There are more than 80 Vancouverites going to Austin, Texas this week for the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival including 5 of us from 6S Marketing. As far as we know 6S has the largest contigent from Vancouver attending the show plus we will be showing off at our booth #115.
SXSW is a conference that combines music, film and interactive and 40,000 people are expected to attend. The interactive portion of SXSW is likely to attract the most attendees, now in its 16th year. The music portion of the event is now in its 24th year as a music festival. Read More…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, it has been hard to miss the squabbles between NewsCorp and Google over NewsCorp’s content being included in the Google News content aggregator. The most interesting quote to come out of the war of words between these two Goliaths, however, is where Google notes casually that they send NewsCorp’s sites thousands of clicks per minute.
Google Local. Establish your business in Google Maps and when the world comes to Vancouver they will find you. 
Finding the right domain name is a big decision and a lot has to weigh on it. Branding, SEO, and ‘catchiness’ are just a few.
Google is hungry. Since August 2009, the world’s largest search engine has made four acquisitions: 
