We’re expanding and just signed a lease today for a larger office located on the main floor of The Two Twenty, just behind Collective Coffee. Construction is under way and we should be able to move into our new space at the beginning of March.
Here’s a spy shot of the construction to tide you over:
Happy New Year! We wish you the best in 2012 and hope the holidays were full of cheer!
2011 was extremely kind to our business and we would like to share with you our highlights from the past year and thank you for your continued support.
- Like every year before it, 2011 was our biggest and best year. Our sales grew substantially over last year which we attribute to a lot of hard work, increased networking efforts, and the diminishing effect of the worldwide economic recession. A big thank you to our clients!
- We moved into a wonderful co-working space called The Two Twenty in September. We love it so much here that we will be expanding into a larger suite in the building later in the year. Check out a video tour of the building that was filmed during the wild grand opening party that was held in November.
- To celebrate the 8 year anniversary of our web hosting division, we revamped our hosting plans giving all customers a free upgrade featuring as much 5x the resources. We also implemented new hosting technologies in order to improve server stability and performance.
- We acquired our second hosting business in April, purchasing the customers of Collision Hosting, a small US firm.
- We launched Ominocity, a local music blog with accompanying iPhone and Android apps in March. 6 months later Ominocity was voted as Best Local Website in Planet S Magazine’s “Best of Saskatoon” reader poll.
- Varial was a sponsor again to the massive Halifax Pop Explosion music festival and also sponsored the YYJ Freelance Camp and BarCamp Saskatoon networking events. Ominocity staff even gave the closing presentation at BarCamp Saskatoon!
Along with sponsoring the event, members of our staff will be giving the talk “How to Create an Award-Winning Blog in 6 Months” at BarCamp Saskatoon tomorrow from 12pm-9pm at VendAsta. If you will be attending the event, be sure to check out our presentation!
We are pleased to announce that updates for our Ominocity mobile apps have just been released.
This update provides iOS 5 compatibility for the iPhone and several bug fixes to the Android app.
Download Ominocity for iPhone and Android at: http://www.ominocity.com/apps/
We are pleased to announce that Ominocity, our local music blog, has been voted as “Best Local Website or Blog” in Planet S Magazine’s Best of Saskatoon reader poll.
We would like to pat our staff on the back and thank everyone who voted for us or supported us in any way!
We are pleased to announce the release of Concert Catalog v1.2.3, an update to our popular iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application which can be downloaded for free at http://www.concertcatalog.com/.
What’s New?
- Updated for iOS 5 compatibility.
Download Concert Catalog now from http://www.concertcatalog.com/.
We are pleased to announce another event sponsorship for the fall — the YYJFreelanceCamp to be held on Saturday, October 22nd from 9am to 5pm at InHub Coworking Space in Victoria.
YYJFreelanceCamp is an event where you can meet local freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small business owners to learn from their experience, and offer your own words of wisdom.
For more information on YYJFreelanceCamp and to register please visit: http://brandscaping.ca/freelancecamp/
Following yesterday’s announcement that we will be sponsoring BarCamp Saskatoon, we thought this would be as good a time as any to announce another event that we will be sponsoring this fall — the Halifax Pop Explosion.
Halifax Pop Explosion is an international music festival and conference that presents 150 bands in 18 venues over 5 days to over 17,000 fans and industry delegates from around the world.
Varial is pleased to be a long time sponsor of the Halifax Pop Explosion and encourages you to take part in the event which will be held in Halifax on October 18 – 22, 2011.
For more information and to view this year’s festival lineup, please visit: http://halifaxpopexplosion.com/
We are pleased to announce that we are now an official sponsor of BarCamp Saskatoon, an event designed to bring together people who love technology to talk and to learn.
This year’s BarCamp is being held on Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 12pm-9pm at VendAsta.
For more information please visit: http://www.barcampsaskatoon.org/
Since launching a daily posting schedule 3 months ago, our tech blog has seen a lot of growth and success. Our app recommendations have been considerably popular, to the point in which we have decided to branch those off into their own website which we are now developing and will launch at a later date.
Further, we have decided to switch from a daily posting schedule to a weekly posting schedule, to allow more time for us to prepare more in depth articles for our readers.
We hope you enjoy the many articles we have planned for the upcoming weeks!