Links to internet marketing articles and a
chapter
being published
in a book on starting the American prepaid phone card industry
in 1992.
1999
- The Federal Group, Woodinville, WA
Business Development
- Co-created and coded a web-based
system to sell/list property and acquire/manage
new real estate
and mortgage leads. More about
my experience
building mortgage & real estate directories.
1999 Gettuit.net Kirkland, WA
Founder
and Director of Product
Development
- Conceived and produced a online directory of Mortgage, Real Estate and Financial service
providers. Hired the programmers and managed the source code development/strategic
relations of this online exchange.
- Site was designed to facilitate instantaneous sharing of leads
(referrals) among mortgage brokers
and real estate agents. Messages and the actual leads would be sent to/from
any device, such as office/home phone, e-mail, fax, pda or cell phone. Each member had
ability to create/manage their own targeted lists.
- Proprietary CRM functionality was embedded into their personally created websites. From
the site, members could send messages, via the web, in their own voice to multiple devices
and group lists that recipients opted into from the site of the member.
- Members communications data stayed real-time correct. Recipients could change/delete
devices and contact data via web. The future system would follow member via time and
geographic position. System carried the viral message of the client company as a written
or verbal tagline like Hotmail tags a signature line to rapidly promote the
creation of another user.
1998 – 1999 Gettuit.com
Kirkland, WA
Co-Founder & Director of Product Development
- Hired as second employee. Designed and maintained the company’s first website
- Established the first email servers and co-created dozens of product names and their
related URL’s
- Discovered the channel and gave the first presentation to
procure the lead billionaire investor who funded a portion of the
company with 2.5 million dollars.
- Interviewed several potential CTO’s, found/hired the first salespeople, first IT
people, many more.
- Participated in the initial product positioning, pricing and branding, as well as the
first executable demo with Hornall-Anderson.
Gettuit would have offered almost any online app or service as an
online rentable application, rivaling the Microsoft.net
strategy.
- Discovered and catalogued the first 250 application service providers, which became the
core
products presented in the company’s offering of integrated online service partners
- Conceived and launched the company’s first commercial product,
a desktop client application, which linked to three online service
providers to integrate the process of finding a Realtor, a
property and a loan officer.
1997 NetroMedia Honolulu, Hawaii Owner
- Founded company that built and hosted websites for Honolulu
mortgage companies
1997 World Wide Desk, Inc Kirkland, WA Owner
- Co-founded Internet company
to offer online small business web services. Met with the top
executives of Costco to discuss the provisioning of business websites to
their Executive Club Member
base of several dozen million members.
Spent almost a year analyzing the needs of small business people
and how they could benefit
from the Internet. Primarily
focused on people in mortgage lending and real estate.
1996 - 1997 FIRST Technologies, Inc. Kaneohe,
Hawaii Owner
- Co-founded company that was formed to host sales organizations
whose members were able to create
web pages and communicate through branded email accounts linked to
the corporate master site.
- More than 4,000 salespeople created their own unique sites and
email accounts. FIRST Technologies
wrote the code and private branded the package for online use by
large sales teams.
- This proprietary software was demonstrated to
an enthusiastic Steve Ballmer in
early 1997.
- This technology, created, over five
years ago, had the same core features as AOL, GeoCities,
theglobe.com and other early virtual communities.
- These sites were extremely advanced at the time -- they were
web-based Intranets that could
duplicate themselves. Members sent/received internal/external
branded e-mail; used private imbedded
chatrooms and message boards; and could track new members in real
time.
These interactions,
tracking and control were based entirely within networks that we
created and hosted.
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A
very famous naval aviator:
Capt. Bill Span raised
me with an awesome mom
Irene.
Dad went supersonic in a Russian
MIG-29 and attracted major
media attention.
Attended the University of
North Carolina
on a football
scholarship.
Graduated with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in 1978. Became a
Dive Instructor and U.S.
Coast
Guard certified Sea Captain. Sailed 30,000 miles throughout the
Pacific Ocean
and the Caribbean
and dove over 200 times deeper than 200 feet.
1978 - 1980 - Sailed out of
Newport Beach. Taught SCUBA and captained boats. Sailed
Baja, and southern Mexico with Maui charter guru
Bruce Morse
& the legendary schooner skipper Roy Wildman.
1980 - Captained 36' cutter to
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and back during a year long adventure.
1981 - Captained 80 to 120
foot aluminum crew boats to oil rigs off Louisiana.
1982 - 1983 - Captained a 55'
trimarran from Portobello, Panama to
Cozumel,
Mexico for Clive Kelly.
Taught scuba diving on this very interesting island while exploring
ruins, diving for black coral and finding Spanish shipwrecks.
Enjoyed the modern and ancient Mayan culture and became friends with
the native Mayan Indians and colorful characters of Cozumel and
Quintana Roo.
1984 - Captained the
world’s fastest sailing vessel, the
SeaSmoke
out of Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
1985 - Bought 46’ catamaran
and sailed to
Kauai to teach diving for Napali Coast Dive Expeditions.
Ran dives at Tunnels
Beach North Shore of Kauai for Captain Zodiac.
1985 - Captained the 75'
schooner, Amazing Grace from Samoa to the Kingdom
of Tonga and back, Spent a month in remote islands of the the Ha'apai and Vavau
groups.
l986 - Joined Princeville
Realty Corp. Princeville,
Kauai, Hawaii, sold over $6 million dollars
of property on Kauai. Designed and built 3 custom homes in Kilauea, Kauai. After obtaining
my
Hawaii Real Estate Brokers license, became the Kauai affiliate of Hawaii Real Estate
Brokers,
a division of Jon Douglas Associates of Beverly Hills, CA.
l990 - l992 -
Formed Polynesian Divers
on Kauai.
Trained Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Steve Guttenberg and at least 10,000 others to SCUBA
during career. Spent three days diving with Bruce Willis
and family. Took him 140 feet deep
at the forbidden Island of Niihau.
1992 to 1995 -
Was one
of the first people in America to market a prepaid phonecard.
Started
at beginning with company that invented the industry:
AmeriVox.
Sold over 20 million dollars of phone cards through my 8,000 member sales team.
Acquired and handled several celebrity royalty accounts. My biggest client, sumo
wrestler Konishiki was 625 lbs.
Started extensively using predictive dialers, broadcast fax and broadcast email to
communicate
with large AmeriVox sales team. Was one of the first people in the
world to market and communicate,
via the Internet, to a large sales network using the very earliest
commercial websites.
My team sold more than 200 million dollars of prepaid phonecards. Clients like 3M
sold Post-It notes used our customized phone cards
as incentives. We had exclusive worldwide
licensing agreements with Elvis Presley, JFK, Richard
Petty, Wyland and other celebrities.
1996 - Formed first pure
Internet company, FIRST Technologies, Inc.
Partnered with software developer
to create the first interactive, self generating websites targeted at members of large
sales teams.
This technology enabled any sales group to become a virtual
community.
The software was demonstrated to the current
top executive of Microsoft,
Steve Ballmer, in early 1996. It was very favorably received
and may have inspired
certain
products you see today.
I was living in Tantalus
Oahu, Hawaii at an elevation of 2,000 feet in a
tropical rainforest until
the internet boom of 1997 brought me to Kirkland, Washington - near Seattle.
Send an email:
bill@LeadProducers.net
