil. All but one of us that attended lives here. Otherwise, we may have decided to not attend, or may have decided to really trim down the number of us who attended.
Q: Will there be partnership opportunities?
A: I felt we’d get in front of companies that we could have long term growth opportunities with, that we may not get in front of otherwise. And yes, there are a few of those in the hopper!
Q: What do we consider an acceptable ‘ROI’?
A: Contrary to my ROI for most events, I didn’t base this purely on number of leads and estimated sales close rate. That would be a tough calculation to make work, when you have a freemium business dashboard product! I based it on the factors above. Plus, we will measure the ROI on more traditional ‘payback’ approaches. But if we took an estimated $35,000 total investment on the 160 leads we generated, that’s $218 per lead. So we’ll see what happens – maybe we’ll get some larger deals or a couple great partnerships that pay that off. I’ll let you know.

So, yes we attended and 4 of the 5 of us co-founders said ‘yes’ it was worth it. The 5th was on the fence for valid reasons. Now, don’t get me wrong – we have no plans to throw around $25,000 willy nilly, it’s just not in our budget. Plus it hampered our productivity for a full week. But sometimes you have to look past short term traditional ROI to get to a logical decision in these cases when the strategic value can far outweigh the short-term investment.

What’s your take on trade show investment? Let me know!

Track Our Startup: We Survived Dreamforce + On To Q4 Growth

September 22, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

Even though about 6 of us were rotating around a booth schedule and a bunch of meetings at Dreamforce we still managed to work on some serious new features.

Dreamforce ’15

We had a great Dreamforce event here in San Francisco, thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hey! Josh and I had an 8am speaking gig in the Marriott Marquis. We thought there would be crickets at that hour but it was standing room only, great job, Josh!

Four days just “might” be a bit long for a trade show but we tried to make sure we got the best of our spend on this show. For those of you who don’t know, we built a “component” for Dasheroo dashboards using Lightning App builder so you can get your Dasheroo dashboards right in your Salesforce account. Right now it’s only for mobile, but hopefully soon you’ll be able to get them right on your desktop instance of Salesforce.com.

Feedback from the show attendees to Dasheroo? People were pretty happy that there was an easy, lower-cost alternative to Domo, Tableau and Wave which was cool. Some businesses even said they use us alongside those more expensive products to get a quick snapshot of how the business is really doing, then they use those tools to drill into an issue in more detail. Nice, huh?

Bonus? James came up from our Austin office so it was awesome to see him. Since we’re a distributed company we don’t get to see our peeps face to face as often as we’d like, so it was great to all who came out for it. AND everyone donned their fancy new Chucks so we were pretty happy about that. Sorry about your blisters, Jenny!

On To Q4 growth

We’re going to focus pretty hard on growth for our business and that means rapid integrations, going deeper on some existing integrations and figuring out any triggers to get ya’ll happy about paying. We’re pretty jazzed to give the service for free but when you can get the value you need out of what we provide we hope you’ll pay a modest amount for your business dashboard.

We plan on getting the team together for a day in Austin next month. It’s going to be great to see everyone and get us all on the same page as far as the milestones we really need to be hitting. Can’t wait.

If you haven’t read my Startup Lessons Learned for last week it’s pretty cool: Your Weekly Ops Meeting, you might need to revisit it! I’ve also got an article on Business.com entitled: Help is On The Way: 5 Easy Things To Automate in Your Business.

We’ve got our monthly board meeting to get ready for next week and a ton of catching up this week so I’ve gotta run!

Track Our Startup: SIX New Projects We’re Working On!

August 18, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

You can get your very own Stripe and PayPal payments dashboard at Dasheroo now! Go check them out if you use these payment solutions for your business, it’s pretty cool to see your these metrics next to your Google Analytics dashboard or your social media dashboard.

Here’s what we’ve been working on for your future Dasheroo business dashboard:

Josh submitted our iOS app to Apple and we’re in QA with our Android app. I won’t talk about it again until we launch!
Alex has been working on OAuth. This is simply a way for us to easily integrate with a ton of 3rd party applications like the ones you have on your dashboards. This also enables a top-secret integration with Salesforce.com too, more on that soon!
Andrew has been working on the “scaffolding” for our agency & partner admin console. If you’re an agency you want some controls over your client’s dashboards and you want to be able to easily log in and out of them from one spot.
James has been working on responsive design for our dashboards and Court has been busy in QA with it. This is great for integrations but also enables our dashboards to look nifty on tablets and mobile devices.
Competitor Dashboard – Nivi and team have been making great progress on this new dashboard template so that once James (he went to Alaska!) is back, he can assess when we can take the competitor dashboard live. You’ll be able to select this feature right from the dashboard templates to compare how you’re doing with a few metrics to how your competition is doing.
Do you think the Foo Fighters need a business dashboard? We do!

