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Our first #mediachat twitterview (an interview using Twitter as the communications medium) will take place on Tuesday, June 22nd at 2pm EDT, with @hughmacken (that would be me;) “twitterviewing” Flowtown ‘s
co-founder and CEO, Ethan Bloch ( @ebloch ), an ambitious, pioneering and incredibly bright young entrepreneur out of Baltimore, and currently living in San Francisco. Ethan is passionate about marketing , finance, social technology and bold new ventures. And speaking of new ventures, he and Flowtown co-founder Dan Martell have been extremely supportive of my latest venture, the #mediachat twitterview series. Thanks guys!!!
One of the original marketers to use Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Ethan founded his first business, BlocHardware.com. at the age of 13. He was the host of WSYK, an internet TV show which was syndicated to Revision3. In January of 2009, he and Dan Martell ( @danmartell ) co-founded Flowtown in order to help companies craft targeted marketing, engagement and retention campaigns that use rich customer intelligence mined from all over the social web.
The topic of our twitterview, which you can follow at #mediachat , will be the evolution of social media and how businesses can build customer loyalty through the use of social channels – online and off – using a synergistic combination of high touch and high tech. To his credit, Ethan insisted that we not spend too much time talking about Flowtown but instead focus more on the social space in general and the unbelievably exciting things that are just starting to take shape online.
That said, I would like to give my readers a primer in advance of our chat. In a nutshell, Flowtown turns email addresses into social connections allowing you to heighten engagement with customers, prospects and online influencers. With a few clicks of the mouse, the Flowtown platform allows you to funnel tons of demographic and socialgraphic information (like age group, gender, location, and social network memberships) into your email subscriber list. They currently have integrations in place with email marketing services Mail Chimp and Campaign Monitor as well as a Forms integration with WuFoo. In the last week or so, they’ve also added integrations with BatchBook , icontact and Plancast.
The beauty of the platform is that all you need is an email address to automatically generate a full social and geographic profile of all of your contacts.
In case you’re wondering, Flowtown has taken off like a rocket ship in recent months, and currently boasts 10,000 customers. You can be sure I’ll be asking Ethan how he managed to grow so quickly and what he has planned for the future.
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