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VerticalVet and ViziSites Partner to Bring Affordable Website Design to More Veterinary Practices

By Veterinary, ViziSites News

We are so excited to announce our partnership with VerticalVet! Like ViziSites, VerticalVet is focused on bringing a superior option to veterinary practices across the country.

More than a run-of-the-mill GPO, VerticalVet is a Group Resource Community (GRC). What’s that? We’ll let VerticalVet’s Team explain:

“We provide independent veterinarians and their practice managers access to customized best practices and education and alongside unique, real-time data insights proven to build trust with clients. Our community is stronger together, allowing you to focus on what matters most: providing excellent patient care.”

With VerticalVet, you receive more than a virtual book of discounts. You receive education and collaboration in a community that understands the struggles, priorities, and wins that you face every day. Megan, Member Resource Advisor at VerticalVet, said it best:

“Instead of saving their way to prosperity, we want to help practices grow their way to prosperity.”

We love this idea. Our founding principle was to bring custom website design to veterinarians at a fraction of the cost. Thus, helping them save money and grow their business at the same time. Innovation in the veterinary industry and collaboration with veterinary practices is at the core of what we do. So much, that it’s even a part of our Mission Statement:

To lead the internet marketing industry through innovation and collaboration, which results in marketing solutions that help our clients to increase revenue, retention, and efficiency for their businesses.

So then – how will ViziSites and VerticalVet work together to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately elevate veterinary practices nationwide?

We’re glad you asked!

This collaborative effort with VerticalVet involves 2 key elements:

  1. Affordable website design & marketing services for their members
  2. Valuable education that will help practices work smarter, not harder

VerticalVet has an incredible collaborative education initiative in place for some of their members. We are excited to jump in the ring to bring much-needed marketing-focused webinars to their member base. To kick things off, we gave a talk to their Platinum Members on the topic of 5 Tools of Website Efficiency. Education and ideation around how to make your website work better at bringing in new business is plentiful online, but we feel websites also provide an incredible opportunity for veterinary practices to automate and optimize their client experience in a way that will save them money while providing a seamless experience for pet parents. Our goal is to give veterinary practices nationwide the tools they need to take advantage of this opportunity.

ViziSites will continue working with VerticalVet to provide marketing education to their entire client base in an accessible format and are available as a resource for all VerticalVet members who are looking for guidance.

Want to learn more about VerticalVet? Contact our friend Megan at 877-883-7883 ext 4 or megans@verticalvet.com and let her know ViziSites sent you. She will take great care of you!

A Personal Letter From Our CEO

By Business, Marketing, ViziSites News

digital marketing stimulus offered by ViziSites

Helping Veterinary Practice Owners Navigate COVID-19, A CEO’s Perspective

Many of our friends and colleagues have asked about ViziSites’ performance through the COVID-19 crisis. Like most business owners, we ended up furloughing a group of consultants which was extremely painful for me to do. Because of this, I permanently lost one of my highest performing team members.

Here is the upside: we qualified and applied for the Cares Act PPP grant/loan. Securing these funds allowed us to immediately rehire our staff. This was a blessing, however, like most organizations we are still having to endure an exceedingly difficult time.

We are in this together and we must find unique ways to stimulate the economy. It is important that we do not submit to overwhelming feelings of loss and, instead, get creative in how we generate revenue for ourselves and our clients.

Having said that, we are going to keep moving!

As the CEO of ViziSites, I’m signing off on the deepest discounts I’ve ever offered. Think of this as a website and marketing stimulus package. In many cases, I’ll be waiving the ENTIRE investment for the build of the website.

We understand that many businesses need to hunker down, however, if your organization is experiencing growth, please reach out.

And if you aren’t experiencing growth, we may be able to SAVE YOU MONEY.