OK, that’s a ton of stuff in flight!

But Wait There’s More…

We’ve decided to sponsor Dreamforce! Like we said Alex has been working on a super-secret Salesforce project and you’ll get to see it at this amazing annual event. John and Josh will also be speaking on how we did it and show you.

We’ve just had our first request for a non-profit pricing program. We were so successful with it at our last company it makes total sense. Plus we really love helping those who save people, animals and the environment, everyone should huh? Janine is taking on getting this project together since she worked it at VerticalResponse. More on that as it unfolds but it’s slightly complicated.

Back Office

We don’t have a policy for vacations here, pretty cool huh? We just work off of the “Get your sh*t done” policy. So I talked to our legal team this week who blessed a non-policy policy, for now it works for all of us so hopefully it continues to!

John at Dasheroo

P.S. I hate accounting.

Startup Stories: Lessons Learned This Week

July 16, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

This is an exciting week! After several weeks of heads-down development and product work, we’re about ready to release our billing functionality. Maybe that doesn’t sound sexy, but to us it’s where the rubber meets the road…will people pay for Dasheroo? Many have said they will be happy to, so let’s see.

But that’s not the startup lessons learned this week; it’s obvious when you are starting a business that you need to charge for your service. But there’s actually several lessons that this billing project has taught me, and I’m going to focus on a key one now, one that I learned at my last start-up and one that is being reinforced in my experience at Dasheroo.

At Dasheroo we’re planning on diversifying our sales to different targeted audiences…are you?

And that lesson is that even with an SMB-focused offering, there’s a huge importance of establishing ‘larger company/enterprise’ sales efforts at the get-go. If that seems contradictory, hear me out. Here are my top 3 reasons we’re pursuing this strategy at Dasheroo:

1) Cash flow: In a business freemium model like we have, it takes a lot of $19 per month transactions to make a dent in the cash burn of our business dashboards company. Sure, it’s vital to build what we call the ‘auto-convert’ side of the business and establish our conversion metrics so we can begin modeling out what the business will look like 3-5+ years down the road. But I was reminded of my experience at my last start-up, VerticalResponse, of the value in generating cash NOW.

Similar to Dasheroo, VerticalResponse catered to the SMB market, providing a self-service email marketing platform. Most users paid less than $15 per month, and we knew we needed to offset our cash burn faster than those smaller sales could support. So we targeted companies with large email lists – e-commerce companies for example, that were happy to pay us thousands of dollars per month for the great email deliverability and VIP support we’d provide.

2) Diversification: Although the global small-midsize business market is well diversified with tens of millions of companies – we already have users in 100 countries from a gay pride foundation in Montenegro to a beauty school in Indianapolis to a dev shop in Guadalajara. But I’m talking more macro-level diversification from a sales perspective. Larger companies behave differently. They tend to buy on an annual vs. monthly basis. They tend to like ‘per user’ pricing and VIP support. All items that provide value to our larger customers that we are then able to charge a premium for.

3) Long term sustainable growth & value: This is an issue that really surfaces after you have achieved a level of success selling to SMBs. The spigot of early adopters tend to dry up a bit over time, and it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the high sales growth rates of the early days. And ‘increasing at a decreasing rate’ isn’t something anyone wants to hear.

So have we landed a ‘whale’ yet? Nope, but we’re in advanced discussions with a few that we hope to come to agreements with soon. And it’s not just good for cash flow, it’s great for internal morale and to position Dasheroo for a better chance of providing long term value to our investors, and potential acquirers.

One note – take caution that one ‘whale’ doesn’t pull you out to sea with one-off feature demands that aren’t scalable to the majority of your user base! Happy fishing.

Small Business Computing Product Review of Dasheroo

May 27, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

Dasheroo is very, very proud to be reviewed by the fine folks over at Small Business Computing! We gotta tell you, we were a bit nervous being that we’ve been in development with our business dashboards for a year with our business dashboards. But with the help of our beta users telling us what they want and with the amazing team building the product that adds huge value to business, we were super excited to have our first review be pretty darn amazing.

One of our favorite quotes:

“If Dasheroo stopped at that aggregation of data, it would certainly be worth signing up for that handy convenience. But the system goes a couple steps further. Most notable are the custom “Mashup” matchups. These let you pair metrics from different services to see if there’s a correlation between the data and to spot trends you might otherwise have missed.”

Do we have work to do? You bet! But we’ll always have work to do depending on what our users want.

So here’s our review, check it out.

I’m John Hingley and This is Dasheroo’s Startup Story

May 5, 2015 by Team Dasheroo·0 Comments

That’s me, John Hingley, one of 4 very proud Dasheroo co-founders today.

