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JRNI, the Industry-Leading Enterprise SaaS Scheduling Platform, Announces Majority Investment by AKMAZO CAPITAL

JRNI, the experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale, announces the close of a majority investment round from AKMAZO CAPITAL. JRNI will use the investment capital to expedite product development and expand sales, marketing, and customer support functions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

“JRNI has revolutionized the management of virtual and in-person appointments and events, at scale, for the largest enterprise financial services and retail organizations globally, resulting in higher revenues and happier, more loyal customers. We are excited to add our expertise and capital to help the JRNI team accelerate future growth.”

JRNI offers the leading enterprise scheduling platform that is designed to optimize the customer journey through powerful personalized experiences, both in-person and remotely. Some of the world’s largest retailers, credit unions, retail banks, wealth management firms, and other organizations leverage the solution to dramatically increase conversions and customer satisfaction, while managing staffing allocations, capacity, safety, and profitability.

AKMAZO CAPITAL is a growth equity firm that focuses on leveraging its substantial high-growth operating experience to help technology companies scale rapidly and efficiently. Jaime Ellertson, Chairman and Managing Partner of AKMAZO CAPITAL, commented, “JRNI has revolutionized the management of virtual and in-person appointments and events, at scale, for the largest enterprise financial services and retail organizations globally, resulting in higher revenues and happier, more loyal customers. We are excited to add our expertise and capital to help the JRNI team accelerate future growth.”

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JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale. With apps for facilitating appointments, queuing, and events, plus an industry-leading analytics tool, JRNI helps businesses offer remote and in-person experiences that build stronger customer relationships, improve customer satisfaction and loyalty, and increase revenue and efficiency.

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GovOS Acquires Advanced Workflow Technology from Seliom

GovOS, a leading provider of digital transformation solutions for local governments, announced it has acquired Seliom’s advanced business process automation and workflow platform in an asset purchase transaction. Seliom technology will be integrated into the suite of GovOS solutions so that local governments can use the highly customizable workflow processing functionality to enhance their digital capabilities and make life easier for employees and citizens.

Seliom technology adds to the growing GovOS digital transformation platform with its elegant and detailed workflow automation capabilities. By replacing human-based workflows and rote decision-making, the product will effectively free government staff from routine, time-consuming tasks in lieu of tackling the more complex processes and decisions that require a human touch.

“The ever-evolving landscape of local government requires the public sector to be more effective and more efficient in providing services to constituents,” said Kevin Lafeber, President, GovOS. “As such, we continually evaluate opportunities that make GovOS solutions more useful for our customers. Seliom’s next-gen workflow platform was an obvious product fit that will immediately benefit agencies using GovOS technology to accelerate digital transformation and effect real change in their communities.”

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This new workflow functionality provides GovOS solutions with integrations to most popular ERP, CRM and HR systems, making it possible to maintain data continuity without replacing entire systems. The technology also enables validation of data/actions against a third-party data source, a next level solution integration requiring much less reliance on monolithic solutions.

“We liked that Seliom was specifically engineered to streamline standardized and dispersed operations that consume time better spent elsewhere,” said Chachi Camejo, Senior Vice President of Product, GovOS. “With these capabilities fully integrated, government staff can further automate processes to get more done with the same resources.”

GovOS workflow technology will become an integral part of the GovOS digital transformation platform, including Business Licensing, Online Civic Services, STR (Short-Term Rentals), Tax Filing, Records, Remote Applications, and much more.

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Zendesk Reiterates Strategic and Financial Merits of Proposed Acquisition of Momentive

Letter Reminds Stockholders of Expected Value Creation Opportunity

Strongly Recommends Stockholders Vote “FOR” Proposal to Approve the Issuance of Shares of Zendesk Common Stock to Momentive Stockholders in Connection with the Transaction at Upcoming Special Meeting

Zendesk, Inc. sent a letter to stockholders commenting on its proposed acquisition of Momentive Global Inc., which was announced on October 28, 2021, and recommending their approval of the issuance of Zendesk Common Stock in connection with the transaction at the Special Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for February 25, 2022. Proxy materials relating to this Special Meeting were mailed to Zendesk stockholders. The full text of the letter follows:

Dear Fellow Stockholder,

The Zendesk Board of Directors believes that Zendesk’s proposed acquisition of Momentive, which was announced on October 28, 2021, will create substantial incremental long-term value for Zendesk stockholders. Zendesk’s Board unanimously recommends you vote in favor of the proposal approving the issuance of Zendesk Common Stock in connection with the transaction at the upcoming Special Meeting of Stockholders, which will be held on February 25, 2022.

