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AGORACOM Hosts $2,500 Poker Tourney + Party At PDAC 2010

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:12 AM on Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Good morning to you all.  I’m thrilled to announce that AGORACOM’s now infamous Bay Street Hold’Em tournament is making another appearance at the PDAC in Toronto.  We were a hit in Calgary, a smash in Vancouver and on top of the world in Toronto (1,476 feet to be exact – for a memorable night at the top of the CN Tower) See all the videos here. Now we’re doing it all over again at The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto.

More than just lip service, here is a video of last year’s event:

THE DETAILS

The tournament is a “zero buy-in” (free) for all invited guests. You attend, you eat, you drink, you play – we pay. Hospitality Suites are never going to be the same.

  • When?      Sunday, March 7th, 2010 (6:30 PM reception, 7:00 PM start)
  • Where?    Where else? Royal York Hotel, Salon B, 3rd Floor
  • Free Play For Poker Players
  • 9 Cash Prizes For Final Table Players
  • Free Food, Drinks and Fun For Our Partners and Friends
  • 10 Prizes

POKER SEATS ARE SOLD OUT – BUT JOIN US FOR DRINKS, FOOD, FUN AND NETWORKING

The poker seats are now filled but there is plenty of room for our friends and partners to join us for food, drink and the best networking event at PDAC.  To join us, you must RSVP right now as this is an invite-only event!

Spread the word and see you there.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Ticker Sponsorship On BNN

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:16 AM on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

As many of you know, we are running this ad on BNN (Business News Network).  The ad has done wonders for attracting new investors to AGORACOM, as well as, raising our profile amongst our clients and potential clients.  The thrill of seeing myself on TV has long worn off (though not for my kids) but I’m still proud of the fact I can be working out in front of the TV and see this unexpectedly pop-up (lower right hand corner).

AGORACOM BNN Ticker Sponsorship

1,114,000 Investors Hit AGORACOM In 2009. Online Investor Relations Is Here To Stay!

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:40 PM on Friday, January 15th, 2010

As you know, we like to report AGORACOM traffic results on a regular basis, especially our annual results.  In the world of online investor relations, nothing speaks more about your ability to meet a client’s needs than the amount of traffic and overall engagement you are able to deliver.  This is especially true in the small-cap space, which is full of investor relations pretenders that throw around all the right jargon but offer little to no substance.

To this end, I am very happy to announce our traffic results for the full year 2009.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, this snapshot from our Google analytics is worth several million

[PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGE, CLEAR GRAPH]

AGORACOM - Traffic 2009

THE TALE OF THE TAPE

(Figures for January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009. All figures reported by Google Analytics)

  • Unique Visitors 1,114,905
  • Visits 7,777,197
  • Page Views 72,582,304
  • Pages Per Visit 9.33
  • Avg Time On Site 8:05
  • Number Of Countries/Territories 212
  • Top 10 (Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway)

The numbers look even better when you consider

  • We built our model on quality vs quantity. As such, this is pure discussion. No spam, flaming and bickering traffic.
  • We are only focusing on small-cap and mid-cap stocks …for now.

What is even more encouraging are the Q4 numbers which, if extrapolated out, point to rapidly accelerating traffic of close to 10M visits, 100M page views and 1.4M unique visitors.

AGORACOM - Traffic Q4 2009

Suffice it to say, we are once again ecstatic with the results. This is especially true given the state of the markets in H1 2009. We attribute much of this success to practicing what we preach. Specifically, when times are tough and your competitors are running for cover, crank up the marketing. AGORACOM did just that with the continuation of TV ads on Bloomberg, CNBC and BNN that we had begun in 2008.

In addition, 2009 was the year in which we continued upgrading site features – but we really increased time, energy and resources on extending our content far beyond AGORACOM.  Specifically, we are now extremely active in terms of:

Where are we going in 2010?  Mobile, Mobile, Mobile baby.  Look for good stuff to start coming out in the next 30 days or so.

