Monday, February 04, 2013

HTG Inc. Press Release - ITIL3 Certifications

My client, HTG Inc. issued this press release regarding the company receiving ITIL3 Best Practices certifications.
 
Quite a number of industry and new websites ran the release:

Rivet & Sway Press Release

My client, Rivet & Sway, just issued this press release on their new round of funding.

Four sites wrote their own stories on it:
  1. Women's online eyeglass seller Rivet & Sway peers ahead with $2 million - The company, Rivet & Sway, today is announcing that it has raised $2 million in fresh funding from investors that include New York-based ... read more
  2. Warby Parker Competitor Rivet & Sway Raises $2 Million More - Rivet & Sway, which sells prescription glasses online to women at $199 a pair, has ... Rivet &Sway said it will use the proceeds this year for hiring, introducing ...read more
  3. VatorNews - Rivet & Sway bags $2M for women's prescription glasses - Rivet & Sway bags $2M for women's prescription glasses. The company aims to be the leader in online shopping for women's eyewear by Faith Merino on ... read more
  4. Rivet & Sway raises $2M | PandoDaily - Rivet & Sway, an online glasses seller based in Seattle, has raised a $2 million round from Mousse Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal. read more
 
Other places that picked up the release:

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

HTG Inc.'s new offices

My client, HTG Inc., recently moved their offices (to be closer to me, I think :-). Here's a photo gallery of their new facilities.
Updated listings in all the local business directories:

Monday, January 28, 2013

Snowboarding down Mount Royal

Seb Toots Montreal snowboarding run from Seb Toots on Vimeo.

This is pretty cool...I lived in the dorms right below Mount Royal for the first couple of years I was at McGill, and hiked up that mountain many times. Used to rappel down parts of it, too...there's some good small faces.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Islands of the South Pacific: Q&A with David Stanley

I recently had the chance to do a little Q&A session with David Stanley, author of many guidebooks on the South Pacific, on the Visual Itineraries website: http://www.visualitineraries.com/blog/a-conversation-with-guidebook-writer-david-stanley/ David's from Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island--not far from where I grew up.

Friday, January 18, 2013

Low passes by fighter jets

This...is....AWESOME....I guarantee a lot of underwear was harmed in the making of this video:

Museo Ducati at MotoCorsa

Arun's got some amazing Italian machinery on display at MotoCorsa this month.  Check out the photos I took yesterday:


Thursday, January 10, 2013

New travel planning article

At Visual Itineraries, I've published another in our series of travel planning articles--this one's on the best time of year to go to Australia.

Photo courtesy Rich in Kensington on Flickr.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Louie's Pizza

An awesome new local pizza place has opened in North Portland--Louie's Pizza & Catering. The owner, Louie, used to run Nicola's just down the street. And yes, they have gluten-free pizza :-)

Monday, January 07, 2013

I found all my Tahiti photos!

A few years ago, I'd gone to Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora with Rodney Smith of Sunspots, and visited nearly every resort on all three islands...taking tons of photos. Unfortunately my hard drive went belly-up between then and now, and I'd lost a portion of my photo collection--including all the ones from French Polynesia. I just discovered that I'd uploaded a copy of most of them to Flickr...yea! So I downloaded the best of them, and added them to the respective brochures on Visual Itineraries. In Bora Bora, there are new photos for the Bora Bora Pearl Beach Resort, the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa, the the Sofitel Bora Bora Marara beach & motu, and the St. Regis. On Moorea, there are new photos for the Hilton Moorea Lagoon Resort, and the Moorea Pearl. On Tahiti Nui, there are new photos for the InterContinental Tahiti and Le Meridien. And, if you're wondering when you should go there, read our article on the best time of year to go to French Polynesia :-)

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Review: "Reading Poker Tells"

My client Zachary Elwood's book, "Reading Poker Tells", was recently reviewed by CPL Poker Podcast.

Friday, October 26, 2012

CCA Penguin & Panda at Randall Children's Hospital

CCA's MusicRX Specialists Matt French and Anna Spackman having some fun in costume at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel. Costumes were provided by Costume Kingdom.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

New article on Seychelles at Visual Itineraries

Also this week, I wrote this short article on the best time of year to visit the Seychelles.

New article on New Zealand at Visual Itineraries

I just published a short article on Visual Itineraries on the best time of year to visit New Zealand.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

More TV Coverage for Costume Kingdom Donations

KCAL 9 News ran this today about Costume Kingdom's donation to Para Los Niños Charter Elementary School:

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Costume Kingdom on NECN

Costume Kingdom was also on The Morning Show on NECN.

