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BCom Solutions goes national, opens Lincoln office
BCom Solutions, the digital marketing and managed IT company based out of Auburn, Nebraska, has announced it is going national with a focus on “conversion-based digital marketing strategies” while dropping its IT division. “For the last year, our digital marketing division has scaled exponentially. With our growing pains, we faced the challenge of doing a…
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Blabfeed brings cutting-edge analytics to the digital signage industry
In 2012 blabfeed started as a business plan pitched at the University of Nebraska at Omaha by Keith Fix. Soon after, the idea was discovered and funded by Ho-Chunk Inc., a $250 million economic development corporation wholly owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. “Keith Fix won a business plan competition at the University of…
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MarkeTech speaker Jennifer Rosenblatt on content marketing for new companies
AIM and GROW Nebraska are co-sponsoring the annual MarkeTECH Conference at the Kearney Holiday Inn Conference Center on April 26-27 in Kearney, Nebraska. The conference is billed as a place “where marketing and technology meet,” and provides an opportunity for small businesses and support organizations to learn from industry leaders on topics like e-commerce, social…
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PinPoint offers small businesses the loyalty card of the future
PinPoint is a free community loyalty rewards program that offers customers discounts and rewards to a variety of merchants through the use of a single card. With PinPoint customers can receive welcome, birthday, anniversary and payback rewards to many retailers, restaurants, services and entertainment businesses in the local area. Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Pinpoint currently…
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Hollman Media’s Travis Hollman talks marketing, technology and MarkeTECH
AIM and GROW Nebraska are co-sponsoring the annual MarkeTECH Conference at the Kearney Holiday Inn Conference Center on April 26-27. The conference is billed as a place “where marketing and technology meet,” and provides an opportunity for small businesses and support organizations to learn from industry leaders on topics like e-commerce, social media and building…
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Funeral Innovations brings digital marketing to death care
Two young software engineers from IBM Greg Young and Zach Garbow, wanted to extend their talents beyond corporate America. They didn’t anticipate finding their way into America’s death care industry. An opportunity presented itself when a high school friend of Young’s returned home from mortuary college. “[My friend] came back and realized that [the business] ran…
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Pushup Social brings social power back to the brands
Pushup Social is at the forefront of a social media revolution—social communities that companies can actually own. “When we first started back in 2013, people were like,”Why wouldn’t I just use Facebook?” said Dan Lohman, co-founder CEO of Pushup Social. Now things are different. Brands on social media are increasingly feeling the squeeze from social networking platforms.…
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ShoeMoney’s PAR Program acquired by GoSocial for $12 million
Global social media marketing company GoSocial has acquired PAR Program for $12 million. PAR Program was founded by Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker in late 2012. This is Schoemaker’s 4th company sale in the last 7 years. However, this was the first company in which he acted as CEO over a team, instead of working nearly solo and contracting out work. “This…
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Rentping Media CEO saved his company–because the Bible
With a floundering website and staff layoffs, David Watson turned to his faith–and it changed his whole approach to business. Rentping Media CEO David Watson and his wife moved into their first apartment in Omaha sight unseen. “We both had full-time jobs and didn’t have time to look around at places to live,” Watson said. “I thought…
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With COMP’D, you can subscribe to unlimited concerts
Every great rock ’n’ roll story starts with a man living in his parents’ basement. For Dustin Trauernicht, the founder of the online platform COMP’D, his journey into the music industry began selling t-shirts out of his parents basement for a music blog based in Nashville, Tennessee. “I started out marketing for a t-shirt company,…