Editors Note: Around here we love to talk about how smart our users are! What can I say, we’re admittedly a little biased. We love the concept behind CitiKitty and are smitten by the fact that Rebecca’s both an inventor and entrepreneur at the same time! We’d also like to congratulate CitiKitty on their upcoming episode on SharkTank this Friday! Go get ‘em!
BB: Hello! Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide: My company manufactures and distributes a toilet training kit for cats called CitiKitty to pet, retail and online stores around the world. CitiKitty teaches cats to use the toilet so cat owners never have to scoop kitty litter again. A simple solution to the dirty litter box!
BB: How Did You Get Started?
I toilet trained my own cat Samantha in 2004 when she was 11 years old. In 3 weeks she was using the toilet! Thrilled, I immediately started on creating CitiKitty so other cat owners could to the same.
BB: How Long Have You Been In Business And How Many Employees Do You Currently Have?
CitiKitty launched in 2005. I have a network of freelancers I use for various projects and after tremendous sales growth in 2010 I now have 2 employees.
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We’ve been big fans of Logan since his onboarding appt last year and we first learned about his company, yourlittlefilm. At BatchBlue, we’re the proud parents of 17 BatchBlue babies (BatchBabies!), so we love the family concept behind his business. Confession: we’ve spent way too much time watching the adorable introductory videos on his site 
Yesterday Logan was featured in the NY Times Small Business Section as a prime example of how to make a small business as productive as big business by using the right tools (including BatchBook). Congratulations Logan and thanks for providing such an awesome service for busy parents.
BB: Hello! Tell us a little bit about what your company does and what services you provide:
YourLittleFilm.com offers easy, affordable video production services for your Business and your Family. For Businesses, we create dynamic, viral content that helps market you and your business to customers . For Families, we help take all of those unwatched hours of raw home videos and turn them into little films that can be instantly shared with family and friends via email, Facebook, YouTube and beyond.
BB: How did you get started?
I got started after the birth of my first little girl, Chloe, two years ago. I was one of those parents drowning in hours of unwatched video. With nowhere to turn to help me edit them down affordably, I dusted off my UCLA Film degree and got cutting. I made these little films and shared them with our circle of family and friends. Soon friends (and then friends of those friends) started asking me for help to do the same. That’s when the lightbulb went off and I realized (a) I loved doing this more than my 9-5 job and (b) there was a wide open market out there that needed help. Then last year I saw the same need in the B2B/Business community and started helping entrepreneurs and small business owners produce viral video content to help market their products and services.
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The decorations are up and the turkey’s been eaten, which can only mean that the winter holidays are officially upon us. I know, I know, you’re thinking ‘Wait – didn’t I just finally put my beach chair in the car?’ The good news is that organizing with BatchBook can help take away some of that stress and help keep your holidays full of mirth and merriment.
Here are a few of my favorite tips on how BatchBook can make your holidays brighter this year:
Make holiday card sending a snap
- Start by creating a new tag for your holiday cards and tag everyone you’d like to mail to (for instance “holiday10″).
- Search though your other tags to find groups of people you’d like to include and BatchAdd these folks to your new holiday tag in one fell swoop.
- Want to use your holiday cards to help reconnect with folks you haven’t communication with in a while? Use our handy dandy “record communicated with” Advanced Search to find folks you haven’t spoken with since Valentines Day.
- You can build a list using your new tag name with a click of a button. Then check out which labels we support and print your mail labels right from BatchBook!
- Another option: send your list over to MailChimp or export your list to Tiny Prints and let them do the hard work for you!
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Customer: Tom Frazier
Company: Smirkabout (www.smirkabout.com)
Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide:
SmirkAbout makes ultra thin & ultra tough skins for mobile devices. Our skins are made to fit more than 500 of the most popular devices, from phones to laptops, netbooks to iPads, gaming controllers and more. We’ve teamed up with artists from around the world to put the best photo-quality designs on the most popular devices to really make your electronics personal again.
How Did You Get Started:
Andrew, the other co-founder, and I have very different and complimentary backgrounds. Andrew came from investment banking and my background is in Fortune 50 telecommunications. Both of us were looking to build a company built around personalization. We found that skins weren’t readily available outside of America and after countless hours of research we saw that it was a real market opportunity. We spent about a year building a backend technology platform that allows us to sell in 10 different regions of the world in multiple currencies with a full on-demand distributed manufacturing capability.
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Customer: Piers Shepperd
Company: Stagelink Limited (www.stagelink.com)
Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide:
Stagelink provides specialist technical design and production services to the live event industries. We have worked all over the world, helping teams from the Rolling Stones and U2 to the Opening Ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Olympics. We provide specialist 3d technical design solutions using AutoCAD and Rhino, technical drawings, specifications and technical direction. Much of our work involves the coordination of lighting, sound, video, rigging and staging teams to ensure that everybody is heading in the right direction. Our real ‘buzz’ is bringing together hugely complex projects and teams to realize a creative dream.
How Did You Get Started:
After leaving school, I worked as a lighting technician on events all over the world, before moving onto the technical design of stage sets.
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