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As President of DMI Services, Inc. Ira Friedman leads the team in Payment Platform Advocacy. This encompasses identifying new payment technologies, opportunities and regulatory advocacy. Mr. Friedman leads all investment decisions for the company’s portfolio. DMI specializes in investing in New Marketing and Payment Platform technologies. In the past 5 years the company has actively invested in Fintech Solutions, Crypto Industry, Social Network Applications, E-mail marketing, IPhone Applications, SEO and PPC solutions. Ira also actively consults to all of invested companies. His specific area of expertise is Sales Processes and Sales Team Development. Ira speaks frequently at SOLOMO (Social, Local and Mobile) conferences nationwide.

IYCnetwork creates unique revenue opportunities for both Publishers and Advertisers. Our Publisher Network is made up of more than 15 million individual pages and grows daily.The Publisher Network serves the Home Services vertical, providing more than 175,000 calls per month to clients such as Time Warner, Charter Communications, Comcast and ADT. The consumers within our network are exactly what our client’s target. Our individualized pricing models, not just CPA,CPC and PPC create some of the most profitable per lead revenue .IYC’s Advertiser Offers are focused directly on SMBs (Small & Medium Businesses). If this is your audience we have your New Revenue Engine. Our digital products; Google My Business, Location Services on more than 50 internet directories and GPS services, a Single Platform to manage all Reviews, Web Sites and Social Marketing are the digital products all SMBs must have. Our combination of offers, fulfillment, reporting and payment lead to impactful results for the end user and New Revenue for the Publisher. If you have an SMB audience, please contact us for further details.Our other division, the New Business Opportunity Program, has created America’s first and only New Business Shared Mailer Program. We have created a methodology that allows us to build a real time mailing list database of newly established US businesses. Simply put, we have the capability to mail uniquely targeted offers to new businesses just before they open.These service offerings include everything a small startup requires: Internet, Telephone, Legal and Accounting Services, Credit Card Processing, Banking and all other services crucial to start up and success. Success for our partners is defined as a response rate of 1/10th of 1%.

Double Take Deals is a division of Clipper Magazine/Gannett Publications. The division specializes in Local Daily Deal offerings in more than 600 geographic marketplaces. Deal Chicken is another national Daily Deal property under the Gannett umbrella. As Director of Business Development Ira was involved in all aspects of affiliate, partnership and outside revenue relationships. His ability to bridge the traditional print world with the digital content world was paramount in the division's success. Ira also was involved in Merger/Acquistions and Earn Out opportunities in the Daily Deal marketplace.

Mr. Friedman was an Angel Investor and Executive Vice President of CARCHEX, a national provider of auto inspections, buying services and extended warranties direct to consumers and on behalf of auto dealers and other auto related industries. This start up began in 2004 with 3 employees and no revenue. Within 4 years the company had grown to 65 employees and $28 million in annual revenue. Mr. Friedman was charged with creating the inside sales force, training and retraining the call center sales force, creating and achieving sales goals, integrating technology and acquiring and pricing products for the sales teams. He was also an active participant in all phase of Senior Management ranging from raising capital to long term planning.

Played a key role in growing the enterprise to an $18M-a-year national yellow page/directory provider operation, staffing approximately 35 employees in multiple office locations while developing the national and regional client list, including IBM, Goodyear, Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, Federal Armored Express, Cellular One, and RCA.- Hired and trained sales teams and created targeted and measurement programs for clients, leading to increased sales of their products and increased budgets for placement.- Identified trends of industry growth for prospecting, such as the cellular industry, tire dealers, and computer services.- Lead overhaul of technology for order delivery, resulting in one of the first internet based order and verifacation system in the industry