What have we been up to?

The last month has been pretty exciting for Spokal. 

We wanted to take a minute and share some of the highlights with you, and more importantly, thank you for joining us as we continue to empower small businesses to grow online.

Are you new here? You might want to check out some of our favourite posts: The Complete Guide of How Often to Post, Tweet + Facebook for Your Small Business, Top 11 Most Powerful Content Marketing Examples By Small Businesses or Should you pay for search ads on Google? Here’s how you can decide.

Highlights from the last 30 days…

We were invited to present at the BCTIA Demo Day with 11 other companies on March 12, 2013. It was a great chance to meet local entrepreneurs and share the stage with some of the best emerging tech companies in BC. 

Check out the presentation that won us the Investor’s Choice Award below, and feel free to read about our experience behind the scenes in this guest post on BCTIA’s blog.

On March 15 we hit another milestone – our first time being on TV! ShawTV did an interview with us and one of our customers, Collin Stewart (founder of VoltageCRM), who shared what his experience has been like as a Spokal customer. 

Curious what Collin said? Check out the 2 min interview below.

The following week we moved into the Generator at Discovery Parks in Vancouver, where we won a competition with Spokal and earned a free year of office space. 

We’re enjoying our new home so far, especially meeting our neighbors: Optigo Networks, Dragonfly Instruments, Inception Sciences, Emberlight Technologies, MedVoxel, PHEMI Health, BeanEvo and a few others. 

The water cooler conversations are interesting – last week I met entrepreneurs trying to solve cancer, use a protein to cure arthritis, make sustainable fish food, measure water quality using laser beams, and make products using data from online poker games, and that was all in one afternoon! 

Now it’s your turn…

What are you saying about Spokal?

Your favourite blog post in the last 30 days was the Top 11 Powerful Content Marketing Examples By Small Businesses and your favourite tweet was…

Upcoming events – see you there!

Want to learn more about inbound marketing? Meet the Spokal team in person? Step away from the computer and chat with like-minded entrepreneurs? Get inspired? Have some fun?

We’re presenting at the following events in Vancouver in April 2013, and we’d love to see you there – this is your official invitation to join us.

• Building a Strong Web Presence and Powerfully Promote Your Brand – On April 10, 2013 we’re presenting on a panel about inbound and content marketing at one of Vancouver’s largest business MeetUp groups. We’ll be joining Bosco Anthony (voted one of Vancouver’s best bloggers) and Ronald Lee (digital media enthusiast) to discuss powerful ways small businesses can grow online. It’s free, doors open at 6pm.

• How To Use Content Marketing To Grow Online – On April 16, 2013 we’ll be speaking at the Vancouver Business Network MeetUp on content marketing and how you can leverage it with a small team to grow online. Held at a pub, it should be a relaxing evening! Doors open at 5pm, cover is $5.

• Founders Collective – “Equal parts TED, Summit Series and The Conversation,” the goal of Founders Collective is to celebrate and promote female entrepreneurship. We’re sitting on a Startup Panel with the founders of Weddingful, ePact and Strutta, and we’re looking forward to meeting leaders from HootSuite, Lululemon, Vision Critical and more! If you want to check this one out, you’ll need to use the password “founders” to get in. The event kicks off with a pre-yoga session in the morning and ends with cocktails at Wildebeest. Tickets are $150.

Finally…Spokal for WordPress!

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been developing a Spokal WordPress plugin in secret, and we’re almost ready invite our first beta customers to use it! If you’d like to check it out, give us a shout or ping us on twitter and we’ll make sure you’re among the first to try Spokal for WordPress.

p.s. Are you wondering how I added the tweets to this post? 

I used Spokal’s drag and drop editor, which makes curating and sharing content easy. You’re welcome to give it a test drive – your free 14 day trial is waiting for you.