CLIENTS AND MEMBERS THAT BELIEVED

I want to thank all of our great clients and members that believed in our model and breathed unbelievable life into this paradigm shifting platform. Without them, this would be one hell of an application with no users. A special thanks goes out to all HUB Leaders that abandoned their former communities at Stockhouse, Raging Bull, Yahoo Finance and others in hopes of a better experience. I’m glad our promises to you have been fulfilled.  We know we’re not perfect – but together we’ve created a financial community that come as close to perfect as possible.  Thank-You!

REPUTATION AND RANKING SYSTEM

When we created our community by combining UGC, Wiki and reputation based tools, we set out to destroy the stock discussion forum status quo that we have all come to hate over the past 10 years thanks to unrelenting spam, profanity, stock bashing, stock hyping and the unacceptable. Many thought it could not be done because we could neither change habits nor unseat the incumbents. We not only knew we could, we knew investors wanted us to. All they needed was a solution that focused on quality over quantity.  By refusing to sacrifice quality for quantity, we will continue to attract great investing minds that have a lot to offer. Quality begets quality. As a result, we now have a massive community that both generates its own content and moderates itself to replace the status quo.

CONCLUSION

This is Wiki meets IGC (investor generated content), meets reputation based systems at their finest. There are bigger communities to be sure – but can you find another vertical in which the need for a drastically more efficient model is needed more? As I’ve stated since October 2007, Trillions of dollars are at stake. People’s futures are at stake. The implications of inefficient or imperfect information are severe. We now know it to be true.

Electronic shareholder forums are vital to the lives of so many people. With the advent of top-notch financial bloggers such as Kedrosky and Ritholtz and Grandich, as well as, the StockTwits financial micro-blog and online investor conferences, we are witnessing another paradigm shift in the way investors communicate and make decisions – and we plan to keep pushing that change for the foreseeable future. Stay tuned for more.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Cracks 1,000,000 Small-Cap Investors (and counting) For 2009

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:22 AM on Monday, December 21st, 2009

We’re proud to announce that AGORACOM cracked the 1,000,000 small-cap investors mark for the second year in a row.  The final traffic figure for 2009 will be much higher as we actually accomplished the feat back on November 27 – but we were so busy getting ready for our first ever online conference that we didn’t notice.  Given the way 2009 started out, we’re very pleased and proud to have accomplished this great feat once again.   As always, here is the Google Analytics shot to verify the claim.  Click on it for a larger image:

AGORACOM - 1M Uniques 2009

The figure is even more impressive when you consider the fact AGORACOM has implemented a system that keeps 95% of the garbage out and focuses on quality over quantity.  That isn’t very easy given the fact the small-cap space has a lot more grey areas than the large cap space for obvious reasons.  No system is 100% perfect but our members will be the first to tell you that AGORACOM has become the “go to” place for small-cap investors and we’re extremely proud of that.

To this end, we can’t take credit for this on our own.  We’re proud of the fact we built a great platform to serve the needs of public companies and investors but we have to thank those who have invested their time and money to breathe life into it and make it valuable for everyone.  As such, thanks to our great members, clients and team for a job well done.

Onwards and upwards.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Hits 146,000 Visitors, 837,000 Visits, 9.1 Million Pages In Last 30 Days

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:03 AM on Monday, December 21st, 2009

Good morning to you all.  I’m proud to announce that AGORACOM continues to get stronger and stronger in 2009, with the following metrics over the last 30 days (November 17 – December 17):

  • 146,131 unique visitors
  • 837,670 visits
  • 9,114,876 page views

As always, I’ve included the Google Analytics snapshot for verification.  Click on the image for a larger version.

