3Ci CEO John Duffy will join a group of distinguished speakers at the 2011 Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit in San Francisco, April 26-28. This event brings together some of the brightest and most innovative minds in mobile. The 2011 Mobile Marketing Summit will provide valuable information, through case studies, presentations and hands on workshops.

Duffy’s presentation is titled: Mobile Best Practices: Deploying a True Mobile Strategy. Fortune 1000 enterprises recognize mobile is a natural extension to many existing business and customer communication processes. Mobile has matured beyond being just a flashy marketing tool and has become an integral part of how businesses communicate, both internally and externally.

Duffy, using case examples of successful mobile integrations across various industries, will discuss how to best deploy a mobile strategy to create long term, recurring value for the enterprise and its consumers. He will also address what challenges to expect throughout the process.

Other featured speakers at the 2011 Mobile Marketing Summit include:

• Cameron Clayton, senior vice president, Weather Channel

• Ben Parr, co-editor, Mashable

• Jeff Merkel, director mobile, Google

• Jeremiah Owyang, partner, Altimeter Group

• Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst, Forrester Research

• BJ Emerson, vice president technology, Tasti-D-Lite

• Linda Boff, global director marketing communication, GE

• Andrew Koven, president customer experience, Steve Madden

To learn more about the event visit the 2011 Mobile Marketing Strategies Summit website.

Vol. 2: There is an old saying “Never Do Business with Friends”. In Volume 2 of Entrepreneurship 101, Duff explains why he ONLY does business with his friends and why he would not be concerned telling people about a new idea for a business.

John Duffy, 3Ci’s founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in a wide range of industries. He was asked to speak to a group of Florida Atlantic University students as part of their celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurship 101 is a break down of that panel discussion into topical segments meant to be informative and hopefully useful to potential entrepreneurs. Duff is not a professor he just plays one on TV so take his advice at your own risk.

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Leading mobile platform company founder, John Duffy recognized as a Palm Beach Ultimate CEO by the South Florida Business Journal.

Boca Raton, FL, (PRWEB) April 1, 2011– 3Cinteractive®, a provider of cloud-based mobile software and services for the Fortune 1000, is proud to announce that John Duffy was recognized by the South Florida Business Journal as a 2011 Palm Beach Ultimate CEO.

John Duffy is a serial entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in communications and payment processing. Prior to founding 3Ci, Duffy built several successful companies in a broad section of industries.  As founder and CEO of 3Cinteractive, Duffy is responsible for setting corporate strategy, driving revenue, and helping maintain the company’s key relationships with customers and vendors.

“South Florida is home to many innovative companies with great leadership so It is a real honor to be recognized as an Ultimate CEO by the preeminent business publication in our region,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive’s founder and CEO. “Receiving this award would not be possible without my fellow founders and the great team we have assembled to execute on our vision.”

This award puts Duffy in elite company.  Past South Florida Business Journal Ultimate CEO honorees include H. Wayne Huizenga, William Koch, and Dr. Phillip Frost.

Under Duffy’s leadership, 3Ci was ranked 28th on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. with three year revenue growth of 6,844%. 3Ci has also been recognized as the Fastest Growing Technology Company in South Florida and one of the Best Places to Work by the South Florida Business Journal.

To watch John’s lighthearted acceptance speech, check out the video below. To view pictures from the event held at The Breakers of Palm Beach, visit the 3Ci Facebook page.

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John Duffy, 3Ci’s founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in a wide range of industries.  He was asked to speak to a group of Florida Atlantic University students as part of their celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week.  Entrepreneurship 101 is a break down of that panel discussion into topical segments meant to be informative and hopefully useful to potential entrepreneurs. Duff is not a professor he just plays one on TV, so take his advice at your own risk.

Course: ENT 101

School: 3Cinteractive

Faculty: Professor Duff

Credit Level: Beginner

Course Description: This course strives to provide students the knowledge and tools necessary to understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur.  Please be advised, it is not for the faint hearted. This course will give future entrepreneurs a small glimpse at what to expect and some of the pitfalls to look out for and hopefully avoid. Although this course focuses on entrepreneurship the lessons learned can be taken into all aspects of business and life.  Topics covered will include: Motivation, Selecting Partners, Outside Capital, Choosing a Market, Creating Value, Scalability, Oscillation Curve, First Steps, Strategy and Ideas.

Vol. 1: Mark Dixon, former NFL offensive lineman used to say, “I don’t care what motivates you, just be motivated“.  In the first installment of Entrepreneurship 101, Duff discusses what motivated him to be an entrepreneur.  Being an entrepreneur is a lifestyle you have to live 24×7.  If you want to be successful, passion and motivation are a must.

3Cinteractive Makes Mobile Profitable
Software company aids mobile commerce for Disney, ESPN, Walgreens and others
Daniel Vasquez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
December 24, 2010

Mobile companies are among the most successful A-list industries in the U.S. these days and nobody knows that better than John Duffy, the CEO and founder who turned South Florida software company 3Cinteractive into one of the nation’s hottest companies.

