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Lexity is Advertising on Autopilot - a simple, affordable and effective service for small businesses, to increase their traffic and sales. Simple because we have taken all complexity away from online marketing - everything is automated, and we only ask our customers the bare minimum. In fact, they spend less than 15 minutes a week managing Lexity. Affordable because we can help customers with budgets as low as $300/month - in fact, we refuse to take on customers that want to spend more than $10,000/month.
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It’s simple because we have taken all complexity away from online marketing - everything is automated, and we only ask our customers the bare minimum. In fact, they spend less than 15 minutes a week managing Vurve. It’s affordable because we can help customers with budgets as low as $200/month - in fact, we refuse to take on customers that want to spend more than $10,000/month.
According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming. According to the comScore study, the average online vacation plan comes together through 12 travel-related searches and visits to 22 different web sites over the course of 29 days.
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Yen Lee Yen Lee, President , has 12 years of entrepreneurial experience in search and online travel. Yen co-founded CitySearch San Francisco, was EVP at WorldRes where his team captured 12% of 2001 online hotel bookings (source: PhoCusWright), and most recently was General Manager for Travel at Yahoo which he helped grow 40% YOY to $300M in annual revenue.
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Yen Lee , Co-founder and president of Uptake, has been helping launch and grow travel and local search businesses since 1996 when he co-founded CitySearch San Francisco. As Executive Vice President at WorldRes and Places to Stay, his team captured nearly 12% of 2001 online hotel bookings (source: PhoCusWright). Most recently, Yen was General Manager for Travel at Yahoo!, where he helped grow the travel business 40% annually and exceeded targets for 10 straight quarters.
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Yen Lee - LinkedIn
Yen Lee is a technology geek who loves to travel, and has made it his career (and hobby) to help people discover and plan their ideal getaways and vacations. Formerly General Manager of Yahoo! Travel and co-founder of CitySearch San Francisco, Yen is now founder and President of Uptake, a social travel company that pairs personalized recommendations from friends with an extensive, searchable catalog of travel experiences. Uptake is the third largest travel research site in the U.S and Yen is start to itch for his next big boondoogle (and he's looking for your suggestions...) Specialties
Interview: Yen Lee, President and Founder, UpTake | Videos | Breaking Travel News
Industry veteran Yen Lee, President and Founder of UpTake speaking about the future strategy, challenges and opportunities at PhoCusWright 2008. Interviewed by BTN.
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We believe that people are passionate about what they watch - and eager to share that passion with others. We believe that channeling that willingness to share in an easy, fun, and rewarding service is the best way to help you discover great content you might otherwise have missed. We also believe that the line between TV and the Internet is blurring and will eventually be erased - adding dramatically the range of possible answers to the question, "What should I watch right now?"Why Entertainment Will Drive the Next Checkin Craze
In recent months, a crop of services have popped up that re-purpose the checkin concept, popularized by Foursquare , and connect it to media and entertainment, as opposed to location. In theory, the idea of checking-in to cultural concepts (like media, music, etc.) and not places is one that doesn’t jive in the real-world. It would follow then that the apps that provide this service — GetGlue , Philo and Miso — are silly and far too extreme in ideology to attract anything more than a testbed tech audience. In practice, this alternative checkin behavior is one that is more cultural and familiar than anything the location checkin offers. In fact, it emulates the way we experience entertainment in our everyday lives. The desire to share is unchanging — it’s how we share that will continue to evolve with the help of social media and entertainment checkin services.
Nida has led product and design strategy at leading companies including Amazon.com, Yahoo! and PayPal. She has extensive experience in pioneering successful products having led the design of Amazon's single page checkout, Yahoo!'s redesign of Mail and Messenger and PayPal's checkout and social finance efforts. She is Director of Product at Tunerfish, a startup within the Comcast Innovation Center in Silicon Valley, where she leads the new product development of social entertainment experiences.
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