AGORACOM - Traffic 1209

It’s important to note these figures do not include traffic from either one of our blogs (AGORACOM and Grandich), which are also sources of great traffic, especially the Grandich blog.  Moreover, they do not include traffic to our Tier-1 content partner sites such as Globe Investor, AOL Money, Yahoo Finance, every Blackberry device on the planet and the remainder of our online small-cap network.

Considering how 2009 started out for the markets, it is great to see small-cap investor interest ending the year on a strong note.

Regards,
George

AGORACOM Reports 17,792 Investors From 77 Countries Participated In Online Gold and Commodities Conference – And Counting

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:31 AM on Friday, December 11th, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

AGORACOM Reports 17,792 Investors From 77 Countries Participated In Online Gold and Commodities Conference – And Counting

Investor Participation Smashes Initial Goals and Expectations As Investors From Around The World Embrace Access To Company and Keynote Speaker Presentations From The Comfort Of Their Homes

TORONTO, December 11, 2009 – AGORACOM, a leading online financial community focusing on the small-cap and mid-cap markets, today announced that 17,792 investors from 77 countries participated in the inaugural AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference, smashing the initial goal of 5,000 investors from 50 countries. The conference, which was open to commodities investors around the world, featured online presentations from 28 public companies, 7 keynote speakers and 2 workshop speakers that included online Q&A sessions.  Our Google Analytics snapshot can be seen below:

AGORACOM Founder, George Tsiolis, stated “I am happy to say that we clearly underestimated the pent-up demand of resource investors from around the world to participate in an online conference, though I am not surprised.  We started out with the belief that borderless, online conferences were the logical next step if the industry was going to reach out to new, bigger audiences and investors have clearly responded. They want great information and convenient access without having to travel, spend money and take valuable time away from their lives. We now have every intention to continue delivering on that demand for years to come.”

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION METRICS

AGORACOM released the following key participation metrics for the period December 2 – 7:

Number Of Presentations Viewed Per Exhibiting Company:
Average: 129.5
Median: 71

Number Of Visitors To Each Exhibiting Company HUB
Average:  1063
Median:  293

Number Of Visits To Each Exhibiting Company HUB
Average: 1,389.25
Median:  340.5

Number Of International Visitors Per Exhibiting Company HUB
Average:  5.53
Median:  4.5

Number Of Presentations Viewed Per Speaker:
Average: 736.75
Median: 480.5

Top 20 Participating Countries:

Canada, United States, India, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Singapore, Pakistan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, France, Thailand, New Zealand, Spain, Vietnam

FEEDBACK FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND OTHER WEB PLATFORMS SUCH AS STOCKTWITS

“It is simply amazing to see the global distribution of participants in our conference” added Tsiolis. “We were especially pleased to see great feedback coming in directly from the likes of Australia, Germany, Tennessee and the Canadian Rockies, as well as, through other online investor communities such as StockTwits.com that picked up on the conference and notified its massive audience. Only an online conference can go viral so broadly, quickly and unexpectedly, which is a significant advantage to traditional conferences.”

FIGURES EXPECTED TO INCREASE AS PRESENTATIONS NOW ON DEMAND AND LISTED BY KITCO

AGORACOM expects participation metrics to continue increasing over the next 2 weeks. On December 8th, all company and speaker presentations became available on demand for the benefit of investors that could not participate during the conference or new investors that are just discovering the conference. Investors can visit http://agoracom.com/conferences to view company profiles and all presentations.  In addition, Bart Kitner and the good folks over at Kitco.com have started listing company presentations on their front page news section for the benefit of all resource investors.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

AGORACOM wishes to thank the following keynote speakers, representing a who’s who of industry analysts and market commentators, for their valuable and thought provoking presentations on commodities, world markets and the road ahead.  Each of their bios, topics and presentations can be viewed here:

  • Peter Grandich              Chief Commentator, AGORACOM.com
  • Eric Coffin                    Co-Producer of The Hard Rock Analyst Publications
  • Barry Ritholtz                Author Of The Big Picture, Rated The Web’s #1 Financial Blog
  • Paul Kedrosky               Author Of Infectious Greed, Rated The Web’s #2 Financial Blog
  • Jean-Francois Tardif      2007 Best Canadian Hedge Fund Manager
  • Peter Spina                   Founder, Goldseek.com
  • Gregor Macdonald         The Top Ranked Energy Analyst On StockTwits Blog Network

Workshop Presenters:

PRESENTING COMPANIES

George Tsiolis, Founder of AGORACOM, stated “Participating companies are truly pioneers for having the vision to see that online conferences remove all barriers to participation and bring together investors from around the world. If they have this kind of vision when it comes to meeting investors, investors should watch their vision of the future of their own companies. From gold to bauxite, grassroots exploration to full production, every investor will find companies of great potential interest to them.”

Watch company presentations

American Lithium Minerals         (AMLM:OTCBB)
Canada Gold                             (CI: TSXV)
Chai Cha Na Mining                  (CNN: CNSX)
Crosshair Explorations                (CXX: TSX)
Donner Metals                           (DON: TSXV)
Exeter Resources                       (XRC:TSX)
Evolving Gold                           (EVG: TSXV)
First Bauxite Corporation            (FBX: TSXV)
Grizzly Diamonds                      (GZD: TSXV)
Goldquest Mining                      (GQC: TSXV)
Hi Ho Silver                              (HHS: CNSX)
Heatherdale Resources               (HTR: TSXV)
Int’l Wayside Mining                  (WYG:TSXV)
Levon Resources                       (LVN: TSXV)
New Dawn Mining                     (ND: TSX)
New Sage Energy                      (NSG: TSXV)
Oremex Resources                     (ORM: TSXV)
Q-Gold Resources                     (QAU: TSXV)
Rock Tech Resources                (RCK: TSXV)
Riverstone Resources                 (RVS: TSXV)
Sage Gold                                 (SGX: TSXV)
Serengeti Resources                   (SIR: TSXV)
Strongbow Exploration               (SBW: TSXV)
Shoreham Resources                  (SMH: TSXV)
Timmins Gold                           (TMM: TSXV)
Threegold Resources                  (THG: TSXV)
Uracan Resources                      (URC: TSXV)
Victoria Gold                             (VIT: TSXV)

AGORACOM TO HOST 4 ONLINE CONFERENCES IN 2010

As a result of the success of this inaugural conference, AGORACOM will be hosting a full line-up of online conferences in 2010.  Specific dates will be announced shortly but they are anticipated to take place in March, June, September and December.  Companies wishing to participate in our 2010 line up should contact us at [email protected] .

This press release was distributed by our good friends at MarketWire, the official news wire of AGORACOM.com and the AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference.

About AGORACOM – Online Investor Relations For Small and Mid-Cap Companies

AGORACOM is North America’s largest online investor relations community for small-cap and mid-cap companies. We have partnered with the world’s biggest Internet companies to deliver content that connects public companies and investors, including Globe Investor, Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Money Canada and Blackberry device on the planet. Over 250 public companies have used AGORACOM to conduct online investor relations.

More than just lip service, AGORACOM attracted 1.31 million investors that visited 7.9 million times and read just under 100 million pages of information last year.

CONTACT INFORMATION

George Tsiolis, LL.B

Founder

AGORACOM

AGORACOM.com

AGORACOM Contact Us

AGORACOM Conference Home

AGORACOM Blog
AGORACOM Twitter

AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference Now “On Demand”.

Posted by AGORACOM at 1:42 PM on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Good afternoon to you all. The AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference is now on demand for investors that were not able to make the conference from Thursday – Sunday. After all, life is busy and you shouldn’t be penalized for it.  That’s another great advantage of online conferences – you get to consume the information on your time.

The best way to view the conference is as follows:

1]  Review the concise profiles of all presenting companies and decide which presentations you want to watch.

