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About Dave Rossborough
Dave has been iSTORM's Marketing Director since the company was formed in 1999. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Queen's University, Kingston, Dave's marketing career began with Search Engine Optimization and niche marketing and has run the gamut to the present day. New tools to help marketing efficiency and open new markets are a particular obsession and he is always open to a chat about how marketing can be tailored to fit any business or situation.
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The Booths of Rendezvous Canada 2011

The fact that this post is going live almost a full two months since RVC11 gives you a sense of how successful Canada’s largest Tourism conference can be for a company servicing the destination marketing sector.
Since we returned from our first Rendezvous Canada experience at the end of May we have been extremely busy servicing the businesses and new friends we met in Quebec City, so all our plans for wrap up blog posts, large scale communications follow up etc were postponed until we got our our feet back on the ground.
We had a lot of positive experiences in Quebec City at RVC11. The Conference was extremely…
Posted in Graphic Design, Online Marketing
Tagged RVC, tourism
Rendezvous Canada pre-event hiccups
The iSTORM team have arrived in Quebec City for Rendezvous Canada 2011and we have our first challenge.
Today is booth setup day but our shipping company has failed to deliver our booth. The conference staff here are phenomenal and we hope it gets here before the conference opens tomorrow morning.
We will post photos when it arrives. If you are at the conference, get in touch!
Written by Dave Rossborough
Posted in Online Marketing, Small Business
Tagged RVC, tourism
Engaging Delegates at Trade Shows
With a few Trade Shows coming up this Spring/Summer that we will be attending, our thoughts have turned to what new and fresh ways we could engage and present information to potential clients and partners.
The concept on the left (click the image for full sized version) is the trade show idea we are currently playing with as our “leave behind” on the Trade Show floors when people visit our booth.
We wanted to find a way to reduce wasted paper (and things for delegates to have to carry), get people to our website, and easily continue the conversations we started at the Shows.
By moving our brochure online and…
Posted in Graphic Design, Online Marketing, Technology
Top 5 Small Business Purchases of 2010
As Christmas closes in, it’s a useful exercise to look back at 2010 and pat ourselves on the back for the things we did right. Continue reading
Posted in Online Marketing, Small Business
Tagged Small Business, SME, Year In Review