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marketing, product development, Gist, gist.com, social media, entrepreneurship, UW, University of Washington, Technology MBA
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T.A. McCann – create something great
Lessons learned…
Microsoft
Soft Labour
Polaris
Jump2go
Gist
Vulcan
MOD Systems
HelpShare
Fail!
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WIN!
VS.
Vision, Visualize, Plan, Operate
Connectedness
Listen to the conversation
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Too much information
Too little time
Too many connections
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How Gist Works…
Dashboard – what I need to know about my network
Profiles – everything I need in one place
confidential04/08/2023 14
Inside Outlook – integrated with my workflow
confidential04/08/2023 15
Inside Salesforce – giving me the reason to call…
iPhone – smart, relevant information, on the go
Inside Lotus Notes…
More Google - (Android – March, Gmail - May)
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A valuable target customer
• Business professional• Places high value of relationships (>8/10)• Has significant % of relationships outside
company• Uses technology to gain information advantage• Trained to pay monthly service fees
– Blackberry/iPhone– Salesforce.com– LinkedIn Pro– Zoom Info/Hoovers
• Roles include (execs, sales, recruiter, biz dev, VC, PR, journalists, lawyers…)
• Influencer of others on small teams• Often fits in GTD category as well• Technical, early but not bleeding edge adopter
Kevin Spidel
Managing DirectorPatriot Strategieshttp://patriotstrategies.comWashington, DC, USA5300 contacts, 1279 companies
"I am the Managing Director of an international PR firm and am very active on the social web. Gist allows me to cut through the noise and manage my contacts directly. I am able to monitor what matters... the relationship."
Gist user since 11/03/09 – has invited 34 users
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Coverage
“Gist works with Outlook and other email programs to keep users updated on news about contacts through social-network sites.”
- Wall Street Journal, Updating Office on the Cheap, Nick Wingfield
“Gist already has a strong following among sales types because its algorithms can surface important contacts and flag folks they should be in touch with.”
- ZDNet Between the Lines, The business-to-business of Gist, Larry Dignan
“..we expect sales personnel to flock to Gist, since the output provides a much richer portrait of contacts and companies than could be gleaned otherwise…supplying users with a ready excuse to stay in touch with customers and prospects.””
- Gartner Group, Cool Vendors in the High Performance Workplace, 2009, Matt Cain
“Gist, which we’ve already dubbed the power networker’s fantasy service for syncing social media data with email connections, has just launched their free iPhone app to tackle that challenge head on.”
- Mashable, Gist Launches iPhone App for Power Networking On the Go
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Marketing
• Find your connected, core user – engage early, often and deeply
• Listen to the influencers (reference, repost, re-use, retweet)
• Create your own compelling story (personal, product, plan)
• Surf the buzzword waves (e.g. “social CRM”)
• Be the brand
• Read– Seth Godin– Clay Shirky– Chris Brogan
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A very large market opportunity
A very big marketLinkedIn ~24M subscribers, projected revenue of $75-100M, $1B valuation
Salesforce ~1.2M subscribers, $600M in revenue and $3B market cap
RIM/Blackberry ~14M subscribers, $6B in revenue and $35B market cap
Exchange/Outlook ~300M subscribers, $4-6B in revenue
Personal Communication
s
Web content (news + UGC)
Social networks
Companies leading the (r)evolutionGoogle = inbox + “news” (news and ads)
Facebook = social network + inbox
Twitter = “inbox” + social network
Set biggoals
Get connected
Listen and learn
Fail fast and iterate
Persist
Go make something great.