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Strategic and Financial Benefits of the Momentive Transaction

The combination with Momentive will deliver significant benefits to Zendesk stockholders that are otherwise not attainable, including:

  • Achievement of Zendesk’s strategy of transforming Customer Relationship Management, by creating a Customer Intelligence Platform that combines Momentive’s leadership in agile experience management software (spanning surveys, customer experience and market research) with Zendesk’s leading customer service and sales platform to enable truly actionable insights and understanding of the customer for businesses of all sizes;
  • A doubling of Zendesk’s addressable market to $165 billion, ensuring far greater opportunity for sustained high revenue growth at larger scale;
  • Realization of the first wave of sales-led revenue synergies of approximately $275 million by 2025, deriving primarily from a scaled and global Zendesk enterprise sales force selling Momentive’s agile experience management and insights products to our customer base within the Zendesk product experience, yielding approximately $4.6 billion in combined 2025 revenue growing at a higher rate than Zendesk’s forecasted smaller-scale standalone business;
  • Significant upside to these conservative revenue synergy estimates from product-led growth, namely new product introductions, new pricing and packaging, and acceleration of Zendesk’s core sales and customer service businesses due to the addition of Momentive product capabilities and data, making our offering more valuable and increasing customer spend and stickiness;
  • The ability to drive further synergies by accelerating Momentive’s enterprise growth, leveraging Zendesk’s proven track record of scaling and driving adoption with enterprise customers, with additional opportunities to internationalize Momentive’s offerings across Zendesk’s diversified global client base and go-to-market reach; and
  • Financial benefits from greater scale, including an expanded global talent base, significantly increased number of customer relationships, operating efficiencies that can be re-invested in growth, greater research and development resources, and more engineering expertise and technology – all of which will allow Zendesk to better serve customers and accelerate innovation.

Importantly, we have increased conviction in the upside and the expected synergies noted above as a result of our preliminary integration planning work, which includes direct correspondence with customers.

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Zendesk’s Rigorous Process and Strong Corporate Governance

Zendesk’s Board and management team regularly review the Company’s performance, future growth prospects and overall strategic direction within the context of the current business and economic environment and in consideration of the Company’s long-term business strategy. This entails reviewing Zendesk’s strategy as a standalone company as well as considering potential opportunities for business combinations, acquisitions, and other financial and strategic alternatives.

The Zendesk Board’s determination to acquire Momentive is the result of a thoughtful and deliberative review process spanning multiple alternatives within adjacent and complementary markets. Momentive, along with several other candidates, was identified and discussed by the Zendesk Board as a potential acquisition target in regularly conducted strategic reviews as early as the first half of 2019. Zendesk’s decision to bid in Momentive’s process to explore strategic alternatives was an output of the Board’s structured review of existing capabilities and growth needs. In that process, Zendesk evaluated a number of inputs, including, importantly, direct feedback from customers requesting better customer survey and market research capabilities. The Board carefully assessed the potential benefits of the transaction, evaluated risk factors, and conducted an extensive due diligence process with its independent financial and legal advisors in connection with its decision to acquire Momentive.

Zendesk’s proposal reflects the Board’s unanimous conviction that this combination represents a unique opportunity for Zendesk stockholders and a critical step forward for Zendesk to achieve its strategic ambition to transform customer relationship management through the development of a Customer Intelligence Platform.

