Company description
QuakeDog is an industry leading sales networking company focused on the sale of emergency preparedness products to the consumer market. The company has developed a low cost, turn-key, program that helps individuals start their own business selling the QuakeDog line of survival gear to the 93% of Americans who are currently unprepared for personal emergencies and local disasters. Modeled after Tupperware-like programs, the QuakeDog reseller program enables entrepreneurially minded people the opportunity to earn additional income through a proven system.
The company instantly provides its Distributors an ecommerce website, free hosting and site SEO management, product supply, downloadable marketing materials, inventory management and direct to customer product drop shipping as well as comprehensive back office and reporting tools that provide real time online access to sales and commissions - all for a one time fee of $49.95 and $9.95 per month thereafter.
Although there are many companies selling survival gear, there are no clear market leaders in this space. QuakeDog is creating a huge network of "feet-on-the-street" independent Distributors who are marketing products under the QuakeDog brand. The simple fact is QuakeDog is the only company that brings a personal touch to getting our neighbors prepared.
The company's mission is to create the largest distribution chain in North America for top quality survival gear while establishing itself as the premier brand in the marketplace.
QuakeDog is passionate about the desire to bring a great level of preparedness to everyone in the United States. The Company's management team is dedicated to giving back through volunteer efforts with the American Red Cross and local volunteer efforts for community readiness. QuakeDog is proud to offer it's high quality line of personal survival gear through its national chain of Independent Distributors.
Team
Jay Everingham - Founder & CEO
Mr Everingham (Jay) is the founder of QuakeDog. He has over 20 years of business development and management consulting experience. Jay began his career with Grant Thornton in Los Angeles as a Management Consultant with the IT group in the mid '80's. Jay has successfully led companies from startup through acquisition and successfully to the public market.
Jay was the founder and CEO of National Billing Exchange, (NASDAQ:AMXI) Inc. for 8 years. NBE was North America's highest rated telecommunications clearinghouse. NBE processed over 500 million dollars in telecommunications transactions per year and became an industry brand. Jay sold the company to the country's largest operator service provider where he served as the company's CEO for an additional two years.
After the successful sale of National Billing Exchange, Inc. He joined OAN Services, Inc. as the COO, where he managed a team of 250 employees and oversaw a revenue line in excess of $50 million per year.
In 2001, Jay founded ClickPay Solutions, Inc. (OTC:CKPY) a payment processing company to provide Cashless-Check-Cashing services to convenience store chains. He successfully executed a reverse merger for ClickPay where the company was openly traded on NASDAQ - Pink Sheets. ClickPay coupled a unique blend of check guarantee services and prepaid MasterCard capability to enable convenience stores to directly compete with check cashing facilities without the cash-on-hand risks.
In addition to his roll at QuakeDog, Jay is also a Partner and Spokesperson for Scope Check a medical device company that has developed 3 lead ECG technology for hand-held PDAs. Scope Check captures heart and lung trace data and maintains the vital information through patient medical record integration. The primary market for Scope Check is developing countries where wired access and advanced health care technology is limited. Jay has successfully engaged the company with CONNECT in San Diego California where the company is in the Connect Springboard Program. CONNECT brings entrepreneurs and investors together for the development of the health care industry in San Diego. Scope Check is being closely looked at by Qualcomm.
He received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Jim Gibson - EVP
Mr. Gibson is the President of QuakeDog and it's corporate spokesperson. His 20 years of industry experience in the sales and marketing of a variety of products for network sales companies ideally fits with his role in QuakeDog.
In addition, Mr. Gibson doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. Jim is an active Red Cross disaster team volunteer, California CERT (Community emergency Response Team) volunteer and has been nominated to Gov. Schwarzeneggers' Disaster Emergency Management Citizen Corps to provide support for key initiatives that streamline statewide emergency volunteer coordination. His diverse portfolio of experience includes senior executive management in the areas of operations product management and sales and marketing.
Jim earned his B.A. from the University of North Texas.
Chris Hall - CTO
Chris Hall is the CEO of Hall Data Solutions (HDS), a CRM integration and database development and consulting firm in Riverside, CA. Chris has always been passionate about working with databases and using them to provide information in creative and interesting ways. In 2003 he founded HDS for the purpose of providing professional database-related services. Incorporated in 2005, HDS specializes in helping its customers discover exactly what information is most critical to them and developing systems that will provide the data in timely and meaningful ways to the right people.
Chris is the sponsorship director for the Inland Empire .NET User Group and a member of the Business Resource Connection and the Riverside Technology CEO Forum.