If you think Grasshopper is just for one type of startup or business, you haven’t met our customers. Grasshopper users come in all shapes of sizes—they make products for kids, offer moving and packing solutions, and sell software services.

In today’s connected world, social media companies are springing up, and we’re proud to say that many of them have chosen Grasshopper for their virtual phone system.

We talked with Davy Kestens of TwitSpark, Ashleigh Ratcliff of Privateer Digital, and Dennis O’Malley of ReadyPulse, to find out how social media junkies are using our services!

This month’s customer spotlight is on Zlien, a mechanic’s lien filing service.

Scott Wolfe, like a lot of entrepreneurs we meet, comes from a family of business owners. His parents own a retail store and a construction company in New Orleans. With these family genes its no wonder Scott has owned everything from a web company to a law firm, and now a mechanic’s lien filing company. He’s grown up in the biz after all!

After law school, Scott started his own firm, specializing in construction law, but this was just the start of his entrepreneurial journey.  With his parents construction company, Scott saw the issues the construction industry faces with getting paid. This industry is plagued with serious credit challenges.

As a lawyer specializing in construction law, Scott saw an opportunity to help.

Video marketing is a new trend, and companies are putting together cool videos to put their brands on the map. Emma, our Content Marketing Specialist, hung out with Chris Bolman, CEO of ZoomTilt, to learn more about video marketing. ZoomTilt has a great platform for connecting companies with video producers.

If you’re strapped for time, here are the top takeaways:

• Lots of brands struggle to create great video content
• Video scavenger hunts are innovative and fun
• Companies don’t need huge budgets for video marketing
• Don’t get discouraged. Small companies have been successful with video. Just look at the “Will It Blend?” guy!

One of the best parts about social media is the ability to connect with our customers, fans and friends. We love getting to know you and learning about your businesses. Most of all, we like getting feedback from those who are using our product day in and day out.

With everyone so busy and all our days blurring together, we wanted to take a step back and catch up on all the action in social last month.

This month’s customer spotlight is on Denver’s Moving Boxes, a company that rents and delivers eco-friendly, stackable, plastic boxes as an alternative to cardboard boxes. If you’ve ever had to move before you probably know how painful and expensive the whole process can be…especially when it comes to packing and let’s not forget, the dreaded, unpacking!

Unfortunately for Marla and John Ray, founders of Denver’s Moving Boxes, they know this feeling all too well, having moved more times than they care to remember. In fact, that’s exactly what inspired them to start Denver’s Moving Boxes. Denver’s Moving Boxes delivers pre-assembled, eco-friendly, plastic moving boxes to your door and then picks them up from you once you’ve unpacked.