September 26, 2013
Huntington Beach, CA – MailPix.com, the photo-printing and gifting site, has partnered with ShopSocially to engage customers in innovative ways. Currently, MailPix is featured on the ShopSocially homepage, along with leading brands like HBO Shop, CafePress, Showtime and more.
“When launching MailPix last year, our leadership team knew social engagement was key to reaching today’s consumers,” says Fred H. Lerner, founder and CEO, MailPix. “ShopSocially is the ideal platform to extend MailPix in the social arena, reaching new customers and improving our SEO.”
“MailPix is a fast-moving, disruptive new player in the photo printing and gifting market, and we’re excited to see them use ShopSocially to grow their customer engagement and business,” says Jai Rawat, CEO, ShopSocially.
“After reviewing more than a dozen Social Media solution companies, MailPix.com chose ShopSocially hands down over all the others,” says Peter Tahmin, co-founder and COO. “Our goal was to increase conversions and drive additional traffic to the site at the same time. Their tool set is rich, the ROI is instant and the implementation could not have been easier.”
MailPix is using ShopSocially’s Get-a-fan social app to turn site visitors into Facebook fans. The site is also using the Viral Offer Sharing app, which embeds social into email marketing campaigns to help these campaigns spread. Users must “like” the deal to unlock the offer.
Founded in 2012, MailPix.com is the pre-eminent site for preserving photo memories as photo books, prints, cards, enlargements and other products. Everyone now has a camera in their pocket with priceless memories. MailPix’s passion is to make it easy to upload, share and print your photos.
MailPix is seamlessly integrated to print your or your friends’ 240 billion-plus Facebook and Instagram photos…and photos from any device, computer or phone.
Fred H. Lerner is the founder and CEO and is Fred’s latest startup. He previously founded Ritz Interactive which included RitzCamera.com, WolfCamera.com and others. Fred also founded two imaging companies which was acquired by Kodak and became the CEO of Kodak Processing Labs. He is a Hall of Fame recipient at the United Nations’ International Photographic Council and Past President of the Photo Marketing Association International. Peter Tahmin, joined as co-founder and COO, MailPix.com, and was former vice president, Ritz Camera and Image, and SVP and COO of Ritz Interactive. The MailPix board of advisors includes Oscar B. (Bud) Marx III, chairman of Amerigon (NASDAQ: ARGN) and is the former President & General Manager, Ford of Mexico and CFO of Ford, Europe; William A. Roskin, board member of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) and is the former Executive Vice President of Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB); Ted McGrath former President of Fujifilm, USA and General Manager of Kodak’s Consumer Imaging Division; James Joaquin, former president and CEO of Ofoto, leading that company from its start through the successful acquisition by Kodak; and Gary Pageau, of InfoCircle and former Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives at Photo Marketing Association International (PMAI).