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Over 138 Countries and Territories Visited AGORACOM In September 2007

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:19 AM on Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Good morning to you all. If you don’t use Google Analytics to track your website stats – get it! It is by far the best site analytics tool I’ve ever used. I especially like to browse through it at the end of each month and get a compilation of site stats pertaining to a range of items that include the obvious (page views, visitors, etc.) to the nitty gritty (operating systems, browsers, etc.).

One of the coolest metrics I like to look at is the domain of our visitors and I’m proud to tell you that AGORACOM was visited by 138 countries and territories in September. From a business point of view, that’s just great reach and proves that our various marketing initiatives (search engines, content partnerships, etc.) are hitting on all cylinders – great news for us and our clients.

From a human perspective, on the other hand, it is a quiet, nice and proud sense of accomplishment to know that people from all over the planet are dropping in to see what you have to say. Outside of the obvious countries you would expect, here are some notables:

Papua New Guinea, Iceland, Mauritius and – believe it or not – Myanmar.

Regards,
George

iTunes Selects AGORACOM Small-Cap TV As A New and Notable. Clients Win!

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:08 PM on Friday, September 28th, 2007

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Hey, folks. It gives me great pleasure to announce that iTunes has selected AGORACOM Small-Cap TV as a New & Notable under the Business > Investing category. We were one of only 16 podcasts to make the spot.

Major Kudos have to go out to our Podcast Producer/Consultant/Miracle Worker Leesa Barnes at Caprica who walked in to our offices a year ago and turned a few Greeks into podcasting legends. In addition to our video show, Leesa also created our current podcasting empire at SmallCapPodcast.

At the end of the day, however, the biggest winner of all have been our clients. Why? AGORACOM now dominates 9-10 out of the top 10 positions on Google when searching pretty much anything related to small-cap podcasts.

Thanks to everyone for making this a smash success. Onward and Upward.

Regards,
George

Press Release – AGORACOM Launches Canada’s First Stock Market Social Network

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:05 AM on Friday, September 21st, 2007

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 21, 2007) – AGORACOM (http://www.agoracom.com), Canada’s only provider of monitored online communities to public companies is proud to announce the successful integration and launch of Canada’s first stock market social network. Currently, over 65 public companies use AGORACOM to host their official online community for the purposes of amalgamating and communicating with investors in a monitored environment free of spam, profanity, stock bashing and pumping.

WEB 2.0 SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS FOR INVESTORS

The AGORACOM Social Network provides investors with unprecedented networking, collaborating and ranking tools for the purpose of helping members make the best investment decisions possible. Some examples of these social networking tools include the following:

RANKING TOOLS

1. MEMBER RANKING

AGORACOM has built a robust member rating and ranking system that allows members to anonymously rate each other on a scale of 1-5 and displays a real-time average ranking of each member. The member rating system is dynamic and allows ratings to be changed at anytime based on the performance of members at any given moment.

The AGORACOM member rating and ranking system provides investors with an ability to immediately measure the reputation of any given member at any given time, thus providing investors with an ability to appropriately value the quality of information posted by any member.

2. POST RANKING

AGORACOM provides members with the ability to rate the value of each post to our monitored discussion forums and displays a real-time ranking of the value of each post.

NETWORKING TOOLS

1. MEMBER PROFILES

AGORACOM provides members with an ability to create extensive profiles that include information related to their city, country, biography, profession and favourite sports, movies, websites, blogs and books for the purposes of significantly increasing interaction between investors with similar interests and backgrounds.

Most importantly, members can provide a list of their favourite stocks which, combined with the AGORACOM rating and ranking system, provides investors with a simple but effective way of tracking the investments of the community’s’ highest ranking members.

2. VIDEO MESSAGING

In response to the online shift towards video, AGORACOM provides members with an ability to broadcast a video message to members of the community directly from their respective profiles.

3. PODCASTING and WEBCASTING

AGORACOM provides participating public companies with the ability to webcast their interviews and audio messages that are immediately converted into podcasts on SmallCapPodcast.com and placed on the world’s largest podcast sites including iTunes and Yahoo Podcast.

AGORACOM President, George Tsiolis stated, “We are the pioneers of Canada’s first and only monitored discussion forums for TSX Venture and TSX listed companies. With more than 65 companies now using us to provide their official online investor communities, we reached a critical mass that warranted the pioneering of Canada’s first stock market social network.”

George went on to say “This is a very proud day for AGORACOM and every public company, shareholder and market official that embraced our Web 2.0 vision and helped make it a reality. Members of the Canadian investing community should look for even greater functionality to be announced in the very immediate future. Stock discussion forums are never going to be the same.”

