MarketMeSuite is the amazing social media marketing platform for small businesses. See who’s talking about topics related to your business both inside and outside of your social network, then engage and convert. We love what we do and have a lot of fun doing it. (This was originally uploaded to my duplicate account "TammyKahnFennell1" but this is the account you should follow me on!)

1. Culture Shock
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A brief MMS history and what it means to be a
MarketMeSuiter

2. How it began…
Tammy: Hey Alan, I have been using this thing
called social media for my e-commerce biz…
Alan: Social media? I’m a developer. I am not social.
Tammy: But it can help you get more business,
I’ll show you…

3. Fast Forward 2 Weeks…

4. Alan: Holy crap, it does work. And I can build
something that takes this concept and turns it into
software.
Tammy: Let’s do it.
Alan: High five!
*Disclaimer:
No actual high five took place.

5. So we teamed up
to build…

6. DeskTweet – Easy Desktop Tweeting
A proof of concept.

7. 36 cups of coffee, 3 pizzas and 24 hours later….
We released
TweetBrand

8. TweetBrand was similar to DeskTweet, but we
figured out a way to brand the link underneath
the tweets with a person’s company name.
Like this:
People thought it was pretty
cool, and they paid for it.

9. The same week as TweetBrand’s launch,
Tammy went into the hospital to bring James
into the world.
Transcript for text conversation between Alan
{in england} and Tammy {in hospital}
Alan: We had our first sale of Tweetbrand!
Tammy: That’s great… a little busy.
Alan: Oh… well say hi to James for me.
But I answered.

10. Culture Point:
We love this company.

11. MarketMetweet 1.0
{January 2010}
Bill Nunney really
gets to show his
stuff and
MarketMeTweet
launches
Tweet, Not Suite…
not yet.

12. Our users have always been
vocal. And they wanted
more than just “Tweet…”
Enter, MarketMeSuite.

13. {We went through a Goth phase}
MarketMeSuite 2.0

14. We call this our
experimental period
{We were finding ourselves}
But what we
found was…

15. We
couldn’t
do it all.

16. So we streamlined.
Shut down other app projects.
Focused on MarketMeSuite and decided
to make it even more powerful.
MarketMeSuite 3.0

17. If this were a movie,
it would be a good time to
{Cue Photo Montage}
Because
a lot
happened.

18. It felt like a lot more
living through it,
but in a nutshell
Tammy
Moves
to the
UK
Small
seed
round
raised
Adobe
Air App
release
free
Work
begins
on
Inbox
For
Social
We score
Alec Stern
as our
awesome
advisor

19. And then we start to think…
Hang on a second…
Most of our users
are in the USA!

20. So we came to
Boston.
{Cambridge, technically}

21. {Immigration was a blast}
But we made it.
This guy looks like
he may have
bodies in his
freezer.

22. {Nearly half our team has relocated to be a part of this}
Culture Point: We’d
move for this
company.
{We believe in it that much}

23. May 2012 we were quite literally born again.
MarketMeSuite, LTD
was formed
in the USA.

24. {Second half of 2012 - 2013 in a nutshell}
•
Inbox For Social launched
•
Raised $2.25 million
•
Came to Boston {Cambridge}
•
API re-write for a highly scalable platform
•
Pivot from freemium to free trial
2014 Mission:
Grow and Scale!

25. And that
brings us to today.

26. MarketMeSuite Today!

27. {Culture Shock}
So what makes
MarketMeSuite’s
culture?

28. *On top of the Empire
State Building.
We hold each other to
a high standard.

29. And we help
each other
achieve greatness.

30. Sometimes
we talk
funny.

31. But we aren’t
too loud.
•
•
•
Daily standups
HipChat used heavily
We like to get “in the
zone”
*Look…developers in their natural
habitat.
Do not sneak up on them as they are
easily startled.

32. No one punches a time clock. You know what you
have to do and when it needs to be done.
We
believe in
autonomy.

33. We are
underdogs.
*Meet Brian, Alan’s dog. Also an underdog.

34. But it doesn’t scare us.

35. It motivates us.
{We never expect anything will come easy.
In fact, we expect the opposite.}

36. We are damn good at
what we do.

37. But we are humble.
And we ask for help when we need it.

38. We love
our customers.
We’re obsessed with customer happiness.
This means going above and beyond the call of
duty to make sure a customer is getting value and
wants to recommend us to others.

39. We
work
hard…
*well most of us…

40. But we work smart.
•
We set up simple & robust
processes
•
We prioritize
•
We deploy stuff
•
We don’t have time for
bureaucracy
*How we decide who’s getting coffee

41. This all works
because we love
what we do.
{It’s not just a job}

42. Culture Shock
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End.
This MarketMeSuite
deck will continue to evolve.
Stay tuned.