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Fishbowl helps restaurants leverage data to drive predictable sales growth. Fishbowl’s closed loop restaurant marketing SaaS platform is highly scalable and ingests data quickly from various sources, including email, SMS, social, online ordering, loyalty programs, reservations, and more. The analytics platform uses industry-specific proprietary algorithms to provide clients with actionable insights about guests, menus, pricing, media mix, and social media. The company serves over 60,000 restaurants with benchmarked solutions and best practices that address their key business challenges. Fishbowl manages the industry’s largest guest database with over 160 million opt-in members and has strategic partnerships with OpenTable, Coca-Cola, the National Restaurant Association, the Council of State Restaurant Associations, and the State Restaurant Associations. The company integrates its software with key third parties, including POS manufacturers.
SmithGeiger is a custom media research and consulting firm. Based in Los Angeles, with a local presence in Silicon Valley and several other regions, SmithGeiger serves numerous major media companies and top consumer content brands as well as dozens of local TV broadcasters in almost every DMA across the US. SmithGeiger provides custom qualitative and quantitative research. SmithGeiger designs and executes custom research studies that dive into the details of our client`s most critical market and product questions. Going beyond the research, our researchers and consultants are uniquely able to translate the data into concrete and actionable strategies. Then, we partner with our client`s to ensure those goals are pursued and met over time.
500friends is redefining loyalty marketing by enabling retailers to deliver innovative, cross-channel loyalty programs that increase the lifetime value of their customers. The LoyaltyPlus cloud-based platform offers a comprehensive suite of capabilities that empowers retailers with proven strategies that create highly personalized and targeted customer experiences at each stage of the lifecycle and across all touch points, while providing deep insights into their customers to enable better marketing decisions. 500friends is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading institutional investors including Crosslink Capital, Intel Capital, and Fung Capital (Li & Fung).
Craig Karmazin founded Good Karma Brands in 1997 with the purchase of three radio stations in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Shortly thereafter, he was fortunate that a number of his childhood friends decided to join him – they hosted radio shows, passed out t-shirts, sold advertising and talked sports both on and off the air (some things don’t change). This is where our story begins – Good Karma Brands began as a broadcasting company, where we learned the power of local marketing and strong community relationships. As the company grew through ESPN affiliated radio stations, we quickly became a Best Practices leader within ESPN Audio, and soon found ourselves shifting from a traditional radio company, and into a sports marketing company – finding new and unique solutions and sponsorships to activate for local advertising partners. Good Karma has expanded into new industries, including events and home solutions, and is always fueled by the desire to do things differently, align with premium brands and offer customized solutions for fans, partners and consumers. In 2015, the relationship with ESPN was expanded, as we could now offer local advertisers access to ESPN`s digital assets within our markets. A short three years later, and driven by the success of our partners and local advertisers desire for ESPN`s premium brand-safe environment, that agreement was extended to include additional markets outside of our radio footprint. Good Karma Brands continues in our expansion phase, both in broadcasting with the acquisition of WTMJ in Milwaukee, and through our ESPN digital markets throughout the country. And while we`ve been around for over 20 years, we pride ourselves on behaving much like we did back in 1997, as an entrepreneurial start-up, focused on getting results for local advertisers and having fun with our friends.