Zendesk’s management team and Board look forward to discussing their conviction in the merits of the transaction with stockholders in greater detail. Because of the strategic significance to Zendesk of the proposed acquisition, Zendesk supports the rights of all stockholders to provide their views and vote on the issuance of Zendesk Common Stock in the transaction. Due to the compelling strategic and financial benefits of the proposed combination, the Zendesk Board strongly encourages stockholders to vote in favor of the proposal approving the issuance of Zendesk Common Stock in connection with the transaction at the upcoming Special Meeting on February 25, 2022.

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Japanese Marketing Agency, Members Co. LTD. Harnesses the Power of Digital Transformation by Partnering with New Jersey Startup, Socialite Brand

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Members Co. LTD., Japanese digital marketing agency based out of Tokyo, Japan, has partnered with Socialite Brand, a global player in next-generation digital transformation services, to help our customers achieve even greater business results through the use of Digital Transformation. Members Co. LTD. as the Internet business partner is not only to provide web service but also solutions to achieve the business goal together with our clients.

With a team of experts having over 15 years of experience in digital transformation, Socialite Brand is a well-recognized and established company that offers high-quality brand acceleration strategies in various industries. Socialite’s team has a strong background in international marketing, with its teams spending 10 years servicing digital transformation projects in both Singapore, IN and Tokyo, JP.

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“The opportunity to partner with one of the premier marketing agencies in Tokyo is an absolute honor. We believe our relationships and background in the digital transformation realm will be a powerhouse combination and change the future of digital in not only Japan but America as well,” said Tia Ventresca, CEO of Socialite Brand.

Socialite Brand is a business acceleration company that handles the full scope of economic development marketing, with strategies and approaches built upon its extensive experience, knowledge of stakeholder needs and expectations, and the ability to develop proven tactics to achieve specific strategies. Socialite Brand empowers organizations to usher in their digital transformation journey to better engage with customers, partners, and employees.

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Marin Software adds Support for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

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Marin Software, a leading provider of digital marketing software for performance-driven advertisers and agencies, has added the ability to manage LinkedIn Marketing Solutions campaigns to its flagship MarinOne platform. The MarinOne integration with LinkedIn’s Campaign Management and Reporting & ROI APIs gives advertisers better insights and improves the performance of their LinkedIn campaigns through machine learning and automation.

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With nearly 800 million professionals and 4 out of 5 members driving business decisions based on information they find on the platform, LinkedIn is an important lead generation destination for B2B marketers and others with longer sales cycles.

The self-serve MarinOne platform unifies industry leading optimization tools with flexible reporting to help advertisers maximize the impact and reach of their Linkedin marketing investment.

Blast Analytics, an innovative agency helping advertisers with LinkedIn campaigns,has been testing MarinOne’s bid optimization solution.

“Marin Software continues to innovate and improve its technology to drive better performance for our clients,” said Brian Lange, Senior Marketing Manager at Blast Analytics. “The MarinOne solution has saved us time reporting on our LinkedIn campaigns and also provided a significant performance uplift leveraging its bidding technology.”

MarinOne serves as a hub that links marketing activity with true business impact from an advertiser’s CRM, allowing optimization to revenue, not just form fills.

“By connecting downstream customer data to our advanced automated bidding, MarinOne can significantly improve the performance of your campaigns,” said Chris Lien, Marin’s Chairman and CEO. “LinkedIn is an untapped opportunity for many advertisers and we are excited to help advertisers drive growth on this fast-growing channel.”

Advertisers can manage their LinkedIn campaigns alongside paid search, paid social and display campaigns to help generate additional demand. Marketers can align their efforts across channels to ensure they are working seamlessly across the customer journey.

About Marin Software

Marin Software Incorporated’s mission is to give advertisers the power to drive higher efficiency and transparency in their paid marketing programs that run on the world’s largest publishers. Marin Software offers a unified SaaS advertising management platform for search, social, and eCommerce advertising. The Company helps digital marketers convert precise audiences, improve financial performance, and make better decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Marin Software’s technology powers marketing campaigns around the globe

Wakefern Food Corp. Adopts Receipt Marketing Technology Powered by flexEngage

Leading Retail Innovator to Enhance Digital Receipt Experience for Wakefern Supermarket Banners

flexEngage, a global leader in dynamic receipt and transactional communications, announces that they have been chosen by Wakefern Food Corp. to power its digital receipt marketing technology.

