Author Archives: Tessa

LaunchSquad Gets into Savings

Throwing cash around just doesn’t have the cache that it had a few years ago. With searches for “online coupon” increasing 172% between July 2008 and 2009, saving money appears to be America’s new favorite pastime. LaunchSquad client Savings.com is an online coupon website and community that offers up some of the sweetest coupons and [...]

Digital Marketing for Good

We’re excited about something really good that’s been brewing this month at LaunchSquad. Along with other leading Bay Area public relations agencies, we’re helping to organize the conference, “Thriving and Surviving in Uncertain Times: Practical Digital Marketing Techniques for Nonprofits”. The conference is part of a series of national workshops being thrown for the ten-year [...]

InsideView Gets New Round to Fuel Sales 2.0 Growth

It’s official: LaunchSquad client, InsideView, had a great 2008. Today, the company announced the closing of a $6.5 million round of funding led by current investors Emergence Capital and Rembrandt Venture Partners. This announcement caps a very strong year for the company, which included record sales and revenue growth as well as key CRM partnerships [...]

Volunteer Day at the San Francisco Food Bank

Last week, LaunchSquad embarked on our second group volunteer effort of the year. This time, nine folks carpooled over to Potrero Hill where we spent the morning helping out at the San Francisco Food Bank. After receiving a tour of the facilities, we were led outside where we donned plastic gloves and aprons to achieve [...]

Interactive Barcodes Coming to a Store Near You

With the rise of e-commerce, traditional stores have been scrambling to compete with the convenience of online shopping — and LaunchSquad client StoreXperience was at National Retail Federation’s 97th Convention & Expo this past January to launch its new mobile commerce solution. StoreXperience harnesses the power of customers’ cellphones to merge the convenience of online [...]