About AGORACOM – No Profanity, No Spam, No Stock Bashing, No Stock Pumping

AGORACOM (http://www.Agoracom.com) is North America’s largest official online community for public companies. Unlike stock communities that provide investors with unmonitored stock discussion forums plagued by profanity, spam, stock bashing and pumping, AGORACOM was built to serve the interests of public companies and investors by creating monitored communities focusing on quality over quantity.

AGORACOM is the official provider of “Small-Cap Centres – Powered By AGORACOM” to Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Finance Canada and every Blackberry device on the planet.

For more information, please contact

AGORACOM
George Tsiolis, LL.B
President
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.Agoracom.com

AGORACOM Sponsors TechCrunch40!

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:51 PM on Friday, September 14th, 2007

Good morning to you all. It gives me great pleasure to announce that AGORACOM has become an official sponsor of the TechCrunch40 conference.

Why are we sponsoring a Web 2.0 tech conference?

We have found that high-profile sponsorships have helped our business take-off over the past year, so we’re now applying that same principal to our branding and awareness camapaign. This is especially true in the Web 2.0 world where it is very difficult to get the attention of Silicon Valley from Toronto. Doubly so when you factor in the fact we are in the finance community biz (not quite as sexy as Twitter).

I am hoping our strong and proven business model, along with our Tier-1 partnerships at Yahoo Finance Canada, AOL Finance Canada and Blackberry will resonate with the right people. Wish us luck!

Are there any other Canadians going to TC40? Let me know and we’ll meet on the floor. If not, I’ll be sure to blog about it on the fly and let you know how the conference is going.

What is TechCrunch40?

It is a conference in search of the best web 2.0 start-ups in the world. Several hundred companies applied and only 40 have been selected to present their case in front of an expert panel. One will go home the official winner, though all of them will benefit from great exposure to media, venture capitalists, bloggers and other key players.

Regards,
George

P.S. – AGORACOM would have applied to become a potential finalist but one of the criteria is that you had to unveil your new site/application at the conference and we weren’t sure if our Wiki-powered small-cap financial community would be ready on time. (Actually looks like we’re going to beta testing this afternoon and possibly launch on Monday – but still too close to call)

AGORACOM Sponsors PIPEs Conference 2006; Presents – How To Conduct Great IR In A Web 2.0 World

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:25 PM on Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Good evening to you all. I recently gave a speech at the PIPEs Conference in New York (October 2006) titled “How To Conduct Investor Relations In a Web 2.0 World”. The conference targets PIPEs issuers, fund managers and analysts from all over North America, as opposed to public companies and individual investors. As such, I’ve made the speech available via webcast for pubco’s to view here.

Have a great night.

Regards,
George

Yahoo Finance Canada, AGORACOM Launch Small Cap Center

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:18 AM on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

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Good afternoon to you all. AGORACOM  is pleased to announce that the Yahoo Finance Canada Small Cap Centre – Powered By AGORACOM, has been launched on the front page of Yahoo Finance Canada. The Small Cap Centre is an integral element of the newly launched Yahoo Finance Canada, occupying the greatest amount of front-page real estate than any other content provider. To view the Small Cap Centre on Yahoo, please visit http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/ and scroll through the middle column.

COMPELLING CONTENT SCC Mock-Up 2008

As a primary resource for small-cap investors, AGORACOM populates the Small Cap Center on a daily basis with compelling content from the Small-Cap world that includes the following:

• Feature Company

• Top 5 Press Releases

• Yahoo Small Cap Show Featuring

o Expert’s Corner

o Interviews with CEO’s of 3 Companies

A BREAKTHROUGH FOR THE SMALL CAP INDUSTRY

Given the #1 traffic ranking of Yahoo around the world, the significance of this development can not be overstated. Specifically, the world’s biggest finance site is providing small-cap companies with highly-coveted and extremely valuable front page exposure to tell their stories.  Combined with our AOL Small-Cap Partnership, small-caps will finally have a chance to stand and be judged on their own merits and are no longer being shut out by the major financial media.

HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR CONTENT

If you have released significant news that would be worthy of front-page coverage, please e-mail it to us at breakingnews at agoracom.com Please do not send ordinary course news, or add us to your general press release e-mail list, as we will have no choice but to block your e-mail address and miss future news of significance.

That is all for now. Have a great day and we hope to hear from you soon. For those of you attending this weekend’s Cambridge Conference in Vancouver, feel free to e-mail me at AIR at agoracom.com to arrange a meeting and discuss this matter further.

