The Crowd

Social media is one of the most cost-effective distribution channels for content marketing, which has the potential to significantly grow your audience. Good Audience is a marketplace of social media marketing professionals who will handcraft your content, increase your social media reach and manage your ad campaigns. They've grown communities into the millions and they can do it for you as well! 

We welcomed back Neal Gorenflo, co-founder of Shareable, to discuss his thoughts on the changes he's seen around the sharing economy in the past year, the Sharing Cities Network and it's impact, and the soon to be released book Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.

We are now in the Age of Influence, where anyone can build an audience, effect change, advocate for brands and build relationships that make a difference.  Ted's years of advocating for Return on Relationship and more recently, How To Look People In The Eye Digitally, Ted shares his insights on what the cornerstones are for brands to build engaged multi-million member communities.

Content marketing has proven to be an effective strategy to drive revenue while adding value to your clients. Join us as we welcome WriterAccess founder Byron White, who discusses his 20 years of experience creating content and starting successful businesses. 

We're taking a look inside our own marketing department to hear from CJ and Julian. They have brought an innovative approach to Near Me and have become indispensable parts of the team. We'll discuss Julian's zero-to-hero Twitter strategy and CJ's success with building an engaged audience for StokeShare. 

Jason Oxman is CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, the world's largest trade association of the payments technology industry. He is an expert on financial services, payments and technology, both domestically and internationally. Jason joins us to talk about the future of transactions and his latest article, The Four Ways Millennials Are Changing Commerce. 

Paul Excell is CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at iesquared.com. He is an internet pioneer with 34 years of experience in Global IT and business. Paul joins us to discuss the enterprise and startup mindsets and how innovation can help transform any organization, whatever the size. 

Having trouble financing your small business or marketplace? This week, we welcome Christine Kymn, Chief Economist and Director of Economic Research and Miriam Segal, economist, both from the Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. They join The Crowd to discuss their published research, Peer-to-Peer Lending: A Financing Alternative for Small Businesses. 

Tom Hunt is the founder and CEO of Virtual Valley, the online platform that connects business owners with a virtual assistant that can take over repeatable tasks. Tom joins us to discuss his roller-coaster journey as an entrepreneur and how he created a service that will help you save time and money. 

Brian Solis is a digital analyst, anthropologist and also a futurist who studies the effects of disruptive technology on business and society. We chat with Brian about his latest book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. He explains how business needs to humanize their branding experience at a personal and cultural level, and be contextually relevant. 

David Hershfield of hershfieldconsulting.com discusses global payment processing and payment gateway integration with multiparty transactions. 

CARMAnation's CEO and co-founder Ilya Movshovich joins The Crowd to discuss the company's on-demand solution to San Francisco's parking problem. We'll also learn how CARMAnation allows its users to invest in the community by partnering with local charities. 

Financial analyst Barbara Gray discusses her recent research report The New Era of Economic Abundance and predicts how the sharing economy can disrupt incumbent business models. 

How safe do you feel when doing business online? Max Wesman from GoodHire joins us to discuss the importance of Trust and Safety, and what marketplaces can do to protect their employees and customers. 

An interview with Sarira Sayad, founder of the luxury handbag marketplace Luxuca. 

An interview with Nikki Schlecker, Director of Student Marketing at WayUp.     

An interview with Constantine Anastasakis, director of business development at Fiverr. 

Hear from the co-founders of Outdoorsy as they talk about insurance, building community, and their latest roadtrip.

In this episode on The Crowd, the founder of Dojo Threads, Kelly Kampen, talks about how he became an Airbnb superhost and why listening to your marketplace users matters. 

In this interview, we hear from Kevin Cohen, VP of Marketing at Hack Reactor, talk about tips and tools to stay on top of your education. 

Drawing on 15 years of experience across tech sales, marketing and product, Andrea Sharfin Friedenson combines empathy for stakeholders and the latest marketing techniques to deliver profitable growth and authentic customer engagement.

Bryan is the CEO of PureMatter, an award winning global digital agency based in Silicon Valley, a social strategist, TED speaker and recent author of the acclaimed book: Human to Human #H2H.

Pay your partners anywhere in the world with Tipalti. The global system supports paying to any country of the world with multiple payment methods and currencies. 

TrustCloud gathers four layers of trust and safety data to certify service providers on peer-to-peer platforms. TrustCloud offers the world’s first satisfaction guarantee for the sharing economy.