John Hingley here, I’ve been around the marketing, e-commerce and sales business for quite a while both full-time and consulting with great businesses. In one of these businesses I was brought in to fill a huge gap the company had, a sales and marketing leader. Although the business ran pretty sophisticated marketing programs – email marketing, Google AdWords, all forms of social media marketing, SEO, content marketing, trade shows, you name it – at this particular time, they weren’t growing as fast as they needed to.

I observed that most of the weekly meetings were those typical ‘status updates’ that often devolve into, well, a waste of time! So I initiated a weekly meeting called the Triple-S. People around the office asked me what it meant. It was simple; Sell Some Sh*t. If you weren’t talking about the metrics driving the business, you weren’t in the meeting.

The format of SSS was a metrics-driven meeting driven off a Google doc. I wanted a place where everyone could put their data in a shared, collaborative environment. A ‘unified view’ of the data if you will. And you know what? It worked! Our lead generation folks got a better understanding of what the landing page optimization people were doing, and the content marketing people started to create content that was more relevant based on the keywords people were coming to the site from. And so on.

But after a few of these, I noticed some faults. About 2 hours before each meeting, I noticed the team scurrying around, gathering the charts and graphs to place in the Google doc. Time suck! Next, there was little transparency in many of the numbers as some of the team would create their own Excel charts from the data of the native app, like Facebook. How did I know if it was accurate? And last, WTF do we all have to wait until Tuesday at 1p to look at all this great stuff?! It should be updated and available to any of us, any time, from anywhere.

So I took a step back, looked at it and asked, why the hell isn’t there a solution for any business that automatically gathers all of this data up to the minute (or hour even!), eliminate human error and display what’s going with the biz RIGHT NOW, not what happened 6 days ago? RIGHT NOW we can affect change, we can’t make up the 5 days we lost if we could have seen the reports now.

We’ve got Dashboards for all kinds, free!

When I stopped my consulting gig I decided to toy with the idea of starting this new company we lovingly call Dasheroo, and create the best product for businesses that need business dashboards. (Did I mention every business needs a business dashboard?)

Luckily our idea of bringing data together in an easy-to-read format was met with smiling faces of people around me. After a few months James Ryan our amazing VP of Engineering (sold his last company to Get Satisfaction) came on, set up shop in Austin, TX, and we worked to get an alpha version of our product out with 800 users.

We piqued the interest of a venture firm, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, that believes in everything we’re about; delivering productive business apps in a ‘business freemium’ model. Matt Holleran and Judy Loehr have been amazing to work with, they’ve given all of the support we need and more, and the best part is, they’re really, really nice and are part of the Dasheroo family already.

Amazingly, to round out the team this past year we scored Josh Feinberg (VP Product) and Alf Brand (VP Customer Success and UX expert) to join. These guys all have the experience we need to make an awesome product even more awesome.

And now we have the best tool any business can have in their tool chest; all of the important business metrics in their own business dashboards, for free.

How can it be free, you ask? What’s the catch? We know a lot about how to make things for small & mid-size business owners, agencies and even enterprise businesses, being that we’ve always been one ourselves. And we know that you need a break, but you’ll pay for bells and whistles you really need. Plus, I used to run an agency, so I hope other agency types see value in Dasheroo too. So that’s the deal, it’s free, you’ll love all of the functionality you’ll get and when you grow, we grow. Can we shake on that?

So thanks to the 1,700+ amazing beta users who have been banging on Dasheroo for the past few months, telling us what you like and more importantly what you don’t. This product is yours, not ours. It grows with you.

We’ll keep being transparent with you, we’ve always told you 99% of what’s happening behind the scenes, there’s not a chance of stopping that now.

So take us for a spin, we’re ready to grow and grow fast. And if you like us tell your friends. We don’t want to spend our money on advertising, we’d rather give it to you in the form of a stellar product.

Cheers,

John, James, Josh, Alf, Court, Andrew

P.S. Special thanks to the following friends for helping us get to this point:

John Jantsch (Duct Tape Marketing), Viveka Von Rosen (Linked Into Business), Alex Theuma (SaaScribe), Matthew Toren (iSmallBusiness), Adam Toren (Kidpreneurs), Dave Kerpen (Likeable Local), Jay Baer (Convince & Convert), Lauren Simmonds (Small Business Computing), Bryan Eisenberg (Idealspot), Pratik Dholakiya, Tom Taulli, Mark Evans, Steve Strauss (The Self Employed), Carol McManus (LinkedIn Lady), Ken Herron, Emily Crume and Erik Fisher (Social Media Examiner), Anita Campbell (Small Biz Trends), Matt Mansfield (MattAboutBusiness), Ramon Ray (Smart Hustle Magazine) and last but certainly not least Janine Popick.

Our friends and family of amazing investors (who are literally our friends and our family ?

For the full press release, go here.