Semanticator
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ann dixon
6/30/08 8:54PM
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very nice ... love the concept
dave bain
7/1/08 4:39AM
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Nice job, John! Don't miss a beat ramping this up, bro!
Bruce M
7/1/08 5:1AM
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customers ... open your eyes, the future of web marketing is here .... and cheaper than a tank of gas
Lynn Failing
7/1/08 6:26AM
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As usual, you're being creative, having fun and helping companies to grow. Great combination!
Craig Gress
7/1/08 6:32AM
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Semanticator should be a big hit. BodyConcept.com can really see how this could increase our close rate as well decrease our bounce rate.
Nice Job
Glen C
7/1/08 6:41AM
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Wow, very cool. I can see where opportunities abound.
Harry Fisher
7/1/08 7:26AM
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With someone who has an MBA in eBusiness and understands the value of marketing efficiently and effectively. I believe these guys are on to something here. This is the direction of Marketing on the web.
Nour
7/1/08 7:37AM
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Well done and thought concept.
Ignatius
7/1/08 7:40AM
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Excellent concept! I can see how this will fit in the gap so many marketing and web strategies encounter.
Kent
7/1/08 7:51AM
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Dude!! nice job
John B
7/1/08 9:22AM
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Once again, JSD thinking ahead of the future curve... Excellent vision, John!
Chris Hurley
7/1/08 9:25AM
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This is a space that I believe has been primed for HUGE opportunity for quite some time now. Kudos!
Zim Jackson
7/1/08 10:5AM
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A very nice, keep up the good work.
Tom
7/1/08 10:56AM
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Have you guys looked at WrapMail - I looked at both pitches - there's some common denominators here I think
Wes Mason
7/1/08 11:22AM
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Powerful concept, powerful tool. I can only imagine what targeted, relevant customer informaiton can do for a business.
Kevin Ackles
7/1/08 11:40AM
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Much needed! Quite creative! Huge opportunity in this space! Go for it John!
TheLeetGeeks dot Com
7/1/08 11:46AM
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Planning on writing a review on this technology. I am so wowed right now. I am considering employing this technology into my family business...
awesome idea. great job!!
4four1ones
Brad Holcomb
7/1/08 11:46AM
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I'm intrigued!
Matt Calhoun
7/1/08 12:12PM
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Doing a great job John. I love the idea.
Thomas Luther
7/1/08 12:40PM
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John, outstanding as always!
Ian Gilyeat
7/1/08 3:59PM
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This is good stuff John! You, Jim and the team have done a great job with it.
@Aronado
7/1/08 4:12PM
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John
Very nice job "getting out there"
good luck!
Tim Baker
7/1/08 5:18PM
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John and team continue to push the realm of possibility in leveraging technology to optimize the customer "e"experience resulting in a more significant interaction and greater sales!
Collee Bruemmer
7/1/08 5:54PM
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I've been doing alot of reading lately about differentiating your company based on the customer experience - say by segment. I think this takes the concept to a whole new level. Great job, John!
John C
7/2/08 7:51AM
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Great job!!!
Lila
7/2/08 9:45AM
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What a great salesman you are. You have peaked my interest. Great job on the Pitch!
Will Szabo
7/2/08 10:24AM
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Nice job putting this all together in a single clip. Glad to see that you were able to work in a demo as well. WTG!
Fabiano Moura
7/2/08 12:26PM
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You had me at "The World's first and only Semantic Marketing Technology.."
I loved it the first time I heard of it, and it just keeps getting better!
Paul Klein
7/2/08 12:26PM
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Very Very smart and innovative guys!
John, keep trail blazing !!
Susan F. Heywood
7/2/08 4:42PM
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John-Scott and his team are once again on the bleeding edge of Web technology with Semanticator.
The ability to automatically present a Web experience that meets the needs of visitors with different perspectives and goals will enable organizations to make more sales and maximize the ROI from their Web marketing programs.
Bogdan
7/3/08 1:19AM
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I sounds like a great tool, but how about the privacy issues? Won't users have to volunteer the collection of data of the websites they've visited?
Jared
7/3/08 9:0AM
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Strong, cutting edge web technology! Nice work JSD!
John-Scott Dixon
7/3/08 10:56AM
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Great question Bogdan! The best way to answer your question is via analogy. Imagine an automall - where an observant sales person saw you visit a competitor and test drive a certain class of vehicle - e.g. truck. [more to follow]
John-Scott Dixon
7/3/08 10:57AM
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Now, when you approach that sales person's dealership, would you expect them to say "I saw that you visited my competitor and test drove their truck, would it be OK if I used that information to treat you more relevantly today?" Our technology enables you to deliver immediate value without violating your visitors' expectations of privacy. [more to follow]
John-Scott Dixon
7/3/08 10:57AM
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With that stated, we do not use tracking cookies to monitor visitors behavior across other websites. With tracking cookies information is stored on a specific computer, creating an identifiable relationship that can be exploited.. In contrast, our technology applies only to anonymous visitors (hard to invade privacy when you don't know who they are) - nothing is tracked, stored or personally identifiable.
