We are thrilled to share with you that our client, Pacific Breeze Winery in New Westminster are expanding drastically this month following a boom in demand for its premium wines.
Frank Gregus and team are passionate about making and sharing their great award winning wines!
"Pacific Breeze winery has picked up 50 international wine making awards since the winery opened in 2005 and opened its doors to the public in 2007", proudly explains Suzanna de Souza.
"The awards have helped create that demand and buzz in the wine industry," she said. "It's forced us into expansion because demand is so high. We have some really big accounts and we've recently taken over the space next door, which doubles our size."
The facility will now take up 6,000 square feet.
"We're using it for production, and we're going to be creating a corporate meeting facilities and a lounge and a larger tasting room," de Souza said.
They will also be be hiring more tasting room staff and presenters to keep up with this growth.
They are a hidden gem in New Westminster, BC. Drop by their tasting room, and let them know Synergy referred you!
6-320 Stewardson Way, New Westminster
Social Media is an extremely powerful way for sports team to market and communicate.
The Vancouver Whitecaps Football / Soccer Club has added an interesting use of social media to their website.
Now, thanks to these two GigaPan photographs from Ronnie Miranda,http://173.203.18.202/news/2011/03/mls-debut-gigap... fans can zoom in and find themselves and their friends. The images stitch together more than 200 photos totaling over 2000 megapixels. In addition, Vancouver Whitecaps FC is the first Canadian entity to use the GigaTag feature, which allows fans to tag themselves via their Facebook account.
This picture of Kathy Woolverton, Synergy's President, is taken from the far corner of the stadium - part of 200 photos stitched together. The final hi-res file is 100,872 X 19,890 pixels or 2,006 megapixels.
Thrilled to be a Vancouver Whitecaps Soccer fan being a part of history on March 19, 2011, at their Major League Soccer (MLS) debut March 19, 2011 against Toronto FC.
What do you think?
What other use of social media in sport have you seen?
For business people, getting a regular outside perspective of the outside trends that are happening provides an opportunity to consider how you can tap into these to grow your business, and improve connections with your customers needs.
The team of Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman have come up with an extremely interesting video series, "Did You Know? / Shift Happens". These are incredible at giving a very quick snapshot of trends that are happening in Globalization, Technology and the Information Age.
Version 4 - Did You Know? / Shift Happens
Version 3 - Did You Know? / Shift Happens
DID YOU KNOW?
If you're one in a million in China
There are 1,300 people just like you.
China will soon become the NUMBER ONE English speaking country in the world.
The 25% of India's population with the highest IQs is GREATER than the total population of the United States.
TRANSLATION: India has more honors kids than America has kids.
DID YOU KNOW?
The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004.
We are currently preparing students for jobs that dont yet exist using technologies that haven't been invented in order to solve problems WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ARE PROBLEMS YET.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs
By the age of 38.
1 in 4 workers has been with their current employer for less than a year.
1 in 2 has been there less than five years.
DID YOU KNOW?
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace.
If mySpace were a country it would be the 5th-Largest in the world. (between Indonesia and Brazil)
The #1 ranked country in Broadband Internet Penetration is
Bermuda
#19 The United States
#22 Japan
DID YOU KNOW?
We are living in exponential times.
There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month.
In 2006, this number was 2.7 Billion.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (Before Google)
The first commercial text message was sent in December of 1992.
Today, the number of text messages sent and received everyday exceeds the total population of the planet.
Years it took to reach a market audience of 50 million.
Radio - 38 years.
TV - 13 years.
Internet - 4 years.
iPod - 3 years.
Facebook - 2 years.
The number of internet devices in:
1984 was 1,000.
1992 1,000,000
2008 1,000,000,000
There are about 540,000 words in the English language.
About 5X as many as during Shakespeare's time.
It is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
It is estimated that 4 exabytes (4.010^19) of unique information will be generated this year.
That is more than the previous 5,000 years.
The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years.
For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that
half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.
NNT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fiber.
That is 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls every second.
It is currently tripling every six months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years.
By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain.
Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computation capabilities of the entire human species.
DID YOU KNOW?
During the course of this presentation
67 babies were born in the US
274 babies were born in China
395 babies were born in India
And 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.
Version 2 - Did You Know? / Shift Happens
Original Version - Did You Know? / Shift Happens
Have you recently taken a fresh outside look at the new trends and technologies so that you can incorporate those that will help improve your business?
Know you want to take action? Where do you start?
This business strategy and technology implementation is the area that Synergy specializes in. For those that want to take action, let's sit down over coffee, and talk about new areas and what would benefit your business.
Give us a call at 604-681-0516 or email us info@synergycc.com
Interesting 2010 statistics on the top 10 most searched terms on the internet in the US just released by HitWise.
In analyzing the top 1000 search terms for 2011 and Facebook was the top-searched term overall. This is the second year that the social networking website has been the top search term overall. Four variations of the term "facebook" were among the top 10 terms and accounted for 3.48 percent of searches overall.
YouTube was the third most-searched term in 2010, followed by craigslist, myspace and facebook.com. Analysis of the search terms revealed that social networking-related terms dominated the results, accounting for 4.18 percent of the top 50 searches.
New terms that entered into the top 50 search terms for 2010 included - netflix, verizon wireless, espn, chase, pogo, tagged, wells fargo, yellow pages, poptropica, games and hulu.
People's high connection with social media is show by the majority of the top website search being social networking related terms are related to sites which incorporating social media into their site to engage people.
Interesting. All of these sites signficantly rely from content contributed by the public.
This gives these sites 2 ongoing competitive advantages:
Experian Hitwise provides daily insights on how 25 million Internet users around the world interact with more than 1 million Websites.
As a business user, what are the websites that you most frequent most that didn't make it to this list?
What are the things that you would want to incorporate into your site to improve your website rank?
Interesting 2010 statistics on the top 10 most visited websites in the US just released by HitWise.
The top 10 Websites accounted for 33 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010, an increase of 12 percent versus 2009.
People's high connection with social media is show by the majority of the top website visits being social media sites, or sites which incorporating social media into their site to engage people.
Interesting. All of these sites signficantly rely from content contributed by the public.
This gives these sites 2 ongoing competitive advantages:
Facebook was the top-visited Website for the first time and accounted for nearly 9% percent of all U.S. website visits between January and November 2010. This is a significant jump from third place last year.
Google.com ranked second with 7% percent of visits, followed by Yahoo! Mail (3.5% percent), Yahoo! 3.3% percent) and YouTube (2.65 percent).
Some of these sites are owned by the same company. The combination of Google properties accounted for 9.85 percent of all U.S. visits. Facebook properties accounted for 8.93 percent, and Yahoo! properties accounted for 8.12 percent.
Experian Hitwise provides daily insights on how 25 million Internet users around the world interact with more than 1 million Websites.
As a business user, what are the websites that you most frequent most that didn't make it to this list?
What are the things that you would want to incorporate into your site to improve your website rank?
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