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Newport Beach, CA--GemFind, the leading digital marketing platform for jewelry stores has announced a strategic partnership with Podium, one of the fastest-growing messaging platforms for connecting businesses with customers.

This partnership enables GemFind to work closely with Podium and the jewelry retailers to empower the retailers to capture reviews for SEO and reputation management as well as lead generation through online chat and text messaging/marketing.

“As the leader in the jewelry industry for over 20 years, GemFind has always looked for ways to make sure they are using the latest technologies and tools to increase retail jewelers’ sales and revenue. This partnership is one step towards that and with an exclusive special price, retail stores can take advantage and test out this service with minimal investment,” says the company’s official sources.

GemFind works with retail and wholesale jewelry businesses and helps them boost, engage and expand their business by increasing their online reach to potential customers. It offers services like Lead Generation, Geofencing, and Localization, which strategically targets potential customers and converts them to actual customers.

Talking about Podium, it has a customer base of over 90k businesses, has interacted with 1 in every 3 cell phones in the United States, and has helped local businesses interact with over 50 million consumers. It enables the businesses to connect with their customers more fluently with interactive messaging tools and gain reviews, collect payments, communicate with customers, and capture leads—all from a single inbox.

With Podium, the customer has to simply enter his query or reviews in the message box and it directly reaches the business, helping it to better itself for future expansion along with building a strong customer base. Podium has interacted with 1 in 3 cell phones in the USA. Started in 2014, the company featured in the Forbes list of Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup in 2018 and acquired the title of ‘One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies’ in 2019, and was recently named as one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the US by Deloitte.

“We are thrilled that GemFind has chosen to partner with Podium. Their reputation and expertise in the jewelry business as a world class partner in the industry made it an obvious choice for us to partner with them. What impresses me most is GemFind’s commitment to leveraging technology to communicate and ease transactions with their customers. Their approach and strategy to provide customers with the best service possible helps businesses around the country continue to grow and succeed.” – Brad Jenson, EVP Business Development, Podium.

“GemFind has been helping the jewelry industry for over 20 years with digital marketing utilizing the latest technologies and this partnership with Podium allows GemFind clients to utilize the most cost-effective and modern way to generate sales and leads for their stores,” said Alex Fetanat, CEO of GemFind.

For wholesale businesses, GemFind offers specialized services like JewelCloud and B2B marketing using email, content, and co-op marketing. Services like Website Development generating and increasing in-store traffic, and boosting online sales are also covered by GemFind.