Since opening its doors in Delray Beach in 2005, the company has signed up former Miami Dolphins superstar Dan Marino as a consultant, and former CEO of Pepsi Co. and Apple, John Scully, as a board director.

Other signs of red-carpet success? This year, 3Cinteractive expanded to 75 from 54 employees, moved to bigger offices in Boca Raton and was ranked 28th among Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing companies, second among the list’s software companies and first in companies in any industry in the Miami-area market.

3Cinteractive develops and manages mobile platforms for a long list of major companies, including Disney, ESPN, TracFone, AT&T and Cox Media. 3Cinteractive specializes in using mobile and Internet networks to connect clients to their customers globally to conduct mobile commerce, marketing and transactions. In other words, 3Cinteractive makes sure when someone visits and interacts with TracFone and a Consolidated Credit mobile site via a mobile device — no matter the manufacturer of the device or the cell phone carrier being used — the experience is the same for each visitor, much like it would be for anyone visiting those sites on a computer. That’s true whether the visitor uses a PC or Mac, or Sprint or Verizon service.

“Our business model is to use technology as a toll booth that connects my clients to their consumers,” Duffy said. “We manage mobile transactions, whether made with phone calls, text messages, payments on a credit card or phone billing payments.”

Duffy restores guitars and motorcycles as a hobby and counts among his collection a guitar given to Marino by Hollywood actor — not to mention former lead guitarist for South Florida-based rock band The Kids — Johnny Depp. Duffy got his hands on it after donating money to one of Marino’s many charity drives. Another point of pride is his 17-year marriage to wife Michelle, and their family of two daughters, Emily, 15, Annie, 9.

The full-time dad and part-time restorer takes on equally tough challenges on the job, positioning his company to be among the leaders in mobile-based business.

“We help provide the same sort of ease for commerce as you would get on the Internet, but on mobile platforms,” Duffy said. “We make sure your experience on the ESPN mobile site is the same no matter what device or network you’re on.”

Accomplishing that has been good for business, Duffy says. His company recorded $232,439 in revenue in 2006, the year after it opened. Last year it earned more than $16 million dollars. The company expects close to $40 million in revenue for 2010.

Making success sweeter is the fact that the company has been financed without the help of bank loans. “I capitalized the company for the first two years and we raised money through friends and family,” Duffy said. “And thankfully we have been profitable.”

He credits the company’s success to three tricks of the trade. “We chose an explosive market. Mobile is one of the fastest growing industries in this country and we are the leader in our space.”

Duffy says the company is also careful with capital but pays as much attention to hiring productive employees and trying to keep them happy. His advice to entrepreneurs:

• Think through your business plan;
• Expect changes in the market — they will happen; and
• Be financially prepared to hang on during hard times.

“We have done what we’ve done during one of the hardest economies in our life,” Duffy said. “What happens when things get better?”

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Boca Raton, FL, (PRWEB) November 11, 2010 — 3Cinteractive®, a leading mobile platform company, announced that its proprietary Switchblade™ platform has processed its two billionth mobile transaction for 2010. Switchblade currently processes more then 300 million text messages, voice calls, and mobile web page hits per month, many of which support mission critical processes for the biggest brands in the world.

“Mobile is now a significant component of business to consumer communications for Fortune 1000 companies,” said John Duffy, 3Cinteractive Founder and CEO. “To date, our platform has enabled our clients to interact with more than 60 million of their consumers on their mobile device — we are proud to have helped them do that. Businesses are embracing mobile as a natural extension to traditional enterprise applications, and an efficient, cost effective way to improve those processes.”

3Ci’s Switchblade platform is a high-availability, high-throughput mobile platform leveraged by over 125 3Ci clients — including leaders across industries from retail to healthcare. This enterprise-grade platform enables businesses to communicate with consumers using mobile messaging, voice, mobile web and smartphone applications — regardless of carrier or device. Switchblade is highly extensible and is easily integrated into third-party systems — enabling almost any business to extend their existing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and business processes to the mobile device.

In 2011, 3Ci estimates that the Switchblade platform will process four-times more mobile transactions than in 2010, putting the company on track to continue its run of five consecutive years with revenue growth in excess of 200 percent. Demand for mobile in industries such as healthcare and enterprise software are driving this growth.

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3Cinteractive’s fearless leader John Duffy will be a featured panel speaker at the South Florida Business Journal’s Med-U-Tech event on Tuesday, November 9th at 8:30 AM at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

The panel, containing some of Boca Raton’s most influential leaders, will discuss the multi-million dollar economic impact the healthcare, education and technology industries have on our area — and what needs to be done to position our community for continued growth in the future.

John will be joined by other prominent business and community leaders including:

• Pete Martinez, chairman, Palm Beach Medical Education Corporation
• Jerry Fedele, president and CEO, Boca Raton Regional Hospital
• Dr. Kevin Ross, president, Lynn University
• Dr. Barry Rosson, interim vice president of research, FAU
• Ralph Swanson, vice president, healthcare and higher education banking, PNC Bank

A special report will be published in conjunction with the event and inserted in the South Florida Business Journal (SFBJ) as well as other key markets nationally. Visit the SFBJ’s Med-U-Tech site for more information on the event or to register to attend.