Benjamin L. Padnos
Internet Entrepreneur
Some people have watched the Internet unfold. Others, like Ben Padnos, worked at the center of the storm creating brands and ultimately creating history. An Internet sales and marketing pioneer, Ben has 12+ years of online sales, strategy, marketing and business development experience, including more than four years in the Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO) organization.
In 2004, Ben Co-Founded BetterPPC, a scientific testing and optimization platform for pay-per-click advertising, and a search engine optimization firm, DONESEO. He merged the two businesses in November 2006 to create a full-service Search Engine Marketing (SEM) technology-enabled services provider, Better, Inc. The El Segundo-based SEM firm was acquired by Tsavo Media in September 2008.
Ben founded DONE! Ventures in October, 2001 after leaving Yahoo’s strategic “think tank swat team”, ValueLab, where he was involved in forging relationships with key Fortune 500 companies. DONE! has incubated several successful businesses, including eCreditCards, a network of financial-services lead-generation websites (featuring such clients as JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, American Express, Discover Financial, HSBC, etc.), and credit card marketing business opportunity CashFlowFromCreditCards.com.
Ben serves on the Board of Directors of Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Company, Inc. a century-old family owned and operated scrap metal and paper processing and recycling firm based in Holland, Michigan.
Prior to Yahoo! ValueLab, Ben was a Manager in Yahoo’s West Coast sales group and one of the company’s top worldwide revenue producers, generating nearly $100 million in sales as Yahoo! grew from fewer than 200 people to nearly 4,000.
After attending the University of Michigan, Ben headed to Southern California to become employee #2 and Director of Marketing at CD-ROM turned web media company, Carlsbad, California-based University Netcasting, Inc. (UNI). He successfully developed the marketing, advertising and sponsorship plans for UNI’s launch of a new collegiate on-line sports network, FANSonly.com. This strategy was included in the company’s business plan that secured nearly $5mm in venture funding, and the company was later acquired by Boston-based Student Advantage, which went public in 1999. Today FANSonly is known as CSTV (CollegeSports.com) and is the #1 website specifically devoted to college sports.
About us
DONE! Ventures, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, focuses on start-up and growth-stage Internet and technology companies. Along with pursuing various in-house entrepreneurial projects, DONE! provides strategy, sales development, business-model innovation and investments in other early-stage companies. DONE! leverages its extensive network of experts with backgrounds in all facets of business building with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Our resources and capabilities include:
* search engine marketing and search engine optimization
* online lead generation and eCommerce direct response marketing
* sales & new business development
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