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OutboundEngine sells the marketing you keep putting off
For the small business owner with a full calendar and an empty newsletter, OutboundEngine supplies the words, the schedule, and the software. The interesting part is what it leaves for the owner to do.
Jamey Vumback Put Word-of-Mouth on the Payroll
A disputed solar referral gave Jamey Vumback an idea: turn a handshake habit into accountable software. A decade later, his argument remains disarmingly practical - trust works better when someone remembers to track it.
Get The Referral Wants Contractors to Stop Hoping for Word of Mouth - and Start Running It Like Software
The San Diego company wraps referral links, project updates, CRM data and cash rewards into one contractor-focused system. The clever part is the software; the hard part is getting humans to use it.
Allan Grant and the Long Way Back to First Principles
Before Talkable and Hired, Allan Grant built a 50-person company, watched it collapse, and spent six years paying the bill. His second act began with a simpler habit: build the smallest thing that can reveal the truth.
Yotpo Bet on Everything. Then It Chose Trust.
The e-commerce software company spent years assembling an all-in-one retention suite. Now it is making a narrower wager: that authentic reviews, useful rewards and the data beneath them will matter even more when shoppers ask AI what to buy.
The Handshake That Books $27 Billion a Year
One member per trade, one meeting a week, one rule: give first. Four decades on, Ivan Misner's referral club has 355,000 members in 78 countries passing each other billions in business.
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Talkable
Talkable is a San Francisco-based B2B SaaS company that builds referral and loyalty marketing programs for e-commerce brands. Founded in 2010 as Curebit and backed by Y Combinator, the platform turns existing customers into marketers by rewarding them for referring friends. It offers referral tracking, incentive management, A/B testing, segmentation, fraud detection, and real-time analytics, and is used by 250+ retail and D2C brands including TOMS, Rothy's, L'Occitane and Alo Yoga.