Please let me know if I did not fully answer your question and thanks!
Sandra
7/3/08 4:35PM
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Love the idea, not just from a business owner point of view but from a consumer point of view....if someone can 'present' to me what i 'want' to see, feel, touch...i am not offended in how they get that info...in fact, i applaud it...it shows a great respect for my time....great job, john.
Tony Hamati
7/3/08 5:48PM
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Very good job,john.
Good luck
Fabiano Moura
7/4/08 8:36AM
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You had me at " First and only Semantic Marketing Technology.." Loved it the first time I heard about it!
Gerald Dason
7/4/08 9:29AM
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The idea is great (targetted content is always great) but I don't see how this can work from a technical point of view.
The example with Nissan and Toyota ... the comparisson table is nice but this requires Toyota to have comparison tables for "all" brands and car types (read unmaintanable imo) and this is just one example. Also I don't see how you can possibly know a visitor visited Nissan before coming to Toyota.
I'm fond of the idea I just can get my head arround how this works ...
John-Scott Dixon
7/4/08 10:3AM
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Hey Gerald,
Wonderful question!
You are right in that our clients have to be judicious about what they will compare to and what they won't. In your example of Toyota, we would probably look for three or four major competitors for each vehicle (they have 16 models). Then, build single comparison pages for each. We would also set up other personas like an ECO persona to showcase the Prius and other Hybrids. [more to follow]
John-Scott Dixon
7/4/08 10:4AM
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As far as how it works - see for yourself, visit our demo page for instructions on how to test it out on your computer:
http://www.semanticator.com/demo.html
Thanks!
Joe Bigley
7/7/08 6:26AM
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Great, great technology!!! You guys have a very promising future.
Lila
7/7/08 9:47AM
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Here I am again telling you how wonderful you all are. Great job on the Pitch....Great job on the concept and great company name!
Hurley
7/7/08 1:54PM
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This is a space that I believe has been primed for HUGE opportunity for quite some time now. Kudos!
hammer
7/7/08 3:4PM
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are you able to make previous surfing habits relevant that are not specifically associate? say i have been doing research on zelda, acrobats, and queens. would you be able to gleen any relevant information to modify my toyota experience?
Jennifer Daake
7/7/08 3:38PM
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Best of luck with this concept! Cutting edge and cool!
John-Scott Dixon
7/7/08 4:39PM
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Hey Hammer! If we saw a commercially viable relationship between Zelda and making you flip for Toyota, then the answer is YES! Today, any thing we do must be planned. In the future, Semanticator might be able to act on loose associations (based on ontologies).
Ray
7/8/08 4:4AM
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Great Concept.
Bob
7/8/08 1:10PM
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I don't get it
Dillard
7/9/08 12:33PM
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semantical approach would work even better when browsing from a mobile device... great for the pc.... where is my mobile version.. call me
John-Scott Dixon
7/9/08 2:4PM
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Dillard - the mobile version of Semanticator is on its way - let's talk 800.607.1507!
tyler
7/10/08 10:46AM
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Why did you have to make that pitch in 7 cuts? If you're passionate enough and know your product well enough shouldn't you be able to speak straight for one shot? It shows a great deal of non-confidence in your product. VCs won't be impressed if you can't do it live.
Eric
7/10/08 12:53PM
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Can you be certain that the browser makers aren't going to patch this privacy hole? If not, it doesn't sound like solid long term business. It does seem like a nice grab for cash in the meantime though.
Eric
7/10/08 1:6PM
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I did read your analogy and your comment that, "it's hard to violate privacy when you're anonymous". The problem is this: What if I log into sites about sky diving, cigarette smoking, and various escort services... and then visit my company web site? Now my boss knows (assumes) that I'm a health risk. It's hard for me to negotiate a raise when my boss can see that I was checking out luxury cars, watches, or jewelry.
CK
7/10/08 2:28PM
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I like your pitch.
Technically, you explained:
- Who you are and what your company does
- The benefits of your product with numbers and the summary ("Means they sell more", that's awesome)
- Price of your service.
Good pitch. HOWEVER:
Google seems to have a product similar to yours:
- Google Analytics (shows who is visiting your website)
- Google Website Optimizer (allows you to run content experiments in your website to increase conversions)
Bottomline of Google's products: FREE
John-Scott Dixon
7/10/08 3:32PM
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Eric - we can't see all of your browser history. Even if we could, we couldn't process it. We are limited to those sites we've targeted in advance. We also don't store what we've detected. So, your secrets are safe with Semanticator.
