http://www.rephoria.com/blog Where Everybody Wins! Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:57:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are a lot of advantages to being the biggest, baddest business around.  Big companies have big budgets, big teams, and big brands to help them achieve their big objectives.  All this "bigness" can leave a smaller biz feeling like they don't stand much of a chance of capturing ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/the-personal-advantage-of-small/ Creating compelling and motivating marketing messages can be one of the most difficult parts of getting a product or service company noticed in the crowded marketplace. Most marketers and business owners feel that whatever they are promoting is valuable and they just need the right message and medium to ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/satisfaction-is-the-message-people-are-the-medium/ Over the last month or so the news regarding the economy in 2008 has been anything but uplifting.  From the sounds of it things are going to be tight all around.  When our current President begins announcing bold plans to prop up the economy, one can only guess how bad ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/especially-during-the-bad-timessatisfaction-pays-off/ The process of turning an idea into a winning software product is a daunting challenge for any entrepreneur. The odds of success are increasingly slim when you're bootstrapping your startup and you're not an experienced developer, which is exactly the situation our team was faced with in creating Rephoria, ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/getting-real-powerful-tools-for-non-hacker-et-all-web-entrepreneurs/ FlickrPhotoCredit News from Facebook's big social advertising press conference is now breaking from New York, and Mark Zuckerberg has some very interesting comments: “Once every hundred years media changes. The last hundred years have been defined by the mass media. The way to advertise was to get into the mass media and ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/killer-quotes-from-mark-zuckerberg-a-trusted-referral-is-the-holy-grail-of-advertising/ FlickrPhotoCredit We been in a relatively quite mode over the last month and wanted to provide a quick update on some exciting recent developments. In late September we kicked off our search for a third co-founder to lead / manage the development and programming responsibilities. This is a big job and ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/the-tour/ Are you a web developer looking to put your skills to the ultimate test and become a co-founder of a new and exciting startup company? Do you want to work for a company that is built around giving back to the community? If so ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/co-founder-lead-web-developer-wanted-for-our-exciting-startup-team/ Over the recent months, while developing my startup, I’ve spent a lot of time researching and talking with local service providers such as CPA’s, stationary designers, and landscape architects; and like all of us, I also spend a lot of time interacting with service workers at local restaurants, Starbucks, and ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/service-providers-or-service-workers-americas-direction-forward/ When companies are small, the few people involved are responsible for nearly every task, to-do, and milestone that will or won't get done. At the big co.'s, where many startupers come from, the realms of responsibility is not only well defined, but shared across a whole fleet of talented go-getters. ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/owning-all-the-results-stretching-for-startup-leaders/ July 30, 2007 - Petaluma, Ca We are pleased to announce that PromoterForce, a pre-launch internet startup company, has been reborn as Rephoria. re-pho-ri-a (ree-for-eeha) n. A feeling of intense customer satisfaction, so great it has to be shared with others. n. A web based application to share great customer experiences, find recommended service ... http://www.rephoria.com/blog/introducing-rephoria-where-everyone-wins-formerly-known-as-promoterforce/