Today, your business is here and that dream is now a reality. You’ve added a certain vibrancy and character to the Niagara Region, offering an amazing experience your customers can’t find anywhere else. My question is, Is your company as you imagined it would be? Do your customers see that image?

Your best customers do, because they’ve  probably seen an image of value. People search ever so hard for company’s they trust and want to stay loyal to. They switch companies at the blink of an eye until they find the one company that has the best value. Your company’s value. You’ve made your image known to them, vxFusion can make it known to everyone else.

Mark Vandervliet
Branding Strategist
vxFusion
mark.vandervliet@vxfusion.com
905.734.7410

What did you think of the blog? Email your questions, comments or opinions to mark.vandervliet@vxfusion.com or leave a comment below. vxFusion appreciates all your feedback and we look forward to hearing from you!

Take a trip into the past with Niagara 1812. Using your iPhone, visit places and people from the War of 1812 and beyond. Choose Roam Mode, walk around one of the historic towns of Niagara, Canada, and discover the stories that lie behind the bricks and mortar. Or choose Quest Mode, and solve a centuries-old mystery in an immersive adventure.

With Niagara 1812, you carry history with you, in the palm of your hand.

We just launched the website for the new iPhone App game Niagara 1812! The game was a joint project between nGen and Brock University, and was just recently approved for sale in the Apple App Store. The completely custom design features advanced lighting, soft textures, custom vector paper, and the beautiful Google web font IM Fell. For the development of the website we used custom jQuery (JavaScript) and advanced CSS3, all hand-coded of course.

For more information about the project, visit the new website: ihistorytours.com

I will be posting at least one of these blogs each month. I encourage you to come check it out and subscribe, you will not regret it!  The purpose of the blog is to give answers, tips and information you can use to expand your knowledge on a variety of subjects.  You can look forward to my first blog in about 2 weeks.  I will make it as interesting and informative as possible, and express a little bit of our creativity here at vxFusion. Your ideas and comments are much appreciated and can be sent to me via email @ mark.vandervliet@vxfusion.com.

Again, I hope to hear from all of you soon!

Mark Vandervliet

Marketing and Advertising

mark.vandervliet@vxfusion.com

Sales & marketing guru Mark Vandervliet has joined the vxFusion team. We are excited to have Mark join us as our new marketing director, and are confident Mark has the right mix of passion, skill, and creativity.

Bringing over 5 years of experience in sales and marketing, he will be working with our clients to help them increase sales, establish their brand and identity, and create strategic marketing campaigns. Within the next few weeks, Mark will be introducing himself to all of our current and past clients.

Email: mark.vandervliet@vxfusion.com

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/marcusvandervliet

Phone: 905-734-7410

Happy Canada Day!

For the month of July, celebrate Canada Day with a new business card design on us! We’ll design you a new business card to suit your style when you purchase any new website, print, or branding work before July 31, 2010. Valid on all order over $1000. Does not include printing.

Get started!

Besides creating custom designed websites, we also will build a website that has already been designed (Called Design-to-HTML). Fourgrounds Media Inc, the web-video powerhouse located in downtown St. Catharines (And one of the media companies pioneering a new Canadian silicon valley right here in Niagara), came to us with concept designs and a vision of what they wanted their website to look like. Our job was to build it to exact specifications, and pull-off some crazy JavaScript animation techniques in the mean time, all while making sure everything worked on the iPhone… woah!

Our coding ninjas when straight to work and came out with a website build we are very proud of, to match a design that Fourgrounds Media Inc. graphic designer did an awesome job on as well. Even though we did not do the design on this one (since we are a creative company after-all), we are extremely happy to be a part of the build, and to start a great relationship with Fourgrounds!

Check out the new website at: fourgrounds.com

We just launched the Ooh la la Designs new website! Ooh la la Designs, based in Fonthill, creates beautiful custom planters, porch and patio displays, and arrangements. They match it to your home or businesses decor, and can optionally update it every season for you all for a low yearly price.

The website features custom design, SEO, hand-coding, as well as custom JavaScript animation.

Visit myoohlaladesigns.ca

We just launched the Welland Public Library’s new website! The website was custom developed using the WordPress Content Management System, and allows the library staff to update content, create events, pages, news, custom forms, surveys, and maintain the gigantic website.

The website also has two separately designed mini-websites, the Kid’s Space, and the Teen Zone.

Check out the website at: www.welland.library.on.ca

We’re in the Newspaper!

With the launch of the Welland Public Library website, the Welland Tribune (Local Newspaper) came out for some photos of Janet Booth, Barbara Murphy, and vxFusion designer Kelsey Roach.

Download the Newspaper Article (PDF File)

We will train the successful candidate on how to sell and market both vxFusion and vxNetworks.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

You will be responsible for the following:

• Sales and marketing for vxFusion and vxNetworks.
• Client relations for vxFusion and vxNetworks.
• Weekly social network updating  for vxFusion and vxNetworks.
• Attend business network events for either vxFusion or vxNetworks.
• Receive incoming calls from prospects.
• Guide potential clients through the sales cycle from prospect application to client.
• Help organize seminars and coordinate meetings with new partners and clients.
• Potential to work on projects for advertising and marketing.

QUALIFICATIONS

Applicant must have the following qualifications:

• Student or Recent Grad of a marketing or sales program or equivalent.
• Eagerness to learn about the web and IT industries.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Exceptional marketing knowledge.
• Ability to take a sale from start to close.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint.
• Excellent public speaker/presenter.
• Passion to join a young interactive media company and help grow to a worldwide leader in web, advertising, and marketing.
• Passion for marketing and advertising.
• Must have transportation.

This position is part-time 10 – 15 hours a week and we are willing to work around school or work schedules.

If you are interested, please send resume to info@vxfusion.com.

All interviewed applicants will be contacted if successful or not.

DIRECTLY FROM THE WELLAND TRIBUNE:

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Two Niagara College graduates were honoured with the TD Canada Trust Small Business Banking Group Award during the annual research open house at the Niagara-on-the-Lake campus.

Chris Bowman and Kelsey Roach, 2009 graduates from the college’s new media web design and computer programming programs, were recognized for their company VXFusion, a Niagara-based studio that offers website design, e-commerce solutions and advertising media.

The TD award recognizes Niagara College students who have made a significant contribution to Niagara Research and who have successfully started or are planning to start a new business venture.

Niagara Research is the home of applied research at Niagara College. Niagara Research, in partnership with business or community partners, conducts applied research projects that model or simulate solutions and develop and test prototypes.

- http://www.wellandtribune.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2504316

Learn more about Niagara Research and TD Canada Trust.