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Creating A Great Corporate Culture Like InsideVault

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Aug 25 0

Like so many digital marketing professionals, I’m a huge fan of great corporate cultures. It’s so much fun to be part of a strong team, it’s so motivating. Create an amazing culture like my good friends at InsideVault SEM Platform and your employees will be happy, motivated, retained, and growing in their careers. Everyone wants to have a great culture and everyone wants to create one. However, it’s easier said than done. Leveraging my observations of InsideVault (they have one of the best cultures I have ever observed), I wanted to share a few tips on building that amazing corporate culture everyone wants!

Teamwork

  1. Great culture starts with a family-like team. Hire people that work well together and get along incredibly well. As one strategy, consider going into business with familiar faces. If you’re able to hire a core team that has worked together in the past, you will have an instant family-like team. Of course, you also want to hire new faces and welcome them into your family (old and new faces are key to the success of any business). My friends Chaitanya, Brian, and Guillermo all worked together at Nextag so they had that family-like foundation having worked together for so many years. They hired other familiar faces, the best of the best. In parallel, they brought new members into the InsideVault family. What resulted is a true family-like environment where everyone truly enjoys working together, how motivating!
  2. Superior corporate cultures require constant attention and team events. Important note: It does not have to cost a lot. In fact, money is not really a factor at all here. It’s the thought that counts. Teams need time to bond. Teams need time to enjoy each others’ company outside of work. Check out the InsideVault Facebook Page. Every single week, the entire team is enjoying fun events, together as a team! Some recent examples: team lunch from Sushi Plus, good times at a team break, Sprinkles Cupcakes break, horizontal reserve beer tasting paired with food, outdoor movie night, day at the movies, and so much more. These guys do several fun team events each week. Every time I’m over at the InsideVault Office, I see employees working late into the night. Everyone is super motivated! Why? They are a family and truly enjoy what they do. All of the fun event planning truly makes the team and shows the team that the company cares.
  3. Great cultures require a comfortable work environment. Head on over to the InsideVault office and you will see a relaxed environment. These guys have a convenient location, comfortable sofas, a life sized Justin Bieber cardboard pop-up, a fun and relaxed environment, and a casual dress code (t-shirts are ok if you’d like). Keeping things fun and relaxed is key. The mind works better when you are free to be yourself. InsideVault truly invests in their employees by keeping the work environment fun, casual, and friendly.
  4. Amazing cultures require purpose. Every single day, InsideVault is pushing forward to build the best possible SEM platform. They have true purpose. Everyone is aligned behind the goal of making the lives of digital marketing professionals easier and better. I can totally respect that, as someone who has been enjoying the corporate digital marketing career path for 10 years. Anything that can make my day easier and more empowered is something I place great value upon. In speaking with numerous employees at InsideVault, it is clear that they are incredibly focused, driven, and aligned behind a single goal.
  5. Culture requires people that care about people. If you’re just in business to make money, you probably won’t have a great culture. However, if you’re in business to make money, change lives, grow careers, and help people, it’s likely you are set up for a great culture. Have a true passion for people. That’s the foundation of any great culture. At InsideVault, the team truly cares about people, both customers and employees, creating an awesome culture.

Auditioning SEM platforms? Make absolutely sure to reach out to my friends at InsideVault.

Image of Teamwork © iStockPhoto – IvelinRadkov

Fun Times At The InsideVault Office

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Feb 23 1

This has been one exciting week for PPC Ian! It all started out with my exclusive Sean Marshall interview. Then, I had the honor of guest posting on AdMedia’s blog about Enhanced Campaigns. I had an absolute blast at the Marin Software Cocktail Party. Of course, I worked amazingly hard during all of this great stuff. Today’s post rounds up the week and highlights my fun visit to the InsideVault office earlier this week!

You may recall, I wrote a post a while back Introducing InsideVault. These guys are amazing! I’m personal friends with several employees at InsideVault, and I am here to say they are brilliant people and have built an amazing SEM platform!

