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Api Bros - web dev agency that builds apis for startups

ApiBros

Dev agency for API-driven startups.
 Create flexible data endpoints, abstract the boring stuff & focus on buiding your app.

Aisle50 - sales and marketing analytics coupons groceries

Aisle50

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Aisle50 sells grocery deals direct to shoppers and partners with retailers for redemption.
 Aisle50 gives consumers an easy, fully digital way to save big on groceries at their normal grocery stores. We offer the best ROI in the industry for CPG marketing teams, who spend more than $40 billion a year. We will supplant newspaper coupon books, which ...
GFC2016 Conference & Expo - B2B education sales and marketing finance

GFC2016 Conference & Expo

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Global Business Management Conference & Expo
 The GFC2016 Conference & Expo for the first time anywhere combines the latest in technologies to the world wide web streaming our conference & expo worldwide via the web to provide global business management professionals educational discussion meetings and peer ...
DealRod - consumer internet e-commerce sales and marketing social commerce

DealRod

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DealRod aggregates, categorizes, and delivers daily deals based on a consumers preference
 DealRod is an aggregator of daily deal offerings including market leaders Groupon and LivingSocial. DealRod’s subscribers log into their personalized account and set up desired deal offer parameters. DealRod’s algorithms will sort each daily deal site’s offering ...
WeBe - social media sales and marketing advertising platforms

WeBe

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Ephemeral Social Video Sharing
 WeBe lets you record and watch your friends. Videos last for 24 hours. WeBe is built on your Facebook friend network. WeBe helps the end user better connect with their friends. The customers are companies who pay for interactive video ads.
bizHive - sales and marketing marketplaces small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

bizHive

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Thumbtack for small biz marketing
 bizHive is a marketing marketplace for Small Biz. We've created a secure online destination for Small Biz Buyers to learn about, shop & buy new media & new marketing products & services from "best fit" suppliers & resources - a safe haven to manage what's become ...
678 Partners - business services sales and marketing business intelligence

678 Partners

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Strategic Business Development

Kohoe - sales and marketing video games human computer interaction Media Streaming

Kohoe

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E-Sports Organization With Winning Infrastructure
 Start an e-sports organization from the ground up competing in, at first, League of Legends. Since Korea has had an e-sports culture for around two decades, an infrastructure was created to "breed" talent. We will incorporate that type of infrastructure and ...
Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

SupremeWebinar - telecommunications sales and marketing small and medium businesses corporate training

SupremeWebinar

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Automated webinar delivery platform
 SupremeWebinar allows marketers to deliver high quality and fully automated webinars. Marketers can deliver highly leveraged educational based marketing content to attract new prospects and customers to their businesses around the clock.
Drink Deck Destination Guides - sales and marketing restaurants deals travel & tourism

Drink Deck Destination Guides

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A destination guide for foodies & bar enthusiasts.
 Drink Deck is a discount & travel guide cleverly designed as a deck of playing cards. Each card in the deck represents a different bar scene representing a curated list of the best food, drink and entertainment establishments in Chicago, IL; Portland, OR or New ...
Carzell - lead generation sales and marketing automotive online auctions

Carzell

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When dealers compete, you win
 When car dealers compete to buy your car, you get the most money. Carzell is an online auction platform for our network of dealers to bid on vehicles listed by consumers. Comsumers get more money for their car than trading it in, there is no hassle, and its a free ...
A Door Ahead - sales and marketing consulting business development

A Door Ahead

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A Business Owners Dream
 We Help Business owners build online presence, save money, boost up their sales and grow their business!
ZigaVite - sales and marketing business development lead management incentives

ZigaVite

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Motivating Business Conversations
 ZigaVite lets you request, scheduled and manage meetings with potential business prospects by including an "appreciation" item if they follow through with your meeting request. You determine the value of your prospects time by choosing from a variety of items in ...
Invitation App - Share referral codes community

Invitation codes

The referral community
 Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Live Storefronts - retail advertising sales and marketing

Live Storefronts

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Online Showrooms made easy
 Live Storefronts helps Brick & Mortar businesses keep their website up to date with their inventory.
teardowns - e-commerce sales and marketing marketplaces brand marketing

teardowns

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The Marketplace for teardowns and rehabs
 Marketplace and marketing tool for participants within the redevelopment property industry (infill). Infill: the use of property in a developed area for new construction or redevelopment as part of a neighborhood revitalization process Buyers - http://teardowns.com/buyer_signup Sellers ...
Vendori - advertising lead generation sales and marketing marketplaces

Vendori

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Search the entire brand marketing ecosystem openly online.
 We connect buyers and sellers within the $20B brand marketing industry via company and contact profiles and enterprise SaaS so agencies, marketers and vendors can find the right solution to their marketing objective. An enterprise SaaS vendor management tool allows ...
Eventbin - consumer goods sales and marketing brand marketing personalization

Eventbin

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Free Online Deals and Coupon Organizer
 Eventbin.com is a free online application for shoppers to stay on top of discounts by using our patent pending and proprietary technologies. It aggregates discounts from major coupon sites, presents discounts in a user-friendly calendar format and offers personalized ...
Health Freedom Network - digital media sales and marketing health and wellness broadcasting

Health Freedom Network

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Helping Patients Find Holistic Health Specialists By Web, Text, Phone
The Health Freedom Network's Holistic Health Referral System connects patients with the holistic health provider in their city or with the specialty they need (Example: Lyme or Cancer Expertise). In a chaotic online space, its hard to know who to trust when researching ...
thenext90 - sales and marketing small and medium businesses business development Mortgage

thenext90

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Business Planning in 90 Day Sprints
 thenext90 is web based application that provides business leaders the most efficient and productive system for implementing business, strategic and sales plans. In most cases, plans either sit in a document on an executive's shelf or in a Excel or Word Document ...
Shotfarm - SaaS e-commerce sales and marketing web hosting

Shotfarm

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The world's Product Content Network.
Shotfarm’s Product Content Network greatly simplifies the management and transfer of product content between manufacturers and retailers. Use of the network is 100% free and unlimited for companies, their employees, and all of their partners. Manufacturers enjoy ...
Karrot - sales and marketing analytics loyalty programs brand marketing

Karrot

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We Modify People's Behaviors
 We are an experienced team with deep understanding of the point of sale. We work within our client's budget to provide premium service and quality loyalty and incentive programs. Karrot modifies people's behavior. Karrot provides a hosted online loyalty platform ...
CloutReach - social media sales and marketing business productivity small and medium businesses

CloutReach

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Sales and Marketing Automation for SMBs
 The CloutReach mission: To help small and mid-sized businesses profitably grow revenues by improving their sales and marketing effectiveness through integrated marketing communication and the introduction of a new social channel. We offer: • Social media setup ...
Rifird - sales and marketing small and medium businesses social media marketing mobile application

Rifird

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Referral Marketing
 Rifird is a tool that facilitates referral campaigns for merchants, distributing incentives to current and prospective customers.
Ruben Digital Media - digital media sales and marketing web design small and medium businesses

Ruben Digital Media

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Building Homes in the Digital World
 Every business today needs a strong web presence. It is no longer a luxury reserved for big companies. RDM pinpoints each client’s personality traits and company essence to replicate an in person experience on the web. My goal is to have customers connect with ...
CarteLux Commsisions - e-commerce sales and marketing automotive

CarteLux Commsisions

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Car-Tell-a-Sales™ (Commissions for auto sales)
 CarteLx Commissions™ founder is partnering with a family member's new Auto Dealer, that invests luxury cars. CarteLx Commissions™ (CarteLux Commissions™ - CarteLuxurious Commissions™- CLx C™) , an early stage startup, is an Online Auto Dealer referral website ...
PointDrive - enterprise software sales and marketing small and medium businesses productivity software

PointDrive

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Smarter content sharing for sales professionals
 PointDrive is a sales-oriented application that improves the way you share content with customers. It’s just as fast as sending an email, but it streamlines the information in a sophisticated, easy-to-absorb format. Simply import your LinkedIn profile, logo ...
IntentBuy - digital media advertising sales and marketing mobile advertising

IntentBuy

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Integrated Customer Acquisition Solutions
 IntentBuy is a performance media agency that works with advertisers to improve return on ad spend by more effectively buying digital media via direct publisher relationships, programmatic platforms, mobile ad networks and performance channels. IntentBuy was founded ...
savvo digital sommelier solutions - sales and marketing wine and spirits retail technology mobile coupons

savvo digital sommelier solutions

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The "match.com" for the retail wine industry
 Savvo deploys touchscreen wine kiosks directly in the wine aisle of grocery stores to match shoppers and wines at the point of decision-making. To a majority of shoppers, wine is a product they love but are also very confused by. Wine suppliers who have product ...
Demo Duck - video sales and marketing online video advertising film production

Demo Duck

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Handcrafted explainer videos
 At Demo Duck we create handcrafted explainer videos for companies small and large including Netflix, Dropbox, Lowe's, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and more.
ActiveCampaign - sales and marketing small and medium businesses email marketing marketing automation

ActiveCampaign

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Email & marketing automation designed for small businesses.
 ActiveCampaign is an email & marketing automation platform designed with small businesses in mind.
Haka Products - sales and marketing marketing Sales Enablement Product Management

Haka Products

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Turn voice of the customer feedback into successful new products.
 Turn voice of the customer feedback into successful new products. Haka Innovate: Listen for customer feedback. Identify customers' unmet needs. Engage customers during new product development to validate your problem and solution hypotheses. Improve product success. Haka ...
The Plastic Bag Solution - sales and marketing green sustainability outdoor advertising

The Plastic Bag Solution

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Daily Advertising Medium for all Tree Huggers
 Compostable bags are 100% certified by BPI to meet ASTM 6400 composting standards. Bags are distributed at no cost to restaurants and grocers. Bags are used as an advertising medium to non competing business. Advertisers get the opportunity to have their brand ...
ExpressText - mobile SaaS sales and marketing sms

ExpressText

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The Constant Contact of SMS
 ExpressText provides businesses and organizations with an easy to use platform that can be quickly adopted. The technology we use to send SMS messages to cell phones isn't difficult. The difficult part is training and educating our clients on how to effectively ...
EVENTup - sales and marketing Venue and events

EVENTup

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Marketplace for Event and Venue Spaces
 EVENTup - Events Made Easy. Easily browse our website to find your perfect spot from over 15,000 venues, choose from a variety of click to buy curated corporate experiences, or let our expert event planners help you plan any customized corporate event! SEARCH, ...
Live Scene - social media music sales and marketing concerts

Live Scene

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Nightlife Entertainment for the under 21+
 Live Scene is Promotional/Marketing/Entertainment Company based in Chicago specializing in the 18+ Market. With weekly events and attendance rates of over 4,000 a month.
JiSu - e-commerce sales and marketing online shopping internet marketing

JiSu

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Marketing platform based on user generated content (Shortlist Marketing)
 JiSu is a platform that solves core problems for shoppers and marketers. For shoppers, it is a free online shopping assistant that helps save time, find new products and save money. Services include: a) a private, centralized shopping cart that works across ...
Mineful - sales and marketing analytics quantitative marketing big data

Mineful

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Mineful automates customer retention for online businesses.
We turn 1-time buyers into brand loyalists. Mineful uses analytics to triggers emails based on the customer's interaction with the brand. This allows online retailers and app developers to send targeted emails at the right time; increasing engagement, repeat purchases, ...
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