John-Scott Dixon
7/10/08 3:38PM
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CK - Google tells you what happened after the fact. And, they do a great job - we use Google Analytics. What they don't do is tell you before the fact! Semanticator can detect the different types of visitors that are important to your business just before they arrive at your website. This allows your website to alter content, simplify navigation and change imagery to immediately welcome them in a more meaningful and relevant manner.
Make sense? We aren't free, but we are low priced for the value provided.
John-Scott Dixon
7/10/08 3:50PM
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CK - with regard to Google Website Optimizer - it is basically an A/B split or multivariate testing platform. Again, great job Google, but not an alternative to Semanticator. It simply lets you test different versions of a one-size-fits-all web page to see how it performs. What is required is sufficient traffic to be confident in the results (all traffic being treated the same). With Semanticator, you could optimize a pages built specifically for different visitor types. The two technologies are complementary.
CK
7/11/08 7:10PM
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I wonder how your technology works. Without any previous testing and hard-data, it is not possible to know how users will react to the website's content. Unless, the proposed personas from Semanticator have high correlation to the actual visitors.
Jeff Barron
7/12/08 1:54PM
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I like the idea. Good one. I'd also submit to you if you aren't already to look into APML for your service.
Jim Cook
7/12/08 2:29PM
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Thanks Jeff were researching utilizing APML for Semanticator
John-Scott Dixon
7/14/08 1:58PM
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CK - the best way to express the power of Semanticator is example. How about Hospitality? The majority of revenue for a hotel comes from "Meeting Planners". If we detect that a visitor has been to a competitive hotel's website, completed a request for proposal in the meetings section and visited the National Meeting Planners Association website. Which do you think would be more powerful: 1. the one-size-fits-all home page designed for vacationers, or 2. a home page with a 90% focus on meeting planning? Obviously, the second is the best choice. Where a/b split or multivariate analysis plays a critical role is in optimizing the "Meeting Planner" home page for maximum conversion. Semanticator isolates the audience - the designer has to create impactful content for that audience. Make sense?
Markus
7/18/08 11:59PM
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Interesting that Mr. Dixon won't disclose <b>how</b> his system knows what sites you visited recently. I suspect that he is using the CSS browser history hack described here:
http://techfoolery.com/archives/2006/08/21/2042/
Perhaps you can prove me wrong John?
John-Scott Dixon
7/19/08 4:40PM
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Hi Markus - there are a number of ways to detect sites visited recently. Just like detecting location based on IP detection. We really don't care what methods are applied. So far, there are 23 attributes that can be detected upon visitor arrival. What we do and what we protect is a business method which combines values of these detectable attributes to match market segments. Does that make sense?
Anthony Montenegrino
7/24/08 4:19PM
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Sounds very interesting guys! If I'm understanding the concept correctly, Semanticator produces dynamic behavioral content? This is something I was looking into for Insight US last novemeber with Omnitures, Touch Clarity. but the way our US site is functioning these days, it'll be a few months time till we revisit this. however, this does sound like something Inight UK might be interested in...
Erik
7/26/08 4:28PM
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This is a good idea and businesses will pay big for it -- I know because the bank I used to work for paid out a large sum to implement this type of 'smart marketing' on only a few pages on their site. You may have some stiff competition though. Our company bought it from Omniture, who has developed some very smart targeting algorithms that take into account all of the attributes mentioned above as well as all of the browsing behavior taking place on the site by a particular user -- theirs is called Test 'n' Target (http://www.omniture.com/en/products/conversion/testandtarget) and I imagine there are others offering similar services.
If you can develop a unique business model around it it could be great -- good luck!
John-Scott Dixon
7/28/08 1:8PM
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Erik - I have had us compared to Omniture's product before. What they do is A/B split and multivariate testing based on past behavior on a website. They do not alter based on a persona derived from detectable attributes - that's what we are protecting via the patent process. Omniture provides a complementary technology based on their analytics. Make sense?
Nick
8/8/08 2:48PM
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If you are talking about having different advertising available to customers as they enter your site then this makes sense...if you are talking about Cloaking then this technique may actually harm your search rankings within Google and other search engine tools. I'd be wary of such a thing since you don't want to anger Google. :)
Chris Hewitt
8/17/08 11:12AM
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Excellent point Nick and one that we have taken care in addressing when creating Semanticator™.
With Semanticator™, we are within Google's guidelines for customization because our technology serves customized content to each visitor - human or bot - based on their Internet context.
As our technology does not modify content based on user agent (specifically with the intent to deceive bots), websites using Semanticator™ have not been penalized or black listed. Google itself makes some context-based alterations on its websites (e.g. docs.google.com) based on single user attributes (e.g. language on the website changes based on a user's selected browser language).
The concept of user customization - like that of Semanticator™, is supported by Google (even on their own websites as discussed). The deciding standard is intent; in order to present customized content without penalization a bot must be treated no differently than a website visitor and subject to the same display rules.
elvirs
12/7/08 9:20AM
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how do you know that the user went to nissan trucks page?
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