Regards,
George

AOL Finance Canada Partners With AGORACOM To Launch Small Cap Centre

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:34 AM on Wednesday, October 1st, 2003

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AOL Canada Inc., a leading Canadian interactive service company, launched The AOL® Small Cap Centre on September 8, 2003. This is Canada’s first and only national brand Small Cap Centre dedicated to Canadian public companies. AGORACOM is pleased to announce that it has been selected by AOL Canada to be the exclusive provider of all content to the Small Cap Centre.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Toronto, Ontario (PR WEB), October 1, 2003

AOL Launches First Ever National Small Cap Centre

AOL Canada Inc., a leading Canadian interactive service company, launched The AOL® Small Cap Centre on September 8, 2003. This is Canada’s first and only national brand Small Cap Centre dedicated to Canadian public companies. AGORACOM is pleased to announce that it has been selected by AOL Canada to be the exclusive provider of all content to the Small Cap Centre.

Maximizing Small-Cap Public Company Exposure

The AOL Time Warner web properties reach almost 50% of all Canadians online every month. In addition, Canadians spend 53 minutes a day on the AOL proprietary service, more than 6 times as much as they do on any of the other leading portals in the country. (Source: comScore Media Metrix, Total Canada at Home, July 2003).

The AOL® Small Cap Centre is dedicated to servicing its investor audience by featuring Canada’s best small cap companies and will accomplish this through:

  • Audio Interviews 3 CEO’s Featured In The AOL Small Cap Show
  • Breaking Press Releases Big News From Small Caps Get Front Page Coverage
  • Top Stories What Is The Latest News In Small Cap
  • Feature Companies Full Length Company Features
  • Industry Features Full Length Industry Features (Tech, Resources, etc.)
  • Regional Features Full Length Regional Features (By Province)
  • The Million Dollar Club Small Caps That Generate $1,000,000 + In Revenues

Every week, press releases will be issued to announce the companies being featured in The AOL® Small Cap Centre, thereby helping highlight Canada’s best small caps and alerting each company’s shareholders, bankers, customers, suppliers and other interested parties.

Over the course of the next twelve months, our goal is to feature 400 different companies from across the country and every industry.

What Your Small-Cap Public Company Must Do Now

Agoracom actively scans the newswires and maintains a portfolio of Canada’s best small-cap companies but even we can not monitor almost all 3,000 TSX Venture Small Cap companies. Make sure your company gets itself into the AOL / Agoracom Small Cap Centre by e-mailing us your company’s great achievements. E-mail us now at: [email protected]

AOL Canada Shares Our Vision Of “Quality Over Quantity”

In addition to delivering this great new Small Cap Centre, AGORACOM will also deliver an opportunity for all Small Cap investors to bring “Quality” into their everyday surfing experience. Specifically, with a sharp increase in e-mail spam – often containing very offensive material – and the need for heightened Internet security, Small Cap investors can preview AOL 8.0 for free for 3 months* (Communications charges may apply). Please visit http://www.aol.ca

About AOL Canada Inc. http://www.aol.ca

AOL Canada Inc. is a leading interactive service company focused on enhancing the Canadian online user experience. The company is a strategic alliance between America Online, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, the world’s leading media and entertainment company, whose businesses include interactive services, cable systems, filmed entertainment, television networks, music, and publishing; and RBC Royal Bank, the personal and commercial banking division of RBC Financial Group, one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies. The company operates two interactive online services tailored to the Canadian marketplace, AOL� English and French services, and CompuServe� as well as several leading Internet brands including AOL.CA, AOL� Canada Search, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Netscape.ca, MapQuest®, and ICQ�. Working with its more than 80 content and e-commerce providers, AOL Canada offers Canadian consumers value and ease-of-use through state-of-the-art features and exclusive content offering. AOL is a registered trademark of America Online, Inc. and currently has more than 35 million Members across the globe.

About AGORACOM http://www.agoracom.com

AGORACOM is Canada’s only “Portal For Public Companies” and Canada’s largest moderated investment discussion site, with a quantified audience of 100,000 + registered members and visitors that view 3,000,000 pages of small-cap information per month.

AGORA Investor Relations is the country’s first Investor Relations Firm to offer IR services to small-cap public companies for under $1,000 per month. For specific details, public companies are able to view the company’s 7 minute IR web cast presentation at http://www.agoracom.com/air/overview.htm

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

AOL Canada Inc.

James Havers

Finance Editor

Tel: 416-960-6593

E-mail: [email protected]

AGORACOM

George Tsiolis, LL.B.

President

Email: GeorgeT at Agoracom.com