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DIY Facebook marketing ebook by co-founders Tamara Brooks & Brenda Cadman.

Management & Administration

  • Tamara Brooks

    Tamara Brooks - Partner

    Tamara is a seasoned design and marketing professional, with 12 years experience in the design and branding industry managing a range of strategic design, branding and communications services. She was one of the first graduates of the York University / Sheridan College honors design program and currently sits as Membership Chair on the prestigious Vancouver Entrepreneurs Organization Accelerator chapter.

  • Brenda Cadman

    Brenda Cadman - Partner

    Brenda brings a level of detail-oriented organization to business that you could only expect from a former professional organizer. 13 years of administrative, project coordination and organizational experience as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, enables her to assist companies with developing online marketing plans that aid business exposure and growth. Brenda currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Keall Foundation.

  • Nikki Wong

    Nikki Wong, Project Manager

    Nikki recently graduated from the Marketing Management program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, with a concentration in Marketing Communications. Her marketing experience ranges from social media to experiential marketing to public relations and she has a particular passion for brand strategy development. Nikki enjoys working closely with clients to ensure clear communications and maximum satisfaction.

  • Michelle Garrigo

    Michelle Garrigo, Project Manager

    Michelle enthusiastically enjoys building customer relationships, providing marketing research, executing integrated marketing communications and especially implementing social media marketing. Michelle graduated with honours from the Marketing Management program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and her experience in marketing and enables her to thrive in collaborating with clients to help them achieve outstanding digital marketing results.

Web Design & Marketing Team

  • Stacey

    Stacey, Web & CSS Developer

    Stacey is a certified web technologist working out of Richmond, BC. She has been developing websites since 1997 and is an expert in creating maintainable (X)HTML and CSS driven websites. Stacey is also an advocate for such web principles as accessibility, valid and semantic markup and SEO and has written articles on the subject of web development.

  • Johanna

    Johanna, Web Designer

    Johanna is a world class web designer with over 7 years experience. She excels at creating clean and fresh designs that accentuate each client's individual branding strategy. After two years as lead designer for a world renowned stock photo agency, Shutterstock.com, Johanna has gone on to a successful career as a freelance web designer.

  • Lindsay

    Lindsay, SEO & Paid Search Advertising Specialist

    Lindsay has worked as a search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), and internet business consultant for over 7 years. She has a certificate in Marketing & Communications Management from the British Columbia Institute of Technology as well as a Diploma in Design from the Art Institute of Vancouver.

October 17 Media specializes in website development, paid search advertising, social media and viral marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and email marketing.