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Archive for May, 2008

The October 17 Media Referral Program officially launches!

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Internet Marketing Health Check
The October 17 Referral Program was created for any professional who wishes to provide Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising services such as Google AdWords to their clients, but who doesn’t wish to invest in the time or training required to manage a successful online advertising program.

Our program is perfect for:

  • Graphic & Web Designers
  • Web Developers
  • Programmers
  • Web Hosting Companies
  • Copywriters
  • Advertising Companies
  • Public Relations Consultants

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Aren’t we special?

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Internet Marketing Health CheckWe just saw our two founding partners’ beautiful faces in BIV’s ‘People on the Move‘ section. Wanna hear what it said? No? Too bad, we want to share.

NEW IN TOWN:
October 17 Media offers creative and strategic online marketing services. Operating as the strategic arm of Vancouver-based Syntric Marketing & Design, October 17 offers online communication program development and management, pay per click advertising campaigns, website analytics, e-marketing, social advertising, and search engine optimization and strategy. The two companies run in tandem as a a full-service boutique agency offering a complement of branding, design and online marketing services. Tamara Brooks and Brenda Cadman founded Syntric in 2003.

Our new keyword & meta tag summer optimization package!

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Search Engine Marketing

Summer is here! What better way to celebrate than to get outside and leave your web site SEO (search engine optimization) with us? We’ll work on getting your website working for you while you bask in the sunshine.

We’ve created some special summer packages for: Keyword & Meta Tag Optimization
A comprehensive keyword analysis will establish which keywords and phrases will drive the greatest number of qualified visitors to your website via search engines, which account for 85 per cent of all new visitors to websites. These high-performance search terms are then used to produce keyword-optimized title, meta and description tags to maximize your online presence on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines.
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Grape Juice raises over $28,300 for Big Sisters

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Grape Juice Wine Auction

Grape Juice -The Wine Auction Benefiting Big Sisters was held on May 8th, 2008 and we are very pleased to announce that the event raised over $28,300!

Many thanks to our sponsors for the success of Grape Juice: McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group, Birks, Metropolitan Printers, Opus, October 17 Media, Syntric Marketing & Design, Business in Vancouver, Auto ONE, and Alexis Palkowski Real Estate.

Treat Pay-Per-Click like Pay-Per-Call

Posted on by Tamara Brooks

Pay Per Click, Call today!
As one of Vancouver’s internet marketing wizards, we’ve decided to share with you just one of the many things we do to tweak pay-per-click campaigns in order to get results. Yes, we’ll share with you one of our tricks of the trade. We’re not in the habit of giving away our favourite tips and techniques but we figure a bit of insight might help explain why we get paid to professionally manage campaigns.

Okay, so here it is…

You see those Google ads on the right side of your search results page? The sponsored ones? Well, we buy those on behalf of our clients and part of managing online advertising is deciding what those ads say. (more…)

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