Hearsay Social

Hearsay Social
Type of business Private
Founded San Francisco, California (2009 (2009))
Headquarters San Francisco, California; New York, NY
Founder(s)
Key people Clara Shih
(CEO)
Steve Garrity
(CTO)
Website hearsaysocial.com
Alexa rank 163,247 (April 2014)[1]

Hearsay Social is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) social media marketing management platform.[2][3] The service operates by using social networking services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as a way for clients to market to various customer bases. Clients include large companies such as Allstate as well as smaller local companies.[4][5]

The company was founded in 2009 by former Microsoft employee Steve Garrity and Starbucks board member Clara Shih.[6] They initially intended Hearsay Social to be used to help larger companies promote their local branches via social media but has since described the company as a more general “social selling platform”.[7] The company is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California.

References

  1. "Hearsaysocial.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. Gannes, Liz (3 February 2011). "Hearsay Brings Compliance to Social Media". AllThingsD. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. Takahashi, Dean (28 July 2011). "Hearsay Social Raises $18M So Your Employees Won't Embarrass You on Social Media". VentureBeat. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  4. Casserly, Meghan (10 September 2012). "Hearsay Social Takes Out Insurance; Adds Allstate To Client List". Forbes. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  5. Oreskovic, Alexei (5 September 2013). "Internet's Hearsay Social raises $30 million in funding". Reuters. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  6. McMahan, Ty (14 December 2011). "Hearsay CEO Brings Cup Of Social Marketing To Starbucks". WSJ "Venture Capital Dispatch" weblog. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  7. Ha, Anthony. "Hearsay Social Raises Another $30M To Help Businesses Grow Sales Through Social Media". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
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