(Founder of stories) Buddy MEDIA Mike Lazerow: we doubled every six months "

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Mike lasers is a serial entrepreneur, who is the CEO of buddy media and previously founded GOLF.com, which was bought by Time Warner and wire University and is currently owned by CBS.

With several successful startups under his belt, we have decided to produce lasers in the Studio for an episode of the history of the site's founder Chris Dickson. At bat, the two discussed the lasers in the latest enterprise, buddy media, which just raised $ 54 million. Buddy Media helps brands cohesively manage their presence on social media and marketing campaigns on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Once users are connected to social media sites "is all about giving them relevant content, and that is what makes our platform" explains lasers, which describes how Starwood hotels and resorts uses the service. Each brand, he says, now expected on Facebook page to connect with consumers, but once they connect then they become Publishers pushing of sorts, they hope, relevant content to these consumers.

Continuing the conversation in the video below, lasers, talks about the strategy behind the building of the company and offers some of the figures. He tells Dixon, "everything starts with the product. All you have done, if you're not the best product on the side of the business does not work, there's a reason we have 9 of the top 10 global marketing, using our platform.

Notes, however, lasers, having a great product is only part of the equation. You need to build a great business. He credits his wife and one of the founders of scaling the business.

He said "it's not only a great product, how you sell and how do you maintain and thus we have that sooner and what happened is of our early success with customers or distribution ... and we became the player to go to. "

The strategy paid off. Lasers pointed out that buddy MEDIA led to total $ 90 million, of which $ 70 million is still in the Bank. The company creates "millions of dollars in monthly revenues doubled every 6 months, and the company had risen from 40 to 200 employees one year ago today. He went on to tell Dixon "once you find a business model that the time has come to scale". Over 20 months to reach the first million dollars monthly recurring revenue, the second million dollars is only 5 months, and now business adds another million dollars monthly recurring income every 3 months.

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Buddy MEDIA raises $ 54 M for brand-oriented management platform of social media

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Buddy MEDIA, a company that provides Facebook page and social media brand management raises $ 54 million in series d funding led by GGV capital with institutional venture partners, Bay partners and Business Insight. This brings total financing MEDIA buddy just under $ 90 million. GGV partner Jeff Richards joined Buddy MEDIA Board of Directors. One of Facebook's first ad sales execs, Kevin Colleran, also joined the company's Advisory Board.

Buddy MEDIA is best known for its management all-in-one social media to help create, manage and track your social campaign on Facebook. In connection with the Facebook platform enables brand managers agencies create, manage and keep track of Facebook pages in different languages to drive and increase user and brand. Users should not have any prior knowledge of form to create pages on Facebook and can create sleek and interactive pages pretty easily.

But Facebook is not only social media platform that brands should participate; Twitter has also has a powerful communications tool. A buddy MEDIA also offers Twitter management system, as well as CEO and founder Michael lasers tells us it's not just about Facebook and how brands participate through various channels, buddy MEDIA will provide them with the SaaS to manage this. He added that Google + scaling and ultimately adds feature brand and company, the company will look to provide integration with social platforms.

Earlier this year, buddy MEDIA acquired social analytics tool Spinback, which develops social commerce widget allows users to share products and purchase through Facebook, Twitter and email. This product is currently integrated with Buddy MEDIA SaaS

Of course when more brands look to social media to interact with consumers, buddy MEDIA results. Company's profit more than doubled since the end of 2010. In the past year, lasers told us that buddy MEDIA is on the way to make 20 million dollars in sales, profits can be at least $ 40 million.

Buddy MEDIA added about 200 new customers in 2011, including brands, retailers and media companies such as Ford Motor Company, Haines, ESPN, Hearst Corporation (more about this partnership) and Virgin Mobile, United States.

Buddy MEDIA staff had increased from 40 employees in 2009 to nearly 200, and the company opened a London Office this year. The last hired include CFO, Dennis Morgan, who headed the corporate finance and acquisition efforts for Yahoo.

Lasers said, the company continuously evaluates a couple of things: how brands more focused content on Facebook or on twitter; as they get the right content to man, and how to use the social graph for all fixed assets, it will happen. He explains that for major brands and companies to monitor social media complicated delivery audit and scaling in different countries. MEDIA Buddy simplifies this process, said lasers.

Laser and said that the company continues to grow, this capital will help scale development, global expansion, recruitment, sales, purchasing and much more. One of the problems, said he will hire the right people, but he plans to double the number of employees in the following year.

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