We’re already having quite a start to the summer! In addition to being in the Farragut 4th of July parade, owner and founder Sean Christman is celebrating his 26th birthday today, as well as his front cover debut with a great feature in Everything Knoxville magazine, one of the region’s finest publications. We’re proud of this huge accomplishment that Sean has achieved, and hope you’ll take a few minutes to read the Q&A interview article between Everything Knoxville and Sean Christman.
It’s here. We’ve taken the concept of an online business directory, and finally made it cool.
Welcome to Slamdot Circle, the place for small businesses to get listed, get recommended and generate business. The real power of Slamdot Circle, you ask? That comes from the viral nature of recommending a business, which gets immediately posted to Facebook, reaching that person’s entire network of friends. Anyone can connect to Slamdot Circle through their Facebook account, allowing them to “Recommend” businesses, and post that recommendation to their Facebook news feed, automatically.
A business can also list their basic contact information, but with Slamdot Circle they now have a centralized listing that links to all of their social networking profiles, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare, with more coming soon!
We’ve developed Slamdot Circle to be simple and clean, with an easy way to recommend and show support for your favorite businesses! Please check it out and leave us any feedback you might have. It will continue to evolve as we add more features, but we’re excited to have it up and running with a growing number of businesses getting listed and recommended. Come join the Circle.
It’s with great honor that I get to write this particular blog post, because the founder and owner of Slamdot, Sean Christman, who also happens to be one of my closest friends, has won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Knoxville Chamber’s Pinnacle Business Awards for 2009. Beware because you will hear things about Sean that you wouldn’t otherwise hear if I weren’t writing this myself.
On Friday, May 1st, in front of a packed formal ballroom, with the lights dimmed, and most of the other award winners already announced, roughly 600 of Knoxville’s top business leaders and community members were gathered to watch my short tribute to Sean:
After surprising the heck out of him, his name was announced and he took to the stage for a short acceptance speech, which if you know Sean was spontaneous and straight from the heart. He thanked our customers, the community, his parents, his wife, and, of course, yours truly. Except, I was only fortunate enough to have randomly met Sean during a brief stint at the same high school back 10+ years ago. His dream, his passion, his knowledge, his charisma, his business savvy, and his vision are what brought us to today. Ok, I was only paid for a couple paragraphs, I believe that’s a wrap. Kidding!
Here are some pictures from the Friday evening ceremony.
Sean and Daniel were on Knoxville’s Big Talker, FM 100 WNOX a couple of Saturdays ago. They talked about search engine optimization, social networking, and being small and agile. Here are some pictures from the studio.
We were recently featured on Web Host Directory back on December 3, 2007, in their Feature Host Interview. We really focused on our unique control panel, our mission of simplicity and our goal to keep up with the latest technology to better serve our customers.
We’d like to thank Web Host Directory for featuring Slamdot. We certainly appreciate it, so thank you WHD!
We’ve had the pleasure of being reviewed by Terri Wells of Dev Shed. The review was published today:
If you want a professional-looking web site, whether you’re a blogger or a small- to medium-sized business, you probably want your own domain. And in that case, you’ll want to work with a web host who understands your problems and offers intuitive tools. That’s where Slamdot comes in.
Slamdot recently launched a new control panel that it built based on web 2.0 technologies. Designed with user-friendliness in mind, the panel integrates billing, support, hosting and domain name management into a single AJAX-based tool. Best of all, you only need one username and password to access all of its features.
Terri continues further in her article:
In addition to the context-appropriate FAQs, a search box for help is available on practically every screen. Slamdot has set up a pretty comprehensive help site for its users, with plenty of FAQs and articles to explain topics. I get the general impression that the company is very open to feedback and quickly answers questions. To give you a little example, when I pointed out a discrepancy between Slamdot’s web site and its press release, the web site was quickly corrected (by “quickly” I mean within ten minutes).
We would like to thank Terri Wells and the folks at Dev Shed for taking the time to review Slamdot. We appreciate your interest in letting others know what we have to offer!