On Tuesday night, after wrapping up an exciting and productive day at work, I drove over to the InsideVault San Carlos office. I met with Chaitanya Chandrasekar (CEO & Co-Founder), Brian Bird (Co-Founder & Head of Business Development), and Guillermo Cockrum (Business Development). I got a demo of the platform and it’s quite impressive. I was especially thrilled to see:

  • The overall speed of the platform. InsideVault is really fast. These guys are big data experts and built the platform for amazing speed.
  • InsideVault fully supports Google product listing ads. If you’re in the product shopping space, this feature is sure to help you out.
  • The platform offers an amazing level of detail. I’m talking about going beyond the keyword level: keyword + slot + network + match type + device + more! InsideVault really allows search marketers to drill down.
  • InsideVault offers reporting at the ad extension level, plus an easy interface for sitelink management.
  • So much more!

After an exciting demo, hanging out with friends, and taking pictures (see below), my good friend Guillermo and I went over to The Office for dinner. If you have not been there, I recommend it – the burgers are great. Are you in the market for an SEM automation platform? Want to take your SEM program to the next level? I highly recommend checking out InsideVault. Ask for my friend Guillermo and he can arrange a demo for you!

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Introducing InsideVault SEM Automation

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Oct 14 4

PPC Ian’s 3-year blog anniversary is coming up at the end of October. It’s only fitting that I lead up to my blog anniversary with a post about SEM automation, perhaps my favorite topic in our exciting world of online marketing. I like to think that PPC Ian is one of the best resources online when it comes to choosing the right search marketing platform for your needs. When I first started blogging about SEM automation, I wrote a post about Four Amazing SEM Tools. Since then, the world of SEM platforms has expanded even more! There’s so much competition, both in the world of PPC platforms and also in the world of SEO platforms (a topic I have not covered yet but plan to in the future). With competition comes better choices for online advertisers like you and me! Today, I’m thrilled to highlight a brand new SEM platform called InsideVault. Before we get into the actual post, however, I wanted to share a fun picture of yours truly and the InsideVault team!

InsideVault Team and PPC Ian

PPC Ian Hanging Out With The Amazing InsideVault Team (and Justin Bieber)

We actually took this picture last Wednesday night when I visited the InsideVault office (in San Carlos, CA) on the way home from work. San Carlos is an awesome little city and a very central location on the San Francisco Peninsula to start a new company. When I arrived, I was greeted by my old-time friends, Guillermo and Brian. I worked with these guys back in 2004-2006 at Nextag.

Guillermo and Brian gave me a tour of their awesome office and introduced me to the team. I ran into several familiar faces there. What a fun blast from the past! Right from the start, InsideVault recruited the best of the best. It’s all about the people!

After the office tour, we hopped into the conference room and actually sat at a conference room table that used to be in the old Nextag San Mateo office. How cool! I do believe the old school table will bring InsideVault good luck. (At the same time, these guys are so awesome that they really do not need too much good luck.) My hosts graciously ordered in some amazing pizza for dinner and then gave me a demo of their product.

Now, I’m not going to lie. Before I even went to their office, I was a tiny bit skeptical. SEM automation is probably one of the most saturated and competitive markets within Internet technology right now. The competition is fierce and the amount of funding is huge. I’m talking about over $100 million worth of funding across all of the SEM platforms, if I were to throw out a conservative estimate.

However, my skepticism dropped the minute the team started demoing the platform. In short: I was 110% blown away and am a major believer that InsideVault is going to be one of the hugely successful SEM platforms. What InsideVault has accomplished in the last 1.5 years is truly unbelievable. I was dazzled!

I asked Brian, “Why did you guys go into such a competitive market?” The answer was simple: No matter how competitive, we can do better! Based on my several hour demo of the platform, I can see exactly what Brian was saying. In terms of features, I believe that InsideVault has one of the most advanced SEM bidding systems around. I absolutely love the bidding, the InsideVault team really hit the nail on the head. I also believe their cross-search engine campaign management is one of the best. I’m not going to get into too much detail here because I’m not sure how much I’m able to say and how much I’m not. What I do want to say is make sure to reach out to InsideVault. Whether you’re in the market for a platform or whether you already have one, you owe it to yourself and your company to stay on top of the latest trends and advancements. We’re in the early days of search engine marketing and the platforms just keep getting better and better! Make sure to stay on top of the trends and make the best decisions for you and your company.

Over the coming months, I’m going to be blogging more about InsideVault. I’ve got some exciting projects in the pipeline with the InsideVault team and will be providing some great coverage of the platform here on PPC Ian. Stay tuned and make sure to check out InsideVault today!

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