Connections

Client List

• Netscape Communications Corporation, providers of top flight browsers, servers and other Internet technologies. Beyond Marketing worked with Netscape on product management and marketing of a new server.
• Digital Equipment Corporation's, World Wide Web search engine, AltaVista. Beyond Marketing worked on the rollout and ongoing business of AltaVista. The AltaVista spider crawls and indexes the entire Web, so if you haven't found what you were looking for with other search engines, give the power of AltaVista a try.
• Faxsav, innovative provider of fax services through gateways on the Internet. Now, you can send e-mail over the Internet directly to fax output reliably and efficiently.
• IDG Publications' ISG subsidiary, Reality Factory, which is assisting IDG business units in developing a Web presence. IDG is the publisher of ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, MacWorld, etc. Beyond Marketing assisted in developing the distinction between static Web Sites and highly interactive Web Environments.
• Novell's Internet Commerce Division
• 3DO, innovative manufacturer of consumer game devices and MPEG compression boards
• Claris, Corp., Macintosh and Windows applications software and utilties
• Insignia Solutions provides Windows emulation software for running Windows on both Macintosh and Unix systems
• Sierra Ventures,venture capital investors.
• Air Communications, providers of cellular data communications peripherals
• Cardinal Technologies, developers of leading edge modem technologies
• Delta Tao, games and graphics software
• Digital Generation Systems, radio spot commercial distribution
• ShareVision, personal video teleconferencing

Quotes

"It's rare to find such a well-organized person who can also offer a balanced blend of strategic insight, action-oriented planning, nuts and bolts tactical marketing advice and creativity. Laurie Girand is great to work with."
--Laurie McLean,
Principal,
McLean Public Relations

"...quite a dynamo..."
--Stewart Alsop,
Editor-in-Chief,
InfoWorld

"Laurie gave us incredible insight into the market that would have taken us years to achieve on our own. She helped guide our final stages of product development, rollout and shipment with vigor, never satisfied with a second best approach. She was able to work effectively with everyone on staff, not afraid to tackle any task placed before her. Because of her performance, I have tried many times to convince her to move to Los Angeles, but to no avail. Our loss is the Bay Area's gain."
--Jay Roth,
President and CEO,
Electric Image, Inc.

"Beyond Marketing came in running and produced tangible results within weeks. Laurie learned quickly about our company, market situation, and distribution strategy. And she made substantive recommendations that we implemented immediately. She impressed everyone with her thoroughness and follow up."
--John Chang,
V.P. of Product Marketing and Technical Support,
Insignia Solutions

"Digital's Palo Alto based research labs have used Beyond Marketing for a variety of projects; most currently in the domain Internet software and Intranet hardware and software. This work largely entails working with Digital's Business Development function to assist in the commercialization of sophisticated computer science research.

"Beyond Marketing has demonstrated a great deal of project management strength as well as depth in both raw thinking and in resource procurement. They have been especially useful to us in their flexibility and diversity of services provided. Their up-to-the-minute knowledge and experience with the Internet has allowed us to move swiftly with our decision making."
--Michael A. Looney,
Director of Business Development,
Research and Advanced Development,
Digital Equipment Corporation

"Beyond Marketing consultants came up to speed very quickly on time-critical projects and worked effectively with staff from across the company. They provided different types of expertise for a variety of projects ranging from project coordination, to helping set strategy for a new product area, to launch of a new product. The consultants were professional in manner and conduct, timely in communication and met deadlines."
--Sharon Grimshaw,
Director of Product Management,
3DO

Colleagues

• Karen Dillon's Kid's Online Health and Education page. If you're interested in donating your old computer equipment to a school that really needs it, check out her Equipment Donation page. Karen is matching up worthy donors in order to improve the technology available to our schools. One of the best public interest services available on the Web.

• Jim Gable's Gable's Spider Site. Jim is a Director at Apple Computer in Marketing, and his father is the Republican Candidate running for governor in the state of Kentucky. In addition to having his own site, Jim put up his father's site.

• Jim Girand's Technology Strategies and Investments. Consulting runs in this family. Jim has an extensive background in components and electronics products and services. He occasionally takes an equity stake in his clients.

• Mark Gonzales' Mark's World. Mark is a former Apple Product Marketing Manager who subsequently managed Global Village's Web products and services. He is now Director of Marketing for Be Labs.

• The Scott McGregor personal home page seen here for the first time beyond the firewall at the Santa Cruz Operation. See what's important beyond the computer industry to a senior exec in client/server technology.

• Robert Seidl's Ceneca Communications, which blew away the Web press when Adobe acquired the company. Ceneca's hot new products for developing Web Sites, PageMill and SiteMill, are the talk of the Web.

• The Valerie Vigoda Home Page, where you can learn all about Valerie's group. Valerie was declared a genius by the Washington Post magazine back in 1982, when she was just 16. She is an accomplished musician who is really going places. Check it out!

  Stellar... why is she not signed? A must!
  --Rhythm & News

• Dave Winer's DaveNet. Dave's thoughts on everything. Dave is a programmer who writes a lot more than code.