Let’s talk about the following…

  1. Businesses affected by COVID-19: Guidance on updating info on your website and Google My Business. Have you added alert bars, updated your header, or provided local resources & landing pages that are related to local COVID-19?
  2. Managing smart Google Ads campaigns through COVID-19. Do you feel confident that your advertising is set up appropriately during COVID-19?
  3. Are you finding that your provider is nonresponsive at this time? You’re not alone! Many companies simply don’t have the resources to change thousands of websites in a timely manner.
  4. How can you use your PPP funds? ViziSites has worked directly with the number one SBA lender in the United States to secure PPP funds, and more importantly, get answers for our clients. We will point you in the right direction!

I’m available via the contact page of our corporate site here. If you have my cell, feel free to call me directly.

Respectfully,


Jesse Davis
CEO, Co-Founder

Meet the Advisory Board, Part 2: Ryan Samson

By ViziSites News

Nowadays almost everyone with a phone is familiar with the term “Big Data” – it’s become a buzzword, synonymous with Facebook, analytics, advertising, and basically anything you do online. On a much smaller scale, businesses like ours use analytics and data to help our clients understand how consumers find their business. These analytics allow us to optimize marketing strategies, increase conversions, and more. Data analysis is a key part of marketing of all kinds – which is why we are so proud to have a Strategic Analyst on our Board of Advisors at ViziSites.

Ryan Samson, Data & Strategic Analysis

If you missed Part 1 of our Meet the Advisory Board series, we invite you to go meet Asaf Benhaim, Chairman of Our Board.

Today in Part 2, we’d like to introduce you to Ryan Samson, Data and Strategic Analyst. Ryan is a Principal at SECOR Asset Management and handles Portfolio Management and Research. His specialties include Portfolio Management, Research and Trading of Quantitative Strategies with a focus on Equity Volatility, Macro Events, and Cross-Sectional Equities.

Here at ViziSites, he advises on Operational Insights, Pricing & Market Strategies, and, you guessed it – Data Analysis.

What led you to your current profession and what do you enjoy about it?

A: I went to school at Caltech, where I studied Economics with a strong focus on mathematics, statistics, and programming. During my senior year, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do after graduation. Caltech focuses far more on preparing their undergraduate students to enter PhD programs than on preparing them to enter the working world, but I was more interested in starting a career. Coincidentally, around that time I got back in touch with an old high school friend on Facebook, which was still relatively new in 2004. I knew next to nothing about finance or investing, but he thought my skills and personality would be a great fit for quantitative research on Wall Street and encouraged me to apply to those types of jobs. He was right, and soon after I started a job working on quantitative research at Goldman Sachs, a field I’ve been in ever since. I work on applying advanced statistical and machine learning methods to data in order to predict stock returns. It is a challenging and competitive field, but I enjoy the fast pace and the need to employ both strong technical and creative skills.

What do you feel your experience & knowledge brings to the board of ViziSites?

A: While I focus on the stock market, I have a strong understanding of data science, prediction techniques, and how they can be applied in a variety of contexts. As ViziSites continues to evolve as a business, I’m certain there will be opportunities to employ data science in the creation of innovative product offerings.

What excites you the most about ViziSites as a business?

A: The people behind ViziSites are what excites me the most about the business. At all levels, they’ve shown a dedication to doing the right thing both for their customers and for one another. This corporate culture of integrity is part of what helps them to produce excellent products while keeping the company strong, and will help them stay ahead of the rest of the industry.

What up & coming technology/science are you the most excited about?

A: I’m most excited for how much advancement is still to come in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). AI as it exists today is widely misunderstood and misreported by the media. There have been some incredible recent accomplishments, such as AlphaGo Zero, an AI program developed to dominate the game of “Go”, considered a much more challenging strategy game than chess. However, all of these accomplishments are programs designed with a very narrow focus – they are good at solving one well defined problem. When it comes to more general intelligence, mimicking even simple brains, the field still has a long way to go, and the potential for such technology is incredible.

What is your favorite book, article, or podcast you've heard lately?

