The Art of Sales Toronto is a one day conference geared at entrepreneurs and marketing professionals featuring five best selling authors and visionaries who share their creative thoughts, ideas, tactics and lessons based on todays most pressing marketing and sales issues. In the past I have attended The Art of Marketing in Montreal and in Toronto, two [...]

Here at WebFuel, we love inviting guest bloggers. Why? Because they bring fresh ideas to the table, while providing great insights from their specific area of expertise. This week we welcome back Ottawa lawyer James Katz. In the past James has blogged for WebFuel about Domain Name Dispute Resolution Set to Change for dot-Ca Domains. This week [...]

According to Google, location-based searches and the use of geo-targeted keywords are on the increase. Currently one out of five searches on Google is related to a user’s location. Google’s local services have gained more visibility in the SERPs over the past year. We predict that the importance of Local Search will continue to rise [...]

Social Media Breakfast returns this month for its 25th instalment in Ottawa with IBM‘s Social Business Strategist Delaney Turner who will be talking about building the Social business at IBM. Now that intrigues me. “IBM” and “Social” in the same sentence definitely raises some eyebrows. Delaney is the first to admit that IBM and Social haven’t always [...]

Last night marked the inaugural SEMPO Ottawa Meetup at The Hard Rock Cafe in the Byward Market. Dozens of Ottawa area marketing professionals and students gathered for a night of networking, education and discussion. WebFuel in association with McGill Buckley and SEMPO Ottawa hosted Google Canada’s Agency Lead Nectarios Economakis who spoke about the emergence [...]

Here at WebFuel, we love inviting guest bloggers. Why? Because they bring fresh ideas to the table, while providing great insights from their specific area of expertise. This week we welcome James Katz; a lawyer with the Ottawa law firm BrazeauSeller LLP. His practice focuses primarily on Internet, Social Media and Trade-Marks law. What follows is the [...]

Last week Google launched an update to sitelinks in Canada. These changes have been rolled out in a Google Canada English Search but not yet in the French language version. And… it is important to point out that the expansion of sitelinks can be viewed using the latest web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox or [...]

The World Wide Web just turned 20! On August 6, 1991, the first website went live to the public. Today it is hard to imagine life without the Internet. Google and “Searching” has become, for most Canadians, part of our daily lives. However, still not completely understood is the Search Engine Results Page (also known [...]

Here at WebFuel we are extremely proud to be Canadian. We also love Social Media. So when a company like Ipsos releases a report that combines two of our passions, we get excited! It’s no secret that Canadians embrace the Internet and technology. For years we have been early adopters and heavy users of a variety [...]

July is Canada Month at WebFuel and we’ve decided to take a look at our blog posts over the years and compile a list of our top ten favourite Canadian related posts (in no particular order). Without further adieu, here they are – eh WebFuel Celebrates Canada Day: Why a Dot Ca? It’s the most [...]