business ideas The Journey Continues This past year has been rather remarkable. First, I survived ten days on a ventilator and three weeks in total in a hospital with Covid. Then while DialogTech, a company
COVID 19, Ventilator, I Survived The past six weeks have been a blur. On March 7st, I came down with a slight fever and thought nothing of it. By Thursday, March 12th, after a temperature
youtube My YouTube Creator Story Millions of dollars all for shooting and posting videos created with your phone. Seems easy to make a fortune on YouTube if you don't mind letting people watch you play
makers Google is More Than Search Over the past six months, I have discovered more about the Google iceberg that is beneath the surface. This discovery occurred while I was becoming a YouTuber.
DrVax is Growing In just a 5 months, since the launch of the first DrVax focused video, we have advanced from an idea to a rapidly growing skills and how to YouTube channel.
3d printing Learn about DrVax DrVAX is my new media play consisting of the drvax.com web site, drvax YouTube channel and a DrVax Facebook page. The DrVAX mission is to empower retiring baby boomers to take control of their lives by learning how to be makers.
Technology Don't retire. Retool and Reboot as a Maker.. The reasons boomers should become makers as they retire.
3d printing 3d Printing will Change the World I received my first 3d printer last Thursday and after spending about 8 hours on Friday and Sunday assembling it I have used it to produce my first prints. As
management Is Delegation a Continous or Analog Function SIn electronics, signals may be either analog or digital. Analog signals are smooth and continuous while digital signals are composed of small discrete steps. In binary systems, a digital signal
management Empowerment Failures As a technology executive and company founder for over 35 years, I have drunk the empowerment Kool-Aid and found it wanting. Wikipedia defines Empowerment as: "The term empowerment refers
USHMM Event at DialogTech Join DialogTech for a special program on Thursday, August 23 with Michael Hayley Goldman, Director of Future Projects Division at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Michael will discuss the
DrVax: coming to YouTube and the Web I have begun to work on my next business while continuing to contribute to DialogTech as the Chairman of the Board. I recently celebrated my 63rd birthday, and in conversations
DialogTech named Best Overall Marketing Analytics Platform During a year of industry excitement, high growth for our company and multitudes of client successes, DialogTech has been named Best Overall Marketing Analytics Platform by MarTech Breakthrough. MarTech Breakthrough,
Why It’s Critical for Marketers to Embrace Voice in 2017 2017 is poised to be a turning point for voice. The use of virtual assistants is on the rise, and there’s an explosion in the ways users interact with
The Evolution of a Founders Role In my basement, in 2006 I started on a journey that continues today. This journey evolved from a crazy idea to become DialogTech, a company approaching 200 employees and thousands of customers, analyzing over 50 million minutes of voice conversations a month with the
Spam Calls are Impacting all Marketers Tired of spammed phone calls. Calls you don't want and cannot stop. Learn more about telephone spammers at this DialopTech blog post. https://www.dialogtech.com/blog/news/industry-problem-putting-a-stop-to-traffic-pumping-spam-calls
Food The Cherry Press I am pleased to announce that my wife, Lynn Kirsche Shapiro, has recently published her first book, Food Family and Tradition from The Cherry Press. You can learn more about
Voice & Marketing Technology This video describes how phone calls are becoming a critical component of marketing technology stacks.
Purple Cow Focus: The Microsoft Lesson for Startups Microsoft recently announced plans to write off $7B and lay off up to 7,800 employees. Wondering how this happened? Lack of focus. Unlike Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Steve
Telephony Industry Google Voice - Not Ready for Business As I have shared in previous blog posts, I believe Google Voice is a fantastic addition to the Telephony 2.0 ecosystem and will help to establish the concept of
Best in Biz Award 2011 Ifbyphone CEO wins top prize in 2011 Best in Biz awards Ifbyphone founder, CTO and CEO Irv Shapiro is having a well-deserved Sally Field moment: Irv has been named the Gold winner of the 2011 Best in Biz awards in the category of Executive
Technology When More is Less I’ve been using OS X Lion, the new Apple Mac operating system for a couple of days and I have relearned an important lesson about application design: when designing applications, more is often less. Overall I have found the refinements in the OS
Your Opportunity to Join an Exciting Tech Start-Up In Chicago Talented Chicagoans have few opportunities to join high tech start-ups with explosive growth. This is your opportunity, so keep reading. Ifbyphone is proud to have been chosen two years in a row by the Association of Business Resources (NABR) as one of “Chicago’s
Google and Groupon In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met. Google launched its search engine as BackRub in 1996, changed its name to Google in 1997, and sold out an initial public offering at $85 a share in 2004. Today, Google is valued at over $150B.
Cloud Telephony The Three Hats of VoIP Over the past few years new VoIP products and services seem like they are announced daily. While this rate of innovation is exciting, it is also very confusing. How are these companies the same or different? What service should I use for my business?
