12. Zvi Band, CEO and Founder Contactually.

08/28/18 • 26 min

On today’s show, Cliff speaks with Zvi Band, CEO and Founder Contactually, a business software developer. Zvi talks about how he quickly, and sustainable grew his company, as well as developed a very user-friendly software that automatically aggregates and pulls in all of your relationships into one place, from email, social media, phone, calendar, et cetera. Helping you identify and group relevant contacts to your business and career.

Zvi Band started Contactually in 2011. It is one of the fastest-growing companies on the INC 5000 list, listed at 513; you’ve raised $17.8 million in investors’ funds. Zvi is active in the Washington, DC Tech Community and created “Proudly Made in DC” to continue the support, of the greater DC community.

Contactually is a software and service company that has grown with its impressive growing and dynamic team. Zvi says his team loves strong coffee, the latest technology, strange internet memes, and accomplishing great things through better, stronger relationships.

Contactually is a leader in business software, Zvi and his team early on recognized software is something, people are forced to use, not enjoy using. This is the challenge. Zvi knew that needed to change. So, his team doesn’t design software products to fit an existing mold; they design it to help people with their work.

Zvi, created a collaborative office space environment to ensure his team would thrive, and do great work. The result is that Contactually is a rapidly growing learning organization that’s constantly seeking to be better for its customers, their product, their team, and our investors.

Contactually is rated very well and is a fantastic software to simplify and automate personal communications with an extensive and loyal network of Real Estate agents using the software. With one click, users, connect their email accounts, and Contactually with its automatic sync of contacts and communication history, makes it easy to stay in touch with contacts and build a robust referral network.

For more on Contactually, visit: try.contactually.com

For more on Zvi Band, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zviband/

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For more on Contactually, visit: try.contactually.com

For more on Zvi Band, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zviband/

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11. David Hunter, CEO of Star Rapid

On today’s show, Cliff speaks with David Hunter, CEO of Star Rapid. David talks about his work in the manufacturing sector, what it takes to meet customer’s needs and improve product design and process, keep your employees up to date on procedure, and how to achieve sustainable growth.

David is originally from London, David has outstanding knowledge and know-how of doing business in China, where he has resided since 2003. David has a proven track record of success in general management and has held senior positions in sales, marketing, business development and operations. David is dynamic and forward thinking, striving always for continuous improvement in all aspects of business and business relationships.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, traveling and playing sports. As CEO of Star, he plans to elevate the business by bringing additional customer focus along with implementing industry 4.0 and continuing to develop what is already a great team, ultimately leading to greater customer satisfaction, consistent world-class performance and enable Star to achieve sustainable growth.

At Star Rapid David specializes in producing high-quality plastic injection molded parts and mold tools, with machining and finishing services to make tools from a variety of materials and can produce 50 to 100k+ finished parts in all major resins.

The Star Rapid team is highly focused on advanced material verification, inspection and testing to ensure your clients parts meet and exceed their highest expectations.

Star Rapid has these best in class programs in place:

Star Rapid a unique service called OMOM, which stands for One Man One Mold Service.

 This service provides quick-turnaround plastic injection tooling in half the time of conventional tools. By streamlining the entire tooling project, from conception to completion, using a single master machinist who takes ownership of the project from start to finish.

Design for Manufacturing, it is important to design for manufacturing when developing a new product to avoid costs and delays down the line.

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13. Reb Risty, Founder of RebL Marketing

On today’s show, Laura speaks with Reb Risty, founder of RebL Marketing about how she built her brand, and managed the growth of her marketing company with time management, automation, and set processes, as well as how she helps her clients manage their growth objectives and allowing the right marketing to develop as the company grows.

Reb Risty is an expert in corporate brand management and online marketing with a focus in SEO, inbound marketing and lead generation. She has been called on multiple times in her career to work with growing companies and serve as the driving strategic and operational force behind the marketing and communications department to support the company’s growth objectives, while creating and enhancing brand awareness and equity. www.reblmarketing.com

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