Reachd 3 Hour Social Media Course - November 27th 2008

To the left is a picture of the Reachd Social Media course in November. Participants in the course gather to talk about social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Those in the course included, Anthony Wong of Invest Right, Liz Gaige of Marketing Navigators, Wendy Bell creator of Pump Ease, Diane  Sam founder of Moboleez, Jane Huynh with Kuni Design, Maury Lum, Kayvan Rahmati, David Watts, Meghan Cairns & Tanya Jeske of Coast Capital Savings, Michael Sjerven & Lucy Wedge.

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Reachd Blogging Course October 2008

The Reachd blogging course in Vancouver was held in a new location this week. We were at the Telus Executive Boardroom at UBC Robson Square. We had 8 people gathered around the table including - Kye Grace a Vancouver Realtor, Nancy Mudford, Wendy Bell, Amanda Beisel, Liz Verhoeve, Andrea Foxman, Kate Kulter, Sheena McCallum. At the conclusion of the course we asked everyone to consider one thing that they would do to take their blog to the next level. - How will you take your blog or website to the next level?

Reachd Video Training September 2008

The Reachd video training had a varied group of participants in September. We gave out Flip Cameras to everyone who participated. Here is a list of some of our new videographers - Elaine Hay, Kye Grace, Joe Bhango, David Malkin, Nancy Mudford, Amanda Lin, Dave Burch, Trish Anderson, Mike Alford, Marco Reichgeld, Kristi Nelson and George Affleck.

Here is what Elaine Hay said following the course - "I got the office staff really excited about this one -  even videoed them so as to get over their jitters!"

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Reachd Video Training in August 14 2008

Reachd video course in August was a successful time. We had several attendees from our previous courses as well as some new internet marketers.

Angie Howden-Duke from Energy Group Fitness joined us along with Mark McCook a criminal attorney. We had a few realtors also joining us for the training including, Damali Adomi, Maria Mak, and Damon Krepski. Sean Widdess from Verico joined us along with Daniel Jordan of Sunshine Coast Health Centre and Kim Crimeni.

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Reachd SEO Course in Vancouver July 30th and 31st 2008

We had a great time at our most recent SEO bootcamp. Two days spent getting to know other people's business, looking at their website, learning and helping other succeed online - a great way to spend two days in the sexiest place on earth - aka Yaletown in Vancouver. Those that joined us included, Paul Albrighton, Mark McCook working with an association of DUI Lawyers in Canada, Daniel Jordan from a private Drug Rehab Centre, and Mitch Jarvi an experienced web marketing looking to brush up on his skills.

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Reachd Social Media Course in Vancouver July 29th 2008

Students gathered at Ceili's Irish Pub in downtown Vancouver to learn about Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn at our Social Media Guided Tour. It was our first course and in keeping with the social theme we allowed everyone to bring a friend. Those who attended included, Ian Watt, Mark McCook, Greg Stewart, Granville Pharmacy and representatives from the Make a Future Team

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Reachd Video Training in Vancouver July 15th 2008

Students of our Video training got a quick introduction to Video as we started off the video course by asking them to do introductions on video! A few brave souls took a risk and agreed to be on video. You can view the video to the left. Those in attendance at the Online video course included: Christina Simpson, Jessi Johnson, Tom Everitt, Woody Jefferies, Laura Delmaestro, Leo Chueng, Patricia Boscacci, Paul Lamarre, Dave Zille, Ruth Hanson, and Anita Schmitt. As usual everyone went home with a Flip Video Camera. Look for their stellar videos on YouTube soon!

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Reachd Blogging Course in Vancouver July 8th 2008

We had an exciting first time experience in our July blogging course. Our course was made up of all ladies. Some of the participants had blogs, other had no idea about blogs and some had plans to start a blogging. Dr. Debbie Wright, a chiropractor in Vancouver, has had her blog up and running for a while but wanted to take things to the next level. Shannon Lawder ,a project manager at Virtus, is managing their company site and plans to start a blog. Valerie Longstaff, also known as Grout Girl, has a built a successful business and now is ready to take the next step with a blog.

Our Next Blog Training is August 7th 2008 

Reachd Video Course in Seattle with Gary Vaynerchuk June 28 2008

Reachd held their most recent Video training in downtown Seattle at the beautiful Zillow offices on the 46th floor. We were priviledged to have Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV join us to talk about personal brand and online video. Vancouver Realtor, Ian Watt joined us along with Ardell DellaLoggia,  Michael Hughes, and Kim Harris. Zillow's David Gibbons was in the training and Clinton Kabler of D3 Security

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Reachd 2 Day SEO Course in Vancouver June 25 2008

The Reachd 2 Day SEO Bootcamp was held in downtown Vancouver on June 25th and 26th. It was a bootcamp made up exclusively of realtors. Tim Ayres specializing in Sooke Real Estate made the trek from Vancouver Island to join us. UBC Condo specialist Malcom Reading of Remax participated in the training along with Ian Watt who is now marketing Vancouver Condos 100% online. At the end of our bootcamp, Ian commented... "I wish we could do this for a couple of hours every week!"

