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Mediafly Planning for 2015

For Mediafly, the fourth quarter is always an exhilarating time as we bring on new customers, expand with current customers, add team members and begin planning for another successful year. As we review our third quarter success and focus turns to the plan for next year, we are keeping 3 key principles in mind: Focus

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Three Tips for Improving Sales Collateral

In the past, we’ve talked about how strong alignment between your sales and marketing teams is crucial to the success of an organization. As content creators, it is essential for marketing teams to produce content that sales teams actively use and find helpful. Content that hinders their performance might be disconnected from the daily challenges

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Integrating Your Inbound and Outbound Marketing Strategies

I recently attended Inbound 2014, Hubspot’s annual conference, which focuses on a wide range of marketing and sales tactics and methodologies. As the name suggests, the conference focused largely on inbound marketing and how Hubspot and their partners could impact messaging and content to ultimately win new business. My role at Mediafly is a unique hybrid of marketing and sales, so I’m able to experience and see the value in both strategies. During the conference, I learned a number of ways organizations are using both inbound and outbound tactics successfully. Here are the three takeaways on how to effectively integrate your inbound and outbound marketing and sales strategies.

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Success With Mobility: It Starts With Leadership

If designed, implemented, and executed effectively, mobility will not only complement an existing business strategy, but it will enable organizations to drive growth and profitability. In my last three blog posts, I articulated the case for mobility and the role that an integrated mobility strategy should play. For the next several posts, I want to highlight

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Why Are Media & Entertainment Studios Hesitant to Embrace the Cloud?

Jason Shah, Mediafly’s CTO, recently spoke at the Cloud Developers Summit and Expo 2014 in Austin, Texas. While the adoption of cloud-based solutions (aka software-as-a-service/SaaS) is accelerating in most industries, many large media & entertainment studios are still hesitant to fully embrace the cloud. At quick glance, the production, post-house, and broadcast/theatre distribution stages of the

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Karl Grzeszczak: September Docker Presentation

Last week, Mediafly hosted our second Docker meetup in Chicago. At the beginning of the night Senior Software Engineer, Karl Grzeszczak, presented and explained the details about CoreOS and why you should care about it. Karl’s presentation explored some of the pros and cons of CoreOS, and how he is using CoreOS in tandem with Docker. His slides

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What is Mobile? It’s Not What You Think

In the enterprise computing world, the word “mobile” is commonly misunderstood. Many tend to think of mobile as synonymous with portable, but those two definitions are in fact vastly different. Portable specifically speaks to the ability to carry a device with you. An iPad and a laptop are both technically “portable” However, if you ask anyone

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iOS 8: Is It OK to Upgrade?

On September 17th, Apple released iOS 8 to the public, with its usage reportedly reaching 46% percent in just one week. Unlike iOS 7, iOS 8 brings many “under the hood” improvements to your devices’ usability, but doesn’t have any substantial user-facing changes. Prior to, and since the official launch date, we’ve been testing Mediafly

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Mediafly and Box: Together in the Cloud

When you’re dealing with an ever increasing “pile” of files,  figuring out how to manage them can be quite the task. Security, organization and accessibility are all top concerns, which is why enterprise-grade file sync and share solutions, like Box, have quickly become the go-to solutions to help companies organize their content. Box provides businesses with a

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Having Customer-Obsessed Employees Could Improve Your Business

In this day and age being obsessed with your customers is becoming necessary to succeed in business. Reinforcing this point are Forrester Analysts, Ted Schadler and Phil Karcher, who recently authored a report talking about customer-obsessed employees. In their report they state, “In the age of the customer, companies that focus on customer’s need are showing

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