Small-Cap Publicly traded companies (under $100 million) struggle to get their story out to prospective investors. With major media covering the Big Boys, these small-cap businesses needed a a way to reach investors other than with traditional one-to-one communication. Which usually amounted to answering the same questions and delivering the same message to the same limited audience over and over again.
Enter AGORACOM, a Toronto-based investor relations (IR) firm that knew there had to be a better way and looked to the Web to change the way IR is delivered. AGORACOM is a Web 2.0 online marketplace and forum for the small-cap investment community. Through the use of dedicated communities, blogging, webcasting, podcasting and other Web 2.0 tools, AGORACOM fills an information void created by the lack of small-cap coverage in mainstream media.
Small-Cap public companies, shareholders and prospective shareholders amalgamate for the purposes of communicating in a monitored and secure environment free of the bashing, hyping, and spam that have plagued online small-cap communities for years.
AGORACOM may be on to something. More than 95% of their revenue comes from over 300 public companies via annual contracts and they provide exclusive small-cap content to Yahoo! Finance, AOL Finance, Globe Investor, and RIM.
Through the use of dedicated communities, blogging, webcasting, podcasting and other Web 2