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Lots of updates to come in the near future, with more information on what [...]]]> 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.

The Latest EyeMail Evolution is Unveiled

Thanks BizSpark!

From the Blog of Sanjay Jain,

Larry Gregory started the day with Panel Judges briefing. We were fortunate to have following panel judges, who shared their deep insight with startups:

1.   Ben Dyer, TechDrawl

2.   James McDonough, Fish & Richardson P.C.

3.   Larry Gregory, Microsoft

4.   Mark Barry, OpenView Venture Partners

5.   Mike Schinkel, Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs

6.   Said Mohammadouin, TechOperators

7.   Sanjay Parekh, Startup Riot

Startup teams worked very hard with their on-site advisors (Ahmed El-Ramly, Chad Brooks, Chris Brooks, Glen Gordon, Heinrich Gantenbein, Murray Gordon, Piyush Saggi, Sanjay Jain) and Dmytro Ivanov from SoftServe and Andy Hopper and Jeremy Likness from Wintellect. Each startup team presented their pitch and a brief solution demo to the panel judges

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We’ve been working all week towards [...]]]> 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.

Check out more from the Blog of Sanjay Jain (Including a few more photos of the event)

Tomorrow’s presentation should be just awesome. I know Lisa and the team have spent some very long [...]]]> 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.

More to come tomorrow.

Day 3 - Bizspark Azure Incubation Week

From the blog of Sanjay Jain

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!

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From the Blog of Sanjay Jain

We kicked-off the event with [...]]]> 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).

From the Blog of Sanjay Jain

We kicked-off the event with 7 high-energy BizSpark Startups. Bill Pierson, MTC Director shared Microsoft’s vision on Microsoft Technology Center. I started with event overview, goals, logistics, and BizSpark offerings, immediately followed by a six-hours training covering key features of Windows Azure, SQL Azure, .NET Services. We watched Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision Video.

BizSpark Startups:

1.   ChasingSavings.com

2.   CoreMotives, LLC

3.   EyeMail

4.   FandomU

5.   Izenda

6.   LessMeeting

7.   Linxter

The on-site Microsoft advisors are:

1.   Ahmed El-Ramly

2.   Chad Brooks

3.   Chris Brooks

4.   Glen Gordon

5.   Heinrich Gantenbein

6.   Murray Gordon

7.   Piyush Saggi

8.   Sanjay Jain

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Video – Murray Gordon (ISV Architect Evangelist for [...]]]> 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)

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by Ben Dyer on November 5, 2009

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.

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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 [...]]]> 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?

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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 [...]]]> By Sarah Clark,

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

Lack of strategy holds back email marketers

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New research suggests that email marketing in the US will reach $2 billion by 2014. This [...]]]> 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.

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