Register Now For The Next Series of Webinars !!

It would appear that the online webinars are gaining some momentum and the powers that be – being you – want to see more!

The next series of webinars are going to take you deeper into SiteCM. You’ll will be exploring more SiteCM components, licenceable additions, and even learn some additional tips and tricks with managing predefined content. Plus you will be getting down with permission based content as well!

Excited?!

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The Dunvegan Group recently commissioned a motion graphics piece to help describe their system of helping organizations grow and retain business. Working alongside Fiona Friesen of Strategy Forward, I produced this video, featuring animation and a background theme written and recorded specifically for the video.

Motion graphics is a great medium for bringing a website to life. It can be used in tutorials, as part of training programs, or as seen there, to illustrate something that might be more difficult to show with live actors.

Visit YouTube to watch in glorious HD.

For sending out great looking newsletters and keeping track of all your stats, nothing beats MailChimp. It’s simple, flexible, works together with a LOT of other systems and is just plain fun too. Even their tech support is a joy to contact – they sign off with an eep-eep, in keeping with the monkey branding!

MailChimp have now redesigned their mobile apps, available for Android and iPhone. It’s cleaner, leaner and meaner, plus you get more reports, eCommerce360 stats, and you can manage multiple MailChimp accounts. If you’re already kind of addicted to checking your MailChimp campaign stats, and you found yourself sneaking way too many peeks at your email marketing reports during your holiday time with family, you do not want this app – it will only make your addiction worse! But who doesn’t need more stats?!

Get the Android app or the iPhone app directly from iTunes. More details are available on the MailChimp blog.

Eep eep!

Great music, great friends and great times!

Since 1972, the home of folk music and the favourite venue of artists from all over the world between September and April has been Calgary Folk Club.

Now, the Calgary Folk Club has a new website featuring SiteCM content management by ideaLEVER. Take a peek and drop them a line, say hi!

What would you do for a dollar?

It seems that some people are working way too hard these days. Or they aren’t working at all.

Scriptlance is a website that allows competing freelancers to bid on available projects. The scope is published on the site and members post what they are willing to take for the job. Presumably the lowest bid wins. It’s just like eBay except the other way around and without the mutual satisfaction.

Leighton Hubbell drew my attention to one such job. The request was for 100 ‘logo icons’ for up to $500. I think that means icons. It might be small logos, I’m not sure. Anyway, one person’s bid was $100. For 100 icons. I’m not sure how complex the icons are meant to be, but that’s still well below minimum wage.

If you still think crowd sourcing is OK, consider how this behaviour is driving down quality, pushing up expectations and stealing from your friendly neighbourhood small business. Unless you happen to be in the license plate stamping business, I’m sure the competition where you live is making more than prison inmates.

Los Angeles artist Alex Schaeffer didn’t expect to be stopped by the police while painting.

A concerned citizen (for want of a more accurate term) alerted the police to Schaeffer’s activity on a street outside a bank. Quietly painting an impression of the bank building in front of him, Schaeffer suddenly found himself explaining to police why he had painted the roof on fire. » Read the rest of this entry «

Medhedzz, Hats with Heart, is a new service providing top quality scrub hats to the medical profession. Proceeds from the sale of every uniquely designed and crafted hat go to Health 4 Humanity, a charity supporting doctors travelling to developing countries.

Deb Pogson is am operating room nurse with a passion for sewing with beautiful fabrics. She makes all hats to order to give surgeons the chance to show off their personality and individuality, even when hidden underneath scrubs!

Visit their brand new site at medhedzz.com. It is built on SiteCM, the professional and support content management system and features Simple eCommerce, an online purchasing solution, both from ideaLEVER.

Yup, it’s been a busy month!

ProspEx Resource Management Ltd, based in Olds Alberta, have a new website. Powered by SiteCM Content Management by ideaLEVER, it features the brand new logo and visual branding, also designed by NBurman Design.

Branding and marketing were taken care of by Fiona Friesen of Glue Marketing.

Visit the site at www.prospex.co

Seema Eye Care Centre in Calgary AB is now sporting a brand new look online.

seemaeye.com is now live! The site features SiteCM content management by ideaLEVER and surgery animations by Eyemaginations. With SiteCM, staff at Seema are able to login from any browser and edit the site whenever they need. Update text, replace or upload new photographs, create new pages, edit the menu – all from a browser. Training and support are also provided.

Eyemaginations offer embedded video animations to help doctors communicate better with their patients. Before going into surgery or consulting with a specialist, patients are able to learn more about procedures by choosing from an elaborate array of videos that are easy to understand and professionally presented.

Drop by seemaeye.com and take a look around!

No, I’m not talking about mullets. I’m talking about your mindset.

I know you are busy getting ready for a long weekend of travel, barbeques and fun if you are in Canada or the United States. Partying is at the front of your mind. But business is always on the back of your mind right?

Let me take a load off & help you relax so you can focus on the party. Take the next 5 minutes to register for a few affordable, information-packed, super motivating classes from International Alliance of Motivated Part-Time Entrepreneurs and trust that I will personally help take care of your business for you this summer so you can focus more on the fun. I am willing to guarantee that attending these events will help you stay focused and grow your business faster than if you don’t attend.

Yep, I’ll guarantee it!

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