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Mike Nobers from Zenith Infotech at HTG Dallas 2010

Posted Apr 28 2010 by in Conferences, HTG Peer Groups, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Mike Nobers from Zenith Infotech chats with Varvid’s Drew Graham at the HTG 2010 Summit in Dallas. As an IT managed services and back up and disaster recovery provider, working with the HTG organization continues to impress Mike. Why? Because they work not as competitors, but together. New releases in the future for Zenith Infotech include cloud computing and view telepresence.

Ricky Ayers from WorkSmart at HTG Dallas 2010

Posted Apr 27 2010 by in Conferences, HTG Peer Groups, Uncategorized with 0 Comments


WorkSmart CFO Ricky Ayers chats with Aaron Book of Varvid at the HTG 2010 Summitt in Dallas. Ricky explains how WorkSmart, a managed IT service provider, came to be. The strength of the HTG Peer Group, according to Ayers, is the amount of knowledge in the room. Every member adds a invaluable element to the dynamic of the group.

David Ohendalski from AgniTEK at HTG Dallas 2010

Posted Apr 27 2010 by in Conferences, HTG Peer Groups, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

David Ohendalski from AgniTEK talks with Aaron Booker of Varvid during the HTG 2010 Summit in Dallas. As a managed IT provider, AgniTEK looks to focus on growing into the health care and financial industries. At HTG Summit, marketing was foremost on his mind and the use of both professional and novice videos on his website and social media platforms was top of the list.

Brad Benner from X-BAR at HTG Dallas 2010

Posted Apr 27 2010 by in Conferences, HTG Peer Groups, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Brad Benner from X-BAR IT in Seattle chats with Varvid’s Aaron Booker at  the HTG 2010 Summit in Dallas. Brad took part in a marketing session with Jeremy Epstein of Never Stop Marketing, who talked about creating the environment for something to “go viral” and branding your company. Brad says to get away from the office and be with other HTG members is refreshing.

Stuart Crawford from Ulistic at HTG Dallas 2010

Posted Apr 27 2010 by in Conferences, HTG Peer Groups, Uncategorized with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker of Varvid talks to Stuart Crawford, who recently retired from active IT service duty to form Ulistic with David West caught up with Varvid’s Aaron Booker to discuss the new things he has going on with Search Engine Optimization, Online Marketing and Social Media Consulation. Stuart announced his new services to HTG members this week, if you need a blog, help with social media and general online marketing consulting, give Stuart a shout today 403.775.2205.

Debbye Omlie at the Social Media Conference NW 2010

Posted Apr 2 2010 by in Conferences, Social Media with 0 Comments

Aaron Booker of Varvid speaks with Debbye Omlie from WWU’s Center for Economic Vitality. Debbie comments on the differences and improvements that have been made for this year’s conference over the previous one in 2008.

There is more internet connectivity being utilized as devices such as smart phones and laptops are more prevalent today.  Also, she addresses the evolution of Social Media itself- it was pretty much brand new in 2008 at the first Social Media Conference Northwest and Debbye is pleased to see that most of the attendees this time have at least some familiarity with the medium.

Nate Langstraat of WCC at Social Media Conference NW 2010

Posted Apr 2 2010 by in Conferences, Social Media with 0 Comments

Drew Graham of Varvid speaks with Nate Langstraat. Langstraat is the Associate Director for Advancement for Whatcom Community College.  He appreciated the opportunity to attend the event, and is enthusiastic to be involved with determining the best way to leverage Social Media for the school and its programs.

Nate also now sees the value in utilizing Video as a key part of their Social Media initiatives, after seeing speaker Aaron Booker of Varvid.com’s presentation on Online Video.

Matthew Dunn, speaker at Social Media Conference NW 2010

Posted Apr 2 2010 by in Conferences, Social Media with 0 Comments

Drew Graham of Varvid spreak with Matthew Dunn of Sayitvisually.com. The first Plenary Session of the Social Media Conference Northwest 2010 was presented by Matthew and this piece articulates the main points he made: Business owners are in the publishing business, that the quality of content you put up matters, as well as the number of relationships you have.

Dunn also clarified how you cannot count on ‘weak links’ – people in your network may or may not be the conduit to new business, but you have to allow them the opportunity.

Jonathan McIntyre at Social Media Conference NW 2010

Posted Apr 2 2010 by in Conferences, Social Media with 0 Comments

Drew Graham of Varvid talks to Jonathan McIntyre of iTelework. Jonathon was impressed to learn just how important Video will be to leverage Social Media moving forward.  He also reiterates the importance of remembering the effect your web presence has on how new and existing customers perceive you- professional or not

Gary Caplin from Diehl Ford at the Social Media Conference NW 2010

Posted Apr 2 2010 by in Conferences, Social Media with 0 Comments

Caplin said repeatedly that he was really impressed with the turnout at this event and is working hard to leverage Ford Motor Company’s tremendous success with Social Media.

He also really appreciated Plenary Speaker Aaron Booker of Varvid.com’s presentation on “Online Video as Part of Your Social Media Strategy” and completely agrees with Booker’s concept of ‘record once, play many times’.

Gary shared that one of the testimonial videos he produced for Diehl Ford has been adopted by Ford Motor Company of America and was viewed over 5000 times over the past several months.

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