We Are Hot!
Today Lead411 announced the fastest growing technology companies in Southern California–and CrowdGather was one of them! The companies were located through extensive research and began with over 1800 companies. The list was narrowed down to 57 and CrowdGather is among those chosen!
How they chose
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First, all companies must be in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, Hardware, or Media industry and be a privately held organization, and be within Southern California. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements; ** 100% increase in revenues over the past 2 years; OR |
Many Web hosting and cloud providers also have found their names included among the Inc. 5,000 fastest-growing private companies of 2010. We are excited to have been included!
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Erox in the Daily Glow
CrowdGather’s brand, Erox, has been highlighted in the Daily Glow! The Daily Glow provides a smart, fresh perspective on healthy beauty, with credible, solutions-oriented information that helps women look their best. We are proud to be featured by them at:
http://www.dailyglow.com/erox-debuts…edia-0122.html
Social Media Has Never Smelled So Good
Introducing Erox - designed by geeks for geeks, the made for social media attraction fragrance. CrowdGather launched this morning its social media campaign featuring Adrianne Curry. Adrianne is best known as the first winner of the now iconic reality television series America’s Next Top Model as well as for her starring roles in VH1’s hit series the “Surreal Life” and “My Fair Brady.
CrowdGather partnered with Human Pheromone Sciences to produce a scent that contains a combination of pheromones, and a new revolutionary attraction compound called ER303, into a potent cocktail that has been clinically proven to increase feelings of arousal, excitement, social warmth and friendliness in both men and women.
Unlike traditional fragrances, the scent will be launched, sold and marketed exclusively through nontraditional channels - social media and forum communities - obviously targeting those who are active in the online social sphere.
Photos, comics and videos are coming soon! So stay tuned.
What An Honor! CrowdGather is the Top Article on New Tech Post
We were totally honored to be nominated the most popular article on New Tech Post for 2011. In their words:
We are thrilled that people are using the "F" word and we look forward to great things in 2012!
Presenting at 4th Annual LD Micro Conference
Sanjay Sabnani will be presenting at the 4th annual LD Micro Conference on Thursday December 8th at 1:30pm PST at the Luxe Sunset Hotel in Los Angeles.
The webcast will be available at http://wsw.com/webcast/ldmicro/crwg/ and on CrowdGather’s corporate website www.crowdgather.com.
About the LD Micro Conference
After nine years of researching companies, writing reports, and putting our own capital on the line, LD MICRO is proud to announce its fourth annual conference on December 7th and 8th, 2011.
They have invited 101 companies and over a hundred fifty institutions focused on small and micro-cap names. Last year, a record 510 people attended the main event.
Forums Continue Connecting People in Powerful Ways
One of every six pregnancies ends in miscarriage or stillbirth yet the loss experienced by parents gets little attention from family, friends, and members of the community. In a study conducted with 1000 anonymous women participating across 18 message boards, researchers from the University of Michigan and Georgia Health Sciences recently focused on how women used forums to gain and offer support when the surrounding community didn’t see their continuing struggle to cope with the loss.
“Women who have not gone through a stillbirth don’t want to hear about my birth, or what my daughter looked like, or anything about my experience,” said one woman. Because of this sense of isolation, forums are becoming a place for women to share feelings about their loss — and not just recent ones. In fact, about half of women who participated had been coping with the loss of a child that occurred five, ten, even twenty years earlier.
The small number (2%) of African American women who responded belied the fact they are twice as likely to deliver a stillborn child than white women. “This is the largest study to look at who uses Internet message boards after pregnancy loss and it demonstrates a significant disparity between the women who experience loss and those who responded to the survey,” says lead study author Dr. Katherine J. Gold, assistant professor of family medicine at U-M Medical School. “This suggest an important gap in support for African American parents that should be explored further.”
Several women noted the sense of validation they received from others with similar stories, as well as the ease of communication the Internet provides. They appreciated having time to form their thoughts and not have the pressure of in-the-moment conversations. They also noted the benefit of learning new medical information on forums. “The fact that so many women learned new medical information from the message boards shows what an important resource they can be in this regard," says study senior author Dr. Christie Palladino, an obstetrician/gynecologist with Georgia Health Sciences University’s Education Discovery Institute.
Forums are simple tools that provide a fundamental service to communities. People can share both their passions and their pain. In the case of these women, they learned that they were not the only ones suffering — that they were not alone in a nightmare. What could be more empowering than that?
Yuku and Ezboard Join The Network
Crowdgather is excited to announce the acquisition of Yuku.com which brings our monthly pageviews up to approximately 235 million and 23 million monthly uniques. The acquisition includes ezboard, which was created in 1996 by Vanchau Nguyen.
One of the earliest user-customisable online message board providers, it quickly grew and by 2005, it had approximately 30 million registered users with over 250,000 communities. In 2008, ezboard was acquired by Yuku.com.
Since 2005, Yuku.com was developing a huge base of passionate community users in a wide range of message boards. The current blogging and community service was revealed as being available at the DEMOfall 2005 conference. The launch was reported by media outlets such as Computerworld, USA Today, Bloomberg and CNN Money.
We are excited to continue the legacy of these vibrant networks of communities. Sanjay expressed it quite succinctly by stating:
"Yuku and its predecessor Ezboard are a part of forum history, and we are glad to give these communities a home as part of the CrowdGather family of forum communities. Our immediate focus will be to revitalize this platform and to listen to the needs of the members. Together we will strive towards preserving the legacy of the Yuku communities."
Be Smart! Marketing Through Forums
Recently I participated in several online marketing campaigns. When asked where I thought the best place would be to market the product, I came back again and again to forums. The very obvious reason being that people on forums already have a level of buy-in and interest in certain product lines. If I put up an ad on Google I am sending it out into the great world of the Internet, but a forum provides a place where real people are already interested in certain product lines.
CrowdGather recently launched a product that they plan on marketing exclusively online and mostly through forums. The product is Erox, a commercial fragrance that combines pheremones and ER303, a compound proven to increase excitement and arousal in both men and women.
Yesterday, Sanjay registered CrowdGather on the best pheremone review forum called Pherotruth.com. After speaking with the owner of the site he was gracious enough to offer us our own vendor subforum, providing us with access to the most unbiased group of pheremone enthusiasts on the Internet on a Google Page 1 ranking site.
According to PostRelease’s whitepaper forum users are:
- 3.5 times more likely to proactively recommend a particular purchase to someone else
- 3.5 times more likely to share links about new products
- 4 times more likely to post online ratings and reviews
- Almost twice as likely to share advice– offline and in person – based on information they’ve read online
The possibilities for these symbiotic partnerships to be formed are endless to the benefit of the members on the site, the owners of the site and to the marketers of the product.
Tune In To Sanjay at Rodman and Renshaw
Sanjay Sabnani will be presenting to investors at the 2011 Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference in the Technology Track to be held September 11-13, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The company’s presentation will be on September 12th at 10:25am ET in the Library.
The webcast will be available at:
http://www.wsw.com/webcast/rrshq20/crwg
Sanjay Sabnani to Speak At ForumCon
On September 27th, 2011 Sanjay will be participating the semi-annual forum conference, ForumCon . The conference will bring together leading brands, forum owners and community managers to explore strategies in forum and community development.
During the one-day event, a team of renowned experts, like XenForo’s Kier Darby and Dan Gill the co-founder of Huddler, will provide guidance on how to effectively engage with communities, gives tips on how to maximize the value of your communities and offers insights into new services to try and trends to watch
out for.
Sanjay will be on a panel discussion on the buying and selling of forums.
