Jan. 17, 2020 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is proud to be listed among ‘Canada’s Top Employers for Young People’, a top 100 list of the nation’s best workplaces for people starting their careers.

The news comes as the cloud-based technology platform continues to pursue an ambitious hiring plan expected to grow the number of ‘Vendastians’ from 355 today to 500 by the end of 2020, eventually reaching 650 by 2022.

“This is a great testament to the work we’ve done to have a welcoming and fulfilling environment for our team members,” said VP of People Operations Jean Parchewsky. “People come to work with us because they want to work on engaging and challenging problems alongside other smart and fun people. They also want to build a career in a fast growing environment that will challenge them, and that is what we have built for them here. We spend so much time working in our lives and there is no reason why it can’t be fun and rewarding from the first job until retirement.”

Vendasta’s average employee age is 31. About 37 percent of team members work in research and development, 23 percent are in sales, 17 percent work in customer fulfillment, 11 percent are marketers, seven percent are in customer support, and the remaining five percent work in operations.

“Our unofficial motto in People Operations is ‘one company, many careers’,” said Parchewsky. “People want to be able to do what they are passionate about, and as they learn and their passions change, they want new opportunities so that they can continue to grow. We have created a growth culture where this opportunity is available.”

Vendasta offers paid internships, co-op opportunities, ongoing employee training, subsidies for professional accreditation, and a robust orientation program at its own Vendasta University. Additional work ‘perks’ include flexible work hours and personal leave, health benefits for new employees, paid time off, telecommuting, transit subsidies, local discounts, in-house food services, and frequent social events. Recently, Vendasta launched its first digital online learning management system, which provides team members with the skills they need to succeed at work.

“The best employers are changing the way they offer key benefits like training so that they are more ‘on-demand’ and let employees learn at their own speed,” says Stephanie Leung, Assistant Editor at Mediacorp, Inc., which compiles the list. “Some even offer apps that allow employees to see where they stand with various workplace benefits and annual vacation allowance.”

The full list of companies is being recognized by the Mediacorp editorial team at a luncheon reception in Toronto today. Vendasta is one of three Saskatoon companies and six Saskatchewan-based on the top 100 list.

There are currently more than two dozen openings at the company. Read Vendasta’s Top Employer profile here.

About Vendasta

Vendasta provides an end-to-end commerce platform to 20,000+ customers who sell digital products and services to more than two million small and medium businesses (SMBs) worldwide. These customers include marketing agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), and media companies. The Vendasta Platform allows these groups to easily adopt new solutions from a marketplace of SaaS technologies that they can sell under their own brand to SMB customers. The platform provides AI-driven marketing automation, sales tools, and an integrated CRM to facilitate go-to-market. It also includes task, orders, and billing management systems to help scale through robotic process automation. SMBs are provided one login for all solutions purchased under a Vendasta customer’s brand. They enjoy one integrated dashboard with prescription, context, and tracking to understand how they are doing and how they can improve performance. Vendasta has a growing team of more than 350 people based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and has been named one of Canada and North America’s fastest growing companies for four year in a row.

About Canada’s Top Employers for Young People

Now in its 18th year, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People is an editorial competition that recognizes employers offering the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers. Winners of the competition are chosen by the editorial team at the Canada’s Top Employers project on the basis of the programs and initiatives they offer to attract and retain younger workers. These include benefits such as tuition assistance and co-op or work-study programs. The editors also examine each employer’s mentorship and training programs, including benefits such as bonuses paid on completing trades or professional designations. The editors also review each employer’s career management program, looking for initiatives that help younger workers advance faster in the organization.

About Mediacorp Canada Inc.

Founded in 1992, Mediacorp Canada Inc. is the nation’s largest publisher of employment periodicals. Since 1999, the Toronto-based publisher has managed the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project, which includes 18 regional and special-interest editorial competitions that reach over 15 million Canadians annually through a variety of magazine and newspaper partners. Mediacorp also operates Eluta.ca, one of Canada’s largest job search engines, which reaches millions of users annually and features editorial reviews from the Canada’s Top 100 Employers project.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Artificial intelligence tool demystifies customer review trends online

Dec. 18, 2019 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta partners now have the ability to better understand customer experiences through Reputation Management’s new sentiment analysis functionality.

The natural language processing technique uses AI to identify and extract critical words and phrases from customer reviews. The result is a collective understanding of whether a business is succeeding or failing. Businesses can use the information to uncover trends, understand how customers in certain geographic areas feel about specific business locations, and determine how adjustments affect a brand over time.

“This is wildly important for a small or medium business because average star ratings often paint reviews with too broad a brush,” said EVP of Marketplace Ed O’Keefe. “This is especially the case for multi-location or franchise businesses that can receive hundreds of reviews every day, making a manual analysis of those reviews nearly impossible to do at scale.”

Sentiment analysis in Reputation Management can pull relevant keyword text like ‘staff’ and descriptive words such as ‘helpful’, ‘rude’, or ‘slow’.

In Multi-Location Business Center, brand managers will be able to filter down to a particular location in order to pinpoint outliers in the brand.

“It is a critical opportunity for them to better understand the sentiment of market segments at a local level,” said O’Keefe.

Sign up for Vendasta today to see Reputation Management in action.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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“We’re excited and humbled to be listed among North America’s fastest growing companies. This is the fifth consecutive time we have made the list and it’s a testament to our employees’ and partners’ committed persistence in helping local businesses thrive,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “The reason we come to work every day is to help local businesses succeed, and this ranking is a milestone towards accomplishing our ultimate mission, which is to become the number one platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses.”

Vendasta received $40 million in venture capital funding this year, and the company is on track to produce more than 300 additional jobs by 2023. It is also just beginning its move to a new, larger headquarters in downtown Saskatoon.

“This year marks the 25th anniversary of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, so we are especially pleased to announce and congratulate the 2019 winners,” said Sandra Shirai, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP, and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. “Once again, we saw innovation across the board, with software companies continuing their dominance of the top ten. It’s always inspiring to see how the Fast 500 companies are transforming business and the world we live and work in.”

“As technology innovation trends towards ‘everything as a service,’ it’s no surprise that software companies dominate the winners list yet again this year,” said Mohana Dissanayake, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, and industry leader for technology, media and telecommunications, within Deloitte’s audit and assurance practice. “What’s exciting about celebrating 25 years of the Tech Fast 500 is we now have a quarter century of innovation stories to draw and reflect upon. These are the companies that push boundaries, help organizations become more efficient and productive, and ultimately enable businesses to drive growth and revenue. We congratulate all the well-deserving winners.”

Vendasta previously ranked #351 on the Technology Fast 500 list in 2018, #349 in 2017, #49 on the Technology Fast 50 list in 2016, and #33 on the Technology Fast 50 list in 2015.

The full list is available by download here.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500

Now in its 25th year, Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2015 to 2018.

In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Freemium versions of key digital martech products drive sales and retention

Nov. 4, 2019 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta partners can now unlock a freemium suite of foundational martech products to help drive their local business clients’ success.

The newly launched Express Products cover the most important digital presence management solutions for small and medium businesses, such as reputation management, advertising, social media, and listings – the key tools a local business needs to succeed and gain customers. The new freemium digital products are available for activation individually and as part of a recommended package in the Vendasta Marketplace at low to no cost to partners.

Once activated, the products appear in a partner client’s Business Center, which allows the business to test drive the effectiveness of key solutions on their own terms before they commit to a purchase. The launch follows a successful pilot program undertaken by Vendasta this fall.

“As consumers we expect to try things before we buy, and we are now witnessing the consumerization of B2B software,” said Vendasta’s Chief Strategy Officer Jacqueline Cook. “In fact, three out of four B2B buyers want to self-educate to learn about products.”

“Based on the feedback we heard from our partners over the years, we’ve developed this go-to-market strategy to allow our partners to demonstrate value and to see who’s interested in taking the next step with digital.”

Vendasta recently tested the Express Products with select partners. Those who participated saw an average of more than 12 percent of their business clients upgrade to paid products in a few short weeks.

“This is all about equipping our partners with better tools to help their small business clients succeed with digital. By gaining value through a lightweight foundational suite of solutions, their clients can try before they commit to anything in a self-service way,” said Cook.

A Vendasta study found that partners who sold two products to their local business clients increased their retention to 30 percent after two years. Three products increased retention to nearly 50 percent, and four solutions grew retention by 80 percent.

Sign up for the Vendasta platform for free to unlock the Express Suite of product-led growth products and explore its other solutions.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for four consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Oct. 21, 2019 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is the recipient of the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce’s Achievement in Business Excellence (ABEX) Awards for Growth & Expansion.

The awards were announced Saturday night at the chamber’s annual awards gala at TCU Place in Saskatoon. Vendasta’s VP of People Operations Jean Parchewsky accepted the award on behalf of the company.

VP of People Operations Jean Parchewsky accepted the award on behalf of Vendasta

“It is nothing short of a banner year for us, and it’s thanks to the hundreds of Vendasta team members who are helping us chase down this dream of making local business easier for people around the world,” said Parchewsky. “The work we’re doing is having a worldwide impact, and we’re so lucky to be growing this global business right here in Saskatchewan surrounded by other tremendous, driven business owners.”

This year, Vendasta raised $40 million in venture capital funding to help it grow its cloud commerce platform for companies that provide digital solutions to small and medium businesses (SMBs). It plans to grow from its current 325+ person workforce to 650 people in the next three years. The company also recently announced it intends to move to a larger headquarters, remaining in downtown Saskatoon.

Vendasta congratulates fellow award nominees Avana Enterprises, Gravelbourg Mustard, Sperling Silver Distillery, Sveinco Developments Ltd., and Unity Credit Union, as well as the other ABEX winners and finalists.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Vendasta CEO Brendan King and CRO George Leith were on hand to receive the award at the SIINDA Local Search Summit at Estufa Fria Lisbon National Gardens in Lisbon, Portugal Tuesday evening.

Vendasta’s Advertising Intelligence brings ad campaigns under one roof, so customers can see what’s working across various platforms in a user-friendly way. The in-platform tool consolidates reporting from Google Ads (Search Ads, Display Ads, YouTube Ads, Google Shopping Ads, and Gmail Ads) and Facebook Ads (Facebook, Instagram Ads, Messenger Ads, and Audience Network Ads).

“We are continually working to help make it ‘toil free’ for our partners to provide their business customers with automated, rich, and robust proof of performance reporting,” said King. “Advertising Intelligence is a great example of how the platform allows partners to optimize advertising and easily automate and showcase value to the local businesses they serve.”

Visit Vendasta’s Marketplace to learn more about Advertising Intelligence and Vendasta’s other wholesale business solutions.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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“We could not be more pleased than to be part of the Vendasta story,” said Lisa Oberding, Associate Vice President with Colliers International and lead of the transaction process with colleague Andrew Welham. “Serving the needs of Vendasta while working with the real estate community has been a very engaging process, and we are happy to see success achieved on all fronts. Our analysis and market data were instrumental throughout the process. We want to sincerely congratulate Vendasta while also thanking the City for its efforts to retain a world-class organization.”

New Space Will Accommodate Expanding Team

Vendasta raised $40 million in growth funding in late July, and plans to grow to 650 people in the next three years. More than 80 of its 325 current team members will move from its present downtown headquarters to Saskatoon Square this fall, with the remaining employees migrating as renovations are complete. The building is expected to be renamed Vendasta Square once all teams are moved in, slated for Fall 2021.

Currently, the company is situated in the historic Avenue Building at 3rd Avenue South and 21st Street East, within view of its new headquarters.

“We’re definitely pleased with the final outcome,” said Richard Cheung, CFO of Vendasta. “Not only does this building meet our current needs, but it provides us with the flexibility to grow into additional floors as the business continues to scale.”

“The City of Saskatoon’s vision for downtown helped make our decision truly feel like the right one, and the Colliers team delivered the product we need to be successful. This sets us up to continue our trajectory as one a Canada’s fastest growing companies, while remaining in Saskatoon,” he said.

“Vendasta’s decision to stay and grow in the downtown is a great one for our city,” said Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark. “As our tech community continues to explode, we have tremendous potential to create a tech hub in the downtown, complemented by great restaurants, new residential towers, and other attractions. This will make the downtown strong into the future.”

Colliers Forecasts High Rate of Office Vacancies

The Saskatoon office market has been in a state of flux for some time and is predicted to stay that way for years to come, according to market research reports released by Colliers. Several properties, including a portion of the River Landing project, Saskatoon Square, Princeton Tower, and River Quarry have raised the vacancy in Saskatoon to 12.4% overall and 13.1% in the Central Business District (CBD). Tenant relocation and repositioning, along with property redevelopment, is expected to be the norm into the foreseeable future.

“The move by Vendasta to remain in Saskatoon’s CBD speaks volumes to the confidence it has in its product, its people, and the stakeholders it interacts with in the city,” said Oberding.

About Colliers:

Colliers International is a leading real estate services and investment management company specializing in brokerage, real estate management, and debt advisory. The Saskatchewan team has been operating for over 100 years, employing 165 professionals in Saskatoon and Regina. In 2018, Colliers International Saskatchewan completed $172 million in transaction value and managed 10 million square feet of property.

Globally, our operations reach 68 countries with 17,300 enterprising people collaborating to provide expert advice and services to maximize the value of property for real estate occupiers, owners, and investors. Our experienced leadership team has delivered industry-leading investment returns for shareholders. In 2018, corporate revenues were $2.8 billion ($3.3 billion including affiliates), with more than $26 billion of assets under management.

For the latest news from Colliers, visit collierscanada.com or follow us on Twitter @Colliers and LinkedIn.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Vendasta Media Contact:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

Colliers Media Contact:

Richard Jankowski
Managing Director | Saskatchewan Brokerage
Colliers International
+1-306-533-6754
Richard.Jankowski@colliers.com

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The ranking evaluates Canadian companies on revenue growth over a three year period, with Vendasta earning its spot at 170 percent.

“The growth of Vendasta over the last three years is something we’re really proud of. Much of our success comes from the simple fact that we are obsessed with solving our customers problems,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King.

“Local businesses need digital solutions, and we empower the experts they trust to provide these solutions in an easy, accessible, and affordable way. One login, and one password.”

Launched this year, the Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranking program aims to celebrate entrepreneurial achievement in Canada by identifying and amplifying the success of growth-minded, independent businesses in Canada.

The full list of 2019 winners, and accompanying editorial coverage, is published in the October issue of Report on Business Magazine.

“We created the Canada’s Top Growing Companies program because we believe there is much Report on Business readers can learn from the successes of the country’s best entrepreneurs,” says Derek DeCloet, Editor of Report on Business and Executive Editor at The Globe and Mail. “We’re excited to be telling their stories.”

“The 400 companies on the inaugural Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies ranking demonstrate ambition, innovation and tremendous business acumen,” says Phillip Crawley, Publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail. “Their contributions to the economy help to make Canada a better place, and warrant commendation.”

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. Visit vendasta.com for more information.

About The Globe and Mail:

The Globe and Mail is Canada’s foremost news media company, leading the national discussion and causing policy change through brave and independent journalism since 1844. With our award-winning coverage of business, politics and national affairs, The Globe and Mail newspaper reaches 6.6 million readers every week in our print or digital formats, and Report on Business magazine reaches 1.8 million readers in print and digital every issue. Our investment in innovative data science means that as the world continues to change, so does The Globe. The Globe and Mail is owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Spotzer will provide its award-winning marketing and web design services to Vendasta channel partners throughout the world, and will receive access to Vendasta’s end-to-end platform for its own customers.

“Vendasta will be offering the same fulfillment and marketing services to partners in Europe, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region that our North American partners have come to expect,” said Vendasta CRO George Leith. “This is a tremendous opportunity for Vendasta to respond to increasing demand in multilingual countries throughout the world, and we’re able to do it through a trusted technology partner.”

“I am thrilled to be launching our award winning products on the Vendasta Platform,” said CEO of Spotzer Peter Urmson. “Our web design and content service will offer agency quality product and service at an incredibly affordable price point. We will launch several amazing website offers, quickly followed by other digital marketing services.”

“Working close with the Vendasta team has been a pleasure, so bringing this offer to market is very exciting for us. We are looking forward to working closely with Vendasta and their customers,” he said.

For those interested in learning more about the partnership, please reach out to the media contact below.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta provides an end-to-end platform used exclusively by companies who sell products and services to small and medium businesses (SMBs)—including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more. Through the Vendasta Platform and its wholesale Marketplace, the SMB-serving companies become cloud brokerages, generating recurring revenue through the sale of SaaS productivity and martech solutions. They are able to instantly provision, market, sell, deliver, bill, and provide reporting for their SMB clients. Vendasta’s 19,000+ cloud broker partners serve more than two million SMBs. The company has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About Spotzer:

Spotzer is a fast-paced, rapidly-growing global digital marketing business. With headquarters in Amsterdam, we have 4 offices around the globe, and we are serving tens of thousands of small businesses across the world by building and managing their websites, launching their paid search campaigns, managing listing solutions, and creating power content.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the Growth 500 profiles the country’s most successful entrepreneurial businesses. Vendasta received its ranking with revenue growth of more than 700 percent over the period.

“To think back five years ago – 10 years ago – it’s exciting to see how much we’ve been able to grow,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “We’re lucky to have talented folks pushing us forward and building us up, helping us become the number one platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses.”

“Small and medium businesses are at the heart of what we do, and their needs are driving our customers – our partners – to succeed. Really, this success is something we share with our partners and with local economies around the world.”

“The companies on the 2019 Growth 500 are truly remarkable. Demonstrating foresight, innovation and smart management, their stories serve as a primer for how to build a successful entrepreneurial business today,” says Beth Fraser, Growth 500 program manager. “As we celebrate over 30 years of the Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies program, it’s encouraging to see that entrepreneurship is healthier than ever in this country.”

The Growth 500 is produced by Canadian Business. Winners are profiled in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com. Find the full ranking at Growth500.ca.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for four consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About the Growth 500
For over 30 years, the Growth 500 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies has been Canada’s most respected and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now published in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com, the Growth 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking, visit Growth500.ca.

About Canadian Business
Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at CanadianBusiness.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Sept. 10, 2019 (Washington, DC) – Vendasta is celebrating tonight after being awarded second place in the competitive ranking for Channel Futures’ 2019 Managed Service Provider (MSP) of the Year.

The awards were announced at the MSP 501 Awards Gala Tuesday evening as part of Channel Partners Evolution in Washington D.C. The event honors the 501 top Managed Service Providers as determined by Channel Futures. CRO George Leith accepted the award on behalf of Vendasta.

(From left) Vendasta CRO George Leith, Director of Segment Development Chiara Traversa, and VP of Enterprise Acquisition Joel Smart pose at the MSP 501 Gala in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

“We’re very humbled to be named among other incredible MSPs and are looking forward to the conversations tonight and into the future,” said Leith.

“These talks will be critical as the channel evolves. We’ve got to work together to meet our reseller partners’ needs. They’re being challenged to help curate and simplify effective digital solutions for small and medium businesses, and they need a full stack of cloud solutions and fulfillment help to overcome it. Collaboration will be king.”

Vendasta works with channel partners to provide an expansive marketing and business solution suites complete with in-house Marketing Services fulfillment. This allows MSPs to outsource or offload portions of their service work while adopting new retention-driving solutions. The company was among 10 MSPs which received special awards Tuesday evening.

“[These companies] stand as examples of the creativity, business agility, and willingness to take risks that define the modern channel, and the Channel Futures team extends our heartfelt congratulations to these 10 innovative companies,” says Kris Blackmon, Content Director for Channel Partners and Channel Futures, and lead of the MSP 501 program. “The evolution of the managed services market is reflected in the changing nature of the MSP 501 winners over the years, and each and every winner from the past 12 years deserves the highest praise and is awarded inclusion in the exclusive Channel Futures 501er Community peer organization.”

Vendasta sends its heartfelt congratulations to MSP of the Year winner Calligo, second runner up ARG, and to the other special award winners:

Comeback Kid: Business System Solutions
Digital Innovator of the Year: Logically
Vanguard: Platte River Networks
Newcomer: ZNetLive
Executive of the Year: Sam Underwood, Goodwin PC Services
Lifetime Achievement Winner: Bryon Bielman, iuvo Technologies
Hall of Fame Winner: Sirius Computer Solutions

The complete 2019 MSP 501 list is available at Channel Futures.

Background

The 2019 MSP 501 list is based on data collected by Channel Futures and its sister site, Channel Partners. Data was collected online from March 1 through May 31, 2019. The MSP 501 list recognizes top managed service providers based on metrics including annual revenue and revenue stream mix.

About Vendasta

Vendasta provides an end-to-end platform to 18,000+ channel partners who sell digital products and services to more than two million small and medium businesses (SMBs). The likes of marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more are able to utilize Vendasta’s rebrandable platform to automate their marketing, organize their sales, take new best-of-breed solutions to market easily, and manage their client accounts – all under a simple, single login. In turn, an SMB client can access a dashboard to monitor improvements and manage their business’ online presence. Sign up for free at www.vendasta.com.

About Informa Tech

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Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

Kris Blackmon,
Content Director, Channel Futures & Channel Partners
Senior Editor, MSP 501
Kris.Blackmon@Informa.com

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The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) delivered its ‘Top 20 Early’ and ‘Top 10 Growth’ lists on BNN Bloomberg Wednesday morning. Companies are chosen by a selection committee of technology industry experts and investors from across Canada.

This is the second consecutive year Vendasta has been honored by CIX, having been named among the CIX Top 20 in 2018. It’s the first year that the Canadian Innovation Exchange has curated two programs: the CIX Top 20 Early, for companies with net revenue less than $5 million CAD or who have raised less than $10 million, and the CIX Top 10 Growth program for late stage companies.

“The CIX brings together some of the most passionate and driven people in Canadian technology and it is an honor for Vendasta to be recognized,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “Very few Canadian technology companies are reaching the ‘scaling’ stage, and it’s fantastic to see CIX recognizing companies that are reaching this milestone.”

The list of companies honored in the CIX Top 10 Growth program are:

– AlayaCare, Montreal
– ApplyBoard, Kitchener
– Bold Commerce, Winnipeg
– Flybits, Toronto
– League, Toronto
– Platterz Inc, Toronto
– Q4 Inc., Toronto
– Sensibill, Toronto
– TouchBistro, Toronto
– Vendasta, Saskatoon

See both lists here.

CIX Canadian Innovation Exchange said 433 profiles were submitted for consideration from across Canada. Companies were chosen based on a number of key factors, including product/service offering, depth of management, market opportunity, and business model.

“Expanding to include a dedicated Growth-stage category allows us to identify and showcase more great Canadian companies and attract new stages of investors and sources of capital to CIX,” said Lauren Linton, Executive Director of CIX. “This year’s cohort of early and growth-stage companies is very impressive and we look forward to showcasing them at CIX.”

Executives of each company will present to more than 700 investors and peers in the North American technology ecosystem at CIX 2019 from Oct. 16-17. Alongside the showcases will be dynamic keynotes and sessions led by top tech business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs.

About the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX):

CIX is an annual curation program and two-day conference which showcases Canada’s most promising early stage and scaling startups. In its 12th year, invited delegates are North American VCs, corporates, private equity investors and advisors. CIX is Canada’s largest tech startup investment conference, taking place in downtown Toronto, Oct 16-17, 2019.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Vendasta Media Contact:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

CIX Media Contact:

Peter Jones
pjones@brunico.com
416 408-2300 x 238

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Aug. 13, 2019 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is proud to receive a bronze Stevie® Award for Company of the Year in the Computer Software category as part of the 16th Annual International Business Awards® (IBA).

The IBA honors individuals and organizations worldwide. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word ‘crowned’, the awards will be presented to winners at a gala banquet in Vienna, Austria on Oct. 19.

Vendasta was considered among the top software companies with between 100-2,500 employees. There were entries from more than 74 nations and territories, with winners determined by more than 250 executives who participated in the judging process from May through early August.

“The IBA judges from across the world were highly impressed with the nominations they reviewed this year. With the level of achievement documented in the nominations from 74 nations, the Stevie Awards are proud to honor organizations that demonstrate a high level of achievement in a variety of industries” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “We received more nominations than ever and look forward to honoring the Stevie winners at our gala in Vienna, Austria this October.”

The judges noted that Vendasta was exemplary for its “strategy of aligning with other partners and channel networks”, its “simple concept (that is) addressing a real need in the marketplace”, and noted that it was an entry highlighting “successful business consistency over time … which truly measures the integrity of an organization’s values.”

“At Vendasta we spend a lot of time understanding and falling in love with our customers’ problems. Our model is such that we only succeed if our customers succeed,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “Honors like the Stevie Awards tell us that we’re on the right track. They help drive us toward our vision of becoming the number one platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses.”

Vendasta congratulates all of this year’s IBA winners. To learn more about the platform and how companies who provide digital solutions to local businesses are building it into their strategies to drive revenue, improve retention, and delight customers, visit the website today.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta provides an end-to-end platform to 16,000+ channel partners who sell digital products and services to more than two million small and medium businesses (SMBs). The likes of marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more are able to utilize Vendasta’s rebrandable platform to automate their marketing, organize their sales, take new best-of-breed solutions to market easily, and manage their client accounts – all under a simple, single login. In turn, an SMB client can access a dashboard to monitor improvements and manage their business’ online presence. Sign up for free at www.vendasta.com.

About the Stevie® Awards:

Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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August 1, 2019 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta today added Office 365 to its robust e-commerce marketplace, rounding out the platform’s productivity tool offerings.

The addition of Office 365 allows Vendasta partners to sell Outlook, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and more to their small and medium business (SMB) clients. It joins a larger offering of digital marketing, protection, and productivity tools currently available for resale in the Vendasta Marketplace.

“This addition comes on the heels of our G Suite integration, which means our partners are able to confidently serve all digital productivity needs,” said Ed O’Keefe, VP/GM of the Vendasta Marketplace. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to build trust and increase SMB retention for our partners.”

Vendasta partners have access to three annual subscription tiers to meet their SMB clients’ business needs at reduced wholesale prices. The tiers range from essential online and mobile application access (Business Essentials) to business emails with access to a premium application suite (Business Premium).

To learn about Vendasta’s digital solutions, visit the Vendasta Marketplace page.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta provides an end-to-end platform to 16,000+ channel partners who sell digital products and services to more than two million small and medium businesses (SMBs). The likes of marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more are able to utilize Vendasta’s rebrandable platform to automate their marketing, organize their sales, take new best-of-breed solutions to market easily, and manage their client accounts – all under a simple, single login. In turn, an SMB client can access a dashboard to monitor improvements and manage their business’ online presence. Sign up for free at www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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It marks the single largest information and communication technology investment in the prairies since the Canadian Venture Capital Private Equity Association (CVCA) started collecting data in 2013.

The funds will be used to enhance the Vendasta Platform, including its owned and operated product suite and robust Marketplace of digital solutions. The company will accelerate its expansion into new customer channels such as banks, telcos, insurance companies and other enterprise organizations looking for a scalable technology solution to serve their SMB customers.

“SMBs worldwide are purchasing and relying on cloud-based software more than ever before. It’s projected that SMB spend on software as a service (SaaS) solutions will represent a $76 billion market opportunity in the US alone by 2020. They’re turning to trusted local experts to provide that software, and we are uniquely positioned to empower those experts with our cloud commerce platform,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King.

An SMB who wants to move portions of their business online has to choose from more than 71,000 SaaS solutions to manage marketing, productivity, protection, operations, connectivity, and other business needs. The SMB often turns to familiar local experts, like telcos, marketing agencies, banks, media companies, and more to help manage their digital needs. The Vendasta Platform helps the trusted experts bring everything together in a cohesive experience for the SMBs they serve.

“At the end of the day, we’re passionate about driving local economies and helping small businesses succeed,” says King.

“The team is agile, smart, fun and they aren’t afraid of hard work. I’ve watched the company build, adapt, and over-deliver product and customer service, showing its true prairie roots of accountability. They have built a solid foundation, and they are just getting going,” said Amy Rae, Principal at Vanedge Capital.

“We are excited to partner with Brendan and his team, who are building a world class company and an excellent culture. In doing so, Vendasta is attracting talented technology professionals from around the world to Saskatoon as they grow and scale,” said George Rossolatos, CEO at CBGF.

According to the CVCA’s 2018 VC & PE Canadian Market Overview, $3.7 billion was invested in Canadian companies last year, of which eight deals in Saskatchewan made up $16 million of the total national investment (compared to $100 million in Alberta and $29 million in Manitoba). In the first quarter of 2019, $1 billion worth of investments were made in Canada, including three Saskatchewan deals totaling $19 million.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Rylan Morris
Director of Product Marketing, Vendasta
Mobile: +1-306-850-4609
Office: +1-306-955-5512 (ext. 112)
RMorris@Vendasta.com

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Smart is a business development leader with more than 20 years of sales and sales management experience in technology and publishing. He will work with Vendasta’s teams and its customers (“partners”) to further refine the products and Platform to best serve people who manage multi-location businesses in all industry verticals.

“The Vendasta Platform is nimble, and it can be customized to the demands and challenges of brands,” said Smart. “Based upon the needs of the client, we have the ability to customize and provide easy-to-implement components for optimized exposure and results.”

Smart joins Vendasta as it launches its Multi-Location Business Center, which provides franchisees, brand managers, and other multi-location businesses with an overview of how their locations stack up against each other and the competition. It features Google My Business data and a new mobile interface that is accessible directly from Business Center, making it easy to switch between single and multiple business location views.

The new dashboard allows Vendasta’s partners to:

• get insights on how to best manage their multiple locations at once.
• see which locations are winning or need help, with the ability to apply filters.
• get work done easily by providing key workflows, like responding to reviews.
• experience a powerful mobile experience.

“Managing brands and multiple location requires consistency, and Vendasta has the tools to ensure our partners are able to keep on top of everything,” said Vendasta CRO George Leith. “Joel is a high performer with solid experience in our industry, and he has an innate ability to connect complex business customers with scalable solutions.”

Vendasta’s Multi-Location Business Center is available today.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with their digital needs. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Operations Manager
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 153)
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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The Journey

Vendasta research finds that 40% of all channel resellers targeting SMBs hit a growth stall in the first 12-14 months of selling a new product or service. With the theme of Growing Together, the conference will help attendees conquer potential stalls in their success, focusing on Vendasta’s 6 Growth Pillars:

 

•  Product Strategy – Figuring out what to sell and how to sell it.
• Improving go-to-market & gross margin through product-led growth.
• Demand Generation – Driving an ongoing desire for products & services.
• Sales Efficiency – Closing deals & acquiring customers faster.
  Creating strong sales processes and finding the right customers.
• Scaling Operations – Providing services and products efficiently.
  Improving onboarding, adopting automation, and harnessing fulfillment opportunities.
• Customer Retention – Delighting existing customers.
  Providing proof of performance, meeting needs, and engaging with SMBs.
• Customer Expansion – Growing a customer base & selling new services.
  Intelligent client profiling and sales, providing diversified products driven by automation.

SMBs are turning to digital solutions to help manage their business more than ever before, and 66% would prefer to work with a trusted cloud expert. Further, a 2016 Accel Partners/Google report predicts SMB spending on SaaS solutions will significantly outpace enterprise spending on SaaS by 2020.

“Millions of companies in marketing, publishing, broadcasting, directories, MSPs, ISPs, finance, insurance, telecos, and more stand to benefit from this shift,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “This conference is the starting line for channel partners who are positioned to grow and meet this increasing demand.”

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Cheung is a seasoned C-level executive with broad financial and operational experience in a range of high-growth, venture-funded, and early stage companies through to NASDAQ listed public companies. He has previously held the role of CFO at Vancouver-based TIO Networks Corp. which was sold to PayPal, Inc. for $305 million in 2017, and also served as Vice President of Business Development for Fusemail, a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.

“It is important to be part of a company that serves a large market, and also has a great corporate culture and strong leadership team. That’s what I’m finding in Vendasta,” said Cheung. “We’re positioned for enormous growth and are now building a foundation that will allow the business to scale to more than a $100 million annual run rate, which will make us a significant player in the digital marketing space.”

“Our current growth trajectory requires the skills and experience that Richard brings,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “As we grow through $100 million, we will benefit greatly from his experience and knowledge in fundraising, public markets, and acquisitions. We are ecstatic to have him on board.”

Small and medium businesses are shifting to software as a service (SaaS), creating a $72 billion market in North America by 2020, according to a joint report by Google and Accel Partners.

Vendasta enables anyone selling products and services to small and medium businesses to transform into a SaaS cloud broker, unlocking monthly recurring revenue opportunities. The Vendasta platform allows small businesses to easily purchase, access, and use SaaS products in an affordable, accessible way on any device at any time.

“The evolution of Vendasta’s Platform will lead to enormous benefit for our company, as well as our vendors, our partners, and the SMBs they serve,” said Cheung. “We’re helping build trust for our partners because their SMB clients know they can access, select, and purchase ‘best of breed’ solutions from a trusted source: their cloud broker. I’m looking forward to being part of this vision.”

Cheung begins his role as Vendasta CFO immediately.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta provides an end-to-end e-commerce platform used exclusively by companies who sell products and services to small and medium businesses – including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more. Through the Vendasta Platform and its wholesale Marketplace, the SMB-serving companies become cloud brokerages, generating recurring revenue through the sale of SaaS productivity and marketing technology solutions. They are able to instantly provision, market, sell, deliver, bill, and provide reporting for their SMB clients. In turn, SaaS vendors and developers of SMB products receive access to Vendasta’s 1.75 million SMBs through its 10,000 cloud broker partners. The company has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Vendasta’s channel partners can now help their U.S.-based small and medium business (SMB) clients form a limited liability company (LLC), providing security and adding further credibility to the local business and its digital solutions provider.

Businesses are required to renew their certificate annually through their Channel Partner expert, increasing retention and providing yet another source of recurring revenue.

Forming an LLC provides certain tax protections, and helps safeguard a business owner’s personal assets.

“MyCorporation could not be more pleased to work with Vendasta’s channel partners, and to support their offerings to business owners and entrepreneurs looking to protect assets, save taxes, and add legitimacy to their businesses,” said Deborah Sweeney, CEO of MyCorporation.

“This partnership allows SMBs to keep their businesses protected through our trusted partners,” said Ed O’Keefe, GM/EVP of the Vendasta Marketplace. “This is another way Vendasta is able to provide our cloud broker partners new growth solutions for both themselves and their small and medium business clients.”

MyCorporation is among a series of best-in-class business solutions recently added to the expanding Vendasta Marketplace, such as G Suite and the soon-to-be added Office 365. The software platform is adding human resources and accounting software in 2019.

Sign up for free to explore Vendasta’s robust Marketplace, or visit Vendasta to learn more about the single sign-on white-label platform for channel partners and their SMB clients.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners – including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more – the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About MyCorporation:

MyCorporation is a leading provider of online document filing services for clients who wish to form a corporation or limited liability company. For more than 20 years, MyCorporation has helped small business clients and real estate investors incorporate their businesses in a reliable and affordable manner. In addition to offering document filing services for online incorporation, MyCorporation also offers trademark searches and applications, copyright registrations, DBA registrations, registered agent services and many more products that help customers protect and maintain the legitimacy of their businesses.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Vendasta is among 13 businesses that were honoured at the NSBA’s annual awards banquet, which took place at the World Trade Centre Saskatoon at Prairieland Park, Wednesday night.

“There is a rich history of business success in Saskatoon and we’re honoured to be enjoying the evening with other people who are getting up and going to work everyday to make this city even better,” said Vendasta Chief Technology Officer Dale Hopkins. “We’re looking to hire around 80 people in 2019, and this award is a great reminder of how far we’ve come from a few guys with a dream at Innovation Place.”

The Growth and Market Expansion Award is delivered to an NSBA business that successfully demonstrates a commitment to growth through expansion in a new or existing market.

Vendasta has grown from a single software product to an integrated platform for channel partners to sell to small- and medium-sized businesses worldwide. It’s expanded its market reach from North America to businesses in places like South Africa, Australia, and Europe.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Olander has more than two decades of experience in the local digital marketing ecosystem, specializing in SaaS and data solutions. He most recently led product strategy at Infutor, and also lead product development and strategy for SIM Partners (Reputation,com) Local Viewpoints (PowerReviews), Localeze (Neustar), iCrossing, Advo, and Citysearch.

“I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with the Vendasta team for years, going back to my days as a founding member of Localeze,” said Olander. “The Vendasta organization, culture, and its passion for solving big problems that impact local economies make it an organization I want to be a part of.”

“The core mission of helping local economies thrive is one that I’ve been working on most of my adult life.”

Olander will work to maintain strong cross-team collaboration and is eager to continue building a deep understanding of Vendasta’s channel partners. Most importantly, he said, he will be working with product teams to create an environment where innovation, career development, and fun are part of daily work life.

“Gib has an insatiable appetite for innovation—machine learning, artificial intelligence, design, customer experience—you name it, he’s leading the conversation on what is possible when it comes to local business marketing,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “His experience leading digital transformations will help guide us in overcoming our Channel Partners’ biggest challenges.”

Olander is based in Chicago.

Click here to access a high resolution photo of Olander (Courtesy: Gib Olander/Vendasta).

About Vendasta:

Vendasta builds a software platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners—including marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more—the platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
Office: +1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
Mobile: +1-306-371-4999
dmario@vendasta.com

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Vendasta CEO Brendan King (right) with CMO Jeff Tomlin at the LSA Ad-to-Action Awards, Tuesday night.

“It means a lot to us to receive this from a premier industry group,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “The LSA and its membership are made up of such talented and passionate individuals and we’re lucky to be part of this community and these awards.”

Vendasta received the accolade for Website Pro, an in-house built product which provides managed WordPress hosting on the Google Cloud Platform. Website Pro makes it easy to manage several websites simply and efficiently, all from Vendasta’s integrated sales and marketing platform.

A recent case study featuring Elevated Web Solutions saw an increase in cost savings of 72 percent, and a decrease in load time of 13 percent when clients switched to Website Pro from WP Engine.

This is the company’s first Ad-to-Action Award, and first industry nod for the hosting solution.

According to the LSA, the judging panel for the sixth annual Ad-to-Action Awards was comprised of industry professionals from Disney, Walmart, Moz, Factual, Verizon Media Services, OMD, Google, Yelp, Amazon, Camilyo, and more.

Vendasta sends heartfelt congratulations to the other winners and nominees. You can read more about this year’s Ad-to-Action Awards here.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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The honour was announced as part of the SODS Annual Diversity Awards Gala Thursday night at the Delta Bessborough Hotel. The gala dinner celebrates the achievements of companies and individuals that have shown exceptional leadership in workplace diversity and an inclusive attitude toward immigrants.

Brooke Trippel (left) and Viola Lu at the SODS Annual Diversity Awards Gala Thursday night.

The Employer Partner of the Year award is given to a Saskatoon business that successfully utilized SODS services to attract employees and engage with the newcomer community. Vendasta participates in SODS’ WeConnect Job Fairs, and is active with the organization’s Skills 4 Work program, assisting with mock interviews and workplace tours.

Viola Lu discovered Vendasta through the Skills 4 Work program. She immigrated from Shanghai, China last summer.

“Vendasta was helping with the mock interviews, and gave a really impressive and informative speech that attracted me to know more about Vendasta,” said Lu. “It’s why I’m working here, and I’m really proud to be a Vendastian.”

“An employee’s willingness to work with others and adapt to uncertainty and change are crucial in our fast-paced tech world,” said Vendasta People Operations Specialist Brooke Trippel. “Newcomers embody these traits in their life-changing decision to move into a new environment and culture. This has led Vendasta to have great success in hiring newcomers.”

About 13 percent of the company’s workforce is new to Canada, from places like the United States, China, Brazil, Ireland, and Australia. Four recent hires connected with Vendasta through SODS programming.

“Diversity is increasingly important in today’s workplace, as it is in our communities,” said SODS Executive Director Ali Abukar. “Vendasta recognizes this through their enthusiastic collaboration with us to welcome, hire and support newcomers to Canada. Vendasta’s continued involvement over the past three years in our job-readiness classes – for instance, by participating in mock interviews – has allowed our clients to build their confidence and enabled them to land a job. It’s a win-win for newcomers and for Saskatoon.”

Vendasta sends their heartfelt congratulations to the other businesses honoured at the awards ceremony. This is the second consecutive year Vendasta has received the Employer Partner of the Year Award.

Find more information about Vendasta’s current career opportunities here.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications
Vendasta
Office: +1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
Mobile: +1-306-371-4999
dmario@vendasta.com

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GoDaddy is the world’s leading domain registrar, and makes searching and securing a domain fast, simple and affordable. It empowers business owners to build their brand by starting with the most basic element — their online address.

Vendasta’s customers (partners) can now add GoDaddy’s domain services to their local business clients’ stores within the Vendasta platform.

“Domains are the thread that anchors a set of products together under a business’ brand,” said Ed O’Keefe, GM/VP of Marketplace. “With the addition of GoDaddy, partners now have the ability to buy domains at wholesale cost to sell to their clients.”

Sign up for free today to access Vendasta’s platform and its Marketplace of more than 60 products and services, including GoDaddy.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta white-label platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About GoDaddy:

GoDaddy powers the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With more than 17 million customers worldwide and nearly 73 million domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success.

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November 28, 2018 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is honoured to be the recipient of a $3.3 million interest free loan to support the company’s expansion to international markets.

The announcement was made this morning at Vendasta headquarters in downtown Saskatoon by the Honourable James Gordon Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development and Minister responsible for Western Economic Diversification Canada.

The support is provided by Western Economic Diversification Canada’s (WD) Western Innovation (WINN) Initiative. WINN is a five-year fund to move innovative technologies from the later stages of research and development to the marketplace. It offers repayable loans to western Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises.

“We’re at a pivotal point in Vendasta’s growth and the support of the Government of Canada is a springboard toward our internationalization goals,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “We’re now in a position to help companies and agencies conquer local marketing worldwide.”

“Many middle-class jobs of today and tomorrow are created within strong innovation and competitiveness ecosystems,” said Carr. “By making the smart and responsible investments, the Government of Canada is positioning Saskatchewan to generate meaningful business investments, and high-quality jobs, across all sectors of the economy.”

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. It’s sold exclusively through channel partners – including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more – who sell the solutions directly to small and medium businesses in their markets. The rebrandable platform provides Vendasta’s partners with a single login for their digital marketing sales, products and reporting, and includes access to the Vendasta Marketplace – a wholesale store of digital solutions.

Through this project, Vendasta expects to add 30 full-time jobs to its 260+ workforce, 26 of which will be located in Canada. The remaining positions will be distributed through key markets globally, including South Africa and Australia. The loan will allow Vendasta to produce software and build strategic plans to expand to markets beyond North America.

This is Vendasta’s second WINN loan, with the program support from the Government of Canada totalling more than $6.7 million.

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Nov. 15, 2018 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta is pleased to announce it’s been listed among the fastest growing technology companies in North America on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Vendasta ranked #351 for its rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit, and bold innovation.

The award distinguish the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the past four years. Vendasta secured its rankings with 225% percent in revenue growth from 2014 to 2017.

“Being named to this program is a great reminder of how far we’ve come in a short time,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “It’s critical to stay in fifth gear if you’re going to see success in building software, and we’ve been lucky enough to maintain that pace thanks to the great team we’ve put together.”

To qualify for the Deloitte ranking, companies must be in business for at least four years, have revenues of at least $5 million, own proprietary technology, conduct research and development activities, and invest a minimum of five percent of gross revenues in R&D.

“Congratulations to the Deloitte 2018 Technology Fast 500 winners on this impressive achievement,” said Sandra Shirai, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP, and U.S. technology, media and telecommunications leader. “These companies are innovators who have converted their disruptive ideas into products, services and experiences that can captivate new customers and drive remarkable growth.”

“Software, which accounts for nearly two of every three companies on the list, continues to produce some of the most exciting technologies of the 21st century, including innovations in artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and robotics,” said Mohana Dissanayake, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Industry Leader for technology, media and telecommunications, within Deloitte’s audit and assurance practice. “This year’s ranking demonstrates what is likely a national phenomenon, where many companies from all parts of America are transforming the way we do business by combining breakthrough research and development, entrepreneurship and rapid growth.”

Vendasta previously ranked #349 on the Technology Fast 500 list in 2017, #49 on the Technology Fast 50 list in 2016, and #33 on the Technology Fast 50 list in 2015.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About Deloitte’s 2018 Technology Fast 500 :

Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2014 to 2017.

In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America.

About Deloitte:

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“This is the number one most requested product type by our customers, and we’re so fortunate to be bringing Constant Contact to them,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive VP of the Vendasta Marketplace. “The company is a powerhouse for email marketing performance, and a fantastic example of the global brands we’re working with.”

Vendasta partners can enable Constant Contact now, providing small and medium business clients with the tools to run branded, automated, and personalized email marketing campaigns. Once enabled, Constant Contact is accessible directly from the Vendasta Business Center.

Partners can also utilize Vendasta’s Marketing Services for email marketing fulfillment of Constant Contact solutions.

“We’re excited to make our email marketing platform available to Vendasta’s vast network of digital marketing agencies that serve millions of small business customers,” said Dom LaCava, Director of Global Partnerships at Constant Contact. “We’re aligned in our missions to make online marketing tools easily accessible to small businesses and fueling their growth in an increasingly competitive marketplace.”

Sign up for free today to access Vendasta’s platform and its Marketplace of 60 products and services, including Constant Contact’s suite of solutions.

About Constant Contact:

Constant Contact, an Endurance International Group company and a leader in email marketing for more than 20 years, offers an easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses create professional campaigns that can help increase customers and revenue. From advanced automation features to industry-leading integrations, to personalized coaching, Constant Contact is the trusted marketing partner of hundreds of thousands of growth-minded small businesses around the world. For more information, visit: www.constantcontact.com.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit: www.vendasta.com.

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Nov. 9, 2018 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta today announced the location and dates of Conquer Local 2019, the most compelling and tactic-driven digital marketing and sales conference in North America. The announcement was made by Vendasta CMO Jeff Tomlin to a packed Vendasta headquarters in Saskatoon, Canada. Partners were able to join via live stream.

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The conference takes place June 10 – 13 on the coast of sunny San Diego, California at the legendary Hotel del Coronado.

Conquer Local 2019 is the outcome of a branding refresh of VendastaCon. The annual conference hosted by Vendasta is now in its third year. Past events took place in Austin, Texas, and Banff, Canada. Tomlin says it marks a new era for Vendasta’s flagship event.

“Conquer Local is a motto for marketing and sales folks who work with local businesses the world over, and it’s synonymous with Vendasta,” said Tomlin. “Conquer Local has come alive, growing beyond a motto or hashtag into a thriving community. We wanted to celebrate that with our partners.”

The conference includes two workshop tracks concentrating on digital sales and marketing, followed by two days of compelling, data-backed talks, and ample opportunity to connect and network.

Early Bird tickets are on sale now at a discounted rate of $999 USD (regular $1499). Past attendees will receive a promo code by email today for an additional $100 discount. Hotel rooms at The Del are also available at a corporate rate.

Learn more about Conquer Local 2019, and be sure to sign up for email updates.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

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Folckemer has more than 20 years experience in sales, marketing, and operations for Hearst Media, where he helped newspapers, tv stations, radio groups, and yellow page companies transition to new digital revenue streams. He will be helping Vendasta capitalize and strategize on high-value business partnerships.

“I was the very first customer of Vendasta, and have had the opportunity to watch the company innovate and grow over the past decade,” Folckemer said. “When you have that much experience with people who are passionate about building great software and helping small businesses grow, it’s easy to make the transition. I’m looking forward to using my experience to help drive the company forward.”

“We’re lucky to have a person like Jeff Folckemer on our team because he’s been leading the digital evolution for decades,” said Vendasta CRO George Leith. “Folckemer knows what our partners need because he was one. He has a tremendous way of marrying business ideas with actionable strategies.”

Folckemer will be stationed in St. Augustine, Florida, where he will have easy access to all of Vendasta’s U.S.-based customers.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018 (Saskatoon, CANADA) – Vendasta today announced a major evolution in its sales and marketing automation platform. Starting immediately, any company interested in offering digital marketing solutions can explore the Vendasta platform for free and start selling to local businesses.

“The team at Vendasta wanted simple, scalable, and accessible pricing that exceeds people’s expectations,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “This opens the gates to those who want an opportunity to tour our platform and products comfortably. It allows them to see the value before investing to grow their business.”

Whether someone is new to Vendasta or a returning customer, the new freemium model allows them to create an account that provides everything they need to get started. This includes the ability to instantly resell products and services from the Vendasta Marketplace to local business clients –all under their brand. At $50 per month, they can access the Vendasta Starter package, which unlocks additional features such as the platform’s white-label capabilities and hot lead notifications.

The $50 Starter package includes:

• The ability to purchase white-label products and services in Marketplace, along with training materials, sales support, and recommended packages;
• The ability to instantly send a Snapshot Report, the ultimate needs-assessment tool, to drive sales conversations with prospects;
• Unlimited seats in Vendasta’s Sales & Success Center CRM for a company’s sales team;
• Unlimited customer accounts, allowing users to add unlimited SMB clients;
• Trial access to Concierge, a task manager that allows users to grow revenue by providing visibility, review, and social media services to their clients from one scalable interface;
• Email and phone support with the Vendasta team.

“This is a win for smaller agencies who are looking to grow their platform and product use as they grow,” said Vendasta CMO Jeff Tomlin. “The new pricing offers flexibility for people to pay for the solutions they use.”

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Hollands is a recognized leader within the Canadian business community. He retired earlier this year as President and CEO of A&W Food Services of Canada after 37 years with the company, and currently serves as its Chairperson. Hollands credits Vendasta’s international potential and growing profile as leading factors in his decision to lead the Vendasta board.

“It is built on fantastic foundational technical capabilities, coupled with a highly innovative culture and fantastic people. It is the best of what Canada brings to technological innovation,” said Hollands. “Vendasta is poised to become one of Canada’s premier technology companies with a worldwide footprint, and I am really excited to help the management team take the company to the next level.”

Hollands will help guide Vendasta in its growth trajectory, including its efforts to expand to new global markets.

“Paul spent decades masterfully pushing A&W forward, and we’re already seeing the value in his ideas and strategies,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “The experience and skill that Paul and the rest of the board brings to our team are remarkable assets to have as we continue to grow internationally.”

To learn more about Vendasta’s Board of Directors, visit our website.

About Vendasta:

Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte. It has also been listed on Canadian Business Magazine’s Growth 500 for three consecutive years. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

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Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the Growth 500 — formerly known as the PROFIT 500 — profiles the country’s most successful entrepreneurial businesses. The Growth 500 is produced by Canadian Business. Winners are profiled in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com.

“We are very proud to be among the companies that are driving Canada’s economy forward,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “Vendasta is driving toward $100 million in revenue by 2020. It’s a challenging and humbling goal, but we’re on our way. An acknowledgement like this fills us with energy and drive to help our customers ‘conquer local’ by helping small and medium businesses succeed.”

“The companies on the 2018 Growth 500 are truly remarkable. Demonstrating foresight, innovation and smart management, their stories serve as a primer for how to build a successful entrepreneurial business today,” says Deborah Aarts, Growth 500 program manager. “As we celebrate 30 years of the Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies program, it’s encouraging to see that entrepreneurship is healthier than ever in this country.”

About Vendasta
Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte.

About the Growth 500
For 30 years, the Growth 500 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies has been Canada’s most respected and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now published in a special Growth 500 print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the October issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at Growth500.ca and CanadianBusiness.com, the Growth 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking, visit Growth500.ca.

About Canadian Business
Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at CanadianBusiness.com.

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Advertising Intelligence takes the manual taskwork out of Facebook advertising and Google Ads campaign reporting for Vendasta customers (partners). The dashboard makes it easy to compare campaigns side-by-side in order to capture the big picture of clients’ advertising efforts. It combines live, automated reporting and unique sales data to clearly demonstrate businesses’ return on investment. Plus, partners can add their management markup fees to client reports so final cost is clear.

“Our partners deliver comprehensive paid advertising solutions to their clients through multiple channels like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, and Google Search, and it can be a struggle for them to aggregate the results into an accurate and compelling report,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive VP of Vendasta’s Marketplace.

A new survey by Vendasta shows that building manual reports and showing return on investment are the most difficult parts of offering online advertising services to clients.

“Advertising Intelligence solves that overhead problem, and delivers digital advertising reporting in an elegant and intuitive dashboard which can be easily shared to clients’ smartphones, email inboxes and through the clients’ Vendasta Business Center,” said O’Keefe. “Adding this solution to the platform is yet another step toward becoming the single login for solving all of a partner’s business needs.”

Vendasta partners can access the live digital advertising reporting and analysis for free. Additional functionalities, like in-depth campaign oversight, price markup capabilities, and date filters, are available at $9 USD/month with a Vendasta subscription.

Advertising Intelligence is one of seven Vendasta built products in the platform. In total, Vendasta offers nearly 40 digital products and services that help partners delight customers and scale their business. To learn more about Vendasta and its products, get started today.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world, all while increasing their digital margins and shortening go-to-market time. Through a combination of machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, Vendasta enables its partners to acquire new clients quickly, and delight them through a variety of service models, from DIY all the way to fully managed services. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

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“More than five million businesses are using G Suite to collaborate smartly and securely in the cloud,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive VP of Vendasta’s Marketplace. “Our partners are now able to drive their local business clients toward one of the best productivity tools on the market.”

The Total Economic Impact of G Suite report shows a 304 percent return on investment over three years among businesses who moved from legacy on-premise infrastructure to Google’s web-based solutions. Further, 70 percent of companies on Forbes’ Cloud 100 list are active G Suite customers.

G Suite is everything a business needs to do its best work, together in one package that works seamlessly from a computer, phone or tablet. Among its features are:

• Easy account setup and custom @yourcompany business emails with Gmail;
• Team scheduling with Google Calendar;
• Virtual meetings and messaging with Google Hangouts & Google Chat;
• And cloud-based storage on Google Drive.

“Our vision is to be the single source of truth for local businesses, and this partnership with G Suite marks a fundamental leap toward our goal,” said Vendasta CEO, Brendan King. “Businesses need one login, one password, and one set of controls to be able to access their information, connect with their contacts, carry out work, or check work that’s being done on their behalf. Our platform helps our resellers turn their customers into ‘A’ players over all aspects of their businesses, whether it be marketing, accounting, HR, Legal, insurance, or productivity. G Suite is an ‘A’ player tool.”

G Suite is available to Vendasta partners in the Marketplace right now. To learn more about Vendasta, its G Suite integration, and the platform’s other solutions, connect today.

About Vendasta Marketplace:
Vendasta Marketplace is a full suite of digital business solutions integrated directly into the Vendasta sales & marketing automation platform. Similar to how an app store connects people to tools that are tailored to specific needs, Marketplace provides SMBs instant access to à la carte offerings under a Vendasta partner’s brand. The resale platform has been a valuable addition to the Vendasta stack, with an average monthly revenue growth rate of 38 percent in its first year.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is a software company that builds a platform for helping local businesses with digital marketing. Sold exclusively through channel partners — including agencies, broadcasters, publishers, banks, telecoms, and more — the Vendasta platform enables sales professionals to brand it as their own and provide re-sellable products and services to local businesses around the world, all while increasing their digital margins and shortening go-to-market time. Through a combination of machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence, Vendasta enables its partners to acquire new clients quickly, and delight them through a variety of service models, from DIY all the way to fully managed services. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

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“The Branham300 is based on revenue growth and we are please to have made the list again. As we grow to our goal of $100 million in revenue, maintaining a high growth rate is challenging,” Vendasta CEO Brendan King said. “However, our growth rate is actually increasing as we become the software platform of choice for companies providing marketing, sales, and other digital solutions to local businesses. Demand internationally is rising dramatically, and Canadian tech is being seen as desirable and competitive. I am proud of the world class platform our team is building right here in Saskatoon.”

Vendasta secured its coveted spot on the 2018 Branham300 list of public and private technology companies by achieving 45 percent revenue growth from 2016 to 2017. The Branham Group reports that revenue generated by the Top 250 tech companies in Canada has grown every year since 2009. In fiscal 2017, Canada’s Top 250 achieved growth of 1.14 percent, compared to 9.6 percent the previous year.

“I want to emphasize that this slowdown in growth is not caused by weakness in either the ICT sector or the overall economy. It’s quite the opposite,” said Wayne Gubranson, CEO of Branham Group. “We saw reduced growth because Canadian companies are so attractive that a number of large firms were purchased by Canadian or foreign buyers and were therefore no longer eligible for our ranking,”

This is the third time Vendasta has been recognized on the Branham300, having applied and been ranked in the Top Canadian ICT Companies in 2016 and among the Top 25 Canadian IT Up and Comers in 2009.

Find the full Branham300 list here.

About Branham 300
The Branham300 is the best-known and most widely referenced listing of Canada’s top ICT companies, ranked by revenue. The listing also tracks the top ICT multinationals operating in Canada, as well as ‘Up and Coming’ firms, which are young Canadian companies Branham Group believes will be big hits soon. Branham Group’s ranking is unique in Canada because it tracks both publicly held and privately owned companies. It is the only comprehensive list to do so.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is a Saskatoon-based technology company offering software and services to professionals who sell digital solutions to local businesses around the world. The tools power the local businesses’ digital presence and online reputation. Marketing agencies, broadcasters, publishers, technology companies, banks, yellow pages, and telecoms are able to drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins using Vendasta’s platform. They delight clients using Vendasta’s white-labelled solutions, including its award-winning needs assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, marketplace of resellable apps & services, and fulfillment agency. Vendasta has been named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, and Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500.

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Vendasta has grown its revenue 42% year-over-year (2016-2017) in markets outside of North America. Plant’s support will ensure Vendasta’s continued growth and success internationally.

“Paul is well connected and highly experienced in the local media provisioning industry,” said George Leith, Chief Revenue Officer of Vendasta. “We are fortunate to have his leadership and knowledge of go-to-market strategy in our Partner Development team. We look forward to growing our footprint in new markets over the coming months.”

Paul has enjoyed a long and successful career in telecommunications, media and technology. He spent more than two decades on the executive team at Yell Group, and was part of the team that launched yell.com, the UK’s leading online business directory in January, 1996. He founded Radicle Consulting in 2010, a boutique, hands-on consultancy that advises companies on digital transformation and customer experience design. Paul is an active board member of the Search & Information Industry Association (SIINDA) and serves as an advisor to the executive board of the Local Search Association in North America.

“I’ve worked at the coalface of positive transformational changes at businesses throughout my career, and I have the hands-on experience of working with companies that can benefit substantially from the
digital capabilities that Vendasta provides,” said Plant. “Small businesses today need a lot of support understanding the digital media landscape, and one of the things I particularly like about the Vendasta platform is how it helps the end customer. This is a natural partnership and I’m eager to help Vendasta realize its expansion goals.”

“It’s exciting to tap into Paul’s expertise,” said John Jordan, Executive Vice-President of Partner Development. “He understands the evolving role of digital marketing and is the right person to drive
Vendasta’s international presence.”

About Vendasta

Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award-winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

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The announcement was made to attendees and partners at the company’s VendastaCon conference, in Banff, Alberta.

“Facebook has seen a lot of changes over the years – certainly in the last few weeks – and those regular updates require marketing teams to act fast to ensure they’re still making the most of their social strategies,” Vendasta CEO Brendan King said. “This badge proves that we’re at the forefront of these changes, and can offer the most advanced marketing solutions, including Instagram publishing.”

The addition means that beta partners and their clients can now post directly to Instagram, along with Facebook, Google My Business, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google Plus. Instagram direct publishing is set for general release Apr. 18.

“This has been the top requested feature for our Social Marketing products, so we’re absolutely thrilled with the relationship and the ability to offer this to our partners and the network of more than 100,000 businesses they serve around the world,” said Vendasta Chief Strategy Officer Jacqueline Cook. “Through this integration, brands and businesses will be able to reach even more customers in an efficient way, allowing them to focus their time on running their businesses.”

Facebook had 1.4 billion daily active users in 2017, amounting to a 14% increase year-over-year for the social media site. Instagram reported 500 million daily active users as of September, up from 200 million in April, 2017. Its users include 24 million active business profiles.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies and media companies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Vendasta’s Executive Report gives local business owners a weekly rollup of everything important that happened across their digital marketing channels. This includes new customer reviews, social media mentions, and changes to their business listings. The report is automatically populated and ‘white labelled’, allowing Vendasta partners to customize it under their brand.

“This is a business’s story updated week-to-week. It’s the essential news for a business owner who doesn’t have the time to read multiple reports,” Vendasta CEO Brendan King said. “It also gives our partners the opportunity to demonstrate that their products and services are effective.”

With this update, Vendasta’s Executive Report now includes data about a business’ advertising, listings, reputation, SEO, social media, and website. The report shows the progression of a business’ digital marketing with easy-to-read graphs and figures, helping Vendasta-partnered marketing agencies and media companies show proof of performance to their local business clients. Every week, the Vendasta Platform automatically generates and sends this report to local businesses, saving Vendasta partners the time of compiling the data from multiple sources.

The new Executive Report is available to beta partners now and will be released to all partners Apr. 11.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies and media companies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

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“I want to thank all of the brilliant, driven people at our company for continuing to invest in our people,” said Cook. “Specifically, our People Operations Team for attracting talent from all over the world, working with educational institutions in building capacity right here at home, and investing in our people because – at the end of the day – it’s always about the people.”

The award acknowledges a Saskatoon business for its stable or growing workforce, lifelong learning, and career advancement opportunities. Vendasta has grown from 70 employees in 2013 to 280 employees at present, amounting to 300% growth in the last five years. More than 50 employees have advanced to other internal roles since starting at Vendasta. The company expects to have a workforce of 300 employees by the end of 2018.

Vendasta provides its employees with full health and dental coverage premiums, financial assistance for approved education courses, ergonomic workstations, free and discounted fitness opportunities, subsidized transit options, and access to nutritional food at the office. Vendasta also ensures that employees are given opportunities to connect and engage outside of the office through its social and volunteer committees.

This marks Vendasta’s second Employee Retention Award from the NSBA. Vendasta was among four deserving finalists for this year’s award, which also included JNE Welding Limited Partnership, Keystone Paving Corporation, and TCU Place.

For more information on the awards visit the NSBA website.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies and media companies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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“This is about more than online reviews,” says Jacqueline Cook, Chief Strategy Officer at Vendasta. “This is about enabling local businesses with the tools to listen to their customers, and to use those insights to build better businesses.”

“Online conversations are more impactful than ever, and it’s often difficult for local businesses to keep their fingers on the pulse of changing expectations and demands. By providing customers with an outlet for ongoing feedback, these local businesses can more immediately address negative feedback and let their greatest customers advocate for them.”

Nearly 90% of consumers say they will only consider using a business if they have an average rating of three to five stars, according to BrightLocal’s Local Consumer Review Survey, 2017. According to the survey, the average consumer reads at least seven reviews before trusting a local business, and 73% say that those reviews must be written within the past three months to be relevant. Further, online reviews affect businesses’ overall Google ranking.

Customer Voice is a proactive solution which sends requests for feedback from customer by text or email. The tool reminds customers to leave reviews, and allows businesses to respond to the feedback quickly and appropriately. As more reviews are gathered, the tool also works to ensure that they surface in search engine results.

The new Customer Voice tool will complement Vendasta’s robust reputation management offerings, which includes review and mention monitoring, online local listing management, automated alerts, employee social media monitoring, competitive benchmarks, and white-label solutions for review response. Customer Voice is now available to partners in the Vendasta Marketplace at wholesale prices starting at $10 per month.

About Vendasta Marketplace:
Vendasta Marketplace is a full suite of digital marketing solutions integrated directly into the Vendasta sales & marketing automation platform. Similar to how an app store connects people to tools that are tailored to specific needs, Marketplace provides SMBs instant access to à la carte marketing offerings via our Agency Partner’s brand. The resale platform has been a valuable addition to the Vendasta stack, with an average monthly revenue growth rate of 38% in its first year.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
+1-306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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“This is a valuable new addition to our SEO suite,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive Vice President of Marketplace at Vendasta. “Boostability’s price and value-point dovetails well with the other premier SEO products in Vendasta’s Marketplace to allow our partners to address the needs of local businesses, no matter what stage they are in their growth.”

With the addition of Boostability to Marketplace, partners and their clients now have access to full-service SEO campaigns designed for small and medium businesses to improve their website exposure and Google search rankings. Every client gets full transparency into their campaign with easy-to-read results, so they know that their SEO strategy is working. Boostability reporting also integrates new insights that complement Vendasta’s robust platform.

“I could not be more excited about this partnership,” said Boostability CEO Gavan Thorpe. “I know that Vendasta shares our enthusiasm for helping small businesses succeed online and I am confident that our SEO expertise will provide tremendous benefits to their partners and clients.”

Vendasta partners may now offer their clients four tiers of Boostability services in the Marketplace. The tiers range from entry-level ‘Bronze’ for the small local shop to ‘Platinum’ for an established business that is targeting a national market. Higher tiers provide more SEO hours, optimized webpages, targeted keywords, and tracking keywords to help businesses outrank the competition.

Partners who are interested in learning more can join Vendasta’s Boostability webinar Thursday, March 22nd at 3 p.m. ET.

About Vendasta Marketplace:
Vendasta Marketplace is a full suite of digital marketing solutions integrated directly into the Vendasta sales & marketing automation platform. Similar to how an app store connects people to tools that are tailored to specific needs, Marketplace provides SMBs instant access to à la carte marketing offerings under a Vendasta partner’s brand. The resale platform has been a valuable addition to the Vendasta stack, with an average monthly revenue growth rate of 38% in its first year.

About Boostability:
Established in 2009, Boostability began with the idea that effective SEO services should be accessible and affordable for all businesses. And it’s worked. Thanks to its unique approach to SEO fulfillment, Boostability now serves more than 26,000 small businesses, helping them elevate their digital presence and succeed online. It primarily works with reseller partners that offer Boostability’s award-winning SEO services to their own SMB clients. It has grown to more than 400 employees based in two offices across the Silicon Slopes of Utah with satellite locations in Amsterdam and Berlin. Boostability has been ranked in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for four straight years.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of over 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

Media Contact Information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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Roberts will help Vendasta’s 1,200+ agency and media company partners by providing them with multiple revenue motions through the Vendasta platform. He now oversees the Business Development Representatives (BDRs) sales floor, trains salespeople, and coaches the team to meet the needs of customers.

“Todd earned this position,” said George Leith, Chief Revenue Officer of Vendasta. “He’s grown into a leader and he knows how to coach individual sales professionals to help them meet the needs of their clients.”

“In today’s day and age of needs-based selling, a person leading a group of salespeople needs to super-serve customers so that they stay. Todd is a master at this.”

Roberts joined Vendasta in 2014 as a Senior Account Executive and successfully moved to Manager of Business Development last June. He was instrumental in growing Vendasta’s business to its more than 1,200 customers around the world.

“It’s hard to run a media company or a marketing agency in 2018 and we’re here to make it easier,” said Roberts. “We’re working hard to help partners understand how the Vendasta platform improves their bottom line, making big goals more attainable.”

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Its network of over 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit Vendasta’s website and check out its leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

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“Vendasta is scaling quickly and we have more partners than ever before who require our solutions,” said John Jordan, Executive Vice-President of Partner Development. “Desiree’s expertise will be a great benefit to our partners.”

The Vendasta platform is used by marketing agency and media partners worldwide, with U.S. business accounting for more than 90% of company revenue. The growth of Vendasta’s Partner Development team will help the company realize its goal of expanding its international customer base by 25%.

Kupietz earned her reputation as a stalwart sales and advertising leader through nearly a decade of experience in digital publishing, most recently serving as Director of Automotive Sales and Market Development at the publishing giant McClatchy. Skilled in partner development, integrated marketing, as well as sales and advertising marketing, Kupietz is a strong addition to the Vendasta team.

“I know what it’s like to be at a company that’s working to be at the forefront of digital advertising and marketing,” said Kupietz. “The fact that a platform like Vendasta is flourishing is proof that more people are seeing beyond the traditional sales package and are providing their clients digital solutions that will translate into measurable return on investment – real customers.”

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies and media companies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of more than 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

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“Doug has proven himself to be a leader who lives our values – he drives change, makes smart decisions, and gets results,” Chief Revenue Officer George Leith said.

“Vendasta is rapidly expanding, and Doug’s expertise in strategic planning will ensure we meet our partners’ growing needs.”

The Vendasta platform is used by marketing agency and media clients worldwide, with U.S. business accounting for more than 90% of company revenue. The growth of Vendasta’s Partner Development team will help Vendasta realize its goal of expanding its international customer base by 25%.

“I’m looking forward to this exciting and demanding new position,” Campbell said. “It’s no secret that Vendasta’s platform is a valuable tool for helping media companies and marketing agencies sell to small and medium businesses. The world is taking notice, and we want to make sure that our global partners feel supported by our team.”

Campbell brings more than 18 years experience in business development, as well as sales and marketing management to Vendasta. Prior to joining Vendasta in 2017, Campbell was Director of Business Development and CEO of Mosaic Place and YaraCentre, entertainment and leisure facilities located in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies and media companies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through its award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of more than 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of more than 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

Media contact information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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“Our agency and media company partners are demanding a broader variety of price-points and models,” said Ed O’Keefe, Executive Vice-President of Marketplace at Vendasta.

“With MarketGoo rounding out our Marketplace SEO stack, our agency partners now have an SEO solution for any client in their market, no matter where they are in their digital growth trajectory.”

With the addition of MarketGoo, partners and their SMBs have an easy-to-use SEO tool created for small businesses to improve their website tracking and Google search ranking. SMBs and agencies can now run reports and assess easy-to-read results that will help guide their digital strategy. MarketGoo reporting integrates new insights that complement Vendasta’s robust platform.

“Vendasta’s Marketplace was an obvious choice as a primary channel for us. We very quickly realized that it is the only marketplace or app store that stacks our product on top of integrated sales & marketing automation, which will allow us to ramp faster and at a lower cost of sales,” said Wences Garcia, CEO of MarketGoo. “We’re excited to be part of the the Vendasta partner and Marketplace ecosystem.”

Partners who are interested in learning more can join Vendasta’s MarketGoo webinar here on Thursday, March 8 at 3 p.m. EST.

About Vendasta Marketplace:
Vendasta Marketplace is a full suite of third party apps and digital marketing solutions integrated directly into the Vendasta sales & marketing automation platform. Similar to how an app store connects people to tools that are tailored to specific needs, Marketplace provides SMBs instant access to à la carte marketing offerings via our Agency Partner’s brand. The resale platform has been a valuable addition to the Vendasta stack, with an average monthly revenue growth rate of 38% in its first year.

About MarketGoo:
Founded in 2012, Madrid-based MarketGoo offers solutions for SMBs to grow their business online by providing powerful, yet simple and easy to use website marketing and SEO tools. MarketGoo is also available as a white label, turnkey solution to monetize and educate website customers. Partners such as Telcos, Hosting companies and providers are currently distributing it to enhance their value-added portfolios.

About Vendasta:
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through our award winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of over 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running.

Media contact information:

Dani Mario
Director of Public Relations
306-955-5512 (ext. 289)
dmario@vendasta.com

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John’s own partnership with Vendasta spans several years through his work with the McClatchy Company. Jordan led McClatchy’s digital revenue efforts as Director of Digital Revenue Development, from 2012 until January 2018, where he now joins the Vendasta team. John has been a passionate advocate for digital transformation. In his role at McClatchy, he worked with the company’s many newspapers to reshape the sales division with a focus on driving double-digit digital revenue growth. His team also launched McClatchy’s accelerate digital agency brand two years ago to expand its digital offering to an expanding client pool.

Vendasta’s CRO, George Leith, says, “We are very excited to add John to Vendasta’s Executive and Revenue Leadership Team as owner of our Enterprise Partnerships. We have had a long-standing partnership with John over the past five years, and his experience with transitioning a traditional media company to digital acceptance will be invaluable for our 1,200 partners worldwide.“

From his start as a reporter, John was at the forefront of digital disruption. He spent three decades in the newspaper industry entering into the digital journalism realm in 1993 when he launched The Salt Lake Tribune online. He was online editor at The News & Observer, Executive Producer at Nando Media, and rector of Interactive Media and Marketing at Anchorage Daily News. During his time in Alaska, John developed a dynamic Internet-centric web team that integrated with the entire operation while growing their audience and revenue and reflecting the rich culture and unique geography of the area. From there he was vice president of digital for The News Tribune in Tacoma and The Olympian until joining McClatchy in 2,000 where he held success roles in digital news and revenue.

“Leaving the newspaper industry was a hard decision for me, but Vendasta’s vision to drive local economies is an excellent fit for me,” says Jordan. “My passion to connect local consumers and businesses aligns with the Vendasta culture.”

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the leading platform for companies who sell digital solutions to local businesses. The Vendasta platform helps marketing agencies drive down their cost of sales while increasing margins through our award-winning needs-assessment, automated email marketing campaigns, easy-to-use CRM, a marketplace of resellable apps & services, and a white-label fulfillment agency. Vendasta’s network of over 1,200 platform customers with their combined network of over 16,000 salespeople serve hundreds of thousands of local small and medium businesses around the globe. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

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cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America. Vendasta grew 229 

Vendasta’s chief executive officer, Brendan King, attributes their success to the success of their 1,100+ resellers, which include digital agencies, pendingers, and media companies of all shapes and sizes, as well as their Marketplace of digital solutions with the company’s 229 percent revenue growth.

He said, “We are honored to rank on the Deloitte Fast 500 list for three years running. We owe our growth to the amazing partnerships we’ve created around the world. Their success and our company’s success would not be possible without the passion, innovation, and drive of our whole team who work tirelessly to make our platform the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses.“

“The Deloitte 2017 North America Technology Fast 500 winners underscore the impact of technological innovation and world-class customer service in driving growth, in a fiercely competitive environment,” said Sandra Shirai, vice chairman, Deloitte Consulting LLP and U.S. technology, media, and telecommunications leader. “These companies are on the cutting edge and are transforming the way we do business. We extend our sincere congratulations to all the winners for achieving remarkable growth while delivering new services and experiences for their customers.”

“Emerging growth companies are powering innovation in the broader economy. The growth rates delivered by the companies on this year’s North America Technology Fast 500 ranking are a bright spot for the capital markets and a strong indicator that the emerging growth technology sector will continue to deliver a strong return on investment,” said Heather Gates, national managing director of Deloitte & Touche LLP’s emerging growth company practice. “Deloitte is dedicated to supporting the best and brightest companies of the future in the emerging growth company sector. We are proud to acknowledge the significant accomplishments of this year’s Fast 500 winners.”

About Deloitte’s 2017 Technology Fast 500
Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2013 to 2016.In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years and be headquartered within North America. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”), its network of member firms, and their related entities. DTTL and each of its member firms are legally separate and independent entities. DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) does not provide services to clients. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the “Deloitte” name in the United States and their respective affiliates. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 790,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, is now unveiling a fresh new design for their Social Marketing product. These new design improvements feature a more simple, easy to use, and mobile-friendly Social Marketing experience.

Social Marketing has the same great functionality as always, now with new added features and functionality, including:

• New user interface—simple & intuitive navigation
• Mobile friendly—use on-the-go and on any device
• New social platform integrations—Google Posts via Google My Business

Vendasta’s Social Marketing gives agencies the power to provide social media management services to clients under their own brand. Social Marketing’s flexible service models allow agencies to collaborate with their clients on any level. Agencies can manage their social accounts together, do it all for them, or let their clients do it all themselves. Additionally, with Vendasta’s Concierge tool, agencies will be able to manage all of their clients’ social accounts effortlessly from one place.

With Social Marketing, agencies will be able to generate local leads for their clients, communicate with their followers, and post to all social media profiles at once. Social Marketing makes it easy to coordinate and schedule posts, and comes with a bank of engaging ready-to-pending content. Social Marketing gives businesses one place to stay social.

The release of Social Marketing, coupled with the other social products offered through Vendasta’s Marketplace, GetSocial and Simple Social Share, provides agencies and their clients with a complete social offering.

“Our Agency Partners are true partners, they let us know what they want,” says Vendasta’s EVP/GM Marketplace, Ed O’Keefe. “They say ‘If we are going to sell social, we need to have all the flavors at our fingertips.’ We listened.  That’s why Vendasta now provides a robust suite of social tools that check all the boxes for our agency partners to upsell and cross-sell their current clients, as well as attract new clients and market segments.”  

Social Marketing is a foundational social media management solution for agencies. To further stand out in a competitive environment and offer tailored solutions to clients, agencies can couple Social Marketing with GetSocial and Simple Social Share.

GetSocial is a content performance analytics platform that helps marketers and pendingers measure media shared through “dark” social channels like direct and SMS messaging.

Simple Social Share by Tempesta Media provides businesses with access to local influencers who can market their product, service, or brand to their followers on social media

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 700,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info

Media Contact Information:.
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (October 24, 2017) – Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, is delighted to announce that SIINDA, the Search and Information Industry Association, has honored Vendasta with three Industry Excellence Awards.

Member companies of SIINDA were recognized for their outstanding results with their product or services in mixed media, local search innovation, and technology. The annual awards banquet was held in Valencia, Spain yesterday as part of the SIINDA’s Media Tech Conference. The judging panel consisted of independent industry experts and media professors from throughout Europe.

SIINDA granted Vendasta three awards—the Gold Industry Excellence Award for a “Solution that Leads to Transaction” for the Vendasta Snapshot Report, the Silver Industry Excellence Award in “Technology” for the Vendasta Platform, and the Bronze award in “B2B” again for their Snapshot Report.

Vendasta provides agencies with white label marketing tools that they can brand as their own and resell to their local business customers. These tools include online reputation management, social media management, mobile-ready websites, and local listing management. Vendasta also offers a marketplace of rebrandable products that empowers agencies to acquire, retain, and grow customers.

The Snapshot Report is the crown jewel of Vendasta’s platform. It scans the online presence of local businesses and shows them how they’re performing in five key areas: listings, reviews, websites, social, and advertising. As a lead generation tool, its benefits are threefold. First, it sparks opportunities for agencies to strike conversations with prospects about their needs and helps them build credibility as a trusted expert. Second, it brings attention to urgent issues that local businesses may not know they have, thus creating dissonance and sparking an immediate demand for solutions. Third, the process leverages big data and automation to remove as much effort from the sales process as possible. This reduces the time it takes agencies to research businesses they want to prospect and allows them to devote more time to selling, ultimately lowering their cost of acquisition.

CEO, Brendan King says “ It’s always fantastic to win an award, but to earn the trifecta of awards like this is a true honor. We are very proud of the Vendasta platform and our Snapshot Report, and want to continue to provide the best for our partners. We are always working to enhance the solutions we offer to agencies in order to help them help local businesses get found first in the competitive digital space. We work with leading-edge technology and a team that is passionate about making our platform more effective, more efficient, and the #1 digital solutions platform for local businesses.”

Local businesses lack the time and resources to keep up with the online marketing they need to compete. At the same time, local agencies and media companies are challenged to provide relevant offerings and to sell them into the market in a profitable and efficient way. Vendasta’s creative approach brings the most comprehensive and efficient way to prospect, nurture, and convert new business.

The recognition at SIINDA come days after Vendasta received an Achievement for Business Excellence Award (ABEX) for Exports. This was awarded for demonstrating exceptional performance in exporting Saskatchewan goods or services nationally and internationally. Furthermore, Vendasta was also recently selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists in the Private Business Growth Award.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 700,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

About SIINDA
SIINDA is the Search & Information Industry Association, the leading European based non-profit association bringing together companies in the search (digital, mobile, print, vertical directories and platforms), information, and telecommunication sectors as well as businesses providing “on demand” services. We have global members from Asia to Latin America and from Africa to Australia. We provide a wide range of member services from market research to conferences and summits. We are a resource forum where complementary market segments in search and information can connect, share, and grow. We are fostering the development of positive, ongoing partnerships that enable us all to prosper. We keep our members up to date with the latest market trends, technical developments, and critical legislation that might affect our businesses. We also provide a platform where seed level startups can mix with industry leaders. Our worldwide network of members fosters the exchange of ideas and the encouragement of partnerships. For more information, go to http://siinda.com.

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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Celebrating its fifth year, the award developed by Grant Thornton LLP and The Canadian Chamber of Commerce recognizes some of Canada’s best private businesses who have made remarkable achievements in strategic, sustainable, and holistic growth.

Selected by an 8-person jury, the Top 10 Finalists were chosen based on five categories including innovation, market development, people and culture, strategic leadership, and improvement in financial measures.

Vendasta’s CEO, Brendan King, says “We are honored to be recognized amongst our peers as a finalist for the Private Business Growth Awards. We owe our revenue growth to the success our 1,100 plus partners earn worldwide by selling our platform to over 700,000 local businesses. Our partners’ success, along with the innovation and passion our employees exhibit when building our software, help us grow our network, expand our marketplace, and allow us to focus on our vision to be the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local business.”

Vendasta has a rapidly growing partner network and proven sales channel for selling digital marketing solutions to local businesses. They are now integrating other third-party applications through their marketplace of re-sellable solutions to service the billion-dollar SMB digital marketing and advertising industry.

“The finalists demonstrate a collective passion for hard work, commitment, and perseverance which underlines their importance in the Canadian economy,” said Kevin Ladner, FCPA, CA, CBV, CEO and Executive Partner, Grant Thornton LLP. “Their desire to contribute to the prosperity of local communities is an inspiration, and I wish each success at the upcoming gala ceremony.”

“The finalists are among the best and the brightest of Canada’s private businesses. Their accomplishments speak volumes about the entrepreneurial spirit and resourcefulness present in every region in Canada,” said the Hon. Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. “It is impressive to see such a diverse range of businesses represented in the Top 10. By celebrating their achievements, we hope to inspire many more entrepreneurs to follow in their path.”

The official 2017 Private Business Growth Award winner will be announced at a gala ceremony on November 14, 2017. For the full list of Top 10 Finalists, and more information on the Private Business Growth Award, please visit www.PrivateBusinessGrowthAward.com.  

About the Private Business Growth Award

The Private Business Growth Award recognizes Canadian-owned, privately-held businesses that have been in business a minimum of three years, have $5 million or more in revenues and have demonstrated outstanding strategic growth. A partnership between The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Grant Thornton LLP, 2017 marks the fifth year this national business award has recognized and celebrated the successful growth of private businesses in Canada. A jury of high-profile Canadian business leaders selects the Top 10 finalists and one winning company based on the following criteria: innovation, market development, people and culture, strategic leadership, and improvements in financial measures.

About Vendasta

Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 700,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

About Grant Thornton LLP in Canada

Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm providing audit, tax and advisory services to private and public organizations. We help dynamic organizations unlock their potential for growth by providing meaningful, actionable advice through a broad range of services. Together with the Quebec firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton LLP, Grant Thornton in Canada has approximately 4,000 people in offices across Canada. Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd, whose member and correspondent firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide. A listing of Grant Thornton offices and contact information can be found at: www.GrantThornton.ca.     

About The Canadian Chamber of Commerce

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the vital connection between business and the federal government. It helps shape public policy and decision-making to the benefit of businesses, communities, and families across Canada with a network of over 450 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 200,000 businesses of all sizes in all sectors of the economy and in all regions. Follow us on Twitter @CdnChamberofCom.
For further information, or to arrange an interview, contact:

Vendasta:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com
Grant Thornton LLP:
Victoria Rivers
Media Relations Manager
T +1 416 607 4163
E Victoria.Rivers@ca.gt.com

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To local businesses, Vendasta’s Social Marketing gives them one place to manage conversations and post across all of their social networks. To agencies, Social Marketing provides a resellable white label solution, with built-in multi-client management. The Google Posts integration allows businesses to create and share timely, relevant content directly in the Google search and map results via Social Marketing. Posts can include images and a customer call-to-action button, such as “Sign Up”, “Buy”, or “Learn More” to drive traffic to a particular page, service or product. Businesses can choose how to connect with the customers who are searching for them with a very simple path to conversion through these direct call to actions.

“It is really the intersection of search and social,” says Jacqueline Cook, CSO of Vendasta. “The feedback we’ve already received from our closed beta group is that this feature is a game changer. We’re so thrilled to be working with Google on the forefront of this release, and to be able to offer it to our 1,100+ reseller partners and their local advertisers globally.”

Vendasta’s collaborative relationship with Google has allowed the company to launch the feature from the first moment it became available to the public. By consistently leveraging Google’s innovative infrastructure, Vendasta continues to be on the forefront of the latest in local marketing. “Our mission is to provide our partners with the most effective digital tools possible as soon as they are available. We value the close relationships we have with industry leaders like Google to support our mission,” says Dale Hopkins, CTO.

Google Posts in Vendasta’s Social Marketing

Businesses can use Google Posts to:

• Promote upcoming events
• Share timely offers, such as seasonal sales or specials
• Showcase best selling products, services or new merchandise
• Make special announcements

Google Posts is currently available for beta Partners. Vendasta has been working on a fresh look for their flagship product,  Social Marketing which includes a new responsive design. This, along with Google Posts, will be unveiled to all partners next month.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (October 4, 2017) – Vendasta, the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, announces today the release of Website Pro—a WordPress hosting solution on the Google Cloud Platform.

Website Pro, a new app available for resale in the Vendasta Marketplace, gives agencies the power to provide Google-fast WordPress sites for any business. Hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, this state-of-the-art infrastructure allows Website Pro to serve up world-class speed, storage, security, and scalability. It eliminates time-intensive technical backend work with streamlined one-click hosting setup, restores, and imports.

“Website Pro is like the autonomous car for WordPress hosting”, says Vendasta’s Chief Strategy Officer, Jacqueline Cook. “A website is foundational to any business’ marketing strategy, and since nearly 60% of CMS-based websites use WordPress, we’ve recognized the opportunity for our partners to offer them from directly within the Vendasta platform.  We’ve combined the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress, with cutting-edge cloud technology to provide our partners with a stress-free hosting solution for their customers. We take care of the infrastructure headache–backups, restores, security, and updates–so they can focus on what they do best: designing beautiful, highly effective websites.”

Website Pro offers agencies the familiarity and flexibility of the WordPress ecosystem within the fully integrated Vendasta platform to provide their clients with a single login, a timely source of notifications, and a consolidated Google Analytics report to show traffic and proof of performance.

Vendasta’s Website Pro – WordPress hosting on the Google Cloud Platform

Website Pro has joined the growing suite of curated products available through Vendasta’s Marketplace. Launched in February 2017, Marketplace has quickly become a source for best-in-class digital solutions to sell to local businesses. These Marketplace solutions, along with Vendasta’s intent-based sales and marketing automation tools, help agencies acquire, retain, and grow their clientbase.

Website design, hosting, and maintenance accounts for 72.6% percent  ($61.4B) of the total spend on digital services (Borrell Associates Inc. (2016)). Website Pro’s world-class, low-cost hosting and security, automatic backups, and one-click restore means that agencies can focus on one thing: making great websites. Simply put, Website Pro gives agencies the power to build robust, secure, and Google-fast WordPress websites for any business.  For for more information on Website Pro, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info/marketplace/website-pro

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (September 28, 2017) – Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, announced today their integration of Google AdWords into their revolutionary Snapshot Report. AdWords is the largest and most widely used online advertising network worldwide.

Millions of businesses advertise online using Google AdWords to reach new customers and grow their business. With Google AdWords, businesses can display their ads precisely when people are searching for the things that they offer.

With the addition of Google AdWords keyword data in Vendasta’s Snapshot Report, businesses can target their digital advertising to the type of customers they want. They can use different targeting methods to reach potential customers right when they’re searching for their products or services. The integration of Google AdWords keyword data into the Snapshot Report, an award-winning digital assessment tool, will give business a quick look into the new business they could generate from AdWords advertising efforts. The Snapshot Report will show top keywords for a business based on their industry, location, services, and more, as well as the number of impressions and clicks they have the potential to reach in their local area.

Vendasta’s Snapshot report is one of the most powerful prospecting tools in digital media. It easily attracts prospects with a personalized analysis of their business’ virtual doorway by grading their online presence, from their online reputation to their social media presence, and more. It’s a personalized report that shows how a business looks online. It compares a business’ online presence to others in the industry and signals which ones are interested in digital solutions.

Swift Communications, a Vendasta partner, saw a 1500% increase in the number of accounts they were able to contact about digital solutions since they started using Snapshot Report. Kelly Geary, Digital Product Manager at Swift Communications, said, “Using the Snapshot Report and using Vendasta’s campaigns we have been able to reach a segment of businesses that we haven’t talked to about digital solutions—or perhaps we have in the past and the trail went cold.”

With the integration of new Google AdWords data, agencies will now be able to seamlessly integrate data-backed insights on digital advertising solutions into their sales pitches for local businesses, and help their clients get found online.

Brendan King, Vendasta’s CEO says, “The goal of our local marketing report, which we call Snapshot, is to show a business owner that they have a need and to show them where their local marketing problems are.

With the Snapshot Report, we are using broad data about a business’s online footprint to compile needs-based recommendations and solutions. By integrating Google AdWords with our Snapshot Report, we are providing agencies with a powerful tool to help local businesses get found first in the competitive digital space. The future of local marketing is being helpful first.”

Vendasta’s Snapshot Report is gaining international recognition from the Marketing Technology community, having recently won the 2016 Streetfight Local Visionary Award for Best Marketing Campaign for a Product.

Learn more about Vendasta’s Snapshot Report.

Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of re-sellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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The Lazaridis Scale-Up Program, now in its second year, provides tech companies with personalized mentorship, connections, networking, knowledge, and the support they need to maximize their value in Canada while growing their companies on a global scale. There is a competitive selection process, and applications are reviewed by a panel of Canadian and American venture capitalist and ecosystem leaders. Short-listed candidates must then take part in a video interview before being chosen. Ultimately, two Saskatoon-based tech companies were among the chosen few—Vendasta and 7Shifts.

Vendasta joined the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program in order to sustain its rapid growth, which has already been recognized by PROFIT 500 and Deloitte’s FAST 50 and FAST 500 lists as some of the most remarkable growth for a tech company in North America multiple years in a row. Currently, there are over 1,100 resellers using the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world.

Vendasta’s internationalization strategy has recently begun with expansion into Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. In early 2017, the Vendasta Marketplace—which allows agencies to provide new digital products and services at scale to local businesses—was launched, increasing the amount of solutions that Vendasta offers for resale and opening up new opportunities for international markets. In addition to offering more products and services, Vendasta has also hired a Senior Director of Revenue and Senior Manager of Partnerships to build business partnerships across Australia and Europe, as well as North America.

Jeff Tomlin, Vendasta’s CMO and co-founder, says, “Vendasta has experienced amazing growth over the past few years and has been recognized as one of Canada’s and North America’s fastest growing technology companies. Achieving that growth and reaching scale is by no means trivial! From the very beginning, we’ve looked to our customers for feedback and listened to and learned from those that have been there and done that. We’re so excited to be a part of the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program and to work with their network of global experts as we look to expand our reach.”

Through the Lazaridis Scale-Up Program, the CEO of each selected company—plus one other executive team member—will participate in five immersive weekends over the course of six months. The program prepares companies for securing their next round of funding.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a Marketplace of resellable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

About the Lazaridis Institute
The Lazaridis Institute is focused on a specific national challenge – the need for more globally competitive technology companies in Canada. The Institute helps Canadian technology companies reach their next level of growth through world-class support in the Scale-Up Program, through front-line training in the Tech Sales Apprenticeship initiative, and through a global network of business and technology experts who provide mentorship, connections, and valuable experience. The Institute conducts leading-edge research in innovation, management and disruption in the technology ecosystem. As part of the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Institute is creating direct links between international research, best practices in global scaling, and curriculum to prepare the next generation of business leaders to face tomorrow’s challenges in the tech industry. www.lazaridisinstitute.ca

Media Contact Information:
Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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This press release was pendinged on PR Web. SASKATOON, SK (September 14, 2017) Canadian Business and PROFIT today ranked Vendasta at No.100 on the 29th annual PROFIT 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. pendinged in the October issue of Maclean’s magazine and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian businesses by their five-year revenue growth.

Vendasta made the 2017 PROFIT 500 list with five-year revenue growth of 720%. “It is never easy to earn a spot on the PROFIT 500, but this year’s applicant pool was the most competitive yet,” says Deborah Aarts, PROFIT 500 program manager. “This year’s winners demonstrate the resilience, innovation and sheer management smarts it takes to build a thriving business today. Canada—and the world—needs more entrepreneurial success stories like these.”

Brendan King, Vendasta’s CEO is excited to receive another PROFIT 500 ranking for the second year running. He says, “We are honored to be ranked for the second year in a row amongst Canada’s fastest growing companies. Our revenue growth is a testament to the innovation and drive our employees exhibit by building software that solves our customers’ biggest problems. Our revenue growth is reflected and multiplied many times over in the growth of the revenue that our  1,100 plus partners earn worldwide selling to over  670,000 local businesses with our platform.”

Vendasta has a rapidly growing partner network and proven sales channel for selling digital marketing solutions to local businesses. They are now integrating other third-party applications through their marketplace of re-sellable solutions to service the billion-dollar SMB digital marketing and advertising industry.

About the PROFIT 500 For 29 years, the PROFIT 500 has been Canada’s most respectable and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Developed by PROFIT and now pendinged in Maclean’s magazine and at CanadianBusiness.com, the PROFIT 500 ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking visit PROFIT500.com or CanadianBusiness.com.

About Canadian Business

Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving and most-trusted business publication in the country. It is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior 5 business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at CanadianBusiness.com.

About Vendasta

Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies selling digital solutions to local businesses. By offering a marketplace of rebrandable products and services and an automated marketing system, agencies are empowered to acquire, retain, and grow their client base. Over 1,100 resellers use the Vendasta platform to sell to 670,000 local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years in a row. Vendasta has also been listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 for the second year running. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

Media Contact Information:

Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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Jacqueline is responsible for driving a growth mindset throughout Vendasta through alignment, focus and execution cross-functionally in Engineering, Design, Product Management, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Support and Success. She works with some of Vendasta’s largest partners to gather key customer insights in order to drive product strategy and ensure the company is achieving its long-term goals.

Jacqueline acts as General Manager of the product division, responsible for the P&L of the division and the development of Vendasta’s foundational solutions, which currently comprise over half of the company’s revenue. As part of this, she also drives Vendasta’s internationalization efforts.

Vendasta has established itself as a global leader in local digital solutions, working in nearly every major market throughout the United States and more than 180 markets throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In 2017, Vendasta has continued to grow with some of the largest media companies and digital agencies around the world to serve local businesses in France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Continued global expansion promises to propel the company to its next chapter of growth.

Jacqueline is an alumnus of The Next 36 Entrepreneurial Institute, Canada’s premier entrepreneurial leadership initiative. During the program, she co-founded and was CEO of Triumf Mobile Rewards: a tablet and Smartphone-based platform for small and medium-sized businesses to customize their own loyalty rewards programs.

Jacqueline has been a speaker at events such as TEDx UofS and WE DAY 2015, and has represented Canada at the 2010 G8 and G20 Summits, the 2010 APEC Summit in Japan, and at the 2011 G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in France. She has also been a recipient of CBC Saskatchewan’s Future 40 under 40 and a YWCA Women of Distinction Award. She currently resides in Saskatoon, Canada with her fiance, Jeff Wandzura.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies to sell digital solutions to local businesses. Over 2,000 platform customers with a combined salesforce of 8,500 strong use Vendasta to serve and market to millions of local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years. Listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 and winner of numerous local business awards, including Business of the Year for 2016, Vendasta employs a growing team of 240 across Canada and the United States. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

Media Contact Information:
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Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512 ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (JULY 07, 2017) – Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, is pleased to announce the addition of James (Jamie) Moffat to their senior leadership team. Jamie joins the company as Senior Manager of Partnerships and will work with Senior Director of Revenue, Doug Campbell to build and nurture business partnerships across North America, Australia, and Europe.

“We have a world-class team in place that manages our most successful partners, and this move secures our senior leadership as growth continues to accelerate,” says Doug Campbell, Sr. Director of Revenue. “Jamie is an outstanding addition and he brings a lot of experience as well as guidance to our Major Partner Success Management team.”

Jamie brings over 25 years experience in sales and management to Vendasta. He started his career in radio, in Prince George, British Columbia. His primary focus then was programming, news, and production, but following a move to Vancouver, Jamie soon discovered his passion for sales. Combining his media and advertising sales experience with his love for new technology, he helped hundreds of small and medium business bridge the gap between traditional and digital media. Jamie says he is “super excited to be joining the fantastic team at Vendasta. This company is on the upward swing and to be able to work with this team of digital media superstars in Saskatoon is a real blessing.”

Prior to joining the Vendasta leadership team, Jamie was Partner Integration Specialist with Futuri Media. Futuri purchased StreamOn, a streaming audio archiving and podcasting tool developed for radio stations, in 2015. Jamie had joined StreamOn to create revenue strategies for their tool, “Listen Later”. He focused on using digital and audio on-demand tools to grow ratings and increase revenue. The success of “Listen Later” didn’t go unnoticed and Futuri added StreamOn’s streaming and podcasting tools to its line of digital products for radio and TV stations around the world.

Jamie developed digital and on-demand strategies for radio broadcasting clients ranging from standalone small market stations to some of the largest radio companies including the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group, iHeartRadio, Harvard Broadcasting, and many others. He shared his wealth of media sales and tech knowledge on digital panels at radio conferences across Canada and the United States.

Vendasta’s CRO, George Leith says, “We have been searching all year for senior management additions to our Revenue division at Vendasta. I am pleased to announce Jamie will be leading the team helping our biggest partners worldwide with their success. Jamie’s extensive media sales background and software integration and success is a huge addition to the business acumen at Vendasta. I welcome him to our leadership team.”

Vendasta is a digital solutions platform that connects agencies and software vendors with local businesses that need them. It offers agencies a marketplace of rebrandable products and leverages big data, automation and intent-mining to identify hot leads and empowers them to acquire, retain and grow customers. Vendasta turns salespeople into experts on local digital marketing, offering the power to show local businesses how they’re doing and how they can do better. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

Media Contact Information:

Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512 ext. 153
cbarcoe(at)vendasta.com

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Saskatoon, SK (June 28, 2017) — Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, announces today the promotion of George Leith to the position of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). George will be responsible for all revenue generation within Vendasta, as well as driving better integration and alignment between marketing, sales, partner success, development and strategy teams. Driving revenue management and accurately forecasting growth opportunities through pricing strategy, sales performance, distribution, delivery and customer delight will be George’s key areas of focus.

“George has built a formidable sales organization,” said Vendasta’s CEO, Brendan King. “He constantly challenges the status quo, making those around him better, and never settles for mediocrity. There is no one I have more confidence in to lead the charge on Vendasta’s aggressive revenue targets.”

Nearly 85% of local sales are made by trusted resellers. George has been instrumental in developing and executing the plan to expand Vendasta’s reseller base beyond traditional print and yellow page industries to other industries facing disruption, including radio, TV, banking, telco and cable companies. While George has long been readily identifiable by marketing and media firms like McClatchy, Fairfax, For Rent, Frankly and their stable of Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC stations nationwide, he now helps achieve efficiencies for partners in many more industries.

Vendasta began in the disruptable market of media and advertising, and is now quickly moving down the chain to offer everything a local business needs. Currently providing the full new marketing stack to a local business, Vendasta is moving into productivity, protection, connectivity and even operations. In a few years, everything a local business needs to operate will come from Vendasta through their resellers.

George’s expertise in sales, training, networking, management and marketing comes from the numerous executive and ownership positions he has held across multiple media and service related businesses. His track record of success with promotions and marketing in media spans over 30 years, and includes over a dozen years in radio and several years owning and managing his own print publishing business, which he then successfully sold. George’s expertise in these industries has made him an essential asset in the new world order of Saas.

Vendasta continues to experience exponential growth while maintaining exceptional SaaS metrics. Their lifetime value (LTV) to cost of acquisition (CAC) is world class, and Vendasta’s costs are maintained throughout that growth. George has helped Vendasta achieve SaaS metrics that rival the best in Silicon Valley. While Vendasta continues to acquire more partners each month, acquisition is only a small part of their growth strategy. Achieving an exceptional net negative churn rate has been one of George’s flagship achievements.

George has helped define Vendasta’s land and expand strategy, growing current partners using a trifecta of growth levers: penetration, basket size and ARPU. Within two years, average revenue has increased by more than four times for each Vendasta partner. With George at the helm, Vendasta expects to intensify international expansion opportunities while simultaneously growing their national partner list.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies to sell digital solutions to local businesses. Over 2,000 platform customers with a combined salesforce of 8,500 strong use Vendasta to serve and market to millions of local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past two years. Listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 and winner of numerous local business awards, including Business of the Year for 2016, Vendasta employs a growing team of 240 across Canada and the United States. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

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This originally appeared on PRWeb.

SASKATOON, SK  (May 25, 2017) – Vendasta is pleased to announce the appointment of Doug Campbell as Senior Director of Revenue. Heading up a dedicated sales team, Doug will be responsible for building Vendasta’s business partnerships across North America, Australia and Europe. With the U.S. accounting for approximately 93% of Vendasta’s revenues currently, they are positioning for further penetration in the US, and expanding into other export markets. Vendasta has already secured key opportunities in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Vendasta’s VP of Sales, George Leith says “We are excited to add Doug Campbell to the Vendasta Leadership team. His track record speaks for itself, he builds winning teams. We look forward to having his experience and professionalism working with our teams and partners worldwide.” Doug brings over 18 years experience in business development and sales/marketing management to Vendasta. He joins from Mosaic Place and YaraCentre, entertainment and leisure facilities located in Moose Jaw, Southern Saskatchewan. As Director of Business Development and CEO, Doug was responsible for attracting major artists and events such as Dolly Parton, Motley Crew and the Canada Cup, to name a few. This earned Mosaic Place first place in Venues Today Top Spot in Western Canada, and the third spot in Venues Today Top Spot in Canada in 2015 and 2016.

“I’m very excited to join the world class Vendasta team, and look forward to working with our talent and partners as we continue to cement and further our mission as the number one platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses,” Campbell says. Heavily involved in his local community, Doug also serves as President of the Moose Jaw Destination Marketing Fund/Visit Moose Jaw Board and Director of the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation board. And as if Doug wasn’t busy enough, he also has four children to keep him on his toes.

“We are very pleased to have Doug onboard,” says Vendasta’s CEO, Brendan King. “We’re excited for Doug to share his expertise and help grow our international markets, not just in North America, but around the world. We have extremely aggressive growth targets, and Doug’s business acumen and strategic approach to distribution will help us achieve those goals.”

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About Vendasta

Vendasta is a digital solutions platform that connects agencies and software vendors with local businesses that need them. It offers agencies a marketplace of rebrandable products and leverages big data, automation and intent-mining to identify hot leads and empowers them to acquire, retain and grow customers. Vendasta turns salespeople into experts on local digital marketing, offering the power to show local businesses how they’re doing and how they can do better. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com and check out Vendasta’s leadership principles to see what drives their recruitment strategy.

Media Contact Information:

Catriona Barcoe
Marketing Coordinator
+1 306 955 5512  ext. 153
cbarcoe@vendasta.com

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Partnership Provides Thousands of Vendasta Partners Access to the Yext Knowledge Engine and Listings.

New York, NY (May 17, 2017) — Vendasta, the leading platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, and Yext Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the digital knowledge management provider, have partnered to offer Yext Listings to the 2,000+ agencies and media companies that serve millions of local businesses on the Vendasta Platform.

With Yext, Vendasta customers will be able to manage the public facts about their brands across the digital ecosystem, enabling them to easily update the information their customers find about them and see it automatically update across the 100+ digital services in the PowerListings® Network, including Google, Apple Maps, Bing, Facebook and Yahoo.

“Vendasta aspires to be the number one white-label platform for resellers to provide local business with digital solutions,” said Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “Partnering with Yext is a huge step forward, and arms our resellers with a world-class digital knowledge management platform.”

“It is Yext’s mission to put every business in control of its digital knowledge everywhere,” said Howard Lerman, Co-Founder and CEO of Yext. “Vendasta has one of the best toolkits for digital marketers, and we look forward to working together to put business on the map for years to come.”

Vendasta offers a marketplace of rebrandable products and a platform that empowers agencies to acquire, retain and grow customers. The agency platform offers a suite of sales tools and marketing automation capabilities to help agencies drive down the cost of sales and increase margins and customer retention.

Here you’ll get more information about Yext reviews and solutions.

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About Yext
Yext puts business on the map. The Yext Knowledge Engine lets companies manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to over 100 services in the PowerListings® Network. Yext Listings, Pages, and Reviews help businesses around the globe facilitate face-to-face and digital interactions that boost brand awareness, drive foot traffic, and increase sales.

About Vendasta
Vendasta is the #1 platform for agencies to sell digital solutions to local businesses. Over 2,000 platform customers with a combined salesforce of 8,500 strong use Vendasta to serve and market to millions of local businesses around the world. Vendasta has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Canada and one of the top 500 fastest growing in North America by Deloitte the past 2 years. Listed on the Canadian Business Magazine’s Profit 500 and winner of numerous local business awards, including Business of the Year for 2016, Vendasta employs a growing team of 240 across Canada and the United States. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

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Launch of new “Frankly Local” product will be powered by the Vendasta partnership

San Francisco, CA  (April 24, 2017) – Frankly Inc. (TSX VENTURE: TLK) (Frankly), the leader in transforming local TV broadcast and media companies by enabling them to pending and monetize their digital content across multiple platforms, has launched Frankly Local, formed by a strategic partnership with Vendasta, the leading marketing and sales platform with a marketplace that helps partners sell white label digital solutions to local businesses at scale. Frankly Local and the partnership with Vendasta will generate incremental revenues to both organizations and offer a key product suite for Frankly customers. The two companies will be exhibiting together at the National Association of Broadcasters largest conference this week in Las Vegas.

“Frankly’s goal is to provide an innovative digital user experience as well as to offer a compelling monetization solution to our media customers,” said Jason Simpson, Head of Sales and Business Development at Frankly. “Our launch of Frankly Local through our partnership with Vendasta dramatically expands our monetization offering with a unique product suite.  Moreover, growing our business through strategic partnerships has been one our key stated catalysts in moving Frankly forward, and our partnership with Vendasta is a major achievement and proof point in that important mission.”

Serving more than 200 stations across the United States, Frankly identified Vendasta as a partner because of its ability to offer local businesses a complete and total solution in their new marketing stack. From creating awareness with digital advertising all the way down the funnel to converting prospects on a website, Frankly customers can now access their entire marketing stack in one unified platform.

Vendasta, whose vision is to be the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, was selected as Frankly’s strategic partner because of their robust platform offering. While Vendasta offers the complete marketing stack for a local business, the growth, revenue and marketing ecosystem they provide for Frankly and their broadcast partners was also key in consideration for partnership. Frankly’s sales team uses the Vendasta platform to report on sales, identify intent-based prospecting and upsell opportunities, build action-oriented sales targets and utilize its innovative new digital solutions.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Frankly, one of the most successful technology partners in the broadcasting space,” said Vendasta CEO Brendan King. “Frankly is a powerful industry leader in transitioning digital media alongside traditional.  As we aggressively move towards our target of 3,000 partners globally this year, Frankly’s stable of 200+ television companies makes this relationship a natural fit. Every day we are talking to partners that want to solve the challenges their customers face. The Vendasta platform solves these advertisers’ issues.”

Heartland Media, LLC, which boasts ten markets across the United States, is the most recent to cement their partnership for their digital agency, PulseLocal Marketing, with Frankly Local Powered by Vendasta.

“As leaders in local advertising in our markets, Heartland has been looking for a best-in-class platform that encompasses an end-to-end suite of digital marketing solutions, and we found it in Frankly Local,” said Heartland’s Chief Digital Officer, Lisa Bishop. “Frankly Local Powered by Vendasta will enable PulseLocal Marketing to empower local businesses in our markets to expand their digital presence and help solidify Heartland’s position as the leader in comprehensive digital marketing solutions as well. We are thrilled to be working with Frankly and Vendasta and look forward to a lucrative partnership.”

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About Frankly

Frankly (TSX VENTURE: TLK) builds an integrated software platform for media companies to create, distribute, analyze and monetize their content across all of their digital properties on web, mobile and TV.  Its customers include NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX affiliates, as well as other leading media organizations. Collectively, Frankly reaches nearly 60 million monthly users in the United States. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with major offices in New York. To learn more, visit www.franklyinc.com.

About Vendasta

Vendasta is a digital solutions platform that connects agencies and software vendors with local businesses that need them. It offers agencies a marketplace of rebrandable products and leverages big data, automation and intent-mining to identify hot leads and empowers them to acquire, retain and grow customers. Vendasta turns salespeople into experts on local digital marketing, offering the power to show local businesses how they’re doing and how they can do better. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Frankly Company Contact:
Steve Chung, CEO
press@franklyinc.com

Frankly Investor Relations Contact:
Matt Glover or Najim Mostamand
Liolios Group, Inc.
949-574-3860
TLK@liolios.com
Vendasta Media Contact:
Nykea Behiel
nbehiel@vendasta.com
306-955-5512 ext. 125

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While this is the first nod Vendasta has received for Business of the Year, this is the second year in a row that they have received top marks in the Growth and Expansion category. They attribute a big part of their success to their culture of excellence, investment in their employees and their sustainable growth model.

Despite some slow-downs being experienced in other areas of the economy, Vendasta expects to continue to grow at a rapid clip in 2017. In addition to steady revenue growth, they project to add an impressive 90 new employees to their team.

The company values cultivating a positive work environment for its employees, and they invest significantly in their people and infrastructure across all areas of the organization. This is exemplified by their focus on continuing education for employees, providing them with the opportunity for coverage of University classes, certifications and other training to advance their skills and move into new roles in the company. They also have several dedicated programs for giving back to the community, with one of their flagship partnerships being with St. Mark’s Community School—providing mentorship, fostering a passion for learning and supporting a variety of programs for youth that are offered to them.

The SABEX wins come on the heels of several major platform announcements, and CEO, Brendan King, is pleased with the sustained momentum that the company has seen, saying “We are honored to be recognized in this way. Our mission is to be number one in everything we do — not just in the platform that we develop — but we also want to create an environment of innovation and passion for our employees to contribute to every day. We are proud of our accomplishments and want to continue to provide the best for our partners, our community and our people.”

Vendasta was recognized as the Best Place to Work in Saskatoon by Flow Magazine in 2015, and were awarded the SABEX Growth & Expansion award in 2016. They were also recognized nationally by the Profit 500 program, ranking #42, from the Branham 300 program at #176, and from Deloitte as #42 on the Technology Fast 50. Internationally, Vendasta was ranked #386 on the North American Deloitte Technology Fast 500 program as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America and received recognition for their approach to local marketing at the Street Fight Summit in New York, receiving the Local Visionary Award for the Best Marketing Campaign.

Find out more about the company by watching Vendasta’s Superbowl Ad, and for further information visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

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SASKATOON, SK (February 6, 2017) – Vendasta, the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, unveiled its new Marketplace solution which is available today for general release. Marketplace is a brand new way that agencies can browse, select and effectively package and sell digital products that have been developed by third parties.

Vendasta’s Marketplace is aiming to revolutionize how agencies go to market with relevant offerings that their customers want. Similar to how the app store connects people looking for solutions with everything they need in one place, Marketplace provides instant access to all of the solutions an agency can take to market — all in one place, available with one login. Going one step further, Marketplace enables the agency to provision the solution as their own and gives them the collateral and automated tools to prospect and sell them effectively.

This new way to incorporate products into their portfolio completely changes the game for agencies who do not want to deal with their own product development cycles, virtually eliminating risk while providing scalable solutions that are on-brand for each agency. Once a Marketplace solution is enabled, Vendasta’s intent-based sales and marketing automation tools provide capabilities for agencies to acquire, retain and grow their market. This Marketplace video offers a deeper look into the offering.

An early preview of Marketplace was provided to a sold-out audience at VendastaCon, Vendasta’s inaugural conference that was held in Austin, Texas on January 25 and 26. During the unveil, Vendasta’s General Manager and Executive Vice President of Marketplace, Ed O’Keefe, walked through the features and connected the dots on how it works. O’Keefe crystalized how Marketplace works in context with Vendasta’s smart campaigns and with the Local Marketing Index, which provides on-going proof of performance, tracking and prescription to enable its users to continually get better results from them.

“The launch of Marketplace delivers a new and critical strategic asset to our partners. The Marketplace solves for long protracted go-to-market cycles and slow sales ramp times. As we continue to onboard new world-class vendors, our Partners are now able to execute fast new product launches and deliver incremental revenue streams for their organizations. It is truly a first-of-its-kind solution, and we are so excited to invite new vendors and partners into it,” said O’Keefe.

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SASKATOON, SK (November 15, 2016) – For the second year in a row, Vendasta is named as one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies in the 19th annual Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards for demonstrating bold innovation, dedicated leadership and strong growth. Vendasta ranked #49 with a 252 percent in revenue growth from 2012 to 2015.

We won last year too! Check out the post.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program celebrates leaders in the Canadian technology industry and tracks the successful growth of Canadian-grown leaders. The program augments the broader Deloitte North American Technology Fast 500 initiative with winners automatically eligible for this elite ranking.

Vendasta’s CEO, Brendan King, credits the company’s expanding marketplace of essential digital solutions for local businesses and its far-reaching partner distribution network with the company’s 252 percent revenue growth. King said, “Vendasta’s vision is to be the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local business. We do this by empowering our partners, media companies and agencies, with a white label sales, marketing and fulfillment platform. Currently seven of the top ten media companies in North America use our platform. These companies have an army of salespeople, currently 7,800 feet on the street, and are using our platform to market to over 600,000 local businesses. It is through the success of our partners  that we have been able to make the Deloitte Fast 50 list for the second year in a row.”

“Fast 50 companies are the cutting-edge innovators leading the technology industry in Canada,” said Anders McKenzie, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Managing Partner for Deloitte in Canada. “Their bold vision, unrivaled growth and true commitment to innovation allow them to not only improve today’s world, but also shape tomorrow’s.”

To qualify for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking, companies must have been in business for at least four years, have revenues of at least $5 million, be headquartered in Canada, own proprietary technology, conduct research and development activities in Canada and invest a minimum of five percent of gross revenues in R&D.

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About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program.  Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features three distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies in business less than four years, with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50 candidate) and the Leadership Awards (companies that demonstrate technological leadership and innovation within the industry.) Program sponsors include Deloitte, Aequitas NEO Exchange, Bank of Montreal, Bennett Jones, OMERS Ventures and Vistara Capital Partners. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.

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SASKATOON, SK (November 1, 2016) – Vendasta, the #1 platform for agencies and media companies selling digital solutions to local businesses, announced it is producing the first ever VendastaCon conference on January 25 and 26, 2017, at Brazos Hall in downtown Austin, Texas. The event will feature a range of industry experts, agencies and media companies who will uncover the latest data, insights and strategies to drive local sales and marketing initiatives.

The theme for VendastaCon is centered around “Conquering Local” and will highlight industry analysts and practitioners who will bring clarity and solutions to the biggest challenges that agencies and media companies are facing today. Over the course of the one-and-a-half day event, speakers will unveil new research, shedding a light on how to turn insights into an actionable roadmap that attendees can put to work in their own organizations.

Throughout the event, attendees can engage in one-on-one conversations with speakers, peers and a variety of local business specialists about the specific challenges and opportunities they are facing in their own organizations. The interactive VCon Marketplace will showcase a range of the latest local products and services, and the Vendasta solution center will also have specialists on-hand for questions and live demonstrations. At the end of day one, event-goers can take in the Conqueror’s Bash, a relaxed gathering taking place on the rooftop lounge at Brazos Hall.

Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff Tomlin, is excited to bring this multi-faceted group of luminaries together, saying, “VendastaCon is filling a solution gap for local marketing agencies and media companies. We talk to people every day who are struggling with how to increase customer acquisition, how to reduce churn and how to drive more value with local SEO. We have analyzed a tremendous amount of data to bring new insights and prescriptive solutions to these and other challenges, and VendastaCon is the opportunity to start activating on them.”

With major speaker announcements being released soon, key research projects are being completed, and an exclusive first look at key findings and platform announcements will take place at VendastaCon. The latest research and development is underscored by an analysis of over 500,000 local business data points that zero in on key verticals, state-level information and more.  

For more information about VendastaCon, how to get involved as an attendee, a speaker or a vendor, visit www.vendastacon.com. To view past research and reports pendinged by Vendasta, visit their blog.

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The program’s Best Marketing Campaign category was created to recognize the most successful tactics and messaging used in bringing products to market and reaching key customers. It focuses on the most creative approaches and those which produce the most effective results.

Vendasta’s award-winning Snapshot Report

Vendasta’s winning marketing campaign was based on the approach and success metrics that have been achieved using intelligent prospecting data through their Snapshot Report. Vendasta’s Snapshot Report brings together relevant information about a local business’ marketing performance and then signals a salesperson when that business indicates they are interested in a solution.

For the sales team of one of Vendasta’s partners, Swift Communications, leveraging the Vendasta approach enabled them to go back to their customers with new solutions, and ultimately realize over a 1500% increase in the number of accounts they were able to contact about digital solutions.

Kelly Geary, Digital Product Manager at Swift Communications, said, “Using the Snapshot Report and using Vendasta’s campaigns we have been able to reach a segment of businesses that we haven’t talked to about digital solutions—or perhaps we have in the past and the trail went cold.”

Vendasta’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff Tomlin, is excited to have been recognized for such a prestigious award, and stresses the importance of the solution for agencies and media companies, adding, “Business owners are bombarded with calls from local marketing agencies. Those agencies who are standing out are those who are shifting from loud and aggressive selling to a paradigm of being helpful first, and we have made this our mission. By leveraging data with the Snapshot Report, we help them completely transform the outbound sales and marketing to deliver inbound results.”

Find out more about Snapshot Reports, watch the Swift Communications case study video or read the blog post “20 Email Marketing Campaigns that Hit the Mark” to find out more about how to perfect your marketing campaigns.

About Vendasta

Vendasta’s platform helps digital agencies and media companies sell digital marketing solutions to local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta provides white label reputation management, social media marketing and local listings management while integrating with third party applications to offer a complete solution for any local business. Vendasta offers online presence management that helps agencies scale their clients from DIY to Do It For Me to Do It With Me services. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com. Vendasta’s system supports both multi-location brands and local businesses.

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With the Google My Business API version 3.1 released today, Vendasta leads the way by making it immediately available to its partners

SASKATOON, SK (September 26, 2016) – Vendasta, the #1 platform for selling digital solutions to local businesses, announced that it has deployed the latest Google My Business instant review feature, which Google released today, into its platform for general availability to its partners.

The review capabilities from Google enable a local business to get alerted about a new customer review as soon it is left on Google. These alerts empower a business to manage reviews in real-time, which gives them greater control over their reputation management. The introduction of Vendasta’s feature, in-sync with Google’s release, is part of the company’s commitment to building software based on the newest tools and technologies available, and ensuring their partners have access to them immediately.

Vendasta’s collaborative relationship with Google has allowed the company to launch the feature from the first moment it became available to the public, a commitment that Chief Technology Officer, Dale Hopkins, says is critical to their product strategy, adding “We’re proud that by consistently leveraging Google’s innovative infrastructure, Vendasta continues to be on the forefront of the latest technologies involving listings and reviews. Our mission is to provide our partners with the most effective digital tools possible as soon as they are available. We value the close relationships we have with industry leaders like Google to support our mission.”

Vendasta is continuously optimizing its platform and expansion of the solution is expected to continue in a number of key areas across digital advertising and lifecycle management over the next few months.

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Media Contact:

Bonnie Clark
Director of Brand & Buzz
306.955.5512
bclark@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (September 21, 2016) – Vendasta, the #1 platform for agencies and media companies selling digital solutions to local businesses, has been ranked number 42 on the 28th annual PROFIT 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

The PROFIT 500 program ranks companies based on five-year revenue growth, with Vendasta earning a spot on the prestigious list based on their five-year growth rate of 1,986%. In addition to its healthy revenue performance, Vendasta continues to expand its automated sales and marketing platform and shows no signs of slowing down.

“Companies become a part of the PROFIT 500 through innovative thinking, smart strategy and sheer grit,” says James Cowan, Editor-in-chief of PROFIT and Canadian Business. “These firms demonstrate what Canadian entrepreneurs can achieve, both at home and across the globe.”

Brendan King, Vendasta’s CEO, is excited to receive the ranking, stating “We are honored to be listed among our respected peers on this list. Our growth numbers are reflective of investments in a number of key areas across R&D and marketing, which has helped us to increase the breadth of our offering and adoption among our partners. We will continue cultivating solid relationships with our technology and industry partners to support this upward trajectory.”

Vendasta is continuing to expand their global footprint, and has most recently experienced significant adoption in Australia. The company has also been nominated for Saskatchewan Trade and Export’s Exporter of the Year Award, which will be announced in October.

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About PROFIT and PROFITguide.com

PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success is Canada’s preeminent media brand dedicated to the management issues and opportunities facing small and mid-sized businesses. For 34 years, Canadian entrepreneurs across a vast array of economic sectors have remained loyal to PROFIT because it’s a timely and reliable source of actionable information that helps them achieve business success and get the recognition they deserve for generating positive economic and social change. Visit PROFIT online at PROFITguide.com.

About Canadian Business

Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving, best-selling and most-trusted business publication in the country. With a total brand readership of more than 1.1 million, it is the country’s premier media brand for executives and senior business leaders. It fuels the success of Canada’s business elite with a focus on the things that matter most: leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. We provide concrete examples of business achievement, thought-provoking analysis and compelling storytelling, all in an elegant package with bold graphics and great photography. Canadian Business — what leadership looks like.

About Vendasta

Vendasta’s platform helps digital agencies and media companies sell digital marketing solutions to local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta provides white label reputation management, social media marketing and local listings management while integrating with third party applications to offer a complete solution for any local business. Vendasta offers online presence management that helps agencies scale their clients from DIY to Do It For Me to Do It With Me services. Vendasta’s system supports both multi-location brands and local businesses.

Media Contact:

Bonnie Clark
Director of Brand & Buzz
306.955.5512
bclark@vendasta.com

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SASKATOON, SK (July 8, 2016) – Vendasta Technologies has exponentially grown their marketing and data research teams to analyze digital challenges faced by agencies in the local digital space. Vendasta’s new blog is the first to focus on the local-specific space, highlighting challenges and solutions for anyone selling to local businesses. Everyone in the local digital space recognizes the adage that content is king, and Vendasta is resolved to wear that crown.

Vendasta offers several relevant and thorough pieces of content on their blog each week, as well as essential whitepapers, case studies and guides. The local space is changing rapidly, and the challenges agencies face are evolving. Vendasta provides tactical and useful pieces of content to fill that need for agencies.

“We provide our partners, potential partners and all agencies serving local businesses the resources and collateral to stay relevant in an industry that is in a constant state of motion,” said Nykea Behiel, Director of Content at Vendasta. “Going forward, Vendasta’s blog will continue to be an essential voice in the industry, rising above the clutter and serving as the predominant source for agency news on marketing, technology, culture and digital products in the local space.”

Because of the breadth of the Vendasta platform, the agency blog speaks to a broad spectrum of topics—digital marketing, industry trends, digital products—all focused on solving problems for agencies.

New subscribers get early access to Vendasta’s white papers, guides and templates, as well as a chance to be a featured contributor on the blog. With an effort to detail all the challenges at the hands of agencies, Vendasta is building their guest blogger list to speak to the variety of perspectives.

Download Vendasta’s featured piece of content: 14 Challenges Agencies Face.

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About Vendasta

Vendasta’s platform helps digital agencies and media companies sell digital marketing solutions to local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta provides white label reputation management, social media marketing and local listings management while integrating with third party applications to offer a complete solution for any local business. Vendasta offers online presence management that helps agencies scale their clients from DIY to Do It For Me to Do It With Me services. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Vendasta’s system supports both multi-location brands and local businesses.

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MEDIA CONTACT INFORMATION
Nykea Behiel
Director of Content
1.306.955.5512, ext 125
nbehiel@vendasta.com

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Saskatoon, SK, June 17, 2016 — Vendasta Technologies, the #1 platform for agencies and media companies selling digital solutions to local businesses, announces today the release of Listing Sync—a solution that allows local businesses to quickly create, update and maintain online business listings.

The accuracy and consistency of business listings is critical – not only does it make a business more attractive to Google, but it also ensures potential customers have the information they need to interact with and buy from the business. The problem is that local business owners often do not have the time or knowledge to manage their business listings. Vendasta’s Listing Sync solution enables business owners to efficiently control their listings on 40+ reputable sites from a single dashboard.

The extensive list of sites includes search engines, social networks and business directories, such as Bing, Instagram and Manta, as well as popular navigation systems like Audi, Ford and Toyota. Furthermore, local businesses can instantly sync to Google My Business, Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare for no extra fee.

Vendasta’s Listing Sync allows local businesses to make quick changes to their hours of operation and contact information on-demand from one single source of truth. The service also continually protects listings from unwanted changes by third parties, which are commonplace in the listings ecosystem.

Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta, says “For local businesses, there are four pillars of an online reputation—reputation management, social, website and listings. Establishing each of those pillars by building foundational solutions has been key to our partners’ success,” says Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “The listings ecosystem is extremely difficult to navigate, but local businesses who get it right reap the rewards. Listing Sync helps more businesses get it right.”

Ultimately, Listing Sync saves local business owners hours of manually creating, updating and monitoring their listings while establishing a consistent presence across the internet—a critical component of an effective digital marketing strategy.

The listings ecosystem is complex—listing sites often reference each other’s data and third parties can manipulate listings without warning. As such, one approach is often not enough. That is why Vendasta’s partners can pair Listing Sync with Listing Distribution—a service that fixes listing data on the four major data aggregators who are responsible for distributing information to over 300 online directories. This approach helps guarantee listing accuracy in as many places as possible, solidifying Vendasta’s position as the most comprehensive listings management provider on the market.

Learn more about Vendasta’s Listing Sync.

Media Contact:

Bonnie Clark
Director of Brand & Buzz
306.955.5512
bclark@vendasta.com

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June 10, 2016

Vendasta Employee Count Grows Over 200 with Focus on Platform Innovation

Saskatoon, SK —Vendasta Technologies, the #1 platform for agencies and media companies selling digital solutions to local businesses, reports today that it has nearly doubled its employee count so far in 2016 and expects to continue growing at a moderate pace through the remainder of the year.

This rapid expansion from 105 employees in 2015 to its current capacity of 207 employees recently earned Vendasta recognition, being awarded the SABEX award in the Growth and Expansion category. The SABEX program recognizes businesses in Saskatoon who have fueled growth and expansion of markets, physical locations and/or number of employees, while increasing revenues, investments and/or profits.

With the company’s focus on creating a sustainable framework for rapid expansion, they have stacked their leadership team with a tour-de-force of individuals across all areas of the company, with particular emphasis on growth and business operations. VP of Growth, Jacqueline Cook, plays a pivotal role as one of the company’s key change agents who ensures that Vendasta’s vision for growth is governed with the right measure of agility and alignment among people, processes and best practices.

“It’s an exciting time. Our partners are seeing tremendous growth with the Vendasta platform, and we’re attracting some very bright people to our team. It’s about making sure everyone in the company deeply understands our growth levers and can measure their impact toward those goals in order to stay agile as we continue to expand.”

To drive successful growth, the company has also established a wide net of business intelligence systems through finance and operations, with a hyper-attentiveness on key performance indicators. However, Vendasta’s growth mission does not overshadow its vision to ensure a healthy, fun and respectful environment for employees.

CEO, Brendan King, is a champion for reinforcing the company’s values in everything they do. “Our values are quite simple, really. We drive innovation through respect and agility,” he says. “Growing market leadership takes effort from everyone on board to move us toward our end goal. You can’t grow successfully without purpose, and that is what lights passion in our teams. It’s more than a just transformation through growth – it’s about people achieving success together.”

While capacity growth is expected to level off somewhat for the remainder of 2016, market expansion is expected to continue to accelerate. The company has disclosed there are a number of exciting innovations on the horizon for the Vendasta offering, as well as new products that will expand their technology footprint into new markets, with future announcements being planned for later this summer.

Media contact:

Bonnie Clark
Director of Brand & Buzz
306.955.5512
bclark@vendasta.com

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Saskatoon, SK —Vendasta Technologies, the #1 platform for agencies and media companies selling digital solutions to local businesses, announced today that it has provided enhanced Google integration to enable time-pressed local businesses to manage and respond to online reviews through its platform.

The addition of this most recent Google offering for enhanced online review capabilities is available as a seamless function within the Vendasta platform, adding to the comprehensive functionality already available in the platform. Currently, the Vendasta platform allows users to:

• Manage their Google listings on Google+, Search and Maps
• Update critical business information on Google listings, such as their contact information, website and hours of operation
• Generate more reviews
• Receive automatic notifications and respond to reviews

“Value, accessibility and affordability are critical tenets of our customer promise, therefore it is important that we continue to fully leverage and make readily available to our partners the best tools as soon as they are available,” says Jeff Tomlin, Chief Marketing Officer at Vendasta. “This latest enhancement enables our partners to provide more controls to their customers, and ultimately drives greater value for their sales and marketing programs. That’s exciting, it’s why we exist.”

By continuing to leverage integration with Google tools and expanding the depth of the Vendasta platform, users will gain a simplified user experience with one place to manage all of their sales and marketing needs. The platform opens up access to a number of sophisticated tools for small businesses who otherwise may not have time or resources to fully leverage the value that customer reviews can provide.

More Resources:

• Register for our upcoming sales webinar, Become a Google Guru, to learn about the recent changes and how you can use Vendasta’s latest upgrades to combat them all.
• Read our latest blog to discover how to use GMB’s latest features as a tool to sell more digital products.
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With this addition to Listing Sync, Vendasta’s partners will soon have the ability to give their small and medium-size business (SMB) clients more control than ever over their listings data, including name, address, phone number, hours and more. Furthermore, Vendasta is offering it as part of their Presence Builder solution, a tool that agencies can give to SMBs for free in order to introduce them to online presence management and start them on a freemium upsell path.

As part of this free tool, Vendasta’s partners can sync their clients’ data to Google Search, Google Maps and Google+, as well as social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Local businesses are able to correct inaccuracies in their location information, make an unlimited number of changes to their data and protect their listings from unwanted changes by third-parties.

“Every business knows the importance of being listed and found on Google,” says Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “Until now, however, understanding how to create, edit and enhance the listings consumers see in Maps and Search has been a frustrating and confusing problem for local businesses. We are excited and thankful that Google has provided API access to the Vendasta platform. Google Search is essential to every business, and therefore we have elected to provide Google My Business sync to all our partners, allowing them to provide this valuable service to all their local businesses, at no charge.”

The data world is a complex place for SMBs, and managing it is difficult. One approach is often not enough. That is why Vendasta’s partners can pair the Listing Sync solution with Listing Distribution—a service that syndicates listings data to the four major data providers, who in turn provide the information to over 300 online directories. Businesses can then monitor their listings through Vendasta’s reputation management tool for constant surveillance. This three-pronged approach is critical for guaranteeing listing accuracy in as many places as possible, solidifying Vendasta’s position as the most comprehensive listings management provider on the market.

Learn more about Vendasta’s Google My Business solution.

About Vendasta

Vendasta’s platform empowers agencies and media companies to grow their sales of both digital and non-digital marketing solutions for local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta combines a streamlined sales CRM and marketing automation system with a white-labelled marketplace to identify when business owners are ready to buy, providing a 10X lift in sales and a 10X decrease in cost of customer acquisition. Beyond a DIY interface for local businesses, Vendasta’s suite of tools are fully integrated with an agency Concierge system for “Do It For Me” and “Do It With Me” services. For more information, visit vendasta.com.

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Vendasta Technologies announces today the official release of Review Generation—a tool that helps local businesses collect customer reviews and market them in an easy, non-interruptive way—to its 550+ agency and local media partners, which represent 400,000+ small and medium size businesses (SMBs) across North America.

This announcement comes at a time when online reviews are more valuable than ever. Not only do reviews continue to grow in volume, but they also play an increasingly important role in driving search traffic, acting as reliable social cues, and providing trustworthy recommendations during the buying process.

With Review Generation, local business owners can solicit feedback from consumers, either by uploading a list of customer contacts, messaging clients one-to-one, or featuring a review generation widget on their website. The system alerts business owners the moment a review is received and encourages sharing it across major review sites like Facebook and Yelp, as well as other vertical-specific sites (e.g., Edmunds and TripAdvisor). Also, with Vendasta’s Social Marketing tool, businesses can share positive reviews on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn.

For the past eight months, Review Generation has been available solely to Vendasta’s beta partners, but today marks its wider release. This comes as an exciting addition to the reputation management industry, as Review Generation is a proactive solution designed to help businesses shape their brand, boost SEO, source content to share on social, and impact their operations by using feedback to improve their business.

“Asking customers for a review gives them a voice and allows them to express their opinion rather than leave it on a public site like Yelp,” says Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “It allows the business owner to discover issues before they become public and drastically reduce the amount of bad reviews their business gets. Furthermore, it lets the owner turn a potentially bad situation into a positive one, improve customer satisfaction, and increase the likelihood of getting a good review to share with others.”

Until now, the biggest objection regarding reputation management has been the fact that many businesses simply don’t have a lot of reviews. Review Generation solves this critical issue by generating feedback that strengthens SEO and generates positive word of mouth to create major business opportunities for both agencies and SMBs.

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About Vendasta

Vendasta’s platform empowers agencies and media companies to grow their sales of both digital and non-digital marketing solutions for local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta combines a streamlined sales CRM and marketing automation system with a white-labelled marketplace to identify when business owners are ready to buy, providing a 10X lift in sales and a 10X decrease in cost of customer acquisition. Beyond a DIY interface for local businesses, Vendasta’s suite of tools are fully integrated with an agency Concierge system for “Do It For Me” and “Do It With Me” services. For more information, visit https://glex-multination-primary-domain-test.colonelpanic.info.

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Dec. 3rd webinar will present key report findings and BIA/Kelsey data regarding SMB digital spending as well as engagement and satisfaction with agencies.

CHANTILLY, Va. (Nov. 30, 2015) – In a forthcoming report and companion webinar, BIA/Kelsey considers the role marketing automation solutions play in helping agencies bring enterprise-caliber digital capabilities to Main Street. “Automated Marketing: Managing for Personal Experience in SMB Markets” will closely examine the marketing needs and spending behaviors of small and medium-sized businesses in a continually evolving digital environment.  The report pendinges on Dec. 3. On that same date, BIA/Kelsey will present key findings from the report during a free webinar, Automated Marketing: Driving SMB Digital.

A preview of findings from the report cites BIA/Kelsey’s Local Commerce Monitor survey of small-business advertisers, which segments survey respondents into two groups, by scope of marketing spending. “Core” SMBs spend less than $25,000 a year and tend to be more conservative, using fewer media with less aggressive conversion goals and fewer promotions than “Plus Spender” SMBs, who spend more than $25,000 annually. Plus Spender respondents used an average of 12.9 different media in their marketing mix in 2015, up from 10.9 last year – more than twice as many as Core SMBs, who reported using an average of 5.9 channels.

“Small businesses experiment with new channels every year, embracing some and abandoning others as they seek a more effective marketing mix,” said report author Mitch Ratcliffe, senior analyst and digital media strategist, BIA/Kelsey. “Plus Spenders are ideal customers for agencies and vendors ready to manage marketing campaigns across many media. Marketing automation platforms can help agencies and other marketing services firms supporting SMBs to blend campaigns across channels and quickly convert a client’s potential customers into qualified leads and closed sales. Creating this type of initial success for a client can lead to deeper engagement and higher billings.”

Among Core SMBs, only 17.7 percent retain an agency for their online campaigns, compared with Plus Spenders, 53.9 percent of which use agencies. Plus Spenders report higher returns on their marketing spend than Core SMBs, as well as much higher satisfaction levels with their agencies. More than half of agencies used by Plus Spenders are small local firms with fewer than 50 staff.

Report Availability & Upcoming Webinar

“Automated Marketing: Managing for Personal Experience in SMB Markets,” a BIA/Kelsey Sponsored Research report, sponsored by Vendasta, a provider of marketing automation and sales transformation solutions, will pending on Dec. 3, 2015.  Register here for the companion webinar. All registered attendees will receive a free copy of the report.

The report is recommended for SMB marketing solution providers, agency executives and anyone involved in the SMB marketing solutions value chain.

Register for the webinar here!

BIA/Kelsey Sponsored Research

BIA/Kelsey Sponsored Research is commissioned by companies that wish to spotlight timely issues, trends and topics that have a bearing on the local media and marketing industry. BIA/Kelsey maintains full editorial control and applies its longstanding standards of editorial practice and objective market analysis. Companies interested in contracting BIA/Kelsey to cover a particular topic or profile sectors of local media innovation should email info@biakelsey.com for more information.

About BIA/Kelsey

BIA/Kelsey advises companies in the local media space through consulting and valuation services, research and forecasts, Custom Advisory Services and conferences. Since 1983 BIA/Kelsey has been a resource to the media, mobile advertising, telecommunications, Yellow Pages and electronic directory markets, as well as to government agencies, law firms and investment companies looking to understand trends and revenue drivers. BIA/Kelsey’s annual conferences draw executives from across industries seeking expert guidance on how companies are finding innovative ways to grow. Additional information is available at http://www.biakelsey.com, on the company’s Local Media Watch blog, Twitter and Facebook.

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SASKATOON, SK (November 13, 2015) – Vendasta Technologies has been named one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50companies, as well as ranking in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. In the 18th annual Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Vendasta has been designated one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies for exemplifying bold innovation, dedicated leadership and strong growth. A ranking in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500means Vendasta is one of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in all of North America.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program celebrates leaders in the Canadian technology industry and tracks the successful growth of Canadian-grown leaders. Overall, 2015 Technology Fast 500 companies achieved revenue growth ranging from 109 percent to 21,984 percent from 2011-2014, with an average growth rate of 850 percent.

The shift in viewership from traditional media content to digital content is completely transforming every major media company around the world. Vendasta—who serves some of the largest media conglomerates in North America through to single person agencies—enables these partners to provide foundational solutions for local businesses amidst this shift. “Every single media company from national and regional giants to local agencies across all sectors such as TV, newspaper, radio and yellow pages are affected,” says Vendasta CEO, Brendan King. “Our shift to a sales and marketing  automation platform that allows these companies to sell digital products to local business, profitably and at scale, has dramatically impacted both our revenues and our partners’ revenues.”  

“Fast 50 companies are innovators that transform great ideas into stunning realities,” says Robert Nardi, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Managing Partner for Deloitte Canada. “Their passion and determination makes them all inspiring success stories. They are vital to the Canadian technology sector.” To qualify for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking, companies must have been in business for at least four years, have revenues of at least $5 million, be headquartered in Canada, own proprietary technology, conduct research and development activities in Canada and invest a minimum of five percent of gross revenues in R&D.

Nardi also said,“What’s clear is that despite market uncertainty, these companies have found a way to innovate and grow, harnessing the power of emerging technologies to disrupt and influence business across almost all industries.”

About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 – The Deloitte Technology Fast 50program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features three distinct categories including the Technology Fast 50 Ranking, Companies-to-Watch Awards (early-stage Canadian tech companies in business less than four years, with the potential to be a future Deloitte Technology Fast 50TM candidate) and the Leadership Awards (companies that demonstrate technological leadership and innovation within the industry.) Program sponsors include Deloitte, Bank of Montreal, Bennett Jones, OMERS Ventures and Vistara Capital Partners. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca. 

About Deloitte’s 2015 Technology Fast 500 – Technology Fast 500, conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP, provides a ranking of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies—both public and private—in North America. Technology Fast 500 award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2011 to 2014. In order to be eligible for Technology Fast 500 recognition, companies must own proprietary intellectual property or technology that is sold to customers in products that contribute to a majority of the company’s operating revenues. Companies must have base-year operating revenues of at least $50,000 USD or CD, and current-year operating revenues of at least $5 million USD or CD. Additionally, companies must be in business for a minimum of four years, and be headquartered within North America.

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Officially, we landed at #33 with 262% growth over the past four years. In the early years of our business, our revenue came solely through consulting efforts. We were really operating two businesses; the consulting arm kept our lights on, while the product team built our future with the help of a $3 million round of seed funding. When we launched our initial reputation management platform in 2010, the majority of our revenue in 2011-2012 derived from software development consulting services. Today, our sole focus is our local platform, and it drives 100% of our revenues and demands all of our attention. Had we been measured by revenue growth of our core products, we would have displaced Hootsuite at #7 on this list with 1,936% growth! But as Deloitte measures total business revenue, we’re proud to occupy spot 33.

I couldn’t be prouder of the effort our team has put forth over the past few years. Today we have over 400 digital agencies and large media institutions using our platform to sell to—and serve—350,000 local businesses. The number of these 400 channel partners rather understates the reach we’ve achieved, as some of these individual partners own dozens (or even hundreds) of media properties across North America. When you add it all up, we have several thousand institutions using our platform to serve the marketing needs of local business owners.

Today, we’re focused on simplifying the sales and marketing process so it’s easier for agencies to sell their services in a complex digital landscape, and we’re making it easier for local businesses to understand what they need. We’re expecting this next year to be a hell of a ride. A great big thanks to all of our customers who have helped us become a better service provider, and a great big thanks to the whole Vendasta team that makes it happen day in and day out.

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SASKATOON, SK (Sept 28, 2015) – Vendasta Technologies announces today the release of their Wholesale Marketplace—a collection of best-in-class solutions from top-tier vendors that provides agencies and media companies with a rebrandable, one-stop solution for their local business customers.

The Vendasta Wholesale Marketplace allows agencies and media companies to easily provision products and immediately begin marketing them to current and prospective customers.  

This single consistent user interface—combined with training, marketing, sales management and streamlined support—make it easy  for Vendasta partners to sell a wide array of products profitably and at scale. From a single platform, agencies are able to provide a consistent user experience for their admins, sales personnel, support and business customers.

The Vendasta 10X marketing automation platform integrates seamlessly with the Marketplace, using unique data about businesses—such as reviews, listing accuracy and social cues— to market specific products.  As businesses interact with the marketing, the 10X platform identifies which products the businesses are ready to buy and provides hot leads and sales management to the agencies, drastically reducing their cost of sales.  

Further, because the platform supports DIY (Do It Yourself), DIFM (Do It For Me) and DIWM (Do it With Me) models, partners have an automated system to profitably sell DIY products at low price points. These products and services are the thin edge of the wedge, allowing the platform to identify which business are ready to spend more and require a higher level of service. Partners maximize their share of wallet with current and new local businesses and keep them out of the hands of companies like ReachLocal, Yext, Yodel, Main Street Hub and Signpost, which have been encroaching on their business.

“We are allowing our partners to be a one-stop shop selling local SMBs the products they want in the manner and model they want it. We reduce our partners’ cost of sales and provide real leads and ROI they can measure from day one,” says Vendasta CEO, Brendan King.

By implementing Vendasta’s easy-to-use APIs and webhooks, vendors and service providers are easily able to integrate into the Vendasta Wholesale Marketplace and gain access to thousands of agencies and media companies, tens of thousands of in-premise salespeople, and hundreds of thousands of their local business customers at a fraction of the cost they would spend on traditional or direct marketing efforts.

“We’re already seeing tremendous demand from solutions providers wanting to integrate into our Marketplace,” said Jed Williams, Vendasta Vice President of Business Development and Strategy. “There’s great value in the network of partners – and associated sales teams and local business customers – that utilize Vendasta’s platform and will be able to seamlessly provision top-quality third parties. By enabling both sides of our Marketplace to generate incremental revenue, we’re creating a true win-win, with local businesses ultimately winning as well.”  

About Vendasta

Vendasta’s 10X platform empowers agencies and media companies to grow their sales of both digital and non-digital marketing solutions for local businesses. Through this platform, Vendasta combines a streamlined sales CRM and marketing automation system with a white-labelled marketplace to identify when business owners are ready to buy, providing a 10X lift in sales and a 10X decrease in cost of customer acquisition. Beyond a DIY interface for local businesses, Vendasta’s suite of tools are fully integrated with an agency Concierge system for “Do It For Me” and “Do It With Me” services. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

Vendasta’s system supports both multi-location brands and local businesses.

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SASKATOON, SK–(May 26, 2015) – Vendasta Technologies, a leading platform provider of local marketing tools for digital agencies, announces today the release of Review Generation — an automated solution built to actively gather customer reviews for local businesses in the fastest and easiest way possible.

Built on the foundation of a robust reputation management platform, Review Generation is integrated with Vendasta’s all-in-one suite of digital solutions. The moment a review is submitted, it alerts the business owner and advises them whether the review is share-worthy or if it’s best handled behind closed doors, providing opportunities to strengthen and protect reputations at the same time.

“We started tracking the percentage of local businesses that had reviews in 2010,” says Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “Since then, it has gone from 29 percent to 78 percent today, showing how important reviews have become and how important it is for businesses to have them.”

Generating reviews, however, is hard work. It’s a difficult task to direct customers to review sites, to guide them through sign-up processes, to track conversations and to share recommendations on social media. Review Generation is a solution that does the heavy lifting. It sends personalized messages to customers requesting feedback, directs reviewers to a branded web page to leave comments and collects reviews and star ratings in one simple form.

Reviews with four stars and up are easily shared across websites and social channels directly from the platform. Reviews with three stars or lower are kept in a private inbox that businesses can manage offline, averting potential reputation damage. Business owners are encouraged to analyze their feedback, look at it as a potential communication issue and reply so that the reviewer feels they’ve been heard.

“Asking for a review from a customer allows business owners to express themselves while giving them a chance to address any issues or misunderstandings,” adds King. “This greatly reduces the chance of a bad review and increases the likelihood of getting a good review to share with other customers, creating major business opportunities for both agencies and SMBs.”

Learn more at www.vendasta.com/reputation-management/review-generation, or watch this sweet video.

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“The major problem facing digital agencies is their cost of customer acquisition,” says Brendan King, CEO of Vendasta. “We want to solve that problem and help them increase their market share and digital revenue tenfold while dramatically decreasing cost per lead.”

The new platform works hand-in-hand with Vendasta’s reputation and presence management tools, all of which are rebranded and sold by partners who serve the marketing needs of local businesses across North America. All partners need to do is upload their list of digital prospects and begin an automated email campaign to identify sales opportunities.

MAST 10X emails are unique, providing personalized information about a local business’s reputation, online listings, social media activity, website responsiveness and more. The system continues to follow up with information that educates the business owner on a variety of digital marketing topics with examples from their own businesses, and sales teams are then given alerts of anyone who indicates interest by interacting with the campaign. Furthermore, the agency can access deeper information about the business’s digital marketing efforts in order to have a meaningful conversation with the sales prospect.

What makes MAST 10X unique is its ability to send businesses detailed information about their online activity from a trusted source (in most cases, an agency and salesperson they’re familiar with). Research shows local businesses prefer email over other types of communication; however, MAST 10X is more than just an email marketing platform. It provides a complete sales tool management system to make sales teams more efficient.

“We’re helping partners discover which of their existing customers and prospects are ready to buy new digital solutions,” King says. “Just because a business has negative reviews and no social presence doesn’t mean they’re a good prospect for reputation management. And while many companies have tried marketing automation before, they often find it’s too complicated and spammy. Vendasta’s solution works out of the box with relevant content for every local business. All you need is a list of phone numbers and email addresses of your current customers, and you’re ready to go.”

Boasting impressive open and click through rates already, the MAST 10X solution is designed to streamline digital agency sales and marketing efforts, to help salespeople focus their energy on the most promising customers and to dramatically decrease cost per lead. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com

About the Company

Vendasta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses, providing white label solutions directly to digital agencies, media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers and interactive agencies. Vendasta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and a Concierge CRM platform to help manage and sell digital products. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

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Saskatoon, SK, Apr 24, 2014. VendAsta Technologies, a leader in online reputation and presence management platforms, is releasing a new listing distribution product to help partners improve and scale digital presence services for local businesses. VendAsta provides white label online reputation management and presence solutions to reseller partners who serve the marketing needs of local businesses.

In the US, four major data providers power the web — Neustar/Localeze, Acxiom, Infogroup and Factual. Over 300 major search sites query these providers for information, including search engines, online directories, navigation systems and more.   If these data providers have incorrect listing information — name, address, phone number or any other detail — those errors will be disseminated all over the web, causing poor search ranking, as well as a loss of customers and revenue.  Recent studies have shown that customers lose trust in a brand when their listing information is incorrect.

Trying to keep business listings accurate by manually entering information is prohibitively tedious and time consuming. Listing distribution is economical, easy to use and makes accurate listing data available to potentially hundreds of online directories and listing sites, which is key for a good local search rank and overall reach. Listing Distribution sends accurate data to all four data providers, helping correct business information on existing listings and create new listings where they don’t exist.

“Listing Distribution solutions today lack transparency to show businesses where their information has been sent, if that information was accepted and what the result is over time,” explains Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta.  “Our solution shows all of the results as this business data moves through the complex pipelines that ultimately determine how and where businesses are listed online. In the end, we want to be able to show local businesses the real value and proof of performance that these major data solution providers deliver.”

Listing Distribution is part of VendAsta’s Presence Builder, which also includes Location Pages — search optimized business pages with key business contact information like name, address, phone number and hours of operation — that are easily crawlable for search engines. With Listing Distribution, this provides a robust local SEO package.

Listing Distribution is revolutionary and innovative in scope, pioneering in the world of presence management.  With the reach and scale that VendAsta affords, channel partners can provide listing distribution at competitive rates that provide attractive margins.  For more information, visit Vendasta Listing Distribution

About the Company

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses, including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and Concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com

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Jeff Tomlin, Vice President of Marketing
+1 (306) 220-2721 | jtomlin@vendasta.com

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – April 15, 2013: VendAsta Technologies officially announces the launch of Social Marketing, a new tool that will allow its partners to bring real ROI on social media management for local businesses.

Eschewing the traditional paid advertisements approach, VendAsta’s tool will allow businesses to identify opportunities for establishing strong relationships between a brand and its potential customers.

“Never before have people been able to declare an intent to purchase the way they do now on social media,” said Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta. “This represents a massive opportunity for local businesses to identify strong leads and convert them, and that is exactly what Social Marketing is designed to help them achieve.”

Generating leads is one of the three core steps implemented in Social Marketing, the other two being posting interesting content and building a loyal fan base. However, rather than giving local businesses a complicated tool to deal with on their own, Social Marketing adopts a different approach.

“There are a number of ‘Do It For Me’ or ‘Do It Yourself’ type of solutions out there on the market. However, the former tend to take away the authenticity of a brand’s interaction with its customers, and the latter are often too complicated and confusing for a local business to implement on their own,” said Devon Hennig, Product Owner of the new Social Marketing tool. “That is why we decided to go with a unique ‘Do It With Me’ approach.”

This approach would allow partners to walk a local business through a step-by-step process that is easy to follow. After the local business has mastered it, they can use the tool on their own, thus bringing a much-needed order to the confusion a small business often encounters when dealing with the fragmented world of social media for the first time.

“Most of the time, social media gets mired in a lot of jargon and convoluted metrics. We wanted to cut out as much fuzzy lingo as possible and focus on speaking the same language that small and medium businesses do. They understand concepts like customer service, leads, and building fans, so that’s how we focused the entire platform.” Hennig further added.

Social Marketing has been in beta since November and available to select partners for testing. Starting today, Social Marketing will be officially available to all partners, old and new. Support material will also be included so that partners can start selling Social Marketing immediately.

Interested parties can find more information and sign up for a full demo at www.vendasta.com/social-marketing.

About VendAsta

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses, including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers, and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and Concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. Today, over 10,000 digital sales representatives across 250 media organizations provide VendAsta powered solutions to local businesses. For more information, visit www.VendAsta.com.

Press Contact

Jeff Tomlin, Vice President, Marketing

(306) 220-2721 | jtomlin@vendasta.com

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – March 18, 2013 – VendAsta Technologies, the industry leading provider of white label digital brand management solutions, is raising $8.25 million in funding from Vanedge Capital and BDC Venture Capital. The new round of funding will help VendAsta accelerate platform development to meet partner demand for new features and tools, and provide additional support.

“For any business, digital fragmentation creates acute challenges in managing local brand reputation. The various channels that businesses must monitor and engage are seemingly endless. VendAsta’s platform closes the loop for businesses, supplying them with tools to succeed in the digital world,” says Jed Williams, Senior Analyst at BIA/Kelsey.

VendAsta launched its Reputation Management platform in 2011, and within two years the company has grown to become one of the largest Reputation Management providers in the world. Together, its channel partners include eight of the top ten newspaper companies in the United States, as well as large pure play digital agencies, Internet Yellow Pages, and other independent digital and SEO agencies that provide Reputation Management to over 100,000 local small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

“VendAsta Technologies has done an excellent job partnering with top tier media companies across North America,” said V. Paul Lee, Managing Partner at Vanedge Capital. “Customer calls revealed VendAsta is agile, responsive, and delivers what they have promised. We have been told multiple times that VendAsta is a top vendor.” Robert Simon, Senior Managing Partner of the BDC Venture Capital IT Fund added that “the SMB market has been, to a large degree, untapped. We see VendAsta growing to be a very significant company. This investment is strongly aligned with our efforts to ensure a healthy and vibrant early stage ecosystem in Canada and to help build the globally competitive Canadian companies we are so passionate about.”

“We have built a white label reputation platform that allows businesses to monitor, manage and build their brand,” said Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta. “With these tools, our partners — whether large newspapers and yellow page companies, or small traditional and digital agencies — can be up and running in days and on the street selling products, backed by a full suite of prescriptive sales and marketing materials. This funding will allow us to accelerate the development of new products and maintain our culture of continual improvement.”

VendAsta’s platform currently includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Social Marketing, Presence Builder, and Concierge tools to help local businesses build their online brands. As an example, an agency that manages digital marketing for a local restaurant can keep track of the reviews the restaurant gets on relevant websites, generate tasks to respond to these reviews on the client’s behalf, ensure all the listings about the restaurant are accurate, and identify new leads by monitoring relevant chatter on social media — all from one common white label Business Centre. For its larger partners, VendAsta offers a suite of API-based services that can integrate this data directly into their platforms.

Interested parties can request demos of VendAsta’s solutions by going to www.VendAsta.com.

About VendAsta

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses, including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers, and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and Concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. Today, over 10,000 digital sales representatives across 250 media organizations provide VendAsta powered solutions to local businesses. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com.

About Vanedge Capital

Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver BC based venture capital fund focused on investments in interactive entertainment, digital media and infrastructure software businesses. The fund managers have extensive experience and relationships in this sector, and have built and led world class companies in video games, cloud storage and enterprise software, among others. For more information, visit www.vanedgecapital.com, or contact info@vanedgecapital.com.

About BDC Venture Capital

BDC Venture Capital helps transform great ideas into great companies. With more than $1 billion in current and planned investments and 25 years of experience in venture capital, BDC Venture Capital focuses on innovative IT, health, and energy/clean technology companies, as well as venture funds, with high growth potential. BDC Venture Capital works with entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in the private sector to build outstanding Canadian companies. BDC Venture Capital is involved at every stage of the development cycle, from seed through expansion to exit, and its goal is to deliver excellent return on investment, while working to create a sound financial ecosystem for Canadian technology ventures. Find out more at www.bdc.ca/vc or on Twitter @BDC_VC.

Press Contacts

VendAsta Technologies
Jeff Tomlin, Vice President, Marketing
(306) 220-2721 | jtomlin@vendasta.com

Vanedge Capital
Amy Rae, Principal
(604) 351-7110  |  www.vanedgecapital.com

BDC Venture Capital
Shawn Salewski, Manager of Public Relations
(514) 283-1759 |  shawn.salewski@bdc.ca

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A new partnership between Worldnow and VendAsta Technologies brings Online Reputation Management and mobile solutions to over 400 local media properties in the United States.

VendAsta Technologies and Worldnow today announce a partnership to provide Online Reputation Management and mobile services to SMBs in the United States through Worldnow’s network of media partners and clients.

Worldnow is now offering these services with their current digital offering, which includes CMS tools for site management, video and mobile publishing, classifieds, packaged local sales programs and more. The VendAsta platform will become part of a focused push to help local businesses monitor, manage, and build their online reputations with a suite of white glove services that help make the process of creating mobile sites, monitoring online presences, and managing ongoing social media tasks easy and effective for small business owners.

“We are very excited about our relationship with Worldnow. Our partnership will allow Worldnow to drive mobile and social reputation management solutions into its unique offering. This solution will open new revenue streams and allow Worldnow’s partners to increase their share of current advertiser spend and provide a tremendously beneficial product to the advertisers.” says Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta.

With social, mobile, and presence management becoming more important for advertisers vying over the local market, there is a rapidly increasing need to offer SMBs a high touch, integrated approach to their digital marketing efforts.

About WorldNow Inc.

Worldnow provides industry leading online publishing and revenue solutions for local media. Our cost efficient publishing platforms include innovative CMS solutions for site management, video and mobile publishing. Our online revenue solutions include a national advertising network, packaged local sales programs, classifieds and comprehensive sales training and support. Our online media, technology, and marketing teams have extensive experience in helping local media companies build profitable businesses on the web. We support our technologies and services with in-depth strategic consultation incorporating market leading best practices for managing successful online businesses. Our full service solutions and support enable our clients to realize greater real-world profitability from their investment. Leverage our experience built over 14 years in partnership with more than 400 local media properties. Current Worldnow customers include: Allbritton, CBS Local Digital Media, Cox, Dispatch, Fisher, Fox TV Stations, Griffin, Landmark, Lilly Broadcasting, London Broadcasting, Meredith, New Age Media, Quincy, Raycom Media, Reiten TV, Sagamore Hill, Titan, Waterman, West Virginia Media, and Young Broadcasting and Media General. For more information please visit www.Worldnow.com. Worldnow services over 57 million monthly uniques and powers over 450 local broadcasters with 81% of US households covered.

Press Contact:
Gloria Cid, Worldnow
212.931.1247
gcid@worldnow.com

About VendAsta Technologies Inc.

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers, and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes reputation monitoring, brand management, sites, social marketing lead generation tools and concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. Today, over 10,000 digital sales representatives across 250 media organizations provide VendAsta powered solutions to local businesses. For more information, visit www.vendasta.com

Press Contact:
Jeff Tomlin, VendAsta
jtomlin@vendasta.com

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