Cybele NegrisI’ve been a judge of the Small Business BC Business Plan Contest for a number of years and the 2010 Awards are now bigger and better. Entrepreneurs are still encouraged to submit a business plan in either the Business Concept Category or the Business Growth Category; however the 7th annual Successful You – Small Business…
Cybele NegrisWebnames.ca is proud to promote the BCTIA Technology Impact Awards taking place June 8, 2010 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Over 700 senior representatives of the technology and business community will attend this event to recognize the best of BC’s technology community. The Technology Impact Awards is an annual program created to celebrate the successes of BC’s…
Cybele NegrisI am extremely honoured to have been appointed to the Government of BC’s Small Business Roundtable. Since forming in 2005, the roundtable has held over 35 consultations with more than 600 small business owners. The 24 members of the Roundtable represent small business organizations from every region of B.C. The Roundtable presented its 4th Annual…
JuliannaWebnames.ca is looking for a company to take over our adjacent office space on the 5th floor of 21 Water Street, in the Packing House building in Gastown. It would be suitable for a tech, design, media or similar themed company. Office Details The available space faces south on to Water St. and includes three offices,…
JuliannaWebnames.ca Inc. announced today that it has acquired RIPE B2B Inc., an award winning custom software development company which was one of Business in Vancouver’s Fastest-Growing Technology Companies as well as PROFT 100 Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The acquisition is part of Webnames.ca’s continuing strategy to offer clients a full service offering that extends beyond provisioning…
Garrett SaundryCybele Negris, Webnames.ca COO, has been appointed by Iain Black, Britsh Columbia’s Minster of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, to the BC Small Business Roundtable. With the most optimistic small business sector in the country, British Columbia continues to produce more new small businesses and the fastest pace of small business job growth in Canada.…
Amy ElderkinHave you been following the .TEL story but still have questions? Perhaps you’ve already got your .TEL but want to learn how to integrate it into your Social Media and marketing strategies? Well if you’re based in Vancouver, why not come along to the first Dot Tel Meet Up meeting on Friday, October 9th? Webnames.ca…
Join Webnames.ca and our COO Cybele Negris at Small Business BC’s Entrepreneur Showcase on Wednesday, October 7 from 5 – 8 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 655 Burrard St, Vancouver. Highlights of the Showcase include: Network with over 250 local business professionals Meet some of Vancouver’s most successful entrepreneurs Visit the ‘Showcase’ featuring exhibits from…
JuliannaWebnames.ca is pleased to announce our sponsorship of the 83rd annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada’s (IPIC) taking place in St. John’s, NFL, from September 23-25, 2009. This is the second year Webnames.ca has sponsored the annual event, speaking at the 2008 event about .TEL rules and policies. Founded in 1926, (IPIC)…
We have some gifted people on staff. Our resident film maker Rami, who is responsible for shooting, editing, sound design and more on the Webnames.ca .TEL films and his co-filmmaker (and Webnames.ca Customer Support guru) Max have just been announced winners of the Sound Design, Best Cinematography and Best Editing categories in the Vancouver Film Race 2009…
As some of you might already know, Webnames.ca participated in this year’s Canary Derby race to raise funds for early detection of cancers. Since I had fun filming the event last year in Gastown, I volunteered again this year. When I heard the race course was much steeper than last year, I got all excited…
Garrett SaundryBy Cybele (Event Organizer) I have been looking forward to the 2009 Canary Derby, since the September 2008 event. This year, I took on the role of Co-Chair of the Vancouver event with Jeff Sinclair (co-founder of Xomodigital). The move from Gastown to Deer Lake Park took the organizing committee months to plan and execute. The…
Garrett SaundryLike any other product or service that you put your money into, registrars are no different. There are good ones out there and then there are bad ones. There are bargain basement ones, and there are platinum service ones. The one constant between them is the fact that you pay them for a specific product…
Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC. Imagine a lush green lakeside park, with canoes, pedal boats and kayaks. It is Saturday, the sun is out, there are children everywhere laughing and playing. They are greeted by Super Mario, Princess Peach and WaLuigi, who are out to find coins for the Canary Foundation. They are not alone in this mad…
Last night, our business development manager, Robbie Dakin, attended a very inspiring event: the FWE e-series 2009 Graduation. He had the chance to network with these incredibly hardworking women and discover the unique products that they have created and brought to market. The Forum of Women Entrepreneur’s e-series is a six-month training program for…
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