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What a great week for all of us at magnify360! Last Tuesday we announced that magnify360 closed its first round of financing from MHS Capital as well as from some of the original investors behind successes, like BlueLithium (Yahoo!), Right Media and BetterPPC. Read the press release.

Congrats to the team!

A little history on magnify360. The Company was founded in 2004 by  Olivier Chaine. With the dedication of few of the original team members here, he bootstrapped the company to profitability within two short year, opened another office in Shanghai, China and attracted the likes of clients, including Citrix Systems, Intuit, Service Magic (IAC), HSBC Bank, Packet8, Continental Warranty and other industry leaders. Might I add, our very first clients are still with us today.

The financing will predominantly focus on recruiting—we are growing fast-fast-fast. All of our available positions are here. Take a look, polish your resume and send it on in.  We’re on the hunt for bright, creative and quick minds.

The media coverage of our announcement was tremendous. magnify360 was featured in:

DowJones VentureWire

VentureBeat (BIG thank you to Matt Marshall)

SoCalTech

The blog of Ben Kuo, voice of SoCalTech (Thank you Ben!)

The Smart Show (contributed by Fransisco Dao of the FastCompany blog)

TechCrunchIT (What an honor! Thank you Cameron!)

PaidContent

Pulse2.0

…and many many other fantastic & well-respected outlets. Thanks to everyone, who covered the announcement. All can be viewed on the News section of www.magnify360.com.

While all of this was going on, Olivier was flying around the country delivering speeches at the Online Marketing Summit Summer Tour…Seattle, Denver, Atlanta…not to mention meetings in San Fransisco and back here in LA and our exhibit this week at San Jose’s Search Engine Strategies conference.

In between flights on layovers and in between meetings in the car, he was on the phone taking interviews. You see…Olivier doesn’t sleep. He’s an optimization machine.

magnify360 is one of the sponsors of the current Online Marketing Summit’s Summer Tour.  The events runs through September at various cities across the country.  Here is an update from the Boston stop on the tour.

Aaron Kahlow, the founder of OMS kicked things off with a presentation geared to wake us up, literally!  He mentioned that organizations continue to hit the “snooze button” on the alarms going off around online marketing and do not continue to invest or reinvent themselves on the web.

Throughout the day, the sessions centered on topics such as search engine marketing, analytics and user experience, email marketing, social media strategies, demand generation, multi-channel metrics as well as behavioral targeting and technology.  Each session contained valuable insights for both the novice and experienced online marketers attending.

A highlight of the day was the keynote panel, when the attendees got to ask their industry peers direct questions about the state of online marketing. The topic this time was how big brands were driving success through social media, SEO, SEM, websites and testing.  A recurring theme for the panelists was the need to increasingly personalize and humanize the online experience.  They also enforced the need for analytics, and suggested that organizations use existing social networks to their benefit, instead of recreating the wheel with their own brands.

Be sure to check out the OMS website for more information or to register for one of the upcoming tour stops.

Olivier Chaine, magnify360’s CEO & founder, will be speaking at a few the stops along the Online Marketing Summit Summer Tour this year.

Catch Olivier’s best practices presentation in the following cities:

Seattle: August 7

Atlanta: August 12

Denver: August 14

San Diego: August 20

His presentation will take place at each stop from 1:30pm-2:40pm in the B-to-C Track:

Testing/Behavior Targeting
How to test for success and drive exponential conversion rate increases, putting A/B, multivariate and behavioral targeting technology to work.

For more information on the OMS Summer Tour please visit: www.onlinemarketingsummit.com

About OMS:
The objective of OMS is to educate, collaborate, network, and learn how to execute on the best known practices in Online Marketing. Events include hands-on workshops, on-site usability and SEO labs, thought-leadership presentations, and peer-to-peer collaboration on the subjects of:

* Social Media Strategies
* Search Engine Optimization
* Paid Search
* Website Usability
* Web Analytics and Tracking
* Email Marketing
* Content Management
* Site Search
* Website/Online Budgeting and Planning
* eCommerce
* Integrated Marketing
* Behavioral Targeting & Testing

If you’re planning on attending any of the tour stops and would like to connect, please let us know: marketing @ magnify360.com.

Yesterday magnify360’s ceo and founder, Olivier Chaine, spoke at DMDays, a New York conference produced by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) with specialty tracks provided by the Online Marketing Summit (OMS).  His presentation, Website Usability: Balancing the Customer Experience and Conversions was covered in a DMNews article by Ellen Keohane this morning, Improve Customers’ Online Experience and See Greater Conversions.

Here’s a summary of Olivier’s presentation at yesterday’s DMDays :

Website Usability: Balancing the Customer Experience and Conversions

With your website being the epicenter of all marketing efforts, it’s imperative to provide the best customer experience. Learn what research based best practices in usability are telling us about how to effectively provide customers with what they want – how they want it.

In this session you will learn:

• The Biggest Detractors for Users Causing Them to Leave your Site or Landing Page
• How Most Companies are Failing to Provide a Good User-Experience & Ways to Ensure You Aren’t
• How to Execute Customer Centric Campaigns & Where That Will Impact Your Campaign/Marketing Return on Investment