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Software for Events. Your Event. Online.

www.saffireevents.com

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Internet Wins Popularity Contest

• The amount of time people spend overall on the Internet has increased 121% over the past five years.

• In 2010, for the first time ever, Internet usage surpassed television usage.

Are you following this trend?Do you think your customers are?

Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com



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Leadership

Kendra WrightPresidentOrigin:• Grew up in Texas and Branson, MOExperience:• Began building websites in 1995 for Fortune

1000 company• Started consulting in 1998 as a “one man

show”

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About Us

Aaron PedersonTechnical DirectorExperience:• Leads our team of highly

skilled programmers• Finds the perfect

technology for the job• A different breed of

techie – speaks English!

Jeremy EmersonCreative DirectorExperience:• A classically-trained artist

with 16 years experience in online design

• Makes everything we do beautiful

• Not a prima donna



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The TeamChris LugarSenior Software Engineer

Jessica Bybee-DziedzicSenior Account Manager

Adam DispenzaQA Specialist

Chris HowardFront End Developer

Rebekah HardageMarketing Manager

Kirk WrightVice President, Marketing

Daniel BunnSoftware Engineer

Jonathan HopeSoftware Engineer

Cassie RobertsManager, Sales & Partnerships



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Our Custom Development Clients



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KEEN Footwear



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Our History



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Our History



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Our History



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Our History



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Our History



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Rodeo Austin



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South Texas State Fair



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Belton 4th of July Celebration



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Brazos Valley Fair



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Partnership with WFA



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Our Partnership with IAFE



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Our Awards



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Simple, Well-Organized Homepage



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Interactive Event Schedule



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A Detail Page for Every Event



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Great Publicity for Sponsors



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Ecommerce with Integrated Cart



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Content Management Dashboard



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Manage Your Homepage Features



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Manage Your Navigation



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Dynamically Create Unlimited Pages



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Create Unlimited Online Forms



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The Importance of MobileOn average, Americans spend 2.7

hours per day on their mobile

phone

Women aged 35 to 54 are the most active

group in mobile socialization

Smartphones now make up 40% of all mobile phones in the US.

Source: Nielson

By 2014, more people will access the internet by mobile than

desktop.

Mobile commerce is increasing at 10% per year



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Mobile Site – Included!



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The NEW Importance of Tablets



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Tablet Site – Included!

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Four Hours of Training Included

FIRST TRAINING

• Walk through of admin site– General site setup– Event Categories, Locations, Detail

pages• Items for sale, photos, sponsors,

PDFs, links, results, SEO info

– Other Site Pages– Registration Forms– Reporting (Saffire Commerce)

• Walk through of customer site, mobile site & tablet site– Homepage– Event Categories (Tabs)– About Us – Optional Pages

SECOND TRAINING

• Walk through of other included tools– Emailing tool– Wordpress blog– Google Analytics

Saffire also includes online help, which can be reached from every page on your admin site.



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Hosting & Security

• Hosted on dedicated servers with Rackspace, a great international hosting company– Daily backups–Multiple uptime monitoring systems– 24/7 response to server interruptions– “Fanatical Support”

• Pre-scheduled maintenance windows• Developed to PCI compliance standards• Email hosting available



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What’s Coming in 2012

• More user management• More ecommerce tools• Items from customer surveys– Custom admin site access levels– Image cropping within Saffire



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A Quote from Rodeo Austin



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A Quote from Brazos Valley