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Mailchimp for Vancouver SEM Meetup Communication

Jose Uzcategui — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:57:58 +0000

Last week I used Mailchimp, a popular email service provider, to send a newsletter-type email to the Vancouver SEM Meetup group. This idea came about while thinking a better way to communicate with the group’s members. Mailchimp offers pre-designed formatting, tracks clicks, opens, and a ton of other information I thought I could take advantage of… [...]

I Played Ultimate Frisbee Today – Grrrreat!

Jose Uzcategui — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:39:43 +0000

Go Zephyr! It’s been a while, but tonight I’ve decided to write about a somewhat selfish anecdote, I played Ultimate Frisbee. And it was great. After checking out the Vancouver Ultimate League website (www.vul.bc.ca) I emailed a bunch of team captains too see if anyone was looking. One of them recommended for me to try my luck [...]

John Hossack from VKI Studios at Vancouver SEM Meetup – Jan 2009

Jose Uzcategui — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:20:25 +0000

My first post of the year is going to be to thank John Hossack and VKI Studios for coming out last Monday to present at the Vancouver Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Meetup, which I organize. It was the first time we run out of seats in the room at what has become our regular Meetup place, [...]

Meetup of Meetups 09 – Too Immediate Post

Jose Uzcategui — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:26:47 +0000

It’s almost midnight. I’m a little tipsy and not sure if it’s kosher to write while in this condition, but as Nike says, I’ll just do it. I’m coming back from the Meetup of Meetups here were more people that I could count. The word is that there were more than 500; and I would believe [...]

IIMA Sponsors Vancouver SEM Meetup

Jose Uzcategui — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:01:26 +0000

The Vanouver SEM Meetup was lucky enough to get a sponsorship offer from the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) last week. They are offering 25% off new individual and corporate memberships for the month of December. That’s a generous chunk of cash (thank you IIMA ) and I wouldn’t be surprised if IIMA membership goes [...]

Vancouver SEM Meetup (Nov 17) Thoughts and Photos

Jose Uzcategui — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:29:57 +0000

(Okay, this post is late – really late – but bear with me. I’ve been transitioning to a new job (and a new lifestyle) and still getting the groove to blog more consistently.) The last Vancouver SEM Meetup (Nov 17th) was about Bing.com. James Laitinen from the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) presented a very insightful [...]

Google Suggests Interesting Things

Jose Uzcategui — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:05:30 +0000

I’m not sure if this qualifies as Google Suggest #Fail, but as playing around with keywords trying to find out if it’s usual to use underlay for commercial carpeting, Google suggested the following: I just thought I’d share that with everyone.

Twitter Username Problem Fixed – I can Tweet Again!

Jose Uzcategui — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:04 +0000

You know how I’ve been complaining about the username problem that wouldn’t let me use third party applications? Well, it’s fixed! YAY! It was roughly a month without Twitter for me – except for the odd Tweet. At first, I didn’t think much about it. But 2 weeks in this no-Twitter life I noticed my offline [...]

Vancouver SEM New Ning Community

Jose Uzcategui — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:35:12 +0000

Vancouver SEMs have a new Ning community to ask and answer questions, exchange ideas, and network online: http://vancouversem.ning.com. Following the success of the Vancouver SEM Meetup Group we would like to invite all of you SEMs, SEOs, PPCs (can you PPCs?) and those who have questions about the topic to join and participate. The Ning site is [...]

Major Update: New Job!

Jose Uzcategui — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:21:54 +0000

Tomorrow I officially start my new role as Internet Marketing Specialist at Snap Technologies (www.snaptechmarketing.com). Though there’s much I need to learn about the company, last year Snap Technologies was featured as one of the top IT companies by the Burnaby Board of Trade and this year they were nominated for Burnaby Business Excellence Awards and [...]