It’s been quite a good week here in Vancouver. We’re getting a lot of attention for our social media, marketing, and snowball fighting skills.
Invesp Consulting released their Top 100 Marketers of 2008 list and Vancouver can be proud to claim at least two folks on the list:
14. John Chow
In April 1999, John started a little technology site call The TechZone. That site has grown to become one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net. Currently the site has over 10,000 pages and gets over 200,000 page views per day. Since then, he started one of the more popular make money online blogs that enjoys close to 45,000 RSS subscribers. John’s huge following and ability to grow at such tremendous rates got him the recognition and nomination to join our list.
Follow John on twitter.
25. Linda Bustos
One of our personal favorites, Linda Bustos, managed to increase the GetElastic blog`s rss-subscriptions from approximately 1,000 to over 5,500 in less than a year, exceeding company goals. Linda is an Emerging Media Analyst for Elastic Path Software. She is the main writer for the GetElastic blog; her posts always offer great insight into SEO, PPC, and just about anything ecommerce related. She has also guest blogged on the Invesp blog a couple of times.
You can listen to Linda at conferences such as shop.org, SES, Internet Retailer, and blogworld, among many others. She’ll probably have a camera set up to interview someone like Avinash Kaushik.
Sure other cities and regions might be able to claim more folks, but given the size of the Vancouver tech community, well it’s pretty obvious that we rock.
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