Costume Kingdom on WFSB TV in Connecticut

My client, Costume Kingdom, was on the CBS affiliate TV station in Connecticut: WFSB Channel 3 Trendy Mommies, who hosted the show, also put up this post about the segment.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Buy a costume, help kids with cancer

My client, Costume Kingdom, is currently focusing their marketing on promotions related to helping kids in one way or another. They donated a pile of costumes to the Boys & Girls Club about a month ago, and also donated the costumes for our SEMpdx Penguins & Pandas Gangnam Style video promo for the presentation Ben Lloyd and I are doing next week. Do you need a Hallowe'en costume for your kids, or for a "grown-up" party? Costume Kingdom will donate 20% of what you purchase to the Children's Cancer Association! They have a huge selection and totally reasonable prices. http://www.costumekingdom.com/childrenscancer.aspx Full disclosure: I'm on the Ambassador Board of the Children's Cancer Association, so, yes, I totally have 2 ponies in this race :-)

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Penguins & Pandas, Gangnam Style!

Ben Lloyd and I are presenting Oct. 9th, 4:30PM at Hotel deLuxe...the topic: Google's Penguin and Panda algorithms. To promote the event, we made this little video spoof of the Korean music video "Gangnam Style":



Thanks to Costume Kingdom for providing us with the panda and penguin costumes for the video.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Rivet & Sway

Rivet & Sway is a new client of mine, an online retailer of stylish glasses for women.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

All-Inclusives in Jamaica

Just finished up an article for the new travel planning advice section of Visual Itineraries: it's on the best all-inclusive resorts in Jamaica.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Press Release for Quick Badge & Sign

Release headline: Name Badges, Name Tags and Full Color Signs by Quick Badge & Sign Co., Inc. Let Us Help You Show Off Your Company Logo and Recognize All Key Employees by Name Release date: August 22, 2012

Costume Kingdom Press Release

Press release pickup for my client, who donated a number of costumes to the Boys and Girls Club: Release headline: Costume Kingdom Provides a Wardrobe Change to Disadvantaged Youth
Release date: August 22, 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Travel Advice: When to Visit Tahiti

We've just published a new article on the best time to visit Tahiti on our Visual Itineraries blog.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Where can I find overwater bungalows?

You probably knew that they had overwater bungalows in Tahiti, but you'll also find them in Fiji, Zanzibar, Maldives, and more.

Batman Breakfast ranking test

I know this probably doesn't make sense...never mind, it's a Bat-test.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Monday, July 09, 2012

Shoreview Travel Itineraries

Roxanne Brown of Shoreview Travel and Elite Beach Vacations has created three cool visual itineraries: Maui, Oahu, and Los Cabos.

SEO Optimized Photo Gallery

Just installed my SEO-optimized photo gallery on the Marque Motors website this past week. You can also find it in action on Glen Dene Hunting, Coastal Mist Chocolates, Sunspots Safaris, and of course my own photo gallery site.

Exotic French Polynesia: Moorea & Bora Bora

Tahiti travel specialist Cathy Jackson from Sunsational Vacations in New Jersey has used Visual Itineraries to create this collection of her most recommended resorts and things to see and do in Moorea and Bora Bora.

Thursday, July 05, 2012

Best honeymoon resorts in the world

At Visual Itineraries, we've put together a list of the top 250 honeymoon destinations around the world. There's some pretty fabulous places on our list, with lots of hi-res photos, videos, virtual tours, and more.

Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Guest bloggers...an opportunity

One of my clients, Costume Kingdom, is now accept guest blog posts. See their guest blog post submission guidelines page for more information.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Flying with Dominik

Click the photo, then click Slideshow


Dominik is one of our Rotary club's exchange students--returning to Switzerland next week.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Article on Honeymoons

PleasureTripping.com just published an article I wrote for them on creative honeymoons.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Quick backlink checker

I built this quick-and-dirty backlink checker that will find pages in SEOmoz's Linkscape database (using the very powerful SEOmoz API) that link back to a given page.

Friday, June 08, 2012

Rainy June in Portland = time to go to Fiji!

I wish...too much to do. But if you've got more free time than I do, check out my latest blog post on the best time to visit Fiji.

Friday, May 25, 2012

10 SEO Myths Debunked

Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz talks about ten SEO myths in today's Whiteboard Friday video:

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Guest Blog Posts Available

Visual Itineraries is now accepting guest blog posts on our travel blog (travel topics only, please). See our guest blogging guidelines.

10 Dive Destinations for Every Diver's Bucket List

Just published an article about ten diving destinations that ought to be on every scuba diver's bucket list. Read my article on GoWorld Travel Guide.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Client quoted in the Orlando Sentinel

My client, Jonathan Alper, an asset protection and bankruptcy lawyer in Orlando Florida, was quoted in an article in the Orlando Sentinel yesterday.

Saturday, May 05, 2012

Spring flowers



Click the photo to see the gallery.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Saturday, March 24, 2012