Larry Gregory talked to Lisa Jones, Robert Joseph, Vincent Thomas from EyeMail at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Atlanta hosted by Sanjay Jain. With a few days of design and development effort EyeMail ported their Audio content to Windows Azure.
Wow, what an incredible week. Day 5 is over and the team has gone to get some well deserved rest. It was a steep learning curve and a great opportunity to grow ourselves as a technology and we’re very grateful (though exhausted).
Lots of updates to come in the near future, with more information on what exactly we developed at Incubation Week. I’ll give you a hint….it’s awesome.
Larry Gregory started the day with Panel Judges briefing. We were fortunate to have following panel judges, who shared their deep insight with startups:
Day 4 is done with only one day left of BizSpark Azure Incubation Week. What an incredible opportunity this has been. After Video Interviews, presentations from Larry Gregory, and a practice run presentation for our software demos, everyone is in the final stages of getting ready for Fridays judging panel.
We’ve been working all week towards Day 5, it’ll be exciting to see what happens.
Day 3 has passed and everyone is really excited about what’s developing. We’re nearly through Day 4 now and the team has learned so much (about coding, azure, security, and much more). This has truly been an incredibly experience.
Tomorrow’s presentation should be just awesome. I know Lisa and the team have spent some very long hours preparing for it.
All teams are making good progress on their solution. Tomorrow, we would record short video interviews and dry-run on pitches.
James McDonough from Fish & Richardson P.C., today’s guest speaker, did an awesome job sharing his insight on “Why and How to Protect Your IP”. It was a highly interactive session. Very informative!
Day 3 is underway at BizSpark incubation week and the Team is excited about the latest developments. Thanks to everyone at Microsoft for bringing EyeMail’s evolution one giant step closer to completion. With only 2 days left, we’re getting really excited about the finished product. Stay tuned and we’ll bring you more as updates are available.
All teams are in high gear in developing their solution with the help of on-site advisors and off-shore development team. We are witnessing a new level of innovation as the week is progressing, underscoring the key aspects of Windows Azure.
Sanjay Parekh, today’s guest speaker, did an awesome job sharing his insight on “How to Pitch to Investors”. It was a highly interactive session, with a simple and slim slide-deck. Folks loved it.
Some photos and some information on the 7 lucky teams participating in the Microsoft BizSpark Azure Incubation Week in Atlanta this month. Here’s a shot of Lisa S Jones and the Team working hard at developing something exciting and new (we’ll tell you more later).
Ben Dyer of TechDrawl covers the upcoming BizSpark Incubation Week for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta. This is going to be a great Event and EyeMail is going to be there! Be sure to check back here often to find out more about the next Exciting Evolution of EyeMail technology…
Video – Murray Gordon (ISV Architect Evangelist for Microsoft)
We had the pleasure on interviewing Murray Gordon of Microsoft on the date on the Windows 7 launch. Gordon, a West Point graduate, talks in this video about the BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows Azure, a session that begins in Atlanta Monday November 9 and concludes on Friday November 13. This week is intended to advance five start-ups from prototype to code using daily seminars and overnight coding services in India. A number of local notable entrepreneurs will be presenting to the teams, and yours truly and others will be judging the results on Friday.
From YellowDoorMedia, this post shows exactly why EyeMail is rapidly becoming needed in Email communication. People are bored with what they’ve always gotten, they need something new.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, October 07, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ — Current email marketing services include professional email templates, impressive reports, techniques and strategies, yet reports show less and less people are clicking through or even reading these emails. With declining results, will companies like Constant Contact loose position to up and coming video email service providers? “Video email is powerful. It elicits emotion. And emotion is what motivates people.” says John Cruz, ImageMind Software. “The next logical progression for online marketing is streaming video email campaigns sent direct to targeted communities”.
Email is a low cost marketing tool for large and small companies to get their advertisement out to a large target population. The problem with text based email was that very few people were opening the email. Thus rich media email was introduced with professional html templates and extensive reporting features. However, as reports show, take rates of rich media emails are now on the decline. So what do online marketers do now?
According to research for Econsultancy’s Email Marketing Platforms Buyer’s Guide 2009, UK businesses now spend, on average, 14% of the digital marketing budget on email and the market will grow 15% this year. The UK market for email marketing platforms and services is now worth £292 million, says Econsultancy.
The estimate is based on a revised valuation for 2008. Before the full impact of the recession had been felt, Econsultancy estimated that the market would grow by 24% to a value of £274 million by the end of 2008.The valuation includes revenue earned by email service providers (ESPs), money spent on agency services and the cost of internal staff resources relating specifically to email.
Key market trends identified for 2009 include:
Email service providers reap benefits of focus on channels driving return on investment
Segmentation and behavioural targeting become established as best practice
Marketers attempt to connect email with social media
A great post by Chris Crum on the future of email marketing. This article doesn’t take into account the opportunities presented by the invention of True Video Email, but imagine the possibilities. Direct marketing with the advantage of instant-play multimedia.
New research suggests that email marketing in the US will reach $2 billion by 2014. This isn’t exactly in line with research from JupiterRearch earlier this year, which suggested $2.1 billion in 2012, but it’s looking good for the industry nonetheless. What are your thoughts on the future of email marketing?Give us your take.
This new research comes from Forrester Research, who says that falling CPMs (cost per thousands), higher ROI (return on investment) and growing consumer use of social email accounts will all contribute to the use of email by direct marketing professionals. The firm says that in five years consumers will opt-in to receive over 9,000 email marketing messages annually.
Forrester’s research cites the following as key growth areas for shaping the future of email marketing:
- Retention email — email that recipients have blessed with their permission — will continue to replace paper communications and will make up the largest share of marketing messages. Retention emails will account for more than a one-third of all marketing messages in consumers’ inboxes by 2014, representing increased competition for marketers.
- While the bulk of the market will continue to deploy email marketing on a self-service basis, the growing complexity associated with data integration and new tactics to increase relevancy will drive healthy growth in use of email service providers.
- Spending on opt-in ad-sponsored or ad-supported newsletters will double over the next five years as traditional print publishers face falling circulation and ad revenue.
