Hearsay Social

Hearsay Social
Type Private
Founded San Francisco, California (2009 (2009))
Headquarters San Francisco, California; New York, NY
Founder(s)
Key people Clara Shih
(CEO)
Steve Garrity
(CTO)
Website hearsaysocial.com
Alexa rank 163,247 (April 2014)[1]

Hearsay Social is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) social media marketing management platform.[2][3] The service operates by using social networking services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as a way for clients to market to various customer bases. Clients include large companies such as Allstate as well as smaller local companies.[4][5]

The company was founded in 2009 by former Microsoft employee Steve Garrity and Starbucks board member Clara Shih.[6] They initially intended Hearsay Social to be used to help larger companies promote their local branches via social media but has since described the company as a more general “social selling platform”.[7] The company is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California.

References

  1. ↑ "Hearsaysocial.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ Gannes, Liz (3 February 2011). "Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media". AllThingsD. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Takahashi, Dean (28 July 2011). "Hearsay Social Raises $18M So Your Employees Won’t Embarrass You on Social Media". VentureBeat. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Casserly, Meghan (10 September 2012). "Hearsay Social Takes Out Insurance; Adds Allstate To Client List". Forbes. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  5. ↑ Oreskovic, Alexei (5 September 2013). "Internet's Hearsay Social raises $30 million in funding". Reuters. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  6. ↑ McMahan, Ty (14 December 2011). "Hearsay CEO Brings Cup Of Social Marketing To Starbucks". WSJ "Venture Capital Dispatch" weblog. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  7. ↑ Ha, Anthony. "Hearsay Social Raises Another $30M To Help Businesses Grow Sales Through Social Media". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
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