Announcing M&A Executive Search

Vencio developed a website for a new executive search firm in the twin cities, providing leadership solutions at senior executive levels of their client organizations.

Visit M&A Executive Search

Minnesota Bicycle Festival

For the second consecutive year Vencio has volunteered its services as an e-Marketing to the Great River Energy Bicycle Festival and Nature Valley Grand Prix, which raises money to benefit the Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.

This year we also volunteered as developer of the 2008 web site featuring dynamic photo and video galleries, and multiple blogs.

Visit the 2008 Minnesota Bike Festival Website

Photofetti Custom e-Commerce site

Vencio designed a new website and developed a custom online ordering application for Photofetti. The ordering application features a photo-cropping tool, and the site houses many other fun features such as their own blog.

Check out Photofetti's new website.

A Vencio Recommendation: LogMeIn

For the past few years, many of us at Vencio have been using a program called LogMeIn to access our work computers when we are away from the office. LogMeIn is a remote-desktop application competing with the likes of PC Anywhere, GoToMyPC, and even the built-in Windows "Remote Desktop Connection" feature. Basically you can sit in front of your PC at home or on the road and interact with the desktop of your work PC (or any other PC that has LogMeIn installed on it). My opinion is LogMeIn beats all these other applications in both functionality and price.

LMI has several versions with varying costs. There are versions for IT network professionals, help desk and support, or even just controlling a single machine. We actually use the level that is free - yes, FREE. You can't beat that price, and it includes all the features we need.

But isn't Windows' Remote Desktop Connection also free? Yes, but LMI has two distinct advantages. First of all, it's browser based so you can access your PC from any standard browser such as IE or FireFox. With Remote Desktop Connection you need to be on a machine that has RDC installed. Second, RDC is a MAJOR pain to try to set up through a corporate firewall. I could not even get it set up through Vencio's firewall. With LMI, all I had to do was download a little tray item to my work PC and I was ready to go. No firewall could stop me.

LogMeIn is one of my all-time favorite apps, and I highly recommend it for any scenario where you need a remote-desktop solution.

[e-Marketing] NEW! Design and SPAM testing and e-Mail Verification

In case you didn't catch it in our latest e-newsletter, Vencio is now offering two new e-Marketing services: Complete Design and SPAM Testing, and e-Mail Verification. These new services will help optimize your e-Marketing for optimum delivery, consistency, and help protect you as the sender.


Design and Spam Testing

Email clients are programmed to weed out potential SPAM e-mails. Vencio offers an e-mail design and SPAM testing service to help assure that your subscriber-list messages and newsletters reach inboxes, not their spam filters.

Design testing in all the major email clients
Vencio will review exactly how your email will look in more than 15 of the most popular email clients like Outlook, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Lotus Notes, AOL and many more.

Tested against popular spam filters and firewalls
Instead of just scanning your content for "spammy words", we'll pass your email through real spam filters and tell you exactly why you failed. A simple keyword scanner just doesn't cut it these days.

Not only this, but we'll also run your email through a number of popular spam firewalls, which are the gatekeepers for most ISP's and large corporations.

e-Mail Verification
Don't send to bad addresses... verify the list beforehand!

Vencio will check every email address from a database or a mailing list and determine if the e-mails are still valid. List hygiene plays a role in the delivery race. It is important to maintain a clean mailing list because a lot of ISP mail servers have been known to block a senders for repeated sending messages to non-existing email addresses.

Exhibits Development Group now Online

Exhibits Development Group specializes in developing, distributing and managing traveling exhibitions, cultural projects, and corporate exhibitions. Their corporate site, new to the web, and showcases the depth of their experience, international prowess, and vast resources.

Sign up to receive their e-newsletter, or check back to visit their webstore (opening in early 2008).

Limelight Generations Web Site Goes Live

Vencio is pleased to announce the launch of the Limelight Generations web site! Limelight Generations is a combination of the former public relations firm, Limelight Communications, and association membership marketing company, Limelight Associations. Limelight Generations is now one of the only generation marketing companies in the United States.

Limelight Generations is home to publications, services, presentations and tools to help their clients effectively reach the next generation of executives, employees, clients, and consumers. Contribute to their blog, subscribe to their e-newsletter, and read their articles—everything on their new web site is tailored to helping organizations capture the market share of generations X, Y, and soon Z.