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Must Read Blogs – One of Our Favorites

Posted Dec 1 2011 by in B2B, B2C, Current Affairs, Local Business, Small Business, Smart and Simple Solutions Conference for Small Business, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web/Tech, Weblogs with 0 Comments

Like most of you, I subscribe to a handful of blogs that I review as part of my morning rituals.  From IT gurus, entertaiment mogals and marketing leaders, each delivers something I find (or at one time found) worth my time. Without out a doubt, Jeremy Epstien and his Never Stop Marketing daily updates deliver something worth reading.  It’s more than just every now and then, it’s every single day. Sometimes he shares very personal stories and other times they are chunks of wisdom retold. Here’s a great example.

If you are serious about your business and have the desire to set in motion a few of the principals and knowledge Jeremy shares, it can make a difference in the level of success you and your organization will achieve.

How Are You Reaching Executives Online?

Posted Nov 29 2011 by in B2B, B2C, Internet Delivered Video, Mobile Video, Online Video, Small Business, Social Media, Testamonial, Video Delivery, Web/Tech, Webcasting, Weblogs, YouTube with 0 Comments

Here’s a great look at the when, where and how today’s executives view and digest online video. Of all the data collected, the one bit of information that surprised me most –  the length of a single video these decision makers are open to watching . While Varvid encourages our partners to keep videos under the 2 minute mark, this research tells us if the content offered is engaging and relevant, a large portion of viewers will watch for up to 5 minutes.  That’s solid information when you are creating an online video that generates results.

If you’d like to know more about how you can tell your story, share a case study, lend some professional expertise or simply get good video online, just ask us.  It’s what we do.

Drew Graham on Communication Management Tool Constant Contact

Posted Mar 2 2011 by in Small Business, Testamonial, Web/Tech with 0 Comments

Drew Graham, Director of Development at Varvid.com, explains the advantages of using Constant Contact. Constant Contact is an online e-mail marketing service that offers e-mail marketing, event marketing surveys, and full social media integration. Constant Contact analytics let you know who’s actually opening and reading your emails, as well as which links they click on. Drew finds that Constant Contact is very useful for spreading the word on events such as the on-going webinars that Varvid holds and he highly recommends getting the free trial and taking Constant Contact for a spin.

City of Bellingham Beseeches Google for the Gift of Fiber

Posted Jan 6 2011 by in Google, Local Business, Web/Tech with 1 Comment

In February of last year, Google announced that it would be establishing a series of experimental high-speed fiber-optic networks in locations around the US, which would offer speeds more than 100 times faster than what most people are used to.

Rather than simply opening up Google Earth, spinning it around and choosing whatever location their mouse landed on, the cooler heads at Google decided to allow local governments and citizens to prove why they’re more worthy to get a taste of that sweet, sweet fiber. And in the two-month span while they were accepting proposals, America answered emphatically: Google received over a thousand responses from communities around the country.

In addition to the heartfelt plea above, the City of Bellingham also produced several testimonial videos from notable Bellingham residents who argue the case for fiber in Bellingham. But will Google listen?

We at Varvid sure hope so. Fiber would allow us to send and receive high-quality video files much faster and more cost-effectively, and potentially to create more comprehensive solutions for those who need them. Events could be streamed live at a much higher quality. Most of all, we love the city of Bellingham and those who live here, and think they all deserve to have the best internet experience available.

Unfortunately for us and the rest of the country, Google has delayed the supposed year-end announcement of which cities were charming enough to get the gift of fiber. For now, they’re working on installing a small test network at Stanford, and we will have to wait to learn of their decision until “early 2011.”

Bill Huckabee, Secretary of the West Sound Technology Association at ITEC Seattle 2009

Posted Dec 11 2009 by in Cloud Services, Conferences, ITEC Seattle, Microsoft, Web/Tech with 0 Comments

Bill Huckabee is the Secretary of the West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was part of a three member panel/presentation on things to consider when deploying a content management solution (CMS) at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. Bill brings to the table his professional experience with Envisioneering, Inc., a engineering assessment and advanced technology solution company doing work with the U.S. armed forces to the membership of the WSTA.  Huckabee spoke with Bryce Read from Varvid.com




GreenBytes Storage Solutions Grows Business at ITEC Seattle 2009

Posted Dec 10 2009 by in Conferences, ITEC Seattle, Web/Tech with 0 Comments




Damien Bowersock, Technical Sales Manager at GreenBytes storage solutions spoke with Bryce Reed of Varvid at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. GreenBytes has developed easy-to-use, energy-efficient storage appliances that bring the benefits of data deduplication to a broader storage market and felt ITEC Conferences were a good fit to meet new and existing systems integrator and VAR partners.





Stuart Crawford – VP of Business Development: Bulletproof Infotech

Posted Sep 19 2009 by in Web/Tech, WPC with 0 Comments

Pat Dolan from Varvid interviews Stuart Crawford, the VP of Business Development at Bulletproof Infotech. They are IT providers that develop solutions for businesses that are looking to expand their social media presence, create server storage solutions and more.

Windows Home Server Consumer Case Study

Posted Aug 1 2008 by in SBS, Web/Tech, WHS with 1 Comment

We enjoyed working with Steven Leonard and Mark Pendergrast on the WHS team, putting together a video case study on Windows Home Server.  Full Disclosure – the subjects are the CEO (and his girlfriend) of a company we do Outsourced IT for (Blythe Plumbing & Heating).  You can learn more about Windows Home Server here.  I’m sure everybody reading this knows that WHS is a great "Home" Server, but we’re using it with four clients now in a business setting.  We think that WHS is a great low cost way to backup Windows laptops and key desktops.  Because the backups are image based, the backups happen super quickly (after the first one).  You can learn more about WHS backup here.  Keep in mind that whereever it says "family," we see small business.  WHS works in a workgroup (or domain!) environment, and will backup up to 10 computers. (workgroup limitation)

We are also using WHS as a SOHO NAS – with hosted exchange as part of a managed service offering.  We’re looking forward to S+S from Microsoft to help us expand on that combined local premise plus hosted solution…VARvid!