“As our customers’ digital engagement continues to grow, the flexEngage and Wakefern partnership will elevate the post purchase experience”

flexEngage offers personalized digital receipts for in store and online purchases, making the digital receipt program more enticing for customers.

“As our customers’ digital engagement continues to grow, the flexEngage and Wakefern partnership will elevate the post purchase experience,” said Elizabeth Goodbread, Director of Digital Commerce for Wakefern. “More dynamic, personalized messaging enhances the digital journey and drives loyalty.”

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Wakefern is the largest retailer-owned supermarket cooperative in the U.S. with supermarket banners that include ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, the Fresh Grocer, Gourmet Garage, Fairway Market and Dearborn Market.

“We believe flexEngage has the best receipt marketing platform and we look forward to providing Wakefern with another digital experience that we know their customers will appreciate,” said Tomas Diaz, CEO of flexEngage, Inc.

flexEngage delivers custom-made transactional communications that reduce churn for brand-driven retailers. We believe that customer loyalty begins the moment after purchase. Customers like GNC, Hy-Vee, and The Vitamin Shoppe choose our white-glove service to turn their POS into a marketing machine, multiply the number of repeat purchases and extend their customer lifetime value.

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Unbounce Acquires US based Marketing Analytics Platform, LeadsRx

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The conversion intelligence platform continues growth momentum with expansion into the marketing attribution space

Unbounce, the leading conversion intelligence platform, announced the acquisition of LeadsRx, a marketing analytics SaaS platform that makes it easier for marketers and agencies to measure the performance of their marketing channels. Founded in 2015 in Portland, Oregon, LeadsRx helps marketers understand the value of each customer touchpoint across digital, radio, TV, podcasts, streaming services, and other advertising channels, allowing them to better optimize their conversion paths, ad spend and ROI. This acquisition positions Unbounce to be able to bring the power of marketing attribution to its small and midsize business customers.

Since its inception, LeadsRx has helped marketers optimize billions of dollars in marketing spend, collect anonymous customer data from 2.5 billion customer touchpoints, and help them make faster and more informed decisions. Today, LeadsRx serves more than 5,000 global and local brands and agencies ranging from iHeartMedia and Casper to Cumulus Media, Diray Media and Rakuten Advertising.

“Attribution is one of the most painful parts of marketing — validating your costs and ROI to your CEO, clients and investors is harder than ever as competition and new marketing channels continue to grow at a rapid pace. LeadsRx solves these pain points for marketers by showing them which channels are performing and which aren’t,” said Tamara Grominsky, Chief Strategy Officer of Unbounce. “By combining LeadsRx’s wealth of new data with our conversion intelligence platform, we have the opportunity to deliver conversion value to marketers across a wider spectrum of the marketing funnel. We’re thrilled to welcome LeadsRx to the Unbounce team as we continue our journey of bringing conversion intelligence solutions to marketers around the world.”

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LeadsRx is deeply committed to consumer data privacy. The company works off its proprietary technology that collects first-party data only. Unlike marketing attribution platforms of its kind, LeadsRx doesn’t rely on third-party cookies but instead develops private identity graphs for each of its clients.

“Unbounce and LeadsRx share a vision for the future of marketing that machines and marketers can work better together to produce the best results possible,” said AJ Brown, CEO and co-founder of LeadsRx. “We’re bringing together some of the most creative and inventive engineers, marketing and customer services professionals — I’m excited for what the future holds and the innovative products we will be able to offer companies and agencies around the world.”

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Together, these two marketing technology powerhouses will unlock new opportunities to help marketers and businesses grow smarter and faster. Brown will remain CEO of LeadsRx while reporting to CEO of Unbounce, Felicia Bochicchio but otherwise the 21-person LeadsRx team will continue to operate independently. While Unbounce plans on bringing the value of marketing attribution to its conversion intelligence platform, LeadsRx and Unbounce will remain standalone platforms until further assessment takes place.