If you know what stoked means, you know you owe it to the universe to share it. Number 8 in the Surfers Code is “Pass On Your Stoke to a Nonsurfer”. The Surfers Code we live by goes well beyond surfing. It is a code that transcends any sport or activity and a code we believe leads to a more fulfilled life. StokeShare is about passing on that stoke and fulfillment to others.

The sharing economy is revolutionizing how we do business. Yet for all its modernity, peer-to-peer sharing just doesn't work without trust.  This means showing the steps you're taking to establish integrity and trustworthiness across your community. In this episode we connect with Jennifer Franklin, First Advantage, to discuss about how they are increasing trust through background checks.

To capture the attention of customers in a busy media world, PR is essential for marketplaces who want to drive awareness, traffic, and sales. In this episode, we speak with Angela Baldwin, Communications Manager at Near Me, about why public relations is key for marketplaces.

Patagonia has been a leader in the outdoor gear market and sustainability since 1979. Now they are an active in the sharing economy. In this episode we sit down with Nellie Cohen, head of the Worn Wear program, to learn more.

CMX as a platform where community professionals can get the support, education and opportunities they need to be as successful as humanly possible. In this episode, we sit down with David Spinks, founder of CMX, to discuss all things community.

SF Etsy is the street team for local Etsy sellers in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, we sit down to Rebecca Saylor, Co-Captain SF Etsy, to hear about her journey at SF Etsy.

Rachel Botsman is a global expert on the power of collaboration and sharing through technology to transform the way we live, work, bank and consume.

AdEspresso is a software platform for advertisers and media agencies to create, analyze, and optimize their Facebook advertisements. In this episode of The Crowd, we sit down with Massimo Chieruzzi, the CEO & founder of Adespresso. 

Scripted is the leading provider of original written content. It provides written content for thousands of customers — ranging from small businesses to large enterprise — through its curated user-base of specialist writers.

Gogohire is a hiring marketplace for sales talent. 

In this episode of The Crowd, we connect with sharing economy podcaster Bernie Mitchell.

Founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs from Oxford University, Onfido is a private London-based technology firm with the aim of disrupting the background checking industry.

When Stewart Rogers is not speaking, writing or reading about marketing technology, sales force automation, web tools and awesome processes you’ll find him helping to make VB Insight the best analysis and reports resource on the planet.

Bag Borrow or Steal We has a large selection of designer handbags and accessories to match every occasion. All you have to do is find the perfect accessory, enjoy it, return it and repeat. 

PivotDesk enables businesses to grow fluidly within the static real estate infrastructure by connecting companies with excess space to companies that need it. Flexible agreements eliminate the risk of a long-term lease, allowing entrepreneurs to offset costs so they can focus on what's most important—growing their business.

Vango is a marketplace that connects art lovers with artists selling original works of art.

Freelancers Union is helping the diverse self-employed community build a powerful voice – in politics and in markets. They connect freelancers to group-rate benefits (insurance), resources, community, and political action to improve their lives – and their bottom lines.

Borrowing Magnolia is a white glove service that allows brides to wear their dream designer dress at a fraction of the cost by either borrowing or buying it.

Founded by four busy parents, UrbanSitter is an online resource where parents go to find and book babysitters recommended by people they know. In this episode, we sit down with Lynn Perkins, the CEO and Co-founder of UrbanSitter.

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Professor Sundararajan's research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. Some of his current and recent research focuses on the governance of digital spaces, collaborative consumption and the sharing economy, social media and cities, digital institutions, contagion in networks, privacy strategy, pricing in digital markets and managing online piracy.

Listia is a mobile marketplace where you get rid of things you don't need and get stuff you want in return, for FREE. Earn credits by giving stuff away, and use those credits to get free stuff you really want from other users. The more you give away, the more free things you can get.

In Episode 20 of The Crowd, we connect with Lita Soza, a PR engineer at AirPR. AirPR is a technology platform that measures outgoing communications to ensure alignment and uses data to make better decisions around what messages should be pushed.  

In Episode 18, we talk with Kate Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Cloudpeeps, about her journey into the collaborative economy. Cloudpeeps is a network of professional social media, marketing, content and community freelancers. 

In Episode 18, we connect with James Slezak. James is the co-founder of Peers, an organization that helps make it "easier for workers to find, compare and manage work in the sharing economy."  

In episode 17 of the Crowd, we connect with Maren Donovan, CEO of Zirtual. Zirtual is marketplace that connects busy people with personal assistants, virtually :)