Kenny Sahr

Kenny Sahr
Born (1971-08-18) August 18, 1971
Portland, Maine
Residence Miami, Florida, United States
Nationality Israeli
Citizenship American and Israeli
Occupation Internet entrepreneur
Organization School Sucks
Known for SchoolSucks.com and technology marketing
Website www.sahr.com

Kenny Sahr (Born:18 August 1971) is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sodyo, an offline-to-online (O2O) platform. The platform allows TV broadcasters to engage and interact with their audiences in real-time.[1] He was the founder of Internet's first free homework and termpaper web site - School Sucks.com. He was featured in Time Magazine in 1996 and 60 Minutes in 2002.[2] He is a regular contributor in The Times of Israel.[3]

Biography and career

Sahr was born in Miami, Florida. He founded his first startup in 1995, for which he was featured in Time Magazine and on 60 Minutes. He later moved to Israel from Miami, Florida.[4][5] Since then, he has served as a Marketing Director at Panaya, VP Marketing at RadView and is currently serving as CMO at Sodyo.[6][7] He writes about online marketing at Times on Israel and on LinkedIn Pulse.[8] While he lived in Israel, he spent three years in the Israel Defense Forces where he served in the Spokesman’s Unit. He wrote the first Hebrew-language travel guide to Jordan in 1994.[9] He developed the marketing method of "Blog as a Landing Page" as an alternative to landing pages.[10]

School Sucks

On 17 May 1996, Sahr launched the Internet's first free homework and termpaper web site - School Sucks.[11] At its peak, School Sucks offered over 100,000 free essays, homework assignments and termpapers.[12] The site claimed to offer "the largest collection of free, but awful homework." The website took a tongue in cheek approach to the media while claiming that a lot of the papers are garbage.[13] Sahr also claims that School Sucks can help students by giving them the opportunity to see how other students have approached various topics in their college papers.[14][15]

School Sucks was a library of free termpapers, though many of School Sucks’ advertisers were companies that sold termpapers on a per page basis.[16]

In 1997, Turnitin.com was launched as a way to prevent online plagiarism. The founders of Turnitin.com and School Sucks made their cases as part of a 60 Minutes investigation.[17]

School Sucks was one of the first websites to earn revenues from ad banners. As founder of School Sucks, Sahr was among the first to introduce interactive ad banners, landing pages, email campaigns and monthly subscriptions.[16][10]

References

  1. ↑ Flynn, Laurie J. (2001-09-10). "TECHNOLOGY; The Wonder Years: Homework Is Free Online". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  2. ↑ Quittner, Josh (1997-11-24). "TECHWATCH: THE GREAT TERM-PAPER FLAP". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  3. ↑ "Kenny Sahr | The Blogs | The Times of Israel". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  4. ↑ "Kenny Sahr - The Blogs - The Times of Israel". The Times of Israel.
  5. ↑ Herald, SHANNON TAN The Miami. "Internet boosts prospects of student cheating".
  6. ↑ "Team - Sodyo". Sodyo. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  7. ↑ "Windows 10 Does Wonders on an $80 Tablet". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
  8. ↑ "Online essays: Cheating in the Information Age". 4 December 1997.
  9. ↑ "About Kenny Sahr - Content And Ads". 12 February 2014.
  10. 1 2 Sahr, Kenny (9 July 2017). ""Blog as a Landing Page" is the Key to the Marketing Conversion Kingdom". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  11. ↑ Bleeker, Karen Clos (30 April 2007). "To Be Honest: Championing Academic Integrity in Community Colleges". Amer. Assn. of Community Col – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ Blackaby, Richard (1 January 1998). "Cross Seekers: Discipleship Covenant for a New Generation". LifeWay – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1348&context=ethos
  14. ↑ DeWitt, Scott Lloyd (29 July 2001). "Writing Inventions: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies". SUNY Press – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ "Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP". American Association of University Professors. 26 July 1998 – via Google Books.
  16. 1 2 Kenny, Sahr (1997). "School Sucks". Archived from the original on 18 April 1997.
  17. ↑ LLC, SPIN Media (October 2003). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC.
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