About George Tran
Social Marketing Man in Whistler
George Tran is known as the entrepreneur who single-handedly programmed 1Shoppingcart.com, the most widely used e-commerce solution of Internet marketers in the world. Their annual merchant sales exceed $3 billion, and are the #2 gateway processor for PayPal.
George has been marketing on the Internet since 1996 with a precocious first venture, USHousing.com. It was one of the first housing and rental listing websites to appear on the Internet.
In 1997, he founded GTA-Technologies, which provided a hosted shopping cart solution for merchants to securely take orders over the Internet. By 1999, he provided free and premium shopping cart services to over 100,000 merchants, worldwide.
In 2000, dissatisfied with the lack of integration as he built new features, he folded the company, he worked tirelessly for four months re-inventing and programming a brand new holistic merchant technology solution and, with the help of his wife, Carol Anne, founded 1ShoppingCart.com. Launched in April 2000, 1ShoppingCart.com quickly established itself as a strong player in the Internet Marketing arena. He sold the company to his partner, Rob Bell, in 2002 and began a real estate investment company.
Though semi-retired, George was never far from technology. He appeared in, and attended, many Internet Marketing seminars and continued to involve himself in the latest tech development.
In the summer of 2007, while attending such a seminar with Carol, George was struck by the high quality of the people present and was frustrated with his lack of ability to network with the alumni. He began to apply his particular genius toward developing a solution that would benefit both the speaker/information marketer and the alumni. Over the next year, George spoke to and interviewed dozens of gurus, authors, marketers, advertisers, and educators to really understand their needs and what features would ease their frustrations. The result is SocialSAM.com, a holistic solution designed to help companies to affordably and easily use social media to grow their business and create value for their supporter base.
George is the CEO of SocialSAM.com, the world’s smartest membership software/private social network platform. The company is based in Logan, Utah.