A: I’m sorry this will have pretty limited appeal, but I recently got a copy of “Statistical Learning with Sparsity” and think it is a great technical reference for a certain subset of machine learning approaches. It is well written with clear mathematical notation, it covers a lot of cutting-edge techniques, and has great lists of references for further reading. For those mathematically inclined and interested, the book is free to download.

Stay tuned for Part 3 to meet Rainer Villa, our Cybersecurity Advisor.

Meet the Advisory Board, Part 1: Asaf Benhaim

By ViziSites News

An internet marketing entrepreneur, a stock market data analyst, and a military cybersecurity expert walk into a room…

Why, you might ask? To help ViziSites better serve you, of course!

You may have noticed on our social media that we recently started featuring an Employee every month. Allowing you to get to know each part of the great team working for you. This got us thinking… why not introduce you to our Advisory Board as well? Even though they may not work on the website and marketing themselves, they play a very large role in the development of our services and help us provide the high quality service you’ve come to know with ViziSites.

Asaf Benhaim, Chairman of the Board

As the first installment of a 3-part series, we would like to introduce you to Asaf Benhaim, the Chairman of our board.

If you are heavily involved in Veterinary or Chiropractic internet marketing, you may already know the name Asaf Benhaim. He founded, owned and operated Internet Matrix Inc. for 12 years. During that time, Asaf exemplified hands on management in all aspects of the business, and led iMatrix to become one of the nation’s leading health and veterinary internet marketing companies. This is one of the many reasons that we connected with him and brought him onto our advisory board – his expertise and wisdom when it comes to navigating the waters of a fast growing company is invaluable to our management team. With his experience at our disposal, we are confident in ViziSites continued ability to provide a high touch service & outstanding product at an accessible price for years to come.

What led you to the internet marketing industry and what do you enjoy about it?

A: It was my freshman year of high school 1994 when I visited Cal State University Northridge's computer lab, our class was lucky enough to visit their state of the art facility. Aside from the rows and rows of computing awesomeness in their high tech facility, I was amazed by the lightning fast internet connection they had. I remember downloading a large photograph from a server half around the world. It appeared on my computer in a matter of seconds and I just thought it was the coolest thing to be able to share this image from so far away. Looking back, that experience was the first time I was enamored with the internet and really started to think of the reach and power it had. Having been part of a successful internet marketing company during a time that the internet marketing industry transformed from a nascent fringe ethereal concept to the culture defining revenue producing industrial complex it is today has been quite the ride. In terms of education and financial freedom, this industry has largely defined the path of career, lifestyle, and social awareness for me and for an entire generation.

What do you feel your experience & knowledge brings to the board of ViziSites?

A: Well to put it bluntly, I've seen this movie before. 🙂 I feel my experience can guide the company to avoid pitfalls that can slow growth. In addition, bringing a more strategic thought process at an earlier stage will assist in making more impactful decisions.

What excites you the most about ViziSites as a business?

A: I think ViziSites has enormous potential ahead of it. Internet Marketing while very competitive, can also be very rewarding. Rewarding to the clients who choose VS services and rewarding to employees and owners who run the company. But to answer your question more specifically ViziSites is exciting to me personally because VS leadership has shown an eagerness to propel the company faster into the future. VS already has a strong foundation rooted in a top shelf customer experience. Their unrelenting hard work, passion to do right by the customer, and aggressive pursuit to be leaders in their respective markets is a competitive advantage.

What up & coming technology/science are you the most excited about?

A: I’m really eager to experience Tesla's New Roadster.

What is your favorite book, article, or podcast you've heard lately?

A: I’m not an avid reader, but very impressionable books I’ve read include: Winning by Jack Welch, The Nordstrom Way, Universe in A Nutshell by Hawking, and anything NDGT (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Best of Breed Partners


ViziSites has partnered with a collection of service providers in the veterinary industry and beyond. When you sign up on the Competitor package or higher, you’ll gain access to discounts with our partner businesses like VerticalVet Reminders, Veteos, Vetstoria Live Booking, and Anipanion Telemedicine!

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