Password Security Strengthened
There has been a lot of media attention on security breaches and personal information. While we don't store or disclose personal information, we realize that weak security has a negative impact on everyone. Therefore, we are proactively requiring better passwords…
Looking for a local Web Marketer or SEO professional?
Support Your LOCAL (and Canadian) Web Marketers Local web marketers understand your neighbourhoods, your community, and will help to better reach a local audience than some faceless national company, or some overseas web marketing & SEO sweatshop or call centre.…
IAB updates standard online campaign terms and conditions
The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB) has announced an update to its standard terms and conditions, which govern the relationship between media vendors and buyers. It is the first update since 2008. The most significant change is what Ford…
MovingInCanada.com redesign is cleaner and faster!
http://www.MovingInCanada.com, which is both cleaner looking and faster-loading. We moved ads to the right hand side, leaving the content are nicely uninterrupted and uncluttered. We also made the content accessible in context-sensitive menus and searches on the right. The new…
FoundLocally interface improvements: JUMP Feature
This week, we updated our look & feel, adding some colour. Everybody's doing a "simple" (but bland) white interface now... we wanted to keep ahead of the curve. See www.FoundLocally.com as well as each of the community websites. As…
FoundLocally says Bilingualism is dead in Canada!
June 19, 2012 Calgary, AB. FoundLocally.com Media Inc, which has long been asked about making its site bi-lingual, is excited to announce that it has added omni-lingual translation to all its websites. Statistics Canada says there are almost as many…
Are you ready for Facebook’s New Timeline View for your Business Page?
Facebook just finished revamping individual users’ pages to the new “Timeline” view. Now its time for all the business Facebook Pages to get a new design, which will be forced upon you by On March 30, 2012, whether you are…
What should I use for my Logo?
You can now upload a logo for your listing(s), rather than displaying the default blue ‘click for more info!” button. The question most people phone us to ask advice on is, what image or logo to use that works best.…
U.S. Business Listings on FoundLocally?
FoundLocally is designed to help find community information for a number of cities across Canada, and so we are a perfect marketing opportunity for Canadian businesses. The fact the directory is free, and covers a broad spectrum of economic activity…
Adding a Business in the Greater Toronto Area
FoundLocally.com has a number of directories serving the Greater Toronto Area (The "GTA") for a few years now. Which Toronto Directory should I add my business to? While many directories lump everyone from Belleville to Brantford north to Barrie as…
New Navigation improvements added to FoundLocally
FoundLocally has made the LOGIN more accessible by making it a pop-up (rather than directing users to a LOGIN page), and made it easier for most users, especially those with a single business listing or a single resume by taking…
New Look for FoundLocally.com
We have just launched a new version of FoundLocally, designed to be both easier to use, and faster-loading. We thank you for the many suggestions made by our million visitors a month, which were incorporated into this update. See http://www.FoundLocally.com…
Smartphone/mobile versions of all FoundLocally sites
Over the past year, we released a mobile version for each of our websites. Our smart phone versions display exactly the same content, but reformatted for a smaller screen http://m.FoundLocally.com http://m.TransCanadaHighway.com http://m.MovingInCanada.com http://Blog.FoundLocally.com/mobile Now you can access this info on…
Are the 4 Ps of Marketing Dead?
In every high school, college and university marketing course, they teach us about the “4 P’s of marketing”. It’s been a staple since the early 1960s (thank you Jerome McCarthy) that a marketing campaign could be distilled down to Product,…
SEOmoz’s 2011 Top Search Engine Ranking Factors
SEOmoz has published their 2011 top search engine ranking factors, based on feedback from 132 SEOs around the world and by correlating data from over 10,000 Google results What is interesting is that page level links and keyword usage, as…
Two technologies coming together: Mobile websites and QR Codes
We’ve been watching the internet change rather dramatically in the past two years. Consumers are very fast to adopt technologies that make their lives easier, and enable them to have access to their online information and resources on their smartphones. Larger…
FoundLocally announces Mobile/Smart phone version now in “beta”
FoundLocally.com Media Inc. has released its mobile version of its flagship FoundLocally.com website as “beta”. This new version provides full access to the extensive informational content and the business directory on most brands of mobile smartphones without an “App”. The…
Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Predictions insightful as always
This past week I attended Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions, which does a cross-Canada tour, presented by Duncan Stewart their head of research each year about this time. I've attended for the past few years (as a Deloitte alumni "by…
Do Social Media Coupons make Sense
Lately, Social Media coupons offered by companies like Groupon and Living Social are getting a lot of attention in the media. They send consumers a daily stream of e-mailed offers where they can save substantial amounts on items they regularly…
Faux-cial Media: Ugly Truths and Dark Secrets!
First of All is Social Media really "social"? Most of those on Facebook checking up on their friends now spend less face time with their actual friends than they used to. Probably, because they have less time after all the…