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Meet the SMB Future Stars- early stage start-ups that are busy developing what they hope will be the next big thing in SMB digital marketing solutions.

Learn all about our SMB Future Stars here before you meet them in person at the conference. Check back often for new additions to the SMB Future Stars gallery.

CraveLabs is reinventing local advertising with a frictionless approach to building fully automated local/mobile advertising campaigns. By leveraging the existing behavior of SMBs already investing time into Facebook marketing channels, our platform can expand the reach of each status update, event, or offer, by turning it into a mobile ad unit (combining display and landing page). The platform is marketed as an enterprise SaaS solution for local media publishers, who package the tools with their own ad inventory to local advertisers.
Year Founded: 2011
Founder: Jeffrey Peden

Guarantee Digital provides online marketing solutions for Local Merchants as well as Local Media Companies. In addition to running our own agency, we offer a turnkey Digital Agency Partnership program allows local media companies to launch a branded agency of their own in 6 weeks or less. They sell our best of breed digital solutions and we handle the rest, including sales training, merchant launch seminar and all fulfillment and customer support after the sale. Clients include Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Buffalo News.
Year Founded: 2011
Founder: Daryl Hively

LocalBonus lets consumers use their existing credit and debit cards to automatically earn cash back rewards at over 1,000 local businesses. Those merchants get an easy way to attract and retain customers with no deals or discounts, no POS integration, and no employee training.
Year Founded: 2011
Founder: Derek Webster

LokalMotion is a social commerce platform connecting merchants with customers in their neighborhood.

Unlike traditional loyalty programs, merchants update events and promotions in real time using our desktop, iPhone or Android applications. LokalMotion Casts (events or promotions) are published on the LokalMotion platform, Facebook, Twitter and SMS to users based on location (proximity to a store), time of day, local temperature, local weather and customer type (new or existing). Customers view casts based on their proximity to nearby merchant and must be within 500 feet of a store to redeem a cast. Customers can register their credit cards to have discounts applie
Year Founded: 2011
Founder: Jim Wanek

Pricing Engine provides a simple, unified place for SMBs to manage their digital advertising. Smaller advertisers can buy ads, benchmark themselves against their peers, improve and expand their campaigns - all in one place. Pricing Engine works with Google, Microsoft and other channels to provide a create once, deploy everywhere platform. Customers include small advertisers as well as large enterprises, like newspapers, etc., that serve SMBs.
Year Founded: 2011
Founders: Jeremy Kagan, Yagmur Coker

Review Trackers provides online review monitoring for businesses. The company makes monitoring online customer reviews simple, fast, and easy. By aggregating all their local online reviews into one dashboard, business owners can listen and respond instantly to their customers and provide quality customer support.
Year Founded: 2012
Founder: Chris Campbell

The Snowshoe Stamp is the first of its kind redemption mechanism for mobile devices. By using a simple block of aluminum and 5 silicon conductive tips, when touched to an iphone or droid phone, it can authenticate any type of transaction ie redeem coupons, concert tickets, issue payments etc. It does not need power or an internet connection, it simply works with the capacitive touch screen of a phone to authenticate a transaction.
Year Founded: 2012
Founder: Claus Moberg

    

 

 


 

 

 

 

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