1. Press Kit This memorandum contains forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or future financial performance. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “expects,” “hopes,” “believes,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “projects,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of such terms and other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. The Company’s actual results could and likely will differ materially from these forward-looking statements for many reasons including these appearing in this memorandum. The Company cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The Company does not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this memorandum to conform them to actual results or to changes in the Company’s expectations. VodoModo.com™ your world is calling ™ ™
2. OPPORTUNITY Historical cultural (H/C) travelers want to enrich their lives with new travel experiences that are more memorable to them. In 2007, 300 million historic/cultural travelers took trips in the United States (i.e. 20 million visited the nine D.C. memorials). They want to be immersed in the sites and seek an informed experience that provides greater insights into history and culture where they can learn something new. The travel industry currently provides static paper guide books that do not fulfill the needs of the tech savvy, mobile-enabled affluent travelers with a keen interest in historical content and getting information at their fingertips. Additionally, mobile device manufacturers and telecoms, map providers and travel sites are looking for unique, value-added content to provide to their customers.
3. SOLUTION Vodomodo.com is a global new media company that creates and delivers smart, insightful mini-movie tours of the world’s most captivating sites to mobile devices. Our “tours” breathe new life into the travel experience by presenting the colorful histories, surprising details and unique personalities behind important landmarks and sites. VodoModo delivers multimedia rich video (and audio) mini-movie tours to travelers’ mobile devices. Each mini-movie is a flowing audio narrative combined with historic and contemporary photos; music; and videos that are engaging, educational and interesting. Travelers with money to spend and little familiarity with the area, also learn about dining, shopping and other recreational options nearby through VodoModo. We deliver the experience they seek in a way that complements their spontaneous lifestyle. DEMO VIDEO
4. ROLL OUT VodoModo content is created by a national network of professional media talent including researchers; writers; narrators; photographers and content editors. VodoModo content producers work under exclusive agreements to develop tours at key destinations in exchange for revenue sharing. With over 100 mobile mini-movies created, VodoModos’ official launch will coincide with its launch of Philadelphia in April 2010. Thereafter, new mini-movie tours will be launched every week and new cities every 2-3 months. Visit VodoModo at www.vodomodo.com on the web to view 30-second snippets of sample tours. Go to www.vodomodo.com on your smart phone to view mini-movies in DC and NYC and Philadelphia. VodoModo will also deliver its content via an iPhone application (May 2010) and is investigating other ‘app dev’ channels including the Blackberry, Google Phone and Amazon’s Kindle.
5. LIVE DESTINATIONS New York City Philadelphia Washington DC Brooklyn Bridge Atwater-Kent Museum Arlington Memorial Bridge Bryant Park Betsy Ross House Arlington National Cemetery Central Park Bishop White House Bartholdi Park Chinatown Carpenters Hall FDR Memorial Chrysler Building City Tavern Folger Shakespeare Library Empire State Building Congress Hall Jefferson Memorial Flatiron Building Fireman's Hall Museum Korean War Veterans Memorial Grand Central Terminal Franklin Court Supreme Court Ground Zero Liberty Bell Center The Lincoln Memorial Herald Square Merchants' Exchange Building The Pentagon New York City Hall National Constitution Center Union Station Rockefeller Center Old City Hall United States Capitol St. Patrick's Cathedral Old First Reformed Church USMC War Memorial Staten Island Ferry Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Bank Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue of Liberty National Monument St. Augustine's Catholic Church Washington Monument U.S. Mint Washington National Cathedral Watergate World War II Memorial
6. LOCATION-BASED SERVICES (LBS) Location-based services (LBS) represent the ‘holy grail’ of marketing because content can be dynamically targeted based on a users’ location, in real time. To-date, the drawbacks in “location accuracy” of available LBS technologies, requirement of opting-in to deliver LBS ads and limited scope of LBS-only applications have hampered the success of LBS in the marketplace. VodoModo’s original mobile content is actively downloaded by the traveler. Unlike a billboard, travelers actively seek it. On VodoModo, the link to watch a mini-movie is paired with a link to What’s Nearby, which display businesses that are around the corner or across the street. In this way, content viewed denotes location. VodoModo delivers geographical and contextual-targeted location-based advertising which is welcome information to travelers in unfamiliar terrain, without the need for GPS. VodoModo is there, guiding travelers to the advertisers’ door through its patent pending mobile content driven LBS technology. Advertisers and sponsors, for the first time, can get their message in front of hundreds of millions of tech savvy travelers, in their neighborhood, in a spending mindset - the perfect storm of marketing.
7. MANAGEMENT TEAM Steve Radlinger is the President and Founder of VodoModo.com, LLC. Radlinger was the founder of apartmentrenting.com that raised 1.5 million dollars in 1999 and merged with New York-based apartmentsource.com during a 1.9 million second round in 2001. Jim Bell serves as Senior Editor and has 40 years of newspaper experience, most recently as Assistant National Editor/Washington Bureau at the Los Angeles Times. He oversaw all stories from the paper's 50-person Washington Bureau and worked on stories ranging from Watergate and the Nixon resignation to the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the Clinton Administration. Jim's byline has appeared in the Times and in the Kansas City Star, where he previously worked, as well as in various magazines. Matthew Wright serves as Director of New Media Production; his 20 plus year career in film and video production has included work for the corporate, advertising, entertainment and educational sectors. His experience includes producing for feature film and production management of principle photography for commercial broadcast, for agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett. Matthew is an award winning producer and editor for educational and instructional video.
8. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Gary Jacobus is currently Vice President, Global Business Development for the National Basketball Association. Previously he was managing director of corporate partnerships for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) where he oversaw the corporate partnership business which generated over $60 million from corporate sponsors of the US Open and other USTA assets. Prior to joining the USTA, Jacobus was vice president of corporate marketing for the National Football League (NFL) generating over $300 million in sponsorship revenue. Larry Burnett is a shareholder in the Business Law Practive of Reinhard Boerner Van Deuren s.c. He provides counsel to closely held companies on a wide range of business matters relating primarily to mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and emerging busines capital formation. Sean Dingeldein serves as a financial consultant and has over 15 years of experience providing strategic and financial analytic support to over 50 companies assisting owners of startup ventures and closely held businesses. .
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