Look, I don’t want to complain, but from a marketing perspective, these last couple months have been kind of frustrating. You see, VendAsta has been doing remarkably well lately. In December and January we signed some extremely big name partners. But, for perfectly valid business reasons, we’ve had to...
Brendan speaks! Over on his personal blog, VendAsta CEO Brendan King has just concluded a one-year experiment in non-blogging. He spent 2011 learning the ropes on Twitter, and after twelve months seems to have concluded that pith, concision, and haphazard abbreviation aren’t really his style. (Mine either.) Brendan told...
We just signed a deal with AD Ideas, the San Antonio-based specialists in directory advertising, to supply online reputation management to local directory publishers and their advertisers. As a VendAsta Platform Partner, AD Ideas will provide our software to their client list of independent directory publishers, who will in...
We’ve spent the last year assembling a menu of products that augment our traditional expertise in reputation management for SMBs. There’s a reason we’ve chosen to build these particular products. They go together – not just in the sense that they all deal directly or indirectly with reputation, but...
Rolling up reputation results from locations nationwide. Last month our partners at LocalBizNOW rolled out VendAsta’s newest product to one of their biggest clients – a major brand with over 1400 locations in the United States (whom I unfortunately can’t name). This lucky client is getting a first look...
This carefully-lit photo was taken a kilometre underground in the potash mine at Allan, Saskatchewan, this past Friday. Guy and I are with Emil and Darren, safety trainers at Allan, whom we helped to film two new instructional videos for their online training system. The training software we originally...
So on Friday we moved into our new office, and it’s…well, I’m not gonna lie, right now it kinda looks like a bunch of nerds decided to bring their laptops to a construction site. Contractors are still running wires and carrying ladders to and fro. But it’ll be pretty...
September 29, 2011 – Saskatchewan mobile internet usage has exploded in recent years, changing the way we search for local businesses. To help advertisers reach these customers on the move, DirectWest Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel), together with Saskatoon software developers VendAsta, are excited...
Mobile internet usage is exploding, and it’s changing the way we search for local businesses. Roughly one out of every seven Google searches now comes from a mobile device, and between a third and half of those mobile searches are related in some way to the user’s location. Yet...
VendAsta will be represented at this year’s Directional Media Strategies summit in Denver by CEO Brendan King, who is participating in a Day 2 forum on “The Social-Driven SMB”: Driving and acquiring new customers is great – keeping them is even better. The role of social CRM and reputation...
