Company
Profile:
GreekBoston.com
is designed to be an all-in-one web portal for the global Greek community.
We provide information on various establishments, services, events,
concerts, and nightlife. GreekBoston.com
has been in business for over 9 years now and receives over 100,000+ unique (different) users monthly, which is
a tremendous amount of people interested in learning about the Greek
community of Boston and the world! Many of our visitors come from the
USA, but also wherever there are Greek communities, including Canada, England, Australia, Germany and
many various European countries, especially Greece. Because GreekBoston.com
is targeted at a cultural community, it is a perfect marketing and
advertising tool for any business and has a very loyal audience.
Started:
December 1998
Funding: Private
Type: Corporation
Business: Global Hellenic Community Web Portal
Objectives:
GreekBoston.com
wants to:
- bring
the worldwide Greek community closer together by promoting Hellenism
& Orthodoxy.
- keep
the Greek community informed on all events and happenings and be a
one-stop for any and all information and services its' viewers may
need from one central location.
- support
Hellenism through its promotion of all things Greek and Greek-related.
Products:
- Greek-themed
TV show - GB TV - on American Broadcast TV
- Online
Radio station - GB Radio - with over 20,000 streams a week
- E-commerce
for Greek merchandise
- Promotions
& Marketing for clubs, shows, events, movies & concerts
- News
- Greek & American - full coverage, including weather & stocks
- Travel
info & guides to Greece
- Greek
Cooking section
- Greek
Wedding resources & services
- Member
websites & free email
- Chat
rooms
- Greek
Media section
- Greek
Restaurant / Club / Bar guide & reviews
- Community
& Events picture galleries
- Singles
listings
- Greek
Music & Videos listening & downloads
- Paid
VIP Members section
- Classifieds,
Auctions, Bulletin Boards
- Web
consulting, development & design
Market
Strength:
GreekBoston.com's
major strength lies in the fact that it is the only web site of its
kind in the New England area, but also one of the first Greek web
communities worldwide. We have a huge percentage of
the market for the global Greek audience. And since we are one of the
first Greek sites worldwide, we rank among the top Greek sites in
the world, with an incredible Google PageRank of 4! We also have a
very high rate of young adults as part of our demographic. This is
significant because Boston has a huge number of colleges and universities
and therefore gives it a huge college-age Greek population. These
young Greeks are a very close-knit community and a perfect demographic
for a website, and therefore businesses looking to market to this
demographic through our website.
GreekBoston.com
can become the strongest form of communication for the Greek community
and therefore gives it an unmatched market strength.
Future
Goals:
GreekBoston.com
would like to be a web stop for every Greek around the world. We would
like to offer enough services and furnish enough information so there
will be no need for our viewers to go anywhere else.
We would
like to become the sole web presence for every Greek business in New
England and form partnerships with businesses throughout North America,
Greece and everywhere with a Greek community.
GreekBoston.com
would like to build a solid Greek community on-line so it can be translated
to a strong Greek community off-line. We would like to bring services
to our members and members to our partners. The power of the internet
is key in building a specialized and targeted group such as the Greek
community of New England.
Statistics:
Monthly
Hits: 15,000,000+
Monthly
Unique visitors: 100,000+
Traffic
Rank: Top 3% of all websites
Google
PageRank: 4
Visits
& Hits:
Below
is a sample of our web statistics for visitors, hits and the countries
from which they originated:

Major GreekBoston.com
Partners:
The list
below makes up the major partners of the GreekBoston Network:
Newest
Addition:

WorldWideGreeks.com
is a Facebook-style Greek social network started recently to great
success! GreekBoston
has joined forces to bring you a local based and global based
Greek web community! |

Google
is a public and profitable company focused on search services and
operates web sites at many international domains, with the most
trafficked being google.com. Google is widely recognized as the
"World's Best Search Engine" and is fast, accurate and
easy to use. |

Amazon.com
strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people
can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online.
By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection,
and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class
e-commerce platform. |

CareerBuilder
is the fastest-growing recruitment & career-advancement source
for employers, recruiters and job seekers. They are poised for tremendous
growth, as the industry market's revenues are forecasted to grow
from $780 Million in 2001 to almost $2.3 Billion by 2005. As a market
leader, earning strong profits, this fast paced industry offers
both invigorating and lucrative careers. |

Independent
Channel (formerly PAX) is a television broadcasting company which
owns and operates the largest broadcast television station group
in the U.S., as measured by the number of television households
in the markets our stations serve. They currently own and operate
60 broadcast television stations (including three stations we operate
under time brokerage agreements), which reach all of the top 20
U.S. markets and 40 of the top 50 U.S. markets. They reach 84% of
prime time television households in the U.S. via our broadcast television
station group and through arrangements with cable and satellite
distribution systems. |

EchoStar
Communications Corporation is a public company with approximately
20,000 employees. Throughout its 24-year history, EchoStar has demonstrated
its entrepreneurial spirit by achieving significant industry firsts:
First company to offer a satellite receiver for less than $200.
First to develop a UHF remote control. First to offer an Integrated
Receiver Descrambler (IRD) for C-band satellite TV. First nationwide
installation network dedicated solely to satellite TV systems. First
to offer satellite receiver with built-in digital video recording.
First Satellite TV company to offer channels to local markets in
all 50 states. |

