News:
November 2008: Contracted to optimize vin de garde's website to improve their organic search results.
October 2008: New site for Serebra Campus launches. Link.
October 2008: New corporate site for Serebra Learning Corporation launches. Link.
September 2008: Contracted to write content for four brochures for Plaza 500 Hotel & Conference Centre, through Vancouver design agency, Veratta.
September 2008: JustAskBaby.com launches. Link.
September 2008: Contracted to write two micro-sites for Best Buy Canada promotions.
August 2008: New version of Serebra Connect website launches. Link.
August 2008: Contracted to write new copy for Serebra Learning Corporation's new corporate website and their learning management system product sales website.
August 2008: Contracted to develop concepts and write copy for a self-promo email and direct mail campaign for Vancouver marketing and design agency, On Track Media.
July 2008: Contracted to develop messaging and write material for the launch of Best Buy Canada visa card, including web pages, customer emails, staff posters, and in-store bag stuffers and banners.
June 2008: Contracted to develop messaging and write material for Best Buy Canada's careers campaign, including video script, bag stuffers, in-store banners, a brochures and web pages.
May
2008: Contracted to work with Best Buy Canada's
marketing department on a variety of projects,
including a new micro-site.
April
2008: Re-contracted by Serebra Learning Corporation to continue writing and managing all content for their four website, as well as to handle all their marketing collateral and corporate writing needs on an ongoing basis.
May
2008: Tincan
is contracted to work with Best Buy Canada's
marketing department on a variety of projects,
includng a new micro-site.
April
2008: Tincan is contracted by AFG
Research to produce content and messaging
for promotional material to promote their
new suite of services to launch throughout
2008, including micro-site, datesheet, email,
direct mail and press release.
March
2008: Tincan is contracted to write
new copy and content for a redesign of custom
window and door company, Unison Windows. Launch
in summer 2008.
February
2008: Tincan, in collaboration with
writer Annemarie Tempelman-Kluit of www.yoyomama.ca,
wins a competitive three-way pitch to produce
content and messaging, including SEO writing,
for a highly innovative new online project
-- www.justaskbaby.com.
February
2008: Launch of new website for independent
financial advice company, Fasttrax.
New logo by www.nuovonero.com.
January
2008: Tincan
consults with the University of Victoria entrepreneurship
department on how they could rework their
message and homepage copy for the second release
of their online academic service, Utilium
at www.utilium.com.
January
2008: Beta
version of My
Pypeline, a new
social networking website for fitness enthusiasts,
is launched. Tincan contributed copy for various
parts of the site, including product and static
pages, demo video scripts, etc.
December
2007: Tincan
owner Rob Mathison is contracted as a Contributing
Author of "Vancouver: The Complete Resident's
Guide" (due to be published by Explorer
Publishing in April, 2008.)
December
2007: Tincan
wins contract to produce new copy and content
for Kor Hockey's new website (www.korhockey.com),
to launch in spring 2008, and print material
to promote their new skate, the Shift 2. Working
with design agency Roxy Design and web developer
BBP in Vancouver. New
site.
December
2007: Tincan
is asked by Ainsworth Lumber to produce copy
concepts and themes for print ads and product
information for a new product.
November
2007: Tincan Communications wins
Silver for
Cogneto's website in the copywriting
category of the 2007 International Davey Awards.
With over 4,000 entries from around the world,
the Davey Awards honors the finest creative
work from the best small firms, agencies and
companies worldwide. The
Davey Awards is judged and overseen by
the International Academy of the Visual Arts.
November
2007: A
busy month for launches! Nero's new
website at www.nero.com
has now launched. Tincan was contracted
by Nero's agency, OnTrack Media, to
contribute new copy for various sections
of the new website.
November
2007: Beau
Cote has now launched. Tincan edited existing
content, grouped the content into an easy-to-navigate
structure, consulted on the sitemap and
wrote home page copy. Check it out at
www.beaucote.ca.
November
2007: Serebra
Connect -- a new online outsourcing website
with built-in social responsibility components
-- has launched. Tincan wrote marketing copy,
promotional and transactional emails, and
user content, including managing the upload
of user content through a cms tool. Check
it out at www.serebraconnect.com.
Tincan is continuing to write content and
copy for related websites, press releases
and associated campaigns.
October
2007: Tincan
is contracted to write copy for a new sports-related
social networking site, to launch in November/December.
Link.
October
2007: Tincan
is contracted to write and design a learning
resources micro-site for BC Government Ministry
of Employment and Income Assistance.
September
2007: Tincan produces ad campaign concepts
for cell phone/social networking start-up, www.styky.com.
Link.
September
2007: Tincan writes new bios for Gold
Hawk Resources mining company and works up brochure
copy for Starcore International Ventures mining
company.
August
2007: WellSprings BC contracts Tincan
to edit a large amount of content, work on a
new content site map, and write home page copy
for the website for a new service to launch
later this year. Link to follow. Link.
August
2007: OnTrack media contracts Tincan
to write a whitepaper for SmarTire
Systems.
July
2007: Tincan revamps travel company
Contiki's autoresponder series to make it more
effective.
July
2007: Cogneto, an industry-leading
Internet identity and security company, asks
Tincan to write new copy and content for their
redesigned website, to launch in September.
Link
to new site.
June
2007: CMC Markets, Vancouver, asks
Tincan to come up with some fresh and original
ad concepts for upcoming magazine ad campaigns
in BC and Alberta, including banner ads for
the magazine's website.
Link.
June
2007: Tincan is asked to write copy
for a Flash demo presentation of a soon-to-launch
website, working with the client's in-house
Flash designer. Link.
May
2007: The Internet Marketing Center
contracts Tincan to write an informational email
newsletter. Link.
Another
example.
May
2007: A Vancouver agency contracts
Tincan to write all copy and content for a major
redesign of a leading international software
company's website, due to launch later in the
year. Link to follow.
May
2007: OnTrack
Media contracts Tincan to write new copy for
a major software company's product micro-site.
Link.
April
2007: Vancouver
marketing services and design agency, OnTrack
media, contracts Tincan to write several datasheets
detailing the products of a major software company.
Link.
April
2007: Tincan
Communications joins Vancouver
Board of Trade. (Ask about a special
VBoT members' offer.)
April
2007:
Serebra Learning Corporation contracts Tincan
to write copy and content for its brochures,
websites and ad-hoc projects on an ongoing basis.
March
2007: Serebra
Learning Corporation, a leading e-learning company,
contracts Tincan to write copy for an exciting
new online project. Launch in October.
February
2007: Tincan offers clients an optional
secure, private area for collaborating on projects
through Basecamp.
Basecamp is especially useful when working with
remote clients, allowing all copy drafts and
other documents to be stored in one place for
easy access.
January
2007: Tincan works with Big Bus Vancouver
on their marketing materials.
