imicit - blog

2010-06-15T03:32:00.003-04:00

A huge thank you to everyone that has helped UMicIt grow so far. All States of the United have been represented, with the exceptions of Montana, South Dakota, Mississippi, and Alaska (C'mon Alaska get with it!)

Thousands of people have seen UMicIt. Our reps and web partners have helped us tremendously. Major props to Boulder Beats and Flash Notes for working with us.

UMicIt is beginning to offer mobile services to businesses across the country. For more information message someone.

224-2-UMICIT is available in test markets across the United States.

2010-05-27T20:07:00.005-04:00

The UMicIt balloon was recently featured in The Columbus Dispatch as the photo of the day.

Students at Ohio State, find the balloon to receive free items like pong balls, shirts, stickers, and coupons/gift cards from your favorite campus area spots.

2010-05-13T21:03:00.001-04:00

UMicIt entered the TiE Ohio Idea Competition. We are up against almost 50 other local entrepreneurs in a contest to earn a funding package. Best of luck to everyone!

Liftoff!

2010-05-13T20:53:00.000-04:00

The UMicIt balloon finally took flight the other day. Look out for the balloon at your campus for a chance to win gift cards, coupons, and UMicIt swag.

And speaking of swag... The new American Apparel tank tops arrived just in time for summer. Get yours now!

Something to wear

2010-03-10T17:10:00.000-05:00

Shirts are in!

Time to start getting users...

You can find us

2010-03-09T23:06:00.000-05:00

I just published the list of schools we are at, so far:

http://umicit.com/schools.php

The list is constantly growing, but if your school is not visible let us know.

And we have liftoff...

2010-03-09T21:34:00.000-05:00

Combing through the site, getting everything to work right. Trying to get the best product up for public launch.

Check out the stickers. Shirts are ready tomorrow!

Check out meh balls

2010-03-01T23:37:00.000-05:00

Our order of pong balls came in today. Pretty fresh.

Who wants one?

Launch Lunch #1

2010-03-01T23:33:00.000-05:00

The new umicit will be available to students nationwide.

Simply type in your university e-mail address at registration and you will be taken to your school's mega-feed.

PROTIP: You can view other school's mega-feeds, but cannot post.

Coolest experiences so far

2010-03-01T22:49:00.000-05:00

UMicIt has presented both Al and I the opportunity to gain some first hand experience starting up a business. We have had the opportunity to work and talk with people in the industry. Everyone we have come across so far has been extremely helpful and positive to the growth of UMicIt.

Rob Loukotka helped design our logo. Up until a month or two a go we had used this really crude logo I put together. It got the job done, but not with style. Rob was referred to us by the founder of mybandstock.com, Drew Leahy. Rob's work process really helped Al and I figure out exactly what UMicIt is and where we want to take it. Really diving deep into the mic. So we went through a lot of evaluating our product and in turn were delivered completely awesome branding. The logo is meant to be a hand holding a microphone, if you have not picked up on that yet. Anyways, working with Rob was great in general and helped us better define UMicIt.

Other events of note include our night downtown at the Goldstien, Caldwell & Associates young entrepreneur conference. We drove along the north shore to go to a presentation of our peer's web applications at an unsuspecting flower shop near Case Western. I was expecting at least half of the apps presented to be WeMicIt, but luckily(surprisingly) there was nothing really like UMicIt. There were definitely some really cool, unique ideas presented by area college students. Maybe some apps for UMicIt in the future...

Pretty much everyone we have worked with so far has been great. From our web programming team (chepri interactive) to our legal eagles, to our reps (big ups) to our print shop (rdesign in columbus) and to everyone else,

thanks.

New blog

2010-03-01T22:27:00.000-05:00

The old blog was marked as spam and deleted by the man some time a go. I finally got around to taking the time to create a new blogspot during the week of our launch.

Around this time last year UMicIt was conceptualized as an answer to innovate social media. While much has changed since the early brain melt sessions, the principles of our vision have remained fairly true to form. Our goal to create a tool of actual value to the common student is soon coming to fruition.

This has all been a great learning experience, most of which I would like to explore throughout this blogspottz.