2]  Go to the conference schedule and simply click on a company name to be taken to its presentation page.

3]  The conference schedule also includes links to the bios and presentations of each keynote and workshop speaker.  Simply click and watch.

PRESENTATIONS NOW ON KITCO

I’m also happy to announce that our friends over at Kitco have allowed us to post company presentations to their front page news section .  Thanks to Bart Kitner and his team for realizing the value of these presentations for all resource investors.  We’ll be posting a couple of presentations every couple of hours for the next few days.  Here’s a snapshot of our most recent posts.

CLICK IMAGE FOR LARGER, CLEARER VIEW

Conference Kitco

Regards,
George

Welcome To The AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference!

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:05 AM on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

THIS PRESENTATION WILL GO LIVE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3RD @ 10:00 AM EST.

Please find enclosed my welcome message for The AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference. This is truly a ground breaking event that could not be possible without the vision of our presenting companies, keynote presenters and YOU – the investor.  I’ve got some great things to say on this but don’t want to type them here, so kindly listen to the welcome message below.

The most important point I want to get across is for investors to take advantage of this new online conference, listen to 4-5 company webcasts (or more!), interact with management of these companies by asking great questions and find your next great investments.  Finally, take advantage of the incredible keynote speakers wethen sit back to absorb

Though I also thank them in my welcome message, I do want to write my special thanks to my entire team for making this possible.  Al, Franklin, Andreas, Bart, Rody, Jeff, Paul, Kathy and Scott – you’re awesome.

Please click on the image below to launch the presentation in a new browser window. The presentation will not launch prior to 10:00 AM EST. Upon completion of the interview, close the window and return here to post your questions and comments. To do so, please click on the “Comments” button at the bottom of this post.

CONFERENCE LINKS: Home PagePresenting CompaniesKeynote SpeakersConference Schedule

George Tsiolis - Welcome Slide

BACK-UP LINK IN CASE OF BANDWIDTH ISSUES (Click Here)

Eric Coffin To Deliver Keynote Presentation At AGORACOM Online Gold and Commodities Conference

Posted by AGORACOM at 5:19 AM on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Coffin

It gives me great pleasure to announce that one of the most respected analysts in the junior resources space, Eric Coffin, will be delivering a keynote presentation titled “Interest Rates and Currencies Driving Metals Markets” at The AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference.  I took a sneak peek at his presentation slides and I guarantee it is going to be one of the best ways you’ve ever spent 30 minutes of your investing life.  Why?  Eric efficiently covers the reasons behind our global economic issues but – more importantly – spends most of his time answering the biggest question on all our minds … “so now what?”.

I have not had the good fortune of getting to know Eric on a deeper personal basis yet – but two things tell me all I need to know about him.  First, on a personal basis, my good friend Peter Grandich speaks very highly of Eric. If Peter thinks he’s aces, good enough for me.  Second, on a professional basis, both he and his brother were awarded the Cambridge House Award for Market Analysis in 2007.

Great topic, great guy, great analyst.  Anybody not want to tune in to his speech?  Thursday, December 3rd @ 1:00 PM EST.  For a direct link to his presentation, please view our conference schedule.

PROFILE

Responsible for the “financial analysis” side of HRA, Eric has a degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He has extensive experience in merger and acquisitions and small company financing and promotion. For many years he tracked the financial performance and funding of all exchange listed Canadian mining companies and has helped with the formation of several successful exploration ventures.

Eric Coffin is one of the most respected resource market commentators in the industry. Eric and his brother David produce the Hard Rock Analyst publications, newsletters that focus on metals explorers, developers and producers as well as metals and equity markets in general.

Eric reviews data from hundreds of companies seeking strong management and finance teams in undiscovered companies for HRA’s readers. In 2007, they were awarded the Cambridge House Award for Market Analysis.