A&E
Television Networks, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation,
ABC, Inc. and NBC Universal, is an award-winning, international
media company offering consumers a diverse communications environment
ranging from television programming, to home videos/DVDs and music
CDs, to Web sites, as well as supporting nationwide educational
initiatives. AETN is comprised of A&E Network®, The History
Channel®, The History Channel International®, The Biography
Channel®, The Military History Channel, The History Channel
en Español, Crime & Investigation Network, AETN International,
and AETN Consumer Products. |

CafePress.com
is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce
services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products,
and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.
Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations
and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online
using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services.
Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2 million members
who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and
ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams. |

Everyone.net
is a leading provider of outsourced email solutions for individuals
and companies around the world. Everyone.net powers custom email
services for everyone from Internet Service Providers, web hosts
and web sites to businesses, organizations and individuals. Our
cost effective solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure
and include advanced services like IMAP and LDAP as well as anti-spam
and virus protection. Having provisioned over 30 million mailboxes
for over 300,000 domains, Everyone.net has been reliably delivering
solutions for companies around the world since 1998. Privately held,
Everyone.net is located in San Jose, CA. |

World
Singles was launched in 2001 to bring together people who share
a common culture. Since its inception, World Singles has grown exponentially
and has been witness to hundreds of men and women who have found
their soul mate. World Singles provides a safe, fun and relaxed
environment where culturally compatible professional singles share
thoughts, opinions, laughs and friendship. World Singles is the
leading online dating hub for many diverse groups. |

mpGreek
is a service of Greased Networks. Greased Networks was formed in
2003 by experts in the music and Greek technology industry and is
the first company to deliver secure music over the Internet. Greased
Networks has the first digital music commerce system featuring copy
protection and copyright management, as well as the first and largest
digital music distribution network. The company's catalog of Greek
music is one of the largest in the world. mpGreek provides custom
solutions for Internet media delivery. Other than our consumer platform,
we enable partners to publish, distribute and sell media online.
mpGreek delivers access to our large & expanding catalog of
digital music from all major Greek labels and independents. |

Founded
in France in 2001, MediaPlazza proposes solutions tied to the development
of mobile technologies on the internet. MediaPlazza is part of the
Jet Multimedia Group. MediaPlazza is the world leader in affiliate
platforms to distribute and bill mobile content on the Internet.
Their mission is to enable Websites and Medias to monetize their
audience with mobile products on a global scale, to benefit from
the tremendous opportunities of mobile entertainment. They open
the global wireless world for their partners. With their Mobile
entertainment know-how they optimize traffic customizing handsets,
allowing their partners to access a 7 billion dollar a year industry. |

SpeedyPin
has been serving customers on the Internet since 1997. They began
as a family business and have grown to become one of the largest
online phone card merchants. They believe their growth has been
fueled by a simple commitment: to sell reliable phone cards that
offer discount rates and deliver the minutes they promise. They
back that up with a convenient order process, whether by Web or
phone, and friendly customer support. This formula has resulted
in their selling more than a million phone cards to tens of thousands
of customers. We are particularly proud that customer loyalty, through
repeat orders and recommendations to friends, has been an important
element of our success. |

Koukla
came about simply because we wanted women to feel youthful and spirited
no matter what the age. Proud Greek-American sisters and founders
Constantina and Stelliani Valaouras wanted to take the popular Greek
word "koukla" and create a line of clothing that women
of any age could feel great wearing. |

Ellinas
Multimedia is one of the foremost online shopping destinations in
North America. Their belief in quality products and incredible customer
service has made them one of the most successful Greek shopping
stores! |

Kalopedis
Jewellery comes from the small, beautiful island of Cyprus and shares
with the rest of the world a tradition that started in 1888 and
has been passed down from father to son for five generations. Cyprus
has on display 11,000 years of history, culture and tradition, with
many influences and ancient traditions in the making of fine Jewellery.
Their family name has become a synonym for quality and impeccable
craftsmanship. |

BMI
is an American performing rights organization that represents more
than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all
genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939,
collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents,
as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose
BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI
collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire
of more than 6.5 million compositions - including radio airplay,
broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded
performances by all other users of music - are then distributed
as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it
represents. |

Zango
produces and distributes online entertainment and must-have utilities.
Zango premium content and downloads are always free for consumers
because they are supported by keyword targeted advertising with
the Zango Search Assistant, a tool that helps users find products
and services online. Zango takes consumer privacy very seriously.
Zango does not collect any personally identifiable information about
users. It contains no hidden software and is easy to install and
uninstall directly from the control panel. Read our privacy policy.
Zango and MetricsDirect are divisions of 180solutions, a leader
in online search marketing services. The company, headquartered
in Bellevue , Wash. , delivers highly relevant offers and information
to consumers when they are engaged in search-related shopping or
browsing. |

EventInventory
is the nation’s premier software company specializing in the
development of cutting-edge technology and products designed expressly
for today’s online ticketing professional. Our Web store plug-in—utilized
by the vast majority of ticket brokers in the United States—gives
you access to the largest, after-market ticket database in the country.
If you currently have a Web site, the EventInventory plug-in enables
you to make this vast inventory available to all your site visitors.
Our new XML Web Services provide complete customization capabilities,
enabling you to sell under your own brand name with markups set
by you. If you do not have a custom Web site, we can help you build
one. Not yet ready to build and manage your own site? Not a problem.
You can still list your tickets and enjoy access to the EventInventory
database and broker network via the Web. |
|