Boom Media, An Emerging Leader in an Emerging Industry (Social Media)

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov 15, 2009 -
(San Diego) In this ever changing business environment there are constant needs to improve the ways companies find and communicate with their clients.  Social Media is rapidly becoming the easiest and most used form of this type of communication and business is starting to find this out.  There are many more ways to find avenues to communicate with the public and build a business and most are leaning toward Social Media being the next big thing.  More and more “Social Media” Companies are popping up throughout the world, but who are they?  For the most part these are businesses that have been made from an armchair and comprised of people that have been on Facebook or Twitter for quite some time, but may not have the background a business would require to make a hiring decision.  
Boom Media Inc out of San Diego is emerging as the business and politicians choice to fill the Social Media gap in their marketing plans.  Boom was founded by Eric Rice (successful entrepreneur who has been using social media to promote his own businesses for years) and partnered with Adam Blejski (venture capitalist), David Turner (2 time IPO C-Level Executive), John Monteith (CFO of choice for small business in San Diego) and Brian Tomkins (widely known Social Media Personality).  “We have a real team of successful people and have the proven backgrounds to back up what we sell. We have all run multimillion dollar businesses in the past, we aren’t starting out of careers with social media”, says Rice.  “All too often we get CEO’s that come to us after hiring another firm and being disappointed.  When we research the firm they used previously, we see they have 2 people working there and have never made over $40,000 in a year” states Tomkins.  Eric Rice goes on to say “Social Media is such a touchy thing, it must be handled by experienced people with not only IT experience, but PR and executive experience as well.  This is your chance to build or maintain your reputation; do you really want a kid that has never run a business to do it for you?”
Boom Media does not disclose the names of their clients to protect the integrity of the communications with the public.  They did state the occupations of some of the clients for this article.  Boom Media Inc is currently working with many of the Senatorial, Gubernatorial and Congressional candidates for the 2010 elections, many small and mid size businesses (ranges from $500,000 to $10,000,000 in reveneue), actors and comedians along with a handful of Fortune 100-500 businesses.