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Reachd Blog Training June 10th 2008

Nurse Next Door and a local Vancouver Real Estate Agent, Shaun Kimmins attended our blogging training in June. The smaller class was awesome. We were able to dig into blogging questions with more detail. The tour of Wordpress was quite helpful along with the indepth look at the benefits of plugging feedburner into your blog. 

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Reachd Adwords Training June 5th 2008

We were privileged to teach a round of Adwords training at Ceilis Irish Pub (670 Smithe) Just yesterday. One of the powerful tips that came out of the sessions was the importance of keeping your Keywords focused. The more focused your keywords the better the results with Adwords. Those that took part in the training included, Nurse Next Door, Jeff Stark Burnaby Realtor, Expedia Cruise Ship Centers, WOW Branding, and McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group

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Reachd Ubertor Training June 3rd 2008

Ubertor is a killer content management system for Real Estate so it was a lot of fun teaching on this product. We had a some Ubertor newbies and experienced Ubertor users in the room. It was a great mix and we spent a ton of time talking about Ubertor's new video features. Those in attendance at the training included, Jessica Chen, Karim Bhatia and Kasha Rudner, John Lee, Terry Chalmers, and Dylan Hughes. Thanks to all those that attended and made this a great event.

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Reachd 3 Hour Video Training Session May 28th 2008

We hosted another Sold Out video session with a few special guests. Rob Lewis from Tech Vibes joined us for the training along with Raul Pacheco the top twitter in Vancouver. Once again it was Christmas in Ceilis as everyone was opening their cameras. You can view the video of the camera opening by playing the video to the left. Those in attendance included: Dara Sklar, Margo Murray, Blake Joiner, Marta Aragones, Victor Wang, Craig Boyd, Deb Robson, Debbie Collins, Jacqueline Voci, Theo Sanidas, Chris Fellbaum, Jason Kyle, George Rust, Maggie Dorf, Claire LeLacheur, Terry Chalmers and Erin Nichols. 

Next Video Training - June 17th
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Reachd 3 Hour Google Adwords Training May 27th 2008

Another great day of training.  At this 3 hour Google Adwords session we had representatives from SPUD.ca, B-TV.com, Sutton.com, Kevin James Day Photography and young entrepreneur Eiselle Omampo.  It was a great session with lots of dynamic discussions on the use of Google Adwords in each of the business that were present.  

Reachd May 21st and 22nd 2008 Search Engine Optimization Essentials Bootcamp

The May SEO Essentials Bootcamp just wrapped up. It was quite an intense group since we had 2 participants eager to learn and ready to implement their new knowledge. We were pleased to have the Managing Developer from Heritage Canada show up from Ottawa, ON to participate. Ashish oversees their web projects such as the National Gallery of Canada, Cybermuse and Shop at NGC. Kenny Wee, our other participant is a budding web developer and aspiring internet marketer. He is developing a furniture site called FF & E Inc.

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Reachd 3 Hour Blog Training on May 20th 2008

The 3 hour blog training on Tuesday, May 20th was a huge success.  We are seeing lots of interest from the business world when it comes to blogging.  We had some great companies send representatives to this past workshop.  Those companies include Homelife Benchmark Realty, MAKE Technologies, Theo Sanidas, Kenny Wee, Lonsdale Event Rentals and ShowTime Tickets.  If you're interested in making one of our next workshops check out the upcoming dates as they fill up fast. 

Reachd 3 Hour Search Engine Optimization Training May 15th 2008

The 3 hour sessions at Ceili's Irish Pub are really catching on. The most recent training was a SEO training titled, "Building a Site Google Loves!" One commented and said, "I'm looking forward to the next session. This was very informative." Those in attendance included the following people and companies: Bonnie Coombe, Showtime Tickets, Unilogik Systems, Nurse Next Door, i-Finance, Klondike Contracting, Make Technologies, Focal Point Coaching, Academy of Learning, and B-TV.com

Reachd 3 Hour Video Training May 13th 2008

Our First Online Video Session was a huge success. The room was packed with a SOLD OUT crowd of 20 people. 16 real estate agents, 4 professionals from marketing industry and a recruitment company. Each participant received one of the flip cameras pictured to the left. The video training aslo hosted a special guest, Gillian Shaw, from the Vancouver Sun came to see what all the online Video excitement was about. Get the scoop on the Vancouver Sun article or watch this Video of the particpants opening their cameras. Thanks to Mike, Sylvain, Tim, Rob, Tony, Brenda, Ron, Jeff, Ian, Keesha, William, Vesna, Nicola, Larry, Mike, Steve, David, Robert, Dennis and Matthew for coming. 