Since 2009, Unbounce has helped hundreds of thousands of marketers in 100+ countries create high converting content and accelerate their business ROI. Today, Unbounce is a distributed team of over 250 people and has over 100,000 customers that rely on its landing pages, copy creation, and campaign optimization tools to accelerate their ROI and grow smarter. Over the past two years, Unbounce has begun to shape a new era of marketing by helping more SMB marketers experience the power of Conversion Intelligence solutions.

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Ruth Kuttler is Changing the World of Marketing with Unique High-Converting Digital Content Marketing Strategies

Mission Matters Marketing Podcast host Adam Torres interviews Ruth Kuttler, the Director and Owner of Webpuzzlemaster Digital Marketing Agency

Ruth Kuttler has been expertly acquainted with the evolution of the Internet and digital marketing. She and her exceptional team are well-versed with growing trends, compelling content creation, pixel perfect web design, and custom web development designed for conversions and automation. Through comprehensive and innovative digital services, Webpuzzlemaster helps local businesses and entrepreneurs capture market share, increase revenues, strengthen their brand and reputation, promote customer retention, and use technology for automation to enhance productivity and ROI (return on investment).

Listen to the full interview of Ruth Kuttler with Adam Torres on the Mission Matters Business Podcast

Ruth’s Life-Changing Career Change From Healthcare to Digital Services

Before shifting to a digital design and marketing career, Ruth faced challenges as a nurse practitioner and in various nursing roles in her healthcare career. Her quest to find her purpose and passion led to participation in a poetry contest. This was the catalyst that ultimately helped Ruth discover her passion and potential for making a creative career change. Ruth knew that the internet would play a dominant role in the future. With her husband’s support, Ruth quit nursing and enrolled in a program to acquire skills in graphics and web design, HTML and internet marketing. Initially, she collaborated with a partner for web design and development projects. In 2007, she became a solo entrepreneur, founding Webpuzzlemaster Digital Marketing Agency for providing comprehensive services designed to follow trends and proven online practices.

The Evolution of Digital Content Marketing

When Ruth transitioned her career, technology was much less advanced, and mobile marketing did not exist. Most businesses were skeptical that the internet would replace their reliance on word of mouth, direct mail, and the phonebook. Yet Ruth was able to change clients’ minds through the results she achieved.

Ruth intuitively created quality content optimized with relevant keywords that produced top Google rankings almost right away. At the time, though, Google and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) were not popular. Nevertheless, SEO combined with compelling written content and images, helped Ruth to achieve outstanding results. One of her clients, formerly totally reliant on pricey paid leads, quickly began to acquire quality leads and customers from his website. This changed his mind about the value of the Internet.

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Website and Planning Strategies for Business Owners Seeking to Improve their Results

Today, all businesses require a website for branding and to maximize leads and revenues from a powerful online presence. Ruth explained that the website receives traffic from all sources. This is where the bulk of conversions occur.

Ruth described an effective website as one that speaks to the ideal customer with compelling content that sets the business apart from competitors, and is easy to navigate for mobile as well as desktop and TV users. Impressive audience-specific content is designed to produce conversions that may include lead generation, sales, list-building, event registrations, and social sharing. Besides content, high-converting websites must be fast-loading and provide an optimum user experience on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.

Before creating a website, Ruth spends time with prospective business owners to fully understand their needs, goals, budget, and requirements. Her strategic planning services integrate the client’s unique selling proposition (USP), competitor analysis, a thorough understanding of the market that connects to the heart of their ideal audience, and keywords that the target market is searching. Another consideration is that products or services are unique, in demand, and not likely to lose appeal due to changing market conditions.

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Where Most Brands Go Wrong With Targeting and Customer Retention

During the interview, Ruth recalled an experience with a client selling upscale products to a high end BTB market. The company had an old, outdated website where messaging attracted a BTC customer and omitted engaging images and content to target ideal customers. A redevelopment of this project based on detailed strategic planning and keyword optimized compelling content, transformed results very quickly as the client rapidly increased inquiries and sales from her targeted BTB market.

Another problem frequently encountered with brands is their failure to use strategies to boost customer loyalty and retain customers. This is where automated marketing via email and SMS text campaigns can be very valuable in retaining customers, increasing profits, and producing a significant ROI.

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