Eric has been interviewed on CBC Television’s Business News, as well as, national and local radio throughout North America for his opinions on resource trends. He is a frequent contributor to several third party publications and a number of resource, gold, metals and market related Internet sites.

He regularly speaks at a number of North American gold and resource conferences. He was one of the first analysts to point out the disastrous effects of gold hedging and gold loan capital financing (1997) and to predict the start of the current secular bull market in commodities based on the movement of the US Dollar (2001) and the acceleration of growth in Asia and India.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Investors interested in watching his presentation should consult our conference schedule, which will provide a direct link on Thursday morning at 1:00 PM EST. The presentation will be hosted right here on this blog, so feel free to subscribe via RSS, Twitter or …. e-mail …. to receive notification

In addition, Eric will be in good company amongst our highly acclaimed line up of keynote speakers that will include:

Regards,
George

Peter Grandich To Deliver Keynote Presentation At AGORACOM Online Gold and Commodities Conference

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:31 AM on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Grandich

I am very proud to announce that my great friend, colleague and mentor, Peter Grandich, will be sharing his views on gold, the US Dollar, oil, markets and commodities at The AGORACOM Online Gold & Commodities Conference. He may be AGORACOM’s Chief Commentator but he isn’t getting top billing because of his title.  The fact of the matter is that I don’t know another market commentator who has made more accurate calls on gold, the $USD, oil and the market’s tops and bottoms than Peter Grandich.

Sounds grandiose?  Don’t take my word for it.  The Wall Street Journal cited him and just 3 others for their ability to make those calls.  Moreover, in the ultimate example of PYMWYMI (Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is), Peter’s model portfolio that is used to track his market commentary has been nothing short of en fuego.

You’ll read his bio below but Peter is an absolute must follow if you want a non-fence sitting, tell it like it is and deadly accurate market commentator – especially when it comes to gold that he has been pounding the table on for several hundred dollars now.

PROFILE

Peter Grandich, Chief Commentator of AGORACOM.com, is an internationally-acclaimed financial expert who has made a 25-plus-year career out of his knack for uncannily-accurate market predictions. Labeled the “Wall Street Whiz Kid” by Good Morning America, Grandich gained national notoriety by being among the very few who not only forecasted the 1987 stock market crash just weeks before it happened, but on the very next day he predicted that within two years the market would reach a new all-time high – which it did.

Proving his market calls are no fluke, The Wall Street Journal recently included Peter in an article about the few analysts that picked the March 2009 lows. What his readers know is that Peter also called the October 2007 stock market high on his blog and went short on the entire market.

His ability to analyze and forecast financial happenings has resulted in hundreds of media interviews including GMA, Neil Cavuto’s Your World on Fox News, The Kudlow Report on CNBC, and every major financial media outlet including Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, US News & World Report, New York Times, MarketWatch, Business News Network and dozens more. He has spoken at investment conferences around the globe and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost market strategists. He has edited and published four widely-read investment newsletters and contributed to numerous national publications.

Peter is also the founder of Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management a firm with a Christian perspective which he started in 2001 with Lee Rouson, former NY Giant and two-time Super Bowl champion. The firm offers services to celebrities, athletes and average folks.

He was also the founder and managing member of Grandich Publications, which was acquired by AGORACOM in 2009. In his first full year with AGORACOM, over 190,000 investors visited Peter’s blog 1.1 million times. Grandich also provides a variety of services to publicly-held corporations on a compensation basis.

Peter Grandich is a member of the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants, and a long-standing member of The New York Society of Security Analysts and The Society of Quantitative Analysts.

You can follow his free public commentary via his blog or Twitter

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Investors interested in watching his presentation should consult our conference schedule, which will provide a direct link on Thursday morning at 10:30 AM EST. The presentation will be hosted right here on this blog, so feel free to subscribe via RSS, Twitter or …. e-mail …. to receive notification

In addition, Grandich will be in good company amongst our highly acclaimed line up of keynote speakers that will include:

Regards,
George