Reachd 3 Hour Google Adwords Training April 29th 2008

Our first series of 3 hour training sessions just finished up last week with our Adwords workshop. We had many of the same participants that attended some of our previous SEO and Blogging training with a few new faces in the bunch. The new faces included, Patrica Houlihan specializing in Vancouver Luxury Real Estate, Tim Tomlins a Vancouver Realtor, Keshni de Vaz from Onetouch.ca, Richard Cooper a printer of recycled business cards The session was helpful and we are excited about offering the sessions again next month! Read more about May's Training Schedule

Reachd 3 Hour SEO Training April 24 2008

Our SEO event at Ceili's Irish Pub at 670 Smithe was a great time. We had about 15 people in attendance for the 3 hour session.

Those in attendance included.
Tom Davis of Furry Creek Real Estate; Michael Giesbrecht a West Vancouver Realtor; Angie Howden-Duke of Energy Fitness Vancouver; Robin Hansen, specializing in Kitsilano Real Estate; Chantal Spector of Protexis; Gina Kara a North Vancouver Real Estate Agent; Nicola Walter specializing West Vancouver real estate; Rob MacPherson a Vancouver property manager; Wilma Li also a West Vancouver Realtor; Kevin Day a Vancouver Photographer; Marianne Molle assistant to Gary Born; Jennifer Bailey representing a Vancouver Caterer; Joseph Lo from Kuni Designs; Kevan Gilbert from the Union Gospel Mission and Joe Corea - Mortgage Broker and Realtor. Everyone walked away with some great tips and a some were anxious for the next course.

Reachd 3 Hour Blog Training April 22 2008

We filled the table at Ceili's Irish pub in downtown Vancouver with Reators, Mortgage Brokers, Property Manager and cost reduction specialist. Here are the people that attended the blog training: Rob MacPherson, Rowan Smith, Michael Giesbrecht, Wilma Li, Diana Dougherty, Claire LeLacheur, Gina Kara, and Stephen Drinkwater.

Here's a bit of feedback from the session..
Thanks for the great course today. I took a lot away from the course and found out things I didn’t even know existed but can see how they would greatly help with the SEO that I am working on.
Rowan Smith - Mortgage Broker

Reachd Adwords Training at Zillow April 17 2008

The Zillow boardroom in Seattle was packed with agents and brokers keen to learn more about how to use Adwords to market their listings. Gordon Stephenson, real estate broker, Seattle townhome developer and member of the Zillow board brought 4 people from his office to join us, including: Stefen Hadfield, Doug Holman, Arielle Thurik and Ian MacMillian. Jim Reppond a Seattle real estate agent participated in the group along with Seattle Condo specialist Brenda Brynildsen. West Seattle real estate agent Aletha Thompson joined us and we had two mortgage borkers in the group - Mark Thompson & Joe Dahleen from Go Live Loans

Reachd SEO Essentials Bootcamp March 13 & 14 2008 

Our March SEO Essentials Bootcamp was a great success. We filled the table with four participants engaging in some basic SEO training and a little bit of advanced talk as well. Mark Bond the GM for REO Rafting, a whitewater rafting outfit in BC joined us and put his site on display.  Chris Neumann, a South Surrey real estate agent and Joanne Saunders, Marketing Manager for BC Developer - Bosa Properties represnted the real estate world. Author and dog cancer expert, Ted Schneck drive up from Portland OR to round out the class. Read more about the SEO training on our Blog.

Reachd Adwords Training February 20th 2008 

We had a few newbies and an experienced pay-per-click advertiser for our February Adwords training. Joe Fayner a False Creek real estate agent, has been using Adwords for some time but was happy to learn more about how to optimize his campaigns. Our wedding photographer, Angela Hubbard, was new to Adwords and said, "I'm so excited about what I'm learning." Vancouver Townhouses was the main theme of Ian Watt's interest as he participated in his third Reachd Bootcamp.

Reachd SEO Essentials Bootcamp February 18th and 19th 2008

Our February bootcamp was a great time we had a real estate team present and a photographer join us to learn how to get their sites to perform well in the search engines. As always the class size was small so students got plenty of one on one attention and we had lots of time to work on the individual site. Angela Hubbard, a Vancouver wedding photographer, showed off her wedding site and we offer some tips. Steve Birkic a downtown Vancouver realtor, shared with us his plans for marketing condos in downtown.

Reachd Advanced SEO Bootcamp January 29th and 30th 

The January advanced SEO bootcamp was a bit of a reniuon as we had several participants from one of our first seo training sessions particpate in this bootcamp. Brenda Russell, an Oak Bay Real Estate specialist, made the trek from Vancouver Island to join us along with three other realtors. Sylvain Cyr has came to learn and show off all the hard work on his site. Since our previous workshop he added content related to condos in the Tapestry building near Vancouver General Hospital. Ian Watt, an avid internet marketer, came to work on his Vancouver Penthouse website and Patricia Houlihan showed us the new developing design of her Vancouver Luxury Homes website. Everyone benefited from having the extensive marketing expertise of Dara Sklar, a real estate marketing guru and video open house provider in the bootcamp.

Ubertor Training with and SEO Twist January 25th 2008

We were excited to host a group of people to go through our first training session on the Ubertor SEO enhancement. Ubertor is real estate web building software and is built according to Google's webmaster guidelines. We took a few hours to go through all of the SEO features and capabilities of the Ubertor software.