Company
Profile:
GreekBoston.com
is designed to be an all-in-one web portal for the global Greek community.
We provide information on various establishments, services, events,
concerts, and nightlife. GreekBoston.com
has been in business for over 9 years now and receives over 50,000+ unique (different) users monthly, which is
a tremendous amount of people interested in learning about the Greek
community of Boston and the world! Many of our visitors come from the
USA, but also wherever there are Greek communities, including Canada, England, Australia, Germany and
many various European countries, especially Greece. Because GreekBoston.com
is targeted at a cultural community, it is a perfect marketing and
advertising tool for any business and has a very loyal audience.
Started:
December 1998
Funding: Private
Type: Corporation
Business: Global Hellenic Community Web Portal
Objectives:
GreekBoston.com
wants to:
- bring
the worldwide Greek community closer together by promoting Hellenism
& Orthodoxy.
- keep
the Greek community informed on all events and happenings and be a
one-stop for any and all information and services its' viewers may
need from one central location.
- support
Hellenism through its promotion of all things Greek and Greek-related.
Products:
- Greek-themed
TV show - GB TV - on American Broadcast TV
- Online
Radio station - GB Radio - with over 20,000 streams a week
- E-commerce
for Greek merchandise
- Promotions
& Marketing for clubs, shows, events, movies & concerts
- News
- Greek & American - full coverage, including weather & stocks
- Travel
info & guides to Greece
- Greek
Cooking section
- Greek
Wedding resources & services
- Member
websites & free email
- Chat
rooms
- Greek
Media section
- Greek
Restaurant / Club / Bar guide & reviews
- Community
& Events picture galleries
- Singles
listings
- Greek
Music & Videos listening & downloads
- Paid
VIP Members section
- Classifieds,
Auctions, Bulletin Boards
- Web
consulting, development & design
Market
Strength:
GreekBoston.com's
major strength lies in the fact that it is the only web site of its
kind in the New England area, but also one of the first Greek web
communities worldwide. We have a huge percentage of
the market for the global Greek audience. And since we are one of the
first Greek sites worldwide, we rank among the top Greek sites in
the world, with an incredible Google PageRank of 4! We also have a
very high rate of young adults as part of our demographic. This is
significant because Boston has a huge number of colleges and universities
and therefore gives it a huge college-age Greek population. These
young Greeks are a very close-knit community and a perfect demographic
for a website, and therefore businesses looking to market to this
demographic through our website.
GreekBoston.com
can become the strongest form of communication for the Greek community
and therefore gives it an unmatched market strength.
Future
Goals:
GreekBoston.com
would like to be a web stop for every Greek around the world. We would
like to offer enough services and furnish enough information so there
will be no need for our viewers to go anywhere else.
We would
like to become the sole web presence for every Greek business in New
England and form partnerships with businesses throughout North America,
Greece and everywhere with a Greek community.
GreekBoston.com
would like to build a solid Greek community on-line so it can be translated
to a strong Greek community off-line. We would like to bring services
to our members and members to our partners. The power of the internet
is key in building a specialized and targeted group such as the Greek
community of New England.
Statistics:
Monthly
Hits: 15,000,000+
Monthly
Unique visitors: 50,000+
Traffic
Rank: Top 3% of all websites
Google
PageRank: 4
Visits
& Hits:
Below
is a sample of our web statistics for visitors, hits and the countries
from which they originated:

Major GreekBoston.com
Partners:
The list
below makes up the major partners of the GreekBoston Network:

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
GreekBoston has created 3 Facebook applications and within 2 months has over 2,000 active users, and our GreekBoston Facebook group has 550 members within 2 months of creation. |

YouTube was founded in February 2005, and is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
GreekBoston’s channel has served over 2,000,000 video views as of this date and has an average of 12,000 views a day. |

The Oprah Winfrey show first broadcast to a national audience in 1986 and has since been the top rated talk show in the world, spawning multiple companies, careers and trends.
GreekBoston served as an adviser for a Hellenic themed episode featuring Greek culture and our work with the My Big Fat Greek Wedding movie and cast. |

Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services and operates web sites at many international domains, with the most trafficked being google.com. Google is widely recognized as the "World's Best Search Engine" and is fast, accurate and easy to use.
GreekBoston has a strong search strength in Google’s results as well as Yahoo! And many other search engines, and uses Google’s search engine and AdSense network to serve the search needs of our users and to serve up relevant ads to our viewers, and Google’s analytics service to track all hits to the minutest detail. |

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon.com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.
GreekBoston uses the Amazon shopping engine for a portion of its online shopping to offer products we do not carry ourselves. |

CareerBuilder is the fastest-growing recruitment & career-advancement source for employers, recruiters and job seekers. They are poised for tremendous growth, as the industry market's revenues grew from $780 million in 2001 to almost $2.3 billion by 2005. As a market leader, earning strong profits, this fast paced industry offers both invigorating and lucrative careers.
GreekBoston serves a career specific section powered by CareerBuilder.
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Ion Media Networks is a television broadcasting company which owns and operates the largest broadcast television station group in the U.S., as measured by the number of television households in the markets our stations serve. They currently own and operate 60 broadcast television stations (including three stations we operate under time brokerage agreements), which reach all of the top 20 U.S. markets and 40 of the top 50 U.S. markets. They reach 84% of prime time television households in the U.S. via their broadcast television station group and through arrangements with cable and satellite distribution systems.
GreekBoston broadcast their Hellenic-themed variety show on Ion to the biggest premier for an independent show in the station’s history. New shows are currently in production. |

EchoStar Communications Corporation is a public company with approximately 20,000 employees. Throughout its 24-year history, EchoStar has demonstrated its entrepreneurial spirit by achieving significant industry firsts: First company to offer a satellite receiver for less than $200. First to develop a UHF remote control. First to offer an Integrated Receiver Descrambler (IRD) for C-band satellite TV. First nationwide installation network dedicated solely to satellite TV systems. First to offer satellite receiver with built-in digital video recording. First Satellite TV company to offer channels to local markets in all 50 states.
GreekBoston markets for DISH network bringing new customers to the company. |

A&E
Television Networks, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation,
ABC, Inc. and NBC Universal, is an award-winning, international
media company offering consumers a diverse communications environment
ranging from television programming, to home videos/DVDs and music
CDs, to Web sites, as well as supporting nationwide educational
initiatives. AETN is comprised of A&E Network®, The History
Channel®, The History Channel International®, The Biography
Channel®, The Military History Channel, The History Channel
en Español, Crime & Investigation Network, AETN International,
and AETN Consumer Products.
GreekBoston has advertised, marketed, and promoted many broadcast specials for the History Channel. |

BMI
is an American performing rights organization that represents more
than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all
genres of music. The non-profit-making company, founded in 1939,
collects license fees on behalf of those American creators it represents,
as well as thousands of creators from around the world who chose
BMI for representation in the United States. The license fees BMI
collects for the "public performances" of its repertoire
of more than 6.5 million compositions - including radio airplay,
broadcast and cable television carriage, Internet and live and recorded
performances by all other users of music - are then distributed
as royalties to the writers, composers and copyright holders it
represents.
GreekBoston is an official Greek Radio station paying royalties to BMI to broadcast to thousands of listeners. |

mpGreek
is a service of Greased Networks. Greased Networks was formed in
2003 by experts in the music and Greek technology industry and is
the first company to deliver secure music over the Internet. Greased
Networks has the first digital music commerce system featuring copy
protection and copyright management, as well as the first and largest
digital music distribution network. The company's catalog of Greek
music is one of the largest in the world. mpGreek provides custom
solutions for Internet media delivery. Other than our consumer platform,
we enable partners to publish, distribute and sell media online.
mpGreek delivers access to our large & expanding catalog of
digital music from all major Greek labels and independents.
GreekBoston has partnered with mpGreek bringing thousands of customers to the new music service. |

World
Singles was launched in 2001 to bring together people who share
a common culture. Since its inception, World Singles has grown exponentially
and has been witness to hundreds of men and women who have found
their soul mate. World Singles provides a safe, fun and relaxed
environment where culturally compatible professional singles share
thoughts, opinions, laughs and friendship. World Singles is the
leading online dating hub for many diverse groups.
GreekBoston is an equal partner for the Greek singles section of the websites. Over a dozen marriages have formed through GreekBoston’s singles section. |
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