Hiring: AffinityClick Social Media Sales Executive

Justin Shimoon (local internet rock star)  is hiring at AffinityClick.com – here is what he is looking for:

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Do you tweet and use Facebook every day, all day? Is building social community so ingrained you just can’t stop? Do you take pride in customer service excellence and fancy yourself an entrepreneur?
 
We seek a highly a motivated individual with experience and fanatical passion for blogging, micro-blogging and community participation leadership. This position is full time salaried, including attending mainstream and niche’ conferences.
 
We promote our services by integrated organic optimization (SEO), social media optimization (SMO) and paid placement (PPC). Our Reputation Monitoring & Management objectives are comprehensive.
 
The successful candidate will join our sales and marketing team and interact with both our internal management and external partners. Our Social Media Sales Executive will focus on attracting bloggers and publishers to use our services by effectively communicating our value to through the social media channels (twitter, facebook, blogging etc.)  and traditional channels (telephone and face to face)
 
Qualifications and Experience

• Should have a bachelor’s or associates degree in music, advertising, marketing, graphics, web development, communications, English, IT, music, theater, anthropology, history or related.
• Excels at research, possesses excellent writing skills and the ability to crank editorial and technical writing output without brooding.
• Worked in the online advertising space not a must but a valuable asset.
• Demonstrated creativity and documented immersion in social media (really send the links)
• Experience sourcing and managing relationships.
• Understands social media universe including YouTube, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Flickr, forums, twitter, Wikis, blogs, etc…We’re looking for a social media addict.
• Has excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to work individually on a project or in a team environment.
• Is eager to meet and exceed sales objectives and take on more responsibility
• Ability to communicate results to management and in a fast paced environment

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Recruit bloggers or publishers using social media tactics, phone, face to face to install and leverage our services.
• Support customers through our customer support portal.
• Negotiate advertising rates with leading merchants and partners.
• Minute by minute participation in conversations that surround our content and brand, answer comments, be a mediator.”
• Create content for feeds and snippets in various social media sites.
• Create and update daily, weekly and monthly reports.

Please send resume to hr@affinityclick.com

Gowlings Seminar Series…

Luke Clare from Gowlings just got in touch to let us know about an interesting event they are hosting on June 24th.  The title of the event is:

Starting and managing a company in the current environment – Tips and tricks to survive and thrive in the current environment

Here are the topics that will be covered:

Financing and Structure for Small to Mid sized companies

Cost – Effective Protection of Intellectual Property

Licensing Basics for Small to Medium Companies

Employment Contract Essentials

Andrew Waitman, the CEO of The Pythian Group will be a special guest and provide lots of great advice for young companies.

You can get more information about the event here.

You can register for the event here.

DoGood’s new amazing video!

DoGood Headquarters has just released a killer video promoting their app the DoGooder. It was completed in collaboration with Los Angeles special effects house Motion Sickness with the sweet tune "Earthquake" provided by Jen Lane from her upcoming album "For The Night". Nice to see a local startup looking so mint. Check out and share the goods…

Startup Movie Night: HACKERS!

Startup Movie Night – June 10th

This Thursday night we’ll be hosting the first "Startup Movie Night" at the SWIX office’s in the Byward Market.  To get an idea of what people would like to watch, we’ve put together this cool little form. Vote for what you want to see. I’ll be doing a post a little later in the week to reveal the film and provide signup info.

Zone5ive: Social Media Marketing Experts Reveal All

I’m on a panel for Zone5ive this week on Social Media Marketing. It should be a great show with Erin Blaskie (BSETC) moderating and Michele Bedford Thistle (Microsoft). Here is the basic info:

Effective social media marketing has rapidly become a key ingredient for business success.  But how do you tie it all together?

Join us for this month’s Zone5ive session as three eminent experts share their secrets and experiences around social media marketing: Erin Blaskie, social media maven and founder of BSetC.com and Blaskieuniversity; Scott Lake, serial entrepreneur and a co-founder at Shopify and founder and CEO of SWIX Inc; and Michele Bedford Thistle, Enterprise Marketing Manager of Microsoft.

