Internet Interesting
by Scott A. Sumner
The internet has always been something that interests me. You can' help but be impressed at the ability to send a detailed message to anyone on the planet in mere seconds. Your email can include full colour pictures, sound in a mpeg format if you want or links to other people by the hundreds if you so desire. In addition the speed of doing this and the magnitude of the file is growing exponentially. Also themadvent of portable devices such as blackberries, palm trios and cell phones with text messaging is amazing.You can be on the golf course in
South Carolina and get your email messages from Thunder Bay in seconds. Quite amazing to me.
The big plus from my point of view, after almost 25 years in the publishing business, is the opportunity to reach a broad worldwide market, much beyond the traditional ones we have communicated to here in NW Ontario and MN- WS. Our goal is to provide interesting content to
this worldwide audience and we have revamped our sites www.slednews.com&www.golfingnews.ca and added a new one
www.thunderbaybusiness.ca. The assistance of fast growing local web company Sencia has helped us in these content oriented sites. Sencia, in a short time frame, has grown to 12 full time well educated and paid employees which is exactly what we need in Thunder Bay- the private sector reaching out to a world market right here from Thunder Bay.
Our sites have a new feature called live stats that allows us to really track who is visiting us including their addresses, where they are from -eg North America, Europe Asia etc, what pages they are viewing and for how long. It is quite something to me that so many people view your material on a daily basis. My interest in golf and snowmobiling has taken me to some special places around the world that everyone with the same interests want to know about.The
www.thunderbaybusiness.ca site will have more local content but on a very timely basis. Also the material will be more indepth as you areable to do on a website.It will be fun to work on these sites.
As a local business we will look forward to your involvement on our sites. The addition of your logo as an ad will provide a link to you own site which will allow you to explain indepth your products and services. It is really a great way to market and we will tie in our
print ads to the web advertising at a very reasonable cost. Take a few minutes to check out our news sites and let me know about your own as well. You can contact me at scott@golfingnews.ca
