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AGORACOM Hits 320 Million Page Views On 5 Year Anniversary

Posted by AGORACOM at 11:14 AM on Thursday, November 1st, 2012

I would first like to welcome all of our new CEOâ€™s and IROâ€™s added to our list since our last newsletter in October.

We are very pleased to announce that AGORACOM continues to hit significant traffic milestones in the small-cap space, with more than 319,500,000 page views and 32,000,000 visits to AGORACOM in our first 5 years of tracking traffic through Google. These traffic figures are even more meaningful given the significant macro economic issues affecting small-cap stocks during the financial crisis of 2008 â€“ 2009, as well as, market turmoil over the past year.

Â AGORACOM REWARDED FOR FOCUS ON QUALITY VS QUANTITY

Having identified that small-cap companies were being hurt by unmonitored and frankly, crazy, postings on popular but unmonitored sites around the web, AGORACOM was built on the philosophy of focusing on:

High-Quality Small-Cap Companies
High-Quality Small-Cap Discussion

More than just lip service, we implemented the first and only investor monitored small-cap community that gave high-ranking investors the ability to delete posts containing spam, profanity and unfounded rumors â€“ all the things that used to hurt serious small-cap companies.

As a result, AGORACOM now ranks amongst the top 0.3% of all websites on the planet.

As always, here is the official Google Analytics snapshot for the period

WHY AGORACOM IS YOUR INVESTOR RELATIONS SOLUTION

1.Â Serious Small-Cap Investors

In addition to the traffic numbers above, each small-cap investor reads an average of 9.8 pages on every visit and stays on the site for 8:20 per visit â€¦ these small-cap investors are engaged in serious research.

2.Â Faster, Cheaper, Way Better

Our programs are cheaper than traditional investor relations â€¦ while directly reaching your target market of investors within 24 hours of starting your program.

IR SOLUTION FOR TSX LISTED COMPANIES

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, TSX companies will love what the image says below.Â TSX Companies Can Now Post Investor Relations Messages To AGORACOM & Simultaneously Post To The Following Tier-1 Finance Sites.Â No other IR solution on the continent can combine this audience with our service levels.

MARKETING SOLUTIONS FOR TSX VENTURE LISTED COMPANIES â€“ SHARES FOR SERVICES

More than anything else, TSX Venture companies need to raise awareness.Â The massive AGORACOM network puts your company in front of millions of investors, generating ~ 1,000 prospective investor visits per month.

More importantly, with our new compliant Shares For Services program, you can conserve valuable cash that is already allocated for your operations.Â Win-Win.

CONTACT US TO DISCUSS YOUR ONLINE IR NEEDS AND OUR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

I thank-you for reading and trust you found this information to be helpful.Â If youâ€™re ready to step into real and sustainable online investor relations for 2013 and beyond, please contact me below.

Best Regards,

George Tsiolis, LL.B

Founder & President

AGORACOM Investor Relations

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AGORACOM Investor Relations Hits 3.8 Million Visits, 34 Million Page Views Q1-Q3

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:17 AM on Thursday, October 4th, 2012

We are very pleased to announce that AGORACOM continues to hit significant traffic milestones in the small-cap space, with more than 33,990,000 (million) page views and 3,840,000 visits to AGORACOM in the first 3 quarters of 2012.Â These traffic figures are especially valuable given the significant issues surrounding small-cap stocks from May â€“ August.

SMALL CAP RECOVERY SHOWS BLISTERING TRAFFIC AS INVESTORS RETURN

To this end, since the rebound in small-cap stocks after Labor Day,Â AGORACOM has recorded 4,000,000 (million) page views and 432,000 visits, which would equate into a blistering ~ 50,000,000 (million) page views and 5,000,000 (million) visits on an annualized basis.

AGORACOM continues to rank us amongst the top 0.3% of all websites on the planet.

As always, here is the official Google Analytics snapshot for the period

WHY IS AGORACOM YOUR SMALL CAP INVESTOR RELATIONS SOLUTION?

1.Â Serious & Engaged Small-Cap Investors

Each small-cap investor reads an average of 8.85 pages on every visit and stays on the site for 8:01 per visit â€¦ these small-cap investors are engaged in serious research.Â Give them a chance to discover you.

2.Â Bigger, Cheaper, Way Better

Weâ€™re not afraid to say it.Â Our programs are cheaper than traditional investor relations â€¦ but far more effective because we use technology to get you in front of a proven, massive audience.Â You save money, while directly reaching your target market of investors within 24 hours of starting your program.

3.Â Shares For Services â€“ Work With AGORACOM, Keep All Your Cash

AGORACOM recently announced our â€œCashlessâ€ IR program in which qualified companies trading on the TSX Venture / TSX or quoted on OTCQB / OTCQX or higher can pay for their entire AGORACOM program via Shares For Services.Â You get all of our marketing power AND keep your valuable cash for operations.

Win-Win

CONTACT US TO DISCUSS YOUR ONLINE IR NEEDS AND OUR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

I thank-you for reading and trust you found this information to be helpful.Â If youâ€™re ready to step into real and sustainable online investor relations for 2012 and beyond, please contact us via this form and we will get back to you within 2 hours!

Best Regards,

George Tsiolis, LL.B

Founder & President

AGORACOM Investor Relations

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Start Your QE3 Program With AGORACOM ASAP

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:53 PM on Monday, September 10th, 2012

AGORACOM Audience Passes 24 Million Page Views, 2.7 Million Visits In 1^St Half 2012

HOW IS YOUR COMPANY GOING TO RIDE THE GLOBAL QE WAVE?

Europe has officially announced an unlimited bond purchasing program and QE3 is imminent.Â Small-cap stocks have been revitalized with all small-cap indexes up sharply over the past month â€¦. but this is only the beginning.

We believe this is the beginning of yet another massive long-term surge for small-cap stocks.Â Here is what the last surge looked like after the announcement of QE2

In July, we announced that AGORACOM hit significant traffic milestones in the small-cap space, with more than 24,000,000 (million) page views and 2,700,000 visits for the 1^st half of the year.Â The next 6 months will be even stronger as small-cap investors re-enter the market in search of cheap, oversold small-cap stocks.

WHY IS AGORACOM YOUR SOLUTION?

1.Â Serious Small-Cap Investors

In addition to the traffic numbers above, each small-cap investor reads an average of 8.9 pages on every visit and stays on the site for 8:06 per visit â€¦ these small-cap investors are engaged in serious research.

2.Â Faster, Cheaper, Way Better

Our programs are cheaper than traditional investor relations â€¦ while directly reaching your target market of investors within 24 hours of starting your program.

3.Â Cashless 144 Program â€“ Work With Us, Keep Your Cash

AGORACOM recently announced the launch of our â€œCashless 144â€ IR program in which companies quoted on OTCQB, OTCQX or higher can pay for their entire AGORACOM Online Investor Relations program via 144 restricted shares.Â Companies must have a minimum 2-year operating history.

This program is extremely valuable for companies that want to execute a complete online investor relations and social media program without impacting their valuable cash reserves.Â Key information as follows:

COST AND TERM

Rule 144 stock: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â $85,000. No out of pocket cost to you. We become your investor

Term:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 12 months.Â We donâ€™t believe in short-term promotions

Program:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Our entire program. Every tool. Nothing has been left o

4.Â A Specific Solution For Chinese Small-Cap Companies

CHINA 2.0 BEGINS WITH STRONG ONLINE INVESTOR RELATIONS

Chinese companies are under a sustained online attack via both major media sources (CNBC, Bloomberg, etc.) and short selling â€œanalystsâ€.Â Much of this has been unfair BUT we only have ourselves to blame given the fact Chinese companies have outright failed to bridge the information gap between operations and investors on opposite sides of the world.

This has resulted in a lack of transparency, leading to disastrous results. Press releases, filings and occasional conferences are not sufficient for building relationships with current and prospective investors to combat the information gap exploited by short-selling opportunists.

The time has come to look at new solutions. The time has come to build â€œChina 2.0â€ through a smart and global reaching online investor relations and communications with investors.

CONTACT US TO DISCUSS YOUR ONLINE IR NEEDS AND OUR POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Best Regards,

George Tsiolis, LL.B

Founder & President

AGORACOM Investor Relations

416-496-0496 / 866-234-9934

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AGORACOM Touches Alexa Ranking Of 50,000, Amongst Top 0.23% Of Websites In The World

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:54 PM on Monday, April 16th, 2012

Alexa, an Amazon company, is the leading free provider of global web metrics. Â The company measures traffic on over 30,000,000 (million) websites from 125 countries around the world and ranks them in order of global ranking. Â Like golf, the lower your score the better.

I’m happy to announce that AGORACOM recently touched a ranking of 50,000 on April 12th. Â To truly make that number stick, you want to see that number show up in any of your 7-day / 1 month / 3 month ranking, where AGORACOM still comes in around 70,000 or in the top 0.23% of all websites on the planet. Â These climbing figures are in line with our Q1 traffic announced via e-mail last week and soon to be posted here for all to see.

In the meantime, here is a snapshot of our Alexa ranking.

We’re extremely happy with this accomplishment, which serves as further evidence that our “Investor Controlled” stock discussion format is a winning model. Â We want to thank all of our members and clients for helping make AGORACOM the leading online small-cap community! Â I promise all of you, the best is yet to come.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Maintenance Alert: Going Down Saturday Night For 3 Hours

Posted by AGORACOM at 10:35 AM on Friday, January 6th, 2012

Please be advised that AGORACOM will be offline on Saturday night for about 3 hours beginning at 9PM EST.

Pursuant to prior notifications over the past 2-3 weeks, we are migrating AGORACOM away from our current host Amazon (Yes, THE Amazon)Â due to unsatisfactory downtime issues we have experienced with Amazon over the last month.

As promised, we were either going to give Amazon a chance to fix these issues, or migrate to another web hosting provider. Unfortunately,Â Amazon was not able to provide us the comfort and assurances necessary to keep AGORACOM hosted with them, so we have decidedÂ to move to another provider.

In anticipation of this move on Saturday night, we suggest the following:

1. It is Saturday night, so go out and have some fun!

2. If you are going to post any long and intensive material after 6PM Saturday night, save a copy. We donâ€™t expect to lose any data from the last 2-3 hours but

better to be safe than sorry

3. We expect the migration to be very smooth but please let us know if you have any issues on Sunday.

4. Our blog (which you are reading right now) Â and Twitter account Â will be unaffected during the downtime, so feel free toÂ contact us at either if you have any issues and canâ€™t reach us through the site. Best thing to do is to post comments below.

We trust the above to be satisfactory as we strive to continually provide you with a great AGORACOM experience.

Thanks,
George and the AGORACOM Team

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AGORACOM Small-Cap Videos Break 400,000 Views, Dominate Search Engine Results

Posted by AGORACOM at 8:03 AM on Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Good morning to you all.Â I’m very proud to announce that views ofÂ AGORACOM videos have surpassed 400,000 since we first began broadcasting daily shows, client interviews and other great small-cap video content.Â This is great news for clients and the entire small-cap industry because it proves up yet another effective, efficient and low-cost way to communicate with current shareholders and potential investors.Â See my comments below on why connecting with shareholders via video is critical.

AGORACOM Videos are broadcast on more channels than we can count but here are just a few of them:

What is even more encouraging is the fact that video views are accelerating for the following reasons:

We’ve added on more shows.Â We’ve grown from AGORACOM Small Cap TV to AGORACOM Small Cap Gold and Resources TV and Chinese Small Cap TV
Each show has become it’s own stand alone channel on sites such as YouTube, BlipTV, Yahoo Video and other sites.
We’ve made our daily shows timely and relevant by releasing them between 9:30 – 9:45 AM EST every morning right after the open.Â This consistency creates the kind of reliability investors like.
Our daily videos provide great value to small-cap investors.Â How? We filter the hundreds of small-cap press releases issued every morning and report on the best 1-5 of the day.
We’ve integrated all the videos into our social media streams on Twitter, Facebook, StockTwits and other avenues
We’ve made our videos extremely search engine friendly by adding accurate descriptions and customized info for every show.

DOMINATING SEARCH FOR “SMALL CAP VIDEOS”

As a result of our hard and meticulous work, search engines are starting to reward us for our efforts, which only leads to more exposure amongst small-cap investors.Â For example:

Google Video – We hold all top 10 spots for searches of “small-cap resource stocks“
YouTube – We dominate the entire first page for searches ofÂ “Chinese small cap stocks“
Google Video – We hold 8 of the top 10 spots for searches of “small-cap“
Google Video – We hold 9 of the top 10 spots for searches of “small-cap gold stocks“
YouTube – We hold 9 of the top 10 spotsÂ for searches of “small-cap resource stocks“

INCORPORATING SKYPE INTERVIEWS WITH SMALL-CAP CEO’S

We are so focused on the importance and relevance of video to the small-cap industry, that we’ve recently begun incorporatingÂ Skype Video interviews into our programming.Â Again, the premise is to get small-cap companies and investors connecting with each other immediately after the release of material news.Â Expect to see this grow significantly in 2011.

WHY IS VIDEO SO IMPORTANT TO SMALL-CAP COMPANIES?

One of the greatest problems faced by small-cap companies, even the really good ones, is the lack of connection with investors beyond issuing press releases.Â As a result, investors have no loyalty to you if business simmers down for a while because they’ve been trained to only react to good news.Â As we all know, that simply isn’t possible for most small-cap companies.Â All of you go through slow and dry periods for various reasons.Â Even when business is going well, you often have to wait on the next big sales contract, drill result, etc.Â God help you if the wait is longer than expected.

As such, connecting with investors creates a personal relationship that buys you the time to execute your plan.Â Video is an excellent connector because it allows you to communicate as openly as possible without actually standing in front of shareholders.Â Investors love video because watching facial expressions and body language is the next best thing to strapping you into a lie detector.Â It also makes shareholders far more likely to share what you have to say because video beats boring text.

If you’re a small-cap company and don’t have an online video strategy yet, I suggest you start thinking about one.Â Alternatively, call us and we’ll take care of it.

Regards,
George

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AGORACOM Surpasses 500,000 Visitors YTD 2011 … And Counting

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:32 AM on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

As you all know very well by now, I love to share data pertaining to our accomplishments. Â Why? Talk is cheap and data is the only way to differentiate who is actually getting the job done in the world ofÂ online investor relations.

Despite what all the “Johnny Come Lately IR Experts“Â have been telling you as of late, AGORACOM has been proving toÂ small-cap CEO’s for years that online investor relations is the key to attracting the widest possible audience of investors.

ONLINE INVESTOR RELATIONS PLATFORM IS BEST FOR SMALL-CAP INVESTOR RELATIONS

Moreover, we’ve been pounding the table on the fact that a unifiedÂ small-cap investor relations platform such as AGORACOM is a cheaper, faster and easier way to achieve that goal. Â We simply don’t agree that solo social media efforts are sufficient because individual small-cap companies simply don’t push out enough content and information to attract a meaningful audience and presence.

To this end, AGORACOM has been working hard at casting the widest net possible viaÂ our own site,Â sister sites,Â social media andÂ small-cap videos. Â That effort is paying big dividends in terms of driving traffic into our network.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING – 503,420 INVESTORS IN 2011 … AND COUNTING

Here is the irrefutable visitor data (independentlyÂ tracked by Google Analytics), as well as, the list of Top 10 countries … and here is how youÂ contact us to discuss your online investor relations needs.

To put this success into further perspective, this traffic does not include data from our social media sites (Twitter, YouTube and Facebook) which are enjoying their own success per our January 5, 2011 post. Â Look for an update on these in the coming week.

Regards,

George Tsiolis, Founder

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International Small-Cap Investors Account For 22% Of AGORACOM Clicks In July 2011

Posted by AGORACOM at 2:01 PM on Friday, July 29th, 2011

Despite what all the “Johnny Come Lately IR Experts” have been telling you as of late, AGORACOM has been proving to small-cap CEO’s for years that online investor relations is the key to attracting the widest possible audience of investors.

Moreover, we’ve been pounding the table on the fact that a unified small-cap investor relations platform such as AGORACOM is a cheaper, faster and easier way to achieve that goal. Â We simply don’t agree that solo social media efforts are sufficient because individual small-cap companies simply don’t push out enough content and information to attract a meaningful audience and presence.

To this end, AGORACOM has been working hard at casting the widest net possible via our own site, sister sites, social media and small-cap videos. Â That effort is paying big dividends in terms of traffic to all of those sources – and today we present further evidence of that with 22% of our stories in July being clicked on by foreign small-cap investors.

Here is the irrefutable click data and list of countries … and here is how you contact us to discuss your online investor relations needs.

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Speaking At Reverse Merger Conference. TOPIC: The Future Of Reverse Mergers

Posted by AGORACOM at 12:57 PM on Friday, June 10th, 2011

I’m happy to announce my participation in yet another great Reverse Merger Conference by DealFlow Media. Â I have a long history of participating and speaking at The Reverse Merger Conference, the best conference of its kind. Â This year’s topic may be the most important of all given what has taken place in the Chinese segment of the reverse merger industry:

The Future Of Reverse Mergers – Repairing The Market’s Image

What steps can the reverse merger market take to restore confidence after recent fraud allegations and ongoing investigations of Chinese companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission? Could the market emerge stronger and more efficient afterwards? This session explains how proper due diligence, quality companies and a strong supporting cast is critical to reframing the structure and market.

I have the honor of joining a great panel on the topic that includes:

MODERATOR: TOM POLETTI, K&L Gates

AJ CERVANTES, Trilogy Capital Partners

GEORGE FANG, BDO Seidman

LISA TROE, FTI Consulting

GEORGE TSIOLIS, ChinaSecurities.com

As you can see, my contributions will come from the view of ChinaSecurities.com, an online community for companies and shareholders to collaborate together.

I will have more to report after the conference, which takes place on June 13 – 14. Â I hope to see you there.

Regards,

George

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