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Viral What, Viral How, Viral WHY…

Viral THINKING, Viral MATH, Viral Products/Content/Marketing/WHATEVER!

SECTION 1: (below)
Background & Bio / Experience & Expertise (10+ Years, 50+ Viral Ventures - reaching 2+Million people EACH — collectively reaching/engaging audiences of: HALF A BILLION!)

SECTION 2:
VIRAL VISION: Lessons Learned, Techniques to Teach, and Some Super-Secret Special Sauce to Share!

SECTION 3: LOTS of NEW “Viral Whatever” to Launch — via:
**“Learning While Launching” Lunches?
** Weekend Workshops?
** Classes and Collaborative Competitions?
** PART-time Partner Programs?
**[Details TBD — In the meantime, please contact us — info@ViralWhatever.com — if YOU would like to help organize, schedule, host any of these (or even just to invite Jeff to speak/present/teach at your existing group/class/meetup/whatever)]

BACKGROUND & BIO:

Jeff Goldblatt is an Atlanta-based Entrepreneur & Startup Founder, Advisor, Mentor, Thinker, Re-Thinker, Strategist, Logician, and Viral Media Expert… with 12+ years experience with various B2C startups (and an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School). As creator of The Rejection Hotline® , 300+ Humor Hotlines, National “Get Over It Day”… and 40+ viral ventures that have individually reached over a million people EACH — and collectively engaged audiences of HALF A BILLION, he has become a nationally-recognized authority on viral media and content creation —

“My (relatively unique) experience / expertise is creating and evaluating potentially-viral concepts and content that will resonate with large/diverse audiences, intuitively recognizing/analyzing MANY factors (the art, science, math, psychology, mechanics, etc.) impacting virality and differentiating “ideas” from “IDEAS+++” (ideas plus vision, viability, viral potential, and more)…”

EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE: ~15+ Years of Creating “VIRAL WHATEVER”

Some HIGHLIGHTS:

The Rejection Hotline® — the humorous fake phone number service took off virally in the early 2000's (thanks in part to word-of-mouth buzz, social media, and coverage by major media outlets like CNN, the LA Times, and many more) and quickly began receiving more than a million calls per month! It would go on to receive more than 200 Million Calls over the next 10+ years… ***

AskTheCollegeGuy.com — an online advice/humor column that “went viral” (literally before Jeff even knew what “viral” meant) and developed a loyal following of online readers on 839 college campuses, received millions of page views, and was syndicated in college newspapers as large as The Centre Daily Times at Penn State…

Just Thought You Should Know — a collection of email generators (and phone numbers/messages) notifying people of something they might not be aware of (bad breath, body odor, stuff in their teeth, etc.). In particular, the Bad Breath Notification phone number struck a nerve, went viral, and received more than 20 Million Phone Calls itself… ***

It Could Always Suck More® — with just the right mix of serious inspiration / motivation and edgy humor, the trademarked phrase resonated with the masses, initially going viral via a Humor Hotline (25+ Million calls), but demonstrated additional viral/brand appeal selling 10,000+ “It Could Always Suck More” wristbands. ***

Screen Numbers — Recognizing a need for secondary phone numbers (for dating, business, CraigsList, etc.), I haphazardly launched ScreenNumber.com in 2005. Despite decent traction (~10,000 users), it was unfortunately never made a top priority. On Sept. 25, 2006, a company named Grand Central launched the same service (11 months after us). Admittedly, they did it better. But it still stung a year later when Google bought them for $95 MILLION and it became Google Voice. :)
P.S. No, I’m not joking. Longer version of the story at ScreenNumber.com

SnapVine — I had begun speaking at conferences as a Creativity and Viral Marketing expert and I was approached by the CEO of a startup in Seattle (bringing VoIP to Social Media) to be their interim Creative Director as they sought Product-Market Fit. We found it, scaled the product virally, and SnapVine was acquired by WhitePages.com in 2008 for ~$20 Million.

Get Over It Day ® — A goofy idea (to create a national holiday?!), but the core idea (that EVERYONE has SOMETHING to get over) resonated with the masses and we received thousands of emails from people telling us what they needed to get over, there were events across the country, national brands offered Get Over It Day specials, and Get Over It Day was announced to the world by Good Morning America, The Today Show, ESPN SportsCenter and more! ***

Humor Hotlines (RH Brands) — After firing myself as CEO of my own company, bringing on a business partner, raising ~$1 Million in funding and figuring out the “in-call audio advertising” business model, all my other ideas/projects were put aside and what started as just The Rejection Hotline grew into HumorHotlines.com and we had a great run (~5 profitable years of 7-figure revenue, 250+ Humor Hotlines, 475 Million calls), until…***

After Verizon and AT&T made some big changes to the mobile content industry (our main advertisers), we were unable to pivot successfully, and we made the difficult decision to shut the company down — laying off our employees, and selling off our 2000+ phone numbers.
[Note: I personally bought back all unsold assets — including The Rejection Hotline and all Humor Hotlines’ audio files — some of which will be re-launched as part of The Whatever Network.]

[PART 2]

Viral Vision, Thoughts & Theories, Lessons Learned, Secret Sauce, and Techniques to Teach! (10+ pages of previously privileged, confidential content and secret sauce!!!)

[PART 3]

Join us… Learn from us… Launch Viral Sh*t WITH us!

• Ever wondered how something takes off and goes crazy-viral — and if it’s more art or science? or luck?*
• Ever wondered what psychological factors influence virality? or what the VIRAL MATH looks like to get it viral and keep it growing?*
• Ever thought about how cool it would be to LITERALLY be the FIRST person to share something that becomes a viral phenomenon reaching millions of people?!*

• [EDITOR’S NOTE: FYI, we actually assume the answer to these questions are probably “NO, NOPE, and NEVER” — because, let’s be honest, who in the world (other than me?) would actually be sitting around wondering about all that stuff?! But hopefully you’re thinking about it now because, trust me, it’s pretty cool stuff when you see it up close!] Anyway, to conclude my way-too-wordy pitch, you should come work with us, learn from us, and launch “Viral Whatever” with us! :)

Note to self: save the following for a future column/discussion about some of our cool celebrity endorsements over the years [NOTE:, below are all OLD Humor Hotlines numbers — all have been out-of-service for years now]