Dallas, Texas Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses

May6

“All companies succeed, or fail, because of the actions and dynamics of the teams within their organization and the first step towards helping them achieve their goals is understanding their benchmark actions and behaviors with a high degree of precision and accuracy.”

Adrian Wood

ShadowmatchUSA

VP Business Development

http://www.ShadowmatchUSA.com/

Adrian Wood has more than 20 years’ experience in business management and leadership. He has passion for making companies of all sizes, from start-ups to global, successful through team development and unique leadership and management strategies across functions and divisions. He is currently partnering with major clients including Bimbo Bakeries, Cisco, Citrix, Sprint and others to make them even more effective by focusing on workplace excellence through team behaviors, not personalities.

ShadowmatchUSA is based in Dallas, Texas, and is the exclusive provider and administrator of Shadowmatch in the U.S. The Shadowmatch Behavioral benchmarking system gives the ability to identify and predict the specific employee habits and behaviors that are responsible for a team’s success. Armed with these powerful insights, leaders can better build, manage, develop and deploy teams and individual employees. By gaining these insights, their mission is to see an increase in employee performance and retention, and a significantly lower onboarding cost and staff turnover.

MO: Can you elaborate on your unique three-step process that helps you identify and predict employee habits and behaviors that are responsible for a team’s success?

May6

They said it couldn’t be done, I said, “Oh yeah? Let me show you what I can do.”

Nick-Anthony Zamucen

President & CEO

Bio-One Inc.

http://www.BioOneInc.com

“Nick-Anthony Zamucen” the President & CEO of Bio-One Inc. The first and only successful franchised crime scene cleaning company. Nick-Anthony has done for the “crime & trauma scene cleaning industry” what Mark Zuckerberg has done for social media. He is also a published author, business strategist, and an award winning serial entrepreneur that has had tremendous success in various business ventures. He has recently been named to the list of “Top 40 Under 40 CEO’s” and has lead the Bio-One franchise organization to three national franchise awards in the last year.

Bio-One Inc. is the first and only successful crime and trauma scene clean-up franchise. Our franchises are in 10 different states and we are by far, the leader in bio-recovery worldwide. Bio-One’s marketing campaigns are industry specific, innovative and have proven successful year after year.

MO: How did you come up with the concept for Bio-One?

Jan22

“CultureFIT was created organically for our customers, associates and friends who spend time in our space and want to gain wisdom on how they might do the same with their corporate culture.”

Jason Kos

FITCO

Co-Founder

http://www.FitcoFitness.com

Founders Jason Kos and David Novit combined 25 years of experience in the fitness industry when they established FITCO in 2001. They recognized the need in the market to be more than just an equipment provider; they became fitness advisors and built relationships by understanding customer objectives. The FITCO team’s clear expertise led clients to request a wider range of consulting offerings in site design and planning, equipment specification, and finish out. With its base in Texas and other regional offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Utah; FITCO has developed relationships with partners and vendors alike that have helped the company satisfy a wide array of customers across the country.

FITCO, voted in 2012 as one of “Dallas’ Best Places to Work” by the Dallas Business Journal, specializes in providing a superior fitness experience for customers by delivering premium commercial fitness equipment. The company also provides full solutions including site design, equipment selection and installation of equipment. Partners include multi-family units, hotels, country clubs, municipalities and corporate fitness centers across the country. FITCO is headquartered in Dallas. For more information about FITCO, visit www.FITCOFitness.com.

MO: Can you talk about how you recognized the need to be more than just an equipment provider? Did you have a specific turning point or was it more of a gradual realization?

Jan4

“High quality and timely enterprise solutions that focus on results.”

Sean Yalamanchi

InfoVision

CEO

http://InfoVision.com

InfoVision was founded in 1995 by technology professionals with a vision to provide quality and cost-effective IT solutions worldwide.

InfoVision is a global IT Services and Solutions Company with primary focus on Strategic Resources, Enterprise Applications and Mobility Solutions. Over the past decade, their ability to serve their clients has steadily evolved. It now covers multiple industries, numerous geographies and flexible delivery models, as well as the state-of-the-art technologies.

MO: What’s one marketing strategy that’s really worked for you?

Nov20

“Meaningful business is the direct result of meaningful relationships.”

Mike Muhney Co-Inventor of ACT!®

VIPorbit Software International, Inc.

CEO

http://www.VIPorbit.com

VIPorbit Software International, Inc., is led by co-founder and CEO Mike Muhney, the co-inventor of ACT!® and co-creator of the contact management software category, a catalyst for the multi-billion-dollar CRM (customer relationship management) industry. With the launch of VIPorbit, Muhney created the Mobile Relationship Management software category to deliver relationship-building technology designed for the way people work today—on mobile devices.

VIPorbit mobile relationship manager apps help users build meaningful relationships, which lead to successful business. In VIPorbit, contacts, calendar and communications are seamlessly integrated, providing instant access to complete relationship details, quick scheduling, and effortless communication, including via social networks.

MO: How has your past experience with co-inventing ACT!® helped contribute to the direction and vision of VIPorbit?

Oct2

“Closing a difficult sale is the culmination of rapport built with the client, value built in your product, and a true personal belief that the product is the right fit for the client.”

Jason Putnam

Porsche Park Place

Sales Consultant

Jason Putnam is a Porsche sales consultant at Park Place Dealerships in Dallas, Tex. Jason was awarded Porsche New Car Sales Consultant of the Year for the past two years. He has experience in high-end sales, as well as financial services.

Sep26

“Credibility is important when you’re asking parents to invest in education.”

Chuck Cohn

Varsity Tutors

Founder & CEO

http://www.VarsityTutors.com

Varsity Tutors is an at-home academic tutoring & test prep service with over 1,000 tutors and operations in 14 metro areas. They’re growing like crazy because they offer the highest caliber tutors at an affordable rate in the comfort of your own home.

MO: Can you talk about finding the courage to quit your high paying venture capital job that you had worked very hard to get to become a bootstrapped entrepreneur?

Sep26

“Through market testing I learned the recipe for a successful marketing campaign is a combination of traditional practices, emerging trends and a dash of the unexpected.”

Mike Crawford

M/C/C

President & Owner

http://www.mccom.com

Back in 1986, Mike Crawford helped create an entirely new kind of advertising agency and public relations firm, one that focused exclusively on technology clients. At the time, this level of specialization was unheard of, but M/C/C proved the doubters wrong, growing into the Southwest’s number one advertising agency for technology companies – and one of the top high-tech advertising agencies in the country.

Under Mike’s direction, M/C/C continues to evolve and blaze new trails from traditional marketing communications to real-time, digital engagement with their clients’ customers.

In the agency world, M/C/C is atypical. They’re not purely one thing or the other. They’re the modern, digital agency, the traditional Mad Men agency, the press-getting PR firm, the social media innovators and the SEO experts.

MO: Can you talk about why your agency’s mantra is, “living the unexpected?” Do you practice this mantra in your personal life as well as professionally?

Sep5

“It’s my philosophy to let things happen and find the story as we go.”

David Redish

Slice Media

Co-Founder

http://www.rolltheslice.com/

David Redish is the co-founder of Slice Media, an award-winning creative studio located in Dallas, Tex., that conceptualizes and produces fresh content for T.V., the web, and social media through a pioneering approach.

Aug21

“Communities are built around common interests, and they grow through sharing.”

Alexander Muse

ShopSavvy

CEO & Co-Founder

http://www.shopsavvy.com

Alexander Muse leads the team that built ShopSavvy into the world’s largest mobile shopping community, seeing the company through periods of rapid growth, impending acquisition, new funding, and now radically higher ambitions.

ShopSavvy is the most popular mobile shopping platform in the world, with more than 40 million downloads. Available on the iPhone, Android, Nokia and Windows smartphones, ShopSavvy enables consumers to scan the UPC, EAN or QR barcodes of products they want to buy and do immediate, in-store price comparisons with local and online retailers. Users also can find product reviews and other relevant information about scanned products.

MO: Why do you think that ShopSavvy is the most popular mobile shopping platform in the world?

Apr18

“Clients and Agents expect us to give them the best rates and quality service. What they don’t expect, is to find a team of creative engineers and financial mentors for life.”

Holden Thomas

Oak Mortgage Group

President

http://www.oakmortgagegroup.com/

Holden Thomas started what is now Oak Mortgage Group in 2005 at the age of 25 — with no mortgage experience. In just over six years, he transformed the company from a mortgage broker into what he calls “a boutique-sized residential mortgage bank” — a feat impressive enough to earn Thomas recognition as one of National Mortgage Professional Magazine‘s “40 under 40.”

Oak Mortgage Group is a boutique-sized residential mortgage bank. It was started in 2005 as a response to the decline in responsible lending. The industry had begun to place profits before people. Oak Mortgage believes that every client deserves to be treated with respect, and that starts with realizing that clients are not numbers or paychecks.

MO: How did you manage to launch Oak Mortgage Group at just 25 with no mortgage experience? Did your friends and family think that you were crazy?

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“All companies succeed, or fail, because of the actions and dynamics of the teams within their organization and the first step towards helping them achieve their goals is understanding their benchmark actions and behaviors with a high degree of precision and accuracy.”

They said it couldn’t be done, I said, “Oh yeah? Let me show you what I can do.”

“CultureFIT was created organically for our customers, associates and friends who spend time in our space and want to gain wisdom on how they might do the same with their corporate culture.”

“Meaningful business is the direct result of meaningful relationships.”

“Closing a difficult sale is the culmination of rapport built with the client, value built in your product, and a true personal belief that the product is the right fit for the client.”

“Credibility is important when you’re asking parents to invest in education.”

“It’s my philosophy to let things happen and find the story as we go.”

“Communities are built around common interests, and they grow through sharing.”

“Clients and Agents expect us to give them the best rates and quality service. What they don’t expect, is to find a team of creative engineers and financial mentors for life.”

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