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Careers at 3Cinteractive

We love what we do. We’re growing. And we’re hiring at our corporate headquarters, based in Boca Raton, Florida, and our development office, based in Montevideo, Uruguay.

3Cinteractive is looking for talented individuals to fill a variety of positions. Ranked No. 28 on the Inc. 500, voted the Business of the Year and Fastest Growing Company in South Florida for three consecutive years, 3Cinteractive is experiencing rapid growth and we’re looking for motivated, talented individuals to join our team.

3Cinteractive Corporate HeadquartersDo you think you have what it takes? Know someone who does? Find the job and location below that best matches your experience or theirs and send a resume to us at careers@3cinteractive.com. Be sure to include the position title in the subject and in the body of the email.

  Senior Product / Program Manager

  UNIX System Administrator

  Senior Java Developer

  Technical Support Engineer

  MySQL DBA and Reporting Analyst

  Service Desk Specialist

  Mobile Solutions Specialist / Mobile Solutions Director

3Cinteractive UruguayThink you have what it takes? Or do you know someone who does? Find the job below that best matches your experience or theirs and send a resume to us via email at rrhh.uy@3cinteractive.com. Be sure to include the position title in the subject and in the body of the email. These position are based at our development office located in Uruguay.

  PHP Developer

  Java Developer

3Cinteractive Ranks No. 28 on the 2010 Inc. 500 List with Three-Year Revenue Growth of 6,843.9%

3Cinteractive®, a leading mobile platform company, ranks No. 28 on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. with three-year revenue growth of 6,843.9% from 2006 to 2009.

Boca Raton, FL, August 25, 2010 — 3Cinteractive, a leading mobile platform company, ranks No. 28 on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. with three-year revenue growth of 6,843.9% from 2006 to 2009. 3Cinteractive helps companies develop and deploy powerful mobile strategies and increases the effectiveness of initiatives already in progress. 3Ci’s Switchblade® platform makes it easy for businesses to access billions of mobile users worldwide — regardless of device or carrier — using SMS, MMS, IVR, mobile web, and mobile applications.

3Cinteractive No. 28 on Inc. 500“We are honored to rank this high on Inc. magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies list,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive’s Founder and CEO. “We are very fortunate to have an outstanding team of people here at 3Ci that have remained laser-focused on serving our client base, which includes many of the world’s best brands. This focus and dedication has allowed us to maintain robust growth despite the economic climate over the past three years.”

With our Switchblade mobile platform processing over a quarter billion transactions per month, 3Cinteractive is well on pace for similar revenue growth in 2010. Continued expansion in the areas of mobile healthcare (mHealth) and mobile web development (mWeb) are driving the company’s impressive growth.

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3Cinteractive Is Honored to Be Ranked No. 28 on the Prestigious Inc. 500 List

3Cinteractive No. 28 on Inc. 5003Cinteractive is proud to be ranked No. 28 on the Inc. magazine list of the fastest growing private companies in the United States with three-year revenue growth of 6,843.9% from 2006-2009.

“We are honored to rank this high on Inc. magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies list,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive’s Founder and CEO. “We are very fortunate to have an outstanding team of people here at 3Ci that have remained laser-focused on serving our client base, which includes many of the world’s best brands. This focus and dedication has allowed to maintain robust growth despite the economic climate over the past three years.”

In 1982, Inc. introduced the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the United States. Since then, this prestigious list of the nation’s most successful private companies has become the hallmark of entrepreneurial success and the place where future household names first make their mark. Oracle®, Patagonia®, E*Trade®, American Apparel, Zipcar® and numerous other well-known brands have been honored by the Inc. 500. The Inc. 500 ranks companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period. All 500 honoree companies are individually profiled on Inc.com as well as being featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine.

Compliance Note: Contest/Sweepstakes Requirements

Compliance Note: Website Requirements

As a reminder to our standard rate clients who may be running a contest or a sweepstakes, following is the verbiage required on a “Contest Rules” or “Sweepstakes Rules” page linked to from the mobile program page of your website:

  • The dates of the contest/sweepstakes must appear
  • The date of drawing must be indicated
  • The method of entry needs to be specified
  • Eligibility should be detailed
  • The age of the contestants and any age restrictions must be noted
  • A description of the prizes.

Note: be sure to confer with your legal team or sweepstakes administrator regarding the complete legal requirements for your mobile program.

Industry Note: Revol

Please note that Revol is no longer supporting Premium-rated programs. This includes all existing and new premium programs. It’s not anticipated that this will not have a serious impact as Revol primarily services parts of the Midwest and the Northeast.

Please contact your Account Manager or 3Ci Support for more website requirements and compliance information.

John Styers to Speak at CTIA’s Enterprise and Applications 2010 Event

CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2010

John Styers, 3Cinteractive’s Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Industry Relations, will be speaking at the CTIA’s Enterprise and Applications™ 2010 event in San Francisco this October. He will be on the Mobile Health track, John Styers focusing on how wireless technologies are playing an increasingly important role in the pursuit of health and wellness through the “always-on broadband to the person” connectivity that mobile technologies provide. The mHealth Case Studies session will see Mr. Styers discussing, “Innovative real world uses of mobile products and services in healthcare today“.

The moderator of the Mobile Health Track is Lubna Dajani, executive advisor for Booz & Co. Eric Collins, the CEO of Montage Systems and Matt Sanders, CEO of iMetrikus, Inc. are also speaking as part of the track’s mHealth Case Studies session.

3Cinteractive at CTIA Enterprise and Application 2010

CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2010
October 5 — 8, 2010
San Francisco, California

CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2010

Walgreens Sees Hockey-Stick Growth for SMS Alert Program Powered by 3Cinteractive

Mickey Alam Khan, Mobile Marketer
August 13, 2010

Walgreens Text Alerts, Powered by 3CinteractiveSMS text alerts are a big hit for Walgreens Co., a $63 billion drugstore chain which puts its 7,500 stores nationwide at the center of all marketing and commerce.

Walgreens has seen tremendous growth in registrations for its prescription SMS alerts in the eight months since the Chicago company began the program. In fact, SMS sign-up is outpacing email, according to a senior executive.

“Both are growing, but text alerts are hockey-sticking — we weren’t expecting that,” said Abhi Dhar, chief technology officer for ecommerce at Walgreens.

Mr. Dhar was addressing attendees yesterday on the final day of the eTail East show that focused on mobile commerce and social media. (Please see the follow-up video at the conclusion of this story.)

Text is healthy

Walgreens is putting considerable marketing muscle behind not just the SMS program but also its iPhone® application and a mobile site created by Usablenet.

Abhi Dhar is chief technology officer for ecommerce at WalgreensFor example, the company recently ran two 30-second rolling videos on a billboard in New York’s Times Square where Walgreens has a store.

The messages on the two-story-high outdoor effort focused on its pharmacy and photo businesses.

Viewers of those spots were encouraged to order prescriptions and photos from the mobile phone and pick them up in-store.

In addition to downloading an application, these consumers were also asked to text the keyword WAG to the 21525 common short code. Those consumers who texted received a coupon for redemption in a Walgreens store.

While Mr. Dhar would not disclose the size of the mobile database, he did say that the SMS registrations were growing. So was the number of Walgreens application downloads.

“The customers want it,” Mr. Dhar said. “What we realized is that we need to educate our customers [about mobile] offline.”

Walgreens uses Boca Raton, FL-based 3Cinteractive’s mobile technology to support its text program.

Early adopter

Walgreens has been an early adopter with digital and electronic technology.

The retailer has linked its pharmacies by satellite since the 1980s. In 1999 it put customer prescription history online and, six years later, offered online digital photo services.

Now, like most retailers in this market, Walgreens is bracing itself for a host of macro factors affecting the economy: a healthcare crisis, an aging population, 9.5 percent unemployment and three quarters of declining GDP.

With all these economic woes, consumers continue to adapt to new technology and evolve behavior.

For example, 70 percent of mobile phone owners take photos on their phone.

However, it is the multichannel aspect with technology at its core that works for Walgreens.

“A customer that interacts with us in more than one channel is at least three times more valuable than one who interacts in one channel,” Mr. Dhar said.

Indeed, most Walgreens Internet customers prefer to order online and pick up in store. That is the case for 97 percent of photo orders and 98 percent of prescriptions.

Multichannel approach

Research shows that consumers are interacting with retailers and marketers in a myriad of ways, including social media, tablets, game consoles, smartphones and browsers.

The trick, as Mr. Dhar pointed out, is “how do you, as a consumer, bounce from one channel to another and then another?”

For Walgreens, he sees multiple contacts for one transaction.

For example, the traditional ecommerce Walgreens.com site helps Walgreens customers browse, navigate, search and buy. The smartphone application allows for searching of information and inventory and purchase. The mobile site is used for price-based searches. And then these customers walk into the Walgreens store.

Mr. Dhar concluded his presentation with four points in summary.

First, consumers have changed and retailers have to deal with it.

Next, consumers think of choice, convenience and control. The definition is based on experiences in multiple sectors.

Third, mobile is an essential connecting capability for multichannel transactions.

“[Finally], there is no such thing as ‘ecommerce’ or ‘mcommerce,’” Mr. Dhar said. “Commerce is commerce.”

Final Take

Abhi Dhar is the chief technology officer for ecommerce for Walgreens.

3Cinteractive Ranked No. 2 Fastest Growing Technology Company by South Florida Business Journal

For the third consecutive year, leading mobile platform company, 3Cinteractive® ranks at the top of the South Florida Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies list with 137% revenue growth from 2008-2009.

Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) July 28, 20103Cinteractive, a leading mobile platform company, ranked second on the South Florida Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies list with 137% revenue growth from 2008—2009. 3Cinteractive helps companies develop and deploy powerful mobile strategies and increases the effectiveness of initiatives already in progress. 3Ci’s platform makes it possible for clients to access billions of mobile users worldwide — regardless of device or network.

“We are honored to appear on the South Florida Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies list,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive’s Founder and CEO. “Our success is a direct result of our clients. They are world-class brands and leaders in their respective industries. We are fortunate to have clients such as TracFone, Walgreens, and AT&T look to us to help solve business challenges.”

This is the third consecutive year 3Cinteractive has ranked in the Top Three of the Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Technology Companies list. In 2008 3Ci ranked first on the list with 1,263.6% revenue growth. Processing over a quarter billion mobile transactions a month, 3Cinteractive is well on pace for similar revenue growth in 2010. New initiatives in mobile health care (mHealth) and mobile web development (mWeb) are driving that growth.

We are fortunate to have clients such as TracFone, Walgreens, and AT&T look to us to help solve business challenges.

“It’s impressive that despite the recession, 3Cinteractive is achieving so much success. It’s inspiring what this serial entrepreneurial team has accomplished with limited capital and other resources,” said John Sculley, 3Ci Board Member and former CEO of Apple Computers and Pepsi Cola Company. “I’ve been involved in several high profile technology-enabled companies, and I am convinced that 3Cinteractive has the people, culture and discipline that can take them anywhere they choose to go. There are many good lessons here for other entrepreneurs.”

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