Webnames.ca StaffMonitoring what people are saying about you or your business online is more important now than ever. Luckily, it’s also become easier than ever as more and more great Social Media monitoring tools are becoming available. There are many tools out there to choose from, but here are 5 free ones that you should be…
Webnames.ca StaffThere is a new game in town and the name of that game is Group Coupons. Group Coupons is an email subscriber based system of offering deep discounts on a product to consumers ONLY if enough people purchase the coupon. The major player in this market is Groupon. Groupon started in 2008 and has really…
Garrett SaundryWhen I used to think about Foursquare, my mind would go to rubber balls or squares drawn on pavement. Now the first place my mind goes to when I hear that term is social media. So What Is It? Foursquare is a location-based social network that connects you with your friends and syncs with your…
Garrett SaundryDigital Influence Index identifies Canadians as social media savvy but cautious about information found online Study by Fleishman-Hillard Study Consumers across the globe are embracing the Internet as a primary source of information, but Canadians are unique in their use of digital and social media. The 2010 Digital Influence Index, released in Canada by Fleishman-Hillard…
Webnames.ca StaffThe 6th annual Northern voice personal blogging and social media conference took place this past Friday and Saturday at the University of British Columbia. I attended once again; although I was unable to go on Friday, Saturday’s experience was no less awesome. The conference got a LOT bigger this year, and as such the organizers…
Cybele NegrisIf you missed Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation at Vancouver’s F5 EXPO on April 7th, here’s a chance to participate in a second screening. Many people disagreed with Gladwell’s perspective on social media. His mile wide and inch deep philosophy may be accurate, but he failed to look at the benefits of a mile wide network…
Webnames.ca StaffI do a lot of research on the trends in Social Media and where its future may lay. Professional marketers bang on and on about how it is time consuming for companies to be involved in social media with no clear return on investment. Large and small businesses are jumping into social media for more…
Cybele NegrisWith any new technology, people need proof of concept and to see real life examples working. I decided a few months ago to track what I was doing with my own .TEL updates for http://cybele.tel and see what effect they would have on how my rank in Google. My .TEL is now in 5th (see screenshot below)…
JuliannaTelnic, the organization behind the award-winning .tel domain, today announced that Google AdSense will be supported in .tel names by the end of March 2010. Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn additional revenue. Because .tel names store information directly in the…
Cybele NegrisI don’t know of a single blogger who doesn’t want to improve their search engine optimization and page rank. The truth is that there is always something you can do! Here are 10 tips for boosting SEO – and all of them are straight forward things you can implement yourself. Start with writing great content that is…
Cybele NegrisCongratulations to Vancouver Sales and Social Media Experts Shane Gibson and Stephen Jagger on their new book “Sociable! How Social Media is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside-down.” Gibson and Jagger talk about using social media to create real relationships that impact individuals, businesses and community, having fun and being profitable. As they note in their…
Cybele NegrisI was invited to speak at a really great event last week “Leadership Lessons from Influential Women in Business“. It was put on by Business in Vancouver, Professional Women’s Network, and Young Women in Business. The event was sold out! I was honoured to be part of a group of women that included Tamara Vrooman…
Webnames.ca StaffDo you know that I have missed parties because I am not on Facebook?! I don’t get the invite and nobody thinks to email me or, heaven forbid, pick up the phone and call me to tell me about it. If people are spending their time working and connecting within Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc., is…
So if you’ve forgotten about your blog, much like 80% of the people that start them, there’s a new gig in town that’s much easier to keep current and you don’t have that same worry of writing a huge long life story type blog post hanging over your head. I am talking about Twitter. Twitter can best be described as…
If you are from Vancouver and on Twitter, you already know this city is no slouch when it comes to microblogging. Tonnes of Vancouver personalities, organizations, businesses and media are active on Twitter. Over the past two years several “Tweetups” have been held in the Lower Mainland, with local firms creating hugely successful Twitter toolboxes…
