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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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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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Company: Junebug Weddings (www.junebugweddings.com)
Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide:
Junebug Weddings is an online wedding magazine featuring the award winning wedding blog, What Junebug Loves, and a Plan Your Wedding Hotlist of the best wedding professionals in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. Our invitation only network is expanding this year to include the world’s best wedding photographers.
How Did You Get Started:
Junebug Weddings is owned by Blair deLaubenfels, Christy Weber, and Kim Bamberg. After a decade of running successful photography businesses, we decided to share what we knew about the best products and people in the wedding industry with newly engaged couples worldwide. We’re thrilled to provide inspiration and advice to stylish couples everywhere.
How Long Have You Been In Business And How Many Employees Do You Currently Have:
We’ve been in business four years, and we have six employees.
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Name: Becky Shankle
Company: EcoModernism (www.eco-modernism.com)
Tell Us A Little Bit About What Your Company Does And What Services You Provide:
If modern kitchen design and sustainable materials had a baby, it would be EcoModernism. We design, assemble and install residential kitchens. We start with IKEA cabinet components – because they are extremely affordable – and finish them out with as many green materials as possible. Some of those materials include quartz countertops, bamboo shelving, cork flooring, recycled glass tile, and zero VOC paints. Green building materials haven’t become mainstream enough yet to get the price down. By using IKEA to save on the boxes, we’re able to shift the budget toward the more expensive finishes, and still come out cheaper than a fully custom kitchen. We design the kitchen to meet the client’s needs and goals, functionally and aesthetically. Once we lock in on that, we compile the order and help them place it.
The average IKEA kitchen comes in about 150 flat packed boxes. We offer an assembly and installation service, which starts with verifying the order’s completion when it gets there. Then we assemble it all, install it and help coordinate the countertop templating. We also dispose of all recyclable packing materials at a local facility.
How Did You Get Started?
I grew up in neighborhoods that had houses under construction, so the smell of wood and sound of saws and hammers has never gotten out of my blood. I started in commercial architectural design in 1986. Did that for 10 years, then moved into space planning and management for a dot com company. Got laid off from there in 2001 and have basically been on my own since. I find the project size & lifespan of residential design a lot more enjoyable than commercial projects. I’ll always be involved in design in some capacity.
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Tags: Blue By You, small business
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