DoItInPerson.com is an online event platform that allows people to create, manage and promote events and communities. We bring all of the fragmented pieces of the event space together; from creating and managing your community, sending newsletters, booking speakers, selling tickets, adding sponsors to managing partnerships. We believe that events have relevance and meaning; you do not just attend an event; you experience a community.
Our Company aims to solve the issue of the extreme fragmentation and lack of actual data around the event space by creating one platform that allows organizers to consolidate all of the various components of the community and event management process into one integrated platform to not only simplify the process and save the organizer time, but to access data on how each of the pieces of the event interact with each other. This data will empower organizers to make better decisions when planning their events to make their events more meaningful and relevant to their target audience.
For users, DoItInPerson.com aims to become a personalized event discovery tool that uses the user’s profile, preferences and event history to match them with the events and communities that may be of interest to them.
To learn more about DoItInPerson.com, please watch a short video at: http://youtu.be/qErXqQVvT2o
The Company is in private beta, which can be seen at http://beta.doitinperson.com/ and is scheduled to launch December 1, 2012.
Aron Schoenfeld (CEO and Founder) - Often pegged the “idea man” and a “creative machine,” Aron Schoenfeld has made a name for himself in New York City and across the country as a serial entrepreneur. His passion for turning new ideas into reality has made him a force in the world of business. Drawing on a cross-section of technology, media, communications, business strategy, and finance, Aron has played a quintessential role in the development of muliple companies since 2010.
In 2004, Aron co-founded DreamArtists Studios, a boutique music production company based in New York. Aron secured the Company's first job, writing the new theme package for Good Morning America on ABC News. Under Aron's guidance managing the sales and business side of the Company, they have written music for all news shows on ABC, ESPN's Year of the Quarterback and commercials for Ford, IBM, Siemens and Kodak.
Aron focuses his energy on companies in the idea and seed stages and develops unique approaches for quantifiable development. With that skill, coupled with his extensive professional network, Aron has a proven track record of successfully taking simple ideas and turning them into scalable businesses.
Kerry Bannigan (Director of Marketing) - British native Kerry Bannigan is the Co - Founder and CEO of Nolcha; an award winning creative events agency based in New York City, that produces events throughout USA and UK providing innovative strategies for fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands including Coca-Cola, American Airlines, Landrover, Paul Mitchell and Vitamin Water.
Driven to create cost effective options for fashion designers to enter the marketplace Bannigan co-founded Nolcha Fashion Week: New York in 2007. Today it is New York's leading platform for independent fashion labels to showcase to a global audience of press, retailers, stylists and industry influencers through runway shows and exhibition during New York Fashion Week and has been featured in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, WWD, MTV and NY Post.
In 2009 Bannigan devised Independent Retail Week, a Shop Local campaign in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Jersey highlighting the important role local merchant’s play in the community and economy. The initiative worked with over 300 retailers, garnered support from the city’s tourism boards, chambers of commerce and Mayor’s office; with features on Fox, ABC and CBS. In 2011 this grew nationwide into Independent Retailer Month USA and expanded to the United Kingdom and Canada with the goal to become a global movement supporting retail entrepreneurs.
Bannigan’s passion for pioneering events and promotions that drive economic change and impact small business led her to the position of Event Chair for G8 Young Summit, partner of United Nations Global Good Challenge and regular media features including NBC, Forbes, BBC, Smart Money, Lucky Magazine and Wall Street Journal.
Our team, along with our board and advisors have a combined 20+ years in the event space, having created events ranging from happy hours to weeklong conferences. As users of all of the event and community management technology out there, and through creating events with many other organizations, this team truly understands the event space and the needs of event organizers. The team is comprised of visionaries that can build towards the future while remaining nimble to adjust to the needs of our customers as and when needed.
Haig Kayserian (Board of Directors/Acting CTO) - Haig Kayserian is an internet and mobile business consultant with clients across Australia, the United States of America and Asia. The company he founded - KAYWEB - has offices in Sydney,Melbourne, New York and Manila, providing premium websites and apps solutions to businesses, organizations, government and individuals.
Haig specializes in web and mobile projects of entrepreneurs, helping people with great ideas and a strong drive to succeed turn their website projects and mobile app projects into successful and sustainable businesses.
He has been the chief architect for hundreds of projects for startups and corporate clients, as well as proprietary web applications built under the KAYWEB brand. These include KAYWEB MYOB, KAYWEB CMS, KAYWEB CRM and KAYWEB Compound Manager.
Haig founded KAYWEB Angels, LLC in 2011 with the aim of using his company’s rich development resources to plug the engineering hole in New York City, which he considers the best hub for internet and mobile business ideas.
Haig is considered an industry expert in the fields of web and mobile business strategy and web and mobile marketing - studying and practicing search engine optimization, social media optimization and mobile marketing trends to achieve some outstanding success for his clients over the years. He has spoken on these topics at public forums and events in three continents, and on network television.
A Bachelor of Media graduate from Macquarie University and former journalist, Haig is an active member of the Internet Industry Association (IIA), the auDA (.AU Domain Administrator), and the Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA). He has been a judge in the AIMIA Awards, the most prestigious website awards in Australia.
Ryan Paugh (Advisory Board) - Ryan Paugh is a community-building expert with a track record for building organizations that help people connect, learn, grow and have fun. He’s one of the founders of Brazen Careerist, a community where ambitious young professionals come to learn and grow. In 2009, Mashable called Brazen Careerist the #1 social network for Generation Y. Ryan is the YEC's Co-Founder and Chief of Staff. He oversees much of the product development that is happening behind the scenes. He wears many hats, but his most important job is making sure that members of the YEC are getting the most out of their membership.
Our initial revenue stream will come from a fee on ticket sales. This fee will be similar to other event ticketing platforms. All other services; community management, speaker listings and organizational listings will be free.
The additional revenue streams that will be added follow a premium model, where each section of communities, speakers and organizations will have a premium version option for a monthly recurring fee, which will unlock additional features. We also plan on introducing a venue directory and ancillary service directory that will work on a monthly, recurring fee. Lastly, we will implement a form of advertising on community pages and newsletters that we will create with the organizers and work out a form of revenue share with them.
Our Company aims to solve the issue of the extreme fragmentation and lack of actual data around the event space by creating one platform that allows organizers to consolidate all of the various components of the community and event management process into one integrated platform to not only simplify the process and save the organizer time, but to access data on how each of the pieces of the event interact with each other. This data will empower organizers to make better decisions when planning their events to make their events more meaningful and relevant to their target audience.