Topics of this panel discussion will include:

Building, Growing and Managing a Community;
Planning and Executing a Successful Social Media Campaign;
Measuring Success (yes, it can be done); and
Supporting and Sustaining Social Media with PR and other outreach
Bring your questions and get ready for a busy summer as you kick your social media campaigns into a High Gear – Zone5ive.

Here is all the info about the event:

Date:    Thursday, June 10, 2010
Time:    11:30 a.m.– Registration/networking lunch
             12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Presentation
Place:   Centennial Ballroom,  Travelodge Ottawa Hotel – 1376 Carling Avenue

You can register online or find out more about the event here

Shopify featured on 37signals’ “Profitable and Proud” series

37signals recently began a great series on SVN called "Profitable and Proud" and today they posted a great interview with Tobi from Shopify. 

Here is a short excerpt:

How did you fund yourself at first? Did you ever consider taking on any investors?

We had a tiny bit of money from the profit of the Snowboard sales. Other than that we essentially funded it by ignoring money. My co-founder Scott and I didn’t take salaries until well after the launch. My wife and I moved in with her parents and kept costs down. I also had some savings from my job in Germany, and friends & family chipped in a bit in exchange for some equity.

We ended up taking an investment from an angel investor, who just called us up one day because he heard about our company. This is certainly an outlier, but taking this investment from John H. Phillips was probably the best decision we ever made. Apart from allowing us to meet payroll for the first year, he has spent countless hours teaching me all the things I needed to know about running a company. Without him, we simply could not have survived the years and would not be around today.

The post gives a great overview of Shopify’s history, culture and many underlying reasons for its success.

Way to go guys.

Defusing the Time Bomb: Unmanaged Open Source Licenses!

Protecode Inc. invites you to a short talk and Q&A with the CEO and company experts discussing licensing challenges associated with Open Source Software now widely used in most software projects – and mostly unmanaged. 
 
Date:                                         Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Location:                                   515 Legget Drive, Suite 700
 
Agenda
Continental Breakfast               8:00am – 10:30am
First presentation                      8:30am            
Second presentation                 9:30am
Cost:                                         free
 
Who should attend  
Software executives, senior technology managers, M&A and litigation lawyers.  
 
RSVP:           Marketing@Protecode.com
Info:              www.Protecode.com

Startup Drinks – Tuesday May 25th!

Join some Startup locals for drinks this coming Tuesday at the Royal Oak Restaurant. This month’s Startup Drinks directly follows The Ottawa Network’s TON Tuesday event, New Early Stage Funding Models and Funds.

Here are the details:

Where: Royal Oak Restaurant, 329 March Road (map)
When: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Time: 7:00pm onwards

Here is the link to sign up: 
http://startupdrinksottawa5.eventbrite.com/

Ottawa Network – May 25th

The Ottawa Network is putting on a great event this coming tuesday (May 25). Come hear about emerging trends in seed and early stage institutional financing, from Mark MacLeod and Raymond Luk of two new Montreal seed funding sources.  Both these guys are great so be sure to come out!

Raymond Luk (@rayluk)

Raymond is an entrepreneur and Angel investor based in Montreal. He runs Flow Ventures, a startup accelerator, and recently founded ArtAnywhere, an innovative art startup. He has built and managed a number of successful startups over the last decade and has been an executive of both private and public companies. Raymond is a well-known instigator of tech events including founding StartupDrinks Canada, the largest monthly networking event for startups in Canada. He is a Director of Symtext Corp., is the co-chair of the National Angel Capital Organization Summit for 2010, and a member of the Advisory Cabinet at Project Olympus, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark MacLeod (@startupcfo)

Mark MacLeod has been a CFO for numerous start-ups in the Montreal over the last 10 years, including most recently for Terapath, Tungle, Akoha and Status.net. He currently runs StartupCFO Enterprises – providing financial & strategic guidance and back office admin services for, you guessed it, start-ups, and he is one of the co-founders of Founder Fuel, a Montreal-based QC-government backed early stage opportunities fund.

Here is the info:

May 25th at 5pm
LaBarge Weinstein Office
515 Legget Drive, Suite 800
Kanata, Ontario

Register Online Here