We’re Hiring!

At Localist, we’re looking for an eager self-starter with a strong desire to win to join our awesome business team.

As a Sales Representative, you will be responsible for generating and qualifying leads in our target verticals. This position requires successful experience working as a Sales Representative preferably for an innovative web technology company.

We offer excellent compensation opportunities that scale with experience.

A bit about us

Localist provides a licensable platform that offers event and venue listings combined with social calendaring tools to provide a complete solution for partners looking to promote and monetize local content. Universities can take advantage of Localist to provide an interactive calendar of events, and enable students to share their plans with each other, fostering a greater sense of community. Tourism boards using the Localist platform will for the first time be able to connect local businesses with customers, and better promote events by empowering people in the city to see what others are doing. For media companies, the Localist platform takes existing event data and wraps a social dynamic around it, creating new revenue streams along with increased traffic and accurate user targeting.

After closing a round of investment and launching the new version of the Localist Platform, we announced partnerships with several universities looking to bring their calendars to the next level. We need your help to continue this great momentum in our target verticals: universities, media companies and tourism boards.

Responsibilities

• Generate leads for Localist’s industry leading social calendaring platform by aggressively reaching out to our target markets
• Work closely with business development and executive team to cultivate leads to accounts
• Maintain a pipeline database using Highrise software
• Communicate prospect feedback to the product and development team

Requirements

• Tenacious attitude with a competitive drive to win
• A charming, enthusiastic demeanor
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Results oriented focus and dedicated work ethic
• Experience and passion around current Internet technologies
• Comfortable calling on all levels of an organization
• Comfortable working independently
• 3 years as a Sales Representative with consistent overachievement

Send to info@localist.com

• Your resume
• One or two sentences on your first impressions of http://localist.com and http://events.jhu.edu (running on the Localist Platform); How it made you feel and what you think are its selling points

Please, we implore you, no recruiters or offshore companies.

Localist 2.0 has arrived

Finally! After much discussion, analysis and development, the next version of Localist is upon us.

Every part of the platform has been redesigned from the ground up with speed, simplicity and branding flexibility in mind. We’ve removed features you’re not interested in and focused on making the core experience much more enjoyable. What’s new, you ask? Almost everything!

We’re back working on feature development, with some great ones coming in the next few weeks:

Tighter Facebook integration

• Interact with your Facebook friends, directly from Localist!

• See all the Foursquare users who have checked into places

• A smooth mobile experience, with core features available quickly

• Our curator, Ty Collins, knows what’s what in Baltimore. He’ll soon be gracing the Localist community with recommendations of events and venues you may have missed.

• Ensure you never miss a cool exhibit, or your friends’ plans with our simple, smart newsletters.

Check Localist, or Johns Hopkins to see the new, clean, pretty Localist platform.

Johns Hopkins University Selects Localist to Power New Interactive Calendar

Localist Provides Social Calendaring Platform for University’s 20,000 Students and Faculty

Baltimore, Maryland — October 7, 2009 — Localist today announced a partnership with Johns Hopkins University to provide a branded interactive events calendar to the university’s 20,000 students and faculty. Accessible at http://events.jhu.edu, the Localist platform is the primary solution for promoting internal university events in addition to highlighting local events happening nearby.

Johns Hopkins students will be able to see what activities others are attending in real time, and share and discuss their social plans with fellow students, fostering a greater sense of community. The Localist platform also learns a student’s interests in order to custom-tailor recommendations of events to attend and new places to visit.

“We are excited to partner with Johns Hopkins to deliver a calendar platform that sets a new standard among universities,” said Mykel Nahorniak, co-founder and chief operating officer of Localist. “Giving students the opportunity to branch out of their typical social circles, and discover new things to do and places to go yields a more rewarding educational experience.”

“Every university has an events calendar, but, until now, no university has a great events calendar that ties into the tools that students are already using. That’s why I was excited at the opportunity to work with Localist to build a solution for Johns Hopkins that not only is simple to manage but plugs seamlessly into Facebook, Google Calendar and iCal on the Mac and iPhone,” said Tim Windsor, Director of Web Strategy at John Hopkins.

University calendars have traditionally focused on internal events only, and lack the social interactivity that users have come to expect. Localist changes that with its turnkey platform that seamlessly integrates into partner websites, leveraging user activity to deliver rich local content.

Johns Hopkins faculty can easily input and manage events and venues across multiple university campuses, and highlight those that merit special promotion.

In addition to the calendar functionality provided by the core Localist platform, the company also developed features specifically for student groups to organize and share events with their members and interested students.

Localist Corporation (http://www.localist.com)
Baltimore-based Localist provides a licensable platform that offers event and venue listings combined with social calendaring tools to provide a complete solution for partners looking to promote and monetize local content. Universities can take advantage of Localist to provide an interactive calendar of events, and enable students to share their plans with each other, fostering a greater sense of community. Tourism boards using the Localist platform will for the first time be able to connect local businesses with customers, and better promote events by empowering people in the city to see what others are doing. For media companies, the Localist platform takes existing event data and wraps a social dynamic around it, creating new revenue streams along with increased traffic and accurate user targeting.

Johns Hopkins University (http://www.jhu.edu)
After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Eminent professors mentor top students in the arts and music, the humanities, the social and natural sciences, international studies, education, business and the health professions. Those same faculty members, and their research colleagues at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. When considered in partnership with its sister institution, the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, the university is Maryland’s largest employer and contributes more than $10 billion a year to the state’s economy.

New features

We’re really happy unveil some new features on Localist! A completely redesigned event calendar, city browser and personal dashboard are ready for you to use.

Oh, and… drumroll please… our API is now public! That means you can access all sorts of event and venue information to use as you wish.

What you need to know:

New calendar

• Focuses on 1 day, rather than an entire week
• Tons more information about events
• More sorting options
• Easier to navigate
• This is changed for cities, businesses and users

New browsing & searching

• More results per page
• More sorting options

New dashboard

• Based on user feedback, much easier to read

We’ll be posting a more in-depth entry for the Localist API later this week.

As always, let us know if you find any issues by contacting us.

Ranking updates

We’ve updated our event ranking algorithms to really nail down what’s popular. If you see an event that shouldn’t be where it is, let us know.

Automatic exporting

Localist now automatically exports your event information to Zvents, Upcoming and Eventful!

It means you only need to add your event once on Localist for the listing to appear on the most popular event listing services in the world.

You’re welcome!

Have lots of events?

Due to popular demand, an Excel file is now available to quickly add multiple events to Localist. Download the file, add your events, and send it along to info [at] localist.com. The events will be added promptly.

Download the file here.

Facebook? We got that on lock.

Inspired by our Twitter shenanigans, we’ve gone nuts making our Facebook integration as neat as possible.

You can now sign up and log in to Localist using just your Facebook account. It’s so ridiculously easy.

Here’s the cool part: You can now keep your Facebook friends up-to-date with your activities! Whenever you make plans, you have the option to publish the information on your Facebook profile.

Think: Facebook’s Events application, but actually useful.