Earlier this week Randy Paush, the Carnegie Mellon professor who delivered the powerful Last Lecture Achieving Your Childhood dreams, passed away from Cancer at the age of 47. I found the lecture to be extremely moving and inspirational. If you haven’t seen it, I embedded it below.
Over the last month IZEA held an office space decorating contest called “Cubico Loco”. Pictures were taken of the cubicles of people who participated and then posted on IZEA’s blog for it’s readers to vote. Some people got very creative and I def enjoyed seeing all of them…So I thought I’d share: Champaign Room Cubicle…
The emergence of social media, blogging and web 2.0 as a whole has revolutionized the way marketers reach their audience. Today the key in marketing is connecting with your customers, engaging them and building long lasting relationships with them. This model of marketing based on engagement rather then interruption, often discussed by one of my…
I was just glancing at GroupTable’s stats and noticed a decent amount of traffic was going to GroupTable from UCF’s website. I explored the issue further and sure enough noticed they posted an article about our recent promotion. You can see the article here: UCF GroupTable Article Overall the article was not bad, however it…
This whole ordeal sprung on me kind of fast…I’m sure some of you already have heard, but for the rest of you, please check out the video here:
Yesterday after GroupTable’s Promotion I attended IZEA‘s birthday party. IZEA is a really innovative social media marketing company that connects advertisers and bloggers through their two products PayPerPost and Social Spark. They have really cool, laid back and fun culture…They have Cakeplows (See the pics below…lol) for employees birthdays, tequilla shots for new hires and…
GroupTable had it’s first official promotion today…Awww our baby is growing up 🙂 The event occurred at UCF from 8:00 am until about 4:00 pm. Several current GroupTable users volunteered to help us spread the word and it really made the event a success in my book. We handed out promotional material, jammed to some…
College Mogul recently wrote an article about GroupTable. College Mogul is a blog and online resource for college entrepreneurship. They profile and review new and existing companies led by students and young entrepreneurs as well as report all news relevant to collegiate entrepreneurial activity. Click the link below to read the article. *College Mogul was…
Below you will find a link to a recent article about GroupTable published in the Central Florida Future. Central Florida Future Article
Yesterday GroupTable won the annual UCF Joust Business Plan competition and $12,000. About 40 applicants submitted their business plans for the competition, the top 12 plans were selected to participate. Last week these 12 teams presented in front of several investors & business leaders in the community. The top four were selected as finalists taking…