mobileStorm
{{Infobox company
| name = mobileStorm
| logo = Mobilestorm logo.JPG
| logo_size = 250px
| type = Private
| foundation = 1999
| parent_company =
| location = Los Angeles, California
| key_people = Jared Reitzin, Dave Carlson, Jonathan Schreiber
| industry = Web marketing
| products =
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| owner =
| num_employees = 50+
| homepage = [http://www.mobilestorm.com/ mobileStorm.com]
}}
mobileStorm is a SaaS based product for multi-channel communications. Businesses use mobileStorm to build a database of customers and gives them the ability to reach people on smart phones via email, text-message, push notification, secure messages to mobile apps and sites, as well as voice and fax broadcast. The communications firm started by Jared Reitzin is based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite web |last=Port |first=David |date=2010-08-05 |title=The Entrepreneur's Sales Guide |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-entrepreneurs-sales-guide/217178 |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=Entrepreneur |language=en}} To date, the company has sent billions of messages and launched more than a million marketing campaigns.{{Cite web |last=Bell |first=Lauren |date=30 October 2007 |title=MobileStorm receives funding from eonBusiness. Direct Marketing News |url=https://www.dmnews.com/98910/ |website=Direct Marketing News}}{{dead link|date=November 2023}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024}} Some of their clients include Overstock.com, NASCAR, American Idol and Kaiser Permanente.{{Cite web |date=2010-06-08 |title=mobileStorm Launches Mobile Marketing Offer |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4105074.htm |website=PR Web |access-date=2024-02-28 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924125123/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/06/prweb4105074.htm |url-status=dead }}
Company history
In 1998, at the age of 19, Reitzin dropped out of college to start a record label called Katalyst Music Group.{{Cite web |last=Pick |first=Tom |date=2007-11-05 |title=WMC Interviews: Jared Reitzin |url=http://webmarketcentral.blogspot.com/2007/11/wmc-interviews-jared-reitzin.html |access-date= |website=webmarketcentral.blogspot.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=K |first=B |date=2004-02-14 |title=Interview: Jared Reitzin, CEO of mobileStorm |url=https://www.socaltech.com/interview__jared_reitzin__ceo_of_mobilestorm/s-0000210.html |website=Socal Tech LLP}} Within Katalyst, Reitzin started a technology division where they built websites for larger labels. Early in the company’s founding, Jonathan Schreiber, an advisor, inspired Reitzin's interest in mobile technology.{{Cite web |date=2008-07-05 |title=Jared Reitzin Interview |url=http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/entrepreneur-interviews/jared-reitzin-interview/#disqus_thread |website=Young Entrepreneur |access-date=2011-07-02 |archive-date=2011-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804042340/http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/entrepreneur-interviews/jared-reitzin-interview/#disqus_thread |url-status=dead }}
mobileStorm officially launched in 1999 and incorporated in August 2000.{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2007-08-09 |title=Interview with entrepreneur Jared Reitzin from mobileStorm, a Web-based marketing company |url=https://www.entrepreneurship-interviews.com/interview-with-entrepreneur-jared-reitzin-from-mobilestorm-a-web-based-marketing-company/ |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=Entrepreneur Interviews |language=en-US}} They raised $40,000 initially from friends and family and were entirely self-funded.
In 2007, mobileStorm announced an angel round of funding with eonBusiness and opened additional offices in San Francisco and Orange County.{{Cite web |date=2007-10-30 |title=mobileStorm Gets Backing from eonBusiness |url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7123459/mobileStorm-Gets-Backing-from-eonBusiness.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703162856/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7123459/mobileStorm-Gets-Backing-from-eonBusiness.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 3, 2011 |website=Goliath}}{{Cite web |last=Reitzin |first=Jared |date=2007-10-30 |title=mobileStorm Announces Funding - video Dailymotion |url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cdgw |access-date= |website=Dailymotion |language=en}} The San Francisco branch will focus on new accounts, sales, and customer service.{{Cite web |date=2008-01-28 |title=mobileStorm Expands in Bay Area |url=https://www.socaltech.com/mobilestorm_expands_in_bay_area/s-0013422.html |website=Socal Tech}} In 2008, mobileStorm was named the email service provider of FreemantleEnterprises, which manages shows like American Idol and The Price Is Right.{{Cite web |date=2011-07-03 |title=mobileStorm to Provide Digital Marketing Tools and Strategy to FremantleMedia Enterprises... |website=Reuters |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/07/idUS106384+07-Jan-2008+BW20080107 |access-date=2024-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703100238/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/07/idUS106384+07-Jan-2008+BW20080107 |archive-date=2011-07-03 }} mobileStorm’s former products include Stun!, which allowed small to medium-sized businesses to build a database of customers and market to them via text messaging, email, voice and fax, and Bolt, a hosted service designed for large enterprises that deployed marketing, customer service, and transactional messaging programs. The two platforms are currently integrated into "mobileStorm for Marketing."