NVI blog: SEO, web design and social media

Simon Rouillier, co-founder of nvi, was won the title of Entrepreneur of the Year in Canada’s Future Entrepreneurial Leader (FuEL) Awards, which promote Canadian entrepreneurship by identifying forward-thinking role models for youth. The 20 winners of the FuEL Awards represent the best of youth entrepreneurship in the country.
Prior to his career in digital marketing, [...]

Groupon is the deal-of-the-day website that has captured the online shopping world by storm. Brainchild of Andrew Mason, Groupon officially launched in November 2008 and serviced the Chicago market finishing the year with 400 registered users.

Fast-forward to today and Groupon is 44 million users strong, services 500 cities in 46 countries across the globe [...]

In terms of revolutionizing the way humans communicate on a global scale, Facebook has been compared to the invention of the telephone.  The largest social networking site and the third largest site on the entire  webs  in terms of revenue, Facebook is infinitely more than just a communication device:  it has become a place for [...]

The following is my take on a recent presentation I attended.
Before attending the Art of Marketing conference in Montreal last week, I had no idea who Andy Nulman was.  In fact, at the beginning of his presentation I wasn’t sure I was going to get anything out of it.  As it turns out, his talk [...]

In this Wordcamp Montreal session, Brian Rotsztein explored how Wordpress can be used as an CMS. Everything that follows this italicized paragraph is based on his presentation, and does not represent my own ideas.
Brian started off with an overview of what a CMS was — namely, software that allows you to update a website. In [...]

I sat in on a session by Kim Vallee at Podcamp Toronto 2010.  Kim Vallee is known to some as the Martha Stewart of Quebec.  She runs a ’stylish living’ community at athome.kimvallee.com and a social media blog at ontheweb.kimvallee.com.
Her session covered some of the aspects to think about when planning, building and maintaining an [...]

First up at PodCamp Toronto was a morning session on Semantec Commerce by Jérome Paradis, a local Montreal developer and entrepreneur.
Jérome Paradis kicked off PodCamp Toronto 2010 with an interesting presentation on the evolution and future of ecommerce. He discussed his vision for a  shopping interface which aggregates products and data from a multitude of [...]

Arrived bright and early today to catch the tailend of the intro SMX Advance panel. The panel gave a primer on many aspects of search engine marketing including optimization and social media. The panelists shared the opinion that social media is a major focus for businesses large and small, which made my ears perk.
Early turnout [...]

I walked into my first lecture just after the halfway mark.
Duplicate Content Issues: The Search Engine Edition
I entered the lecture during the Q&A portion of the presentation where Danny Sullivan was relaying questions from the audience to the panel. The panel consisted of Joachim Kupke flying the flag for Google, Sasi Parthasarathy of Bing and [...]

NVI has been so overwhelmed by our organic growth (we’ve been doubling in employees every year since we started the company) that we never really had the time to setup our English blog… until now
I’m so glad this is happening. Julie Babin did an amazing job with Julien Roudaut to get this blog [...]