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Show Your Real Self - Cultural Transperency
2009-08-11 18:54:00
Each company has a culture, whether it’s old school thinking shrouded by huge mahogany desks or the quick and nimble start up who plays Halo at lunch. The good and the bad, the right and wrong, all companies think and act in their own way, and each company has its own unique culture. Some companies ...
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How to Build a Website A Killer Website for Little Money
2009-08-03 21:55:00
It?s been 4 years since we launched the current version of mobilestorm.com. We are coming out with two new products very soon, so it only seemed fit to create a new website that was more in line with our brand, the new products and who we are today. We wanted to build a great looking ...
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5 Ways to Get Inspired
2009-05-18 19:44:00
Staying inspired over a long period of time is not the easiest thing for an entrepreneur to do. Take this blog for instance. I love sharing my thoughts, ideas, and experience, but it?s not always easy to pick up the laptop and bang out an article. Actually, it can be downright difficult, which is why ...
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I know I am due
2009-03-25 19:37:00
I know I am over due on a blog post, sorry everyone. I just wanted to talk about something real quick that really pisses me off. Imagine for just a second as a entrepreneur your business was failing because of bad decisions you made. You are about to get bankrupt but at the last minute ...

Organization Visibility
2008-12-02 08:00:00
Organization visibility is a big goal of mine for next year. This is not a new concept and it certainly is not my idea. I believe when things are going great companies tend to keep their employees less accountable. Today, “we the people”, received notice that we are in an official recession. Like “we” didn’t realize ...
More About: Communication , Organization , Infrastructure , Visibility

Start Buying Sh*t?
2008-11-30 07:36:00
If you are like me and not a big time Wall Street investor, I have a strategy for you, start buying sh*t. I know some pretty savvy investors and not one of them could have ever predicted what is happening right now. They also have no idea what is going to happen. I have witnessed ...
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My New Webinar Is Up
2008-11-25 18:36:00
We just posted my new webinar “Making Money With Mobile Coupons”.  95% of cellphones are text message enabled and 87% of the U.S. now has a cell phone. Mobile coupons are poised for  tremendous growth over the next few years. A recent Juniper Research study says that coupons delivered and redeemed via mobile phones are forecast ...
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Grow Your Business in 2009 ? Five Tips for Success
2008-11-24 14:00:00
Well folks, another year is quickly approaching us. Have you thought about your plans to grow your business? Here are five tips to help you expand significantly. 1. Save Money: In this economy, cash is king, and with credit being hard to come by these days, make sure your business has ample cash. This should be ...
More About: Business , Communication , Finances , Tips , Sales

Podcast Interview with Practicalecommerce.com
2008-11-10 18:42:00
I recently did an interview with Practical eCommerce’s Kerry Murdock on how text-message marketing is really starting to take off. It’s definitely a perfect introduction of the channel, so if you are interested in mobile marketing, please feel free to listen to this 15 minute interview. Listen now!
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I Am Hosting Webinar On Mobile Coupons
2008-11-06 19:56:00
If you are interested to learn how to make money with mobile coupons, I am hosting a webinar on November 11th at 11am PST. Here is the press release: Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) ? mobileStorm Inc. (www.mobilestorm.com), a leading provider of digital marketing solutions and services, will present a free webinar on how mobile coupons can ...
More About: Marketing , Mobile , Hosting , Sales , Coupons

Setting Appointments with Clients
2008-05-29 21:43:00
Usually I write longer posts but this is a little trick that you should definitely use. I hear it time and time again from my sales people. They set up an appointment with a client and when the time comes they cannot track the client down. There are 3 things you should do to ensure ...
More About: Sales , Clients , Appointments

Top 10 Items To Bring On A Business Trip
2008-05-21 13:30:00
If you travel a lot, then you need to make sure you have products that make your life easier and better. Every corporate exec should be rolling with these goods, or ones like them. Next time you?re running out the door, make sure you have the necessities. 1. The bag: I own the Tumi Alpha Travel & ...
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Forget the ?out of office? autorespondery
2008-05-12 14:59:00
If you own a business, there is no such thing as an ?out of office? autoresponder. You know, that little message you can set up that bounces back to people when they try to email you and you are on vacation? If you own a business, I hate to break it to you, but there ...
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Build your database. Now!
2008-05-09 02:22:00
In this vlog, I talk about my blogging schedule and why it is so important to grow your database, especially in a recession.
More About: Video , Marketing , Communication , Sales , Infrastructure

Here is a new episode
2008-04-16 20:49:00
Here is the 3rd episode of the show. I do a great job in making a fool out of myself when I do a rap, but it?s the ridiculous stuff that gets views right? Bad press is still press right? Here important rules I follow when creating these videos: I will not be afraid to take ...
More About: Video , Episode , Guantanamo Bay , Robert Mugabe , Raul Castro

How to Delegate with Minimal Resources
2008-04-15 20:06:00
Sorry people, between having a newborn and launching my new weekly Internet show ?Outside the Inbox?, I have let my blogging schedule for jaredreitzin.com go by the wayside. I didn?t leave ya! I still plan to continue to address important situations and subjects that all of us budding entrepreneurs must face. This week I want ...
More About: Resources , Project Management , Minimal

My Weekly Internet Show (Outside the Inbox)
2008-04-03 01:45:00
I finally got my act together and created a weekly Internet show. Think Daily Show meets Talk soup, but about all things digital marketing, and no where near the production quality. Course we are all about doing things guerilla style. I would love to get your feedback. Any thing you want me to discuss? Any ideas you have to make it better? Wanna come on the show for an interview? Send me your thoughts, I am all ears.
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Spam CAN
2008-03-04 21:24:00
We outdid ourselves. Check out commercial 3 of 3 promoting our upcoming white paper “Digital Messaging Best Practices for Geniuses” and tell me what you think. I would love your feedback.
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The Bad Blueprint
2008-02-11 20:38:00
Check out commercial 2 of 3 promoting our upcoming white paper “Digital Marketing Best Practices for Geniuses� and tell me what you think. I would love your feedback.
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The Wii Pusher
2008-02-08 02:15:00
I believe the future of the Internet is video. More and more people are starting to come online with broadband, both in the U.S. and abroad. To answer this exploding medium I started mobileStorm Productions, a unit of mobileStorm dedicated to creating cool video content for prospects, customers, employees and partners. Check out commercial 1 of 3 promoting our upcoming white paper “Digital Marketing Best Practices for Geniuses” and tell me what you think. I would love your feedback.
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Slipping Through the Cracks
2008-01-22 19:10:00
With a growing business, it’s so easy to allow things to slip through the cracks. I have lost clients because of promises that were not kept due to the fact that somebody forgot to do something. I have seen invoices which were never sent and thousands of dollars not collected because someone simply forgot to follow up. I believe there are two types of “to dos” in business–tasks and projects. Projects are large and have multiple dependencies and milestones. With tasks, there is usually just one thing you need to do and when that one task is done, you can cross it off your list. I highly recommend using a good project management system for your larger projects, especially if you are doing any sort of software development. However, this article is about making sure tasks don’t slip through the cracks. (more…)
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Happy MLK Day!
2008-01-22 01:16:00
Dr. Martin Luther King is one of my heroes. Imagine for a second that you knew you could be assassinated if you continued to purse a cause that you knew was right and just. Could you continue to stand up for what you believe in? I think about this often, and I realize that there are very few people on this earth who could. Does this story remind you of any other historical figure? MLK was a very selfless man. He realized that segregation would affect generations of people long after he was gone. He saw a window of opportunity to change that while he was alive on this earth and he took it. It amazes me to think that only 40 years ago, African Americans, and other minorities, were not allowed to go to the same schools as Whites, drink at the same fountains, or sit at the front of a bus. We have come a long way to make equality work, and thanks to Dr. King, “little black boys and black girls are able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.&rd...
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Plan Your Happiness
2008-01-15 00:41:00
I am sure you have heard of the story of the rich person with tons of money who is miserable or know someone like that. If you know you are going to be successful one day, you need to start planning your happiness now. When my company was making $20,000 a month, I thought to myself, “Jared, not bad. Most American small businesses don’t make this much.â€� Then I would see a company doing $100,000 a month, and I would become unhappy and not satisfied with where I was in life. When I started making $100,000 a month, I saw someone making $250,000 and again I became unhappy and not satisfied with where I was. This is the true entrepreneurial spirit. You always want to be doing better. You should never lose this feeling; it’s what drives you to become successful. However, this can be a dangerous slope. I know a number of people who can never be satisfied no matter how much money they have. I believe a good entrepreneur plans for his or her happiness. (more…)
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The Benefits of Stock Options (Part 2)
2008-01-08 02:34:00
In Part 1, I discussed the benefits of offering stock options and how they help in attracting new talent, creating longer employee tenures, and providing the company with happier employees who respond with greater dedication and an increased work volume. If you agree with me and this sounds great, you need to think about a few things before you go out and adopt a plan. Most importantly, you need to ask yourself if yours is the type of company where stock options make sense. This boils down to your exit strategy. If you are in business to only make money for yourself or your top people and you don’t care about going public or selling the company someday, then there is no need to waste your time with stock options. If you want to take care of your employees above and beyond their salaries and benefits you can always implement profit sharing, but you don’t need to offer stock options to make this happen. Having a stock option plan only makes sense if you plan to flip the company ...
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
2007-12-18 17:59:00
It has been a while since I created a post, sorry everyone! The last month has been pretty unreal in terms of how busy mobileStorm has been. I have been working on getting our San Francisco office open. We have closed some very big deals with some big names that we will be announcing soon, and we are in the process of expanding internationally. And on top of all of that, we are working on our new platform due out in 6 months or so. Needless to say 2008 is shaping up to be a killer year. All the hard work is really starting to pay off. I expect I will go dark until the first of the year. I plan to write on my plane flights coming up so who knows maybe I will post something before the 1st. If not, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (because nobody dares say this anymore) and a Happy New Year ! Sincerely, Jared Reitzin
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Everyone Wants to Make a Quick Buck
2007-11-13 02:25:00
The other day I was checking out my blog stats, reviewing which articles were the most popular, and I came across something very interesting. My “Raising Quick Cash� post on September 3rd by far has had more views than any other post; it wasn’t even close. It had three times as many views as the second most popular post, it was linked to multiple sites, and it had the longest page-view minutes. (Damn, I wish I was serving ads!) It really made me think about only blogging about money from now on. Certainly if I want more traffic, it would be a wise move on my part. I initially wrote the article for my entrepreneur brothers and sisters who struggle with cash flow problems. I pointed out a few good things they can do to get some money in the door quickly. It was hardly the most important topic I cover, but interest showed otherwise. At first glance, I figured the increased traffic to this article was just my current reader base more interested in this subject than previous ones,...
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Interview with bnetTV.com
2007-11-08 19:38:00
When I was at CTIA a couple of weeks ago in San Francisco, I was interviewed by bnetTV.com about mobileStorm, who we are and where we are headed. Check out the video.
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The Benefits of Stock Options (Part 1)
2007-11-07 02:54:00
Have you heard about the vast differences between private parks and public ones? The private park (owned by an individual) is taken care of very well. It always has the best-kept gardens, playgrounds, and bathrooms. The public park (owned by no individual) is poorly run and usually has the types of bathrooms that George Michael shows up to hang in. The reason for this is simple: when people take ownership in something, they take pride in what they own, and they have a duty to take care of it. If you don’t have a stake in something, you don’t care about it and, like the public park, it gets neglected and run down. This same basic principle, I believe, exists in the work environment. I trust most employees will work hard and do a great job, but I believe that you will always see someone’s full potential when he or she owns something. It’s like that rundown car you bought for your kid in high school–how stoked was he? He probably spent a ton of time cleaning it up, fixi...
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I Hate Losing
2007-11-02 02:11:00
I absolutely, 100%, without a shadow of a doubt, hate to lose! I don‘t hate many things in life, it’s such a strong word, but losing is something I truly hate. Hate I tell you! Did I just lose a deal? The answer is yes - why else would I write this post? Hating to lose is a classic entrepreneur trait. If you don’t mind it, put the blackberry down and go find a desk job. What’s worse than losing is losing to a competitor. This pisses me off even more. I start asking myself, “Why were we not good enough?� Maybe we don’t have the skills, experience or features that they needed? How is this possible, we are freakin rockstars! But, the simple fact is that there is always someone out there than better than you. Someone that has more money, more employees, more features, more support, more more more more more. (Note to Gates and Brin: If you guys are reading this, please stop and check out my article on the iPhone, it’s the only relevant thing for you on my blog.) The...

We got funded
2007-10-30 20:27:00
Dailymotion blogged videoWe got fundedVideo sent by jaredkmg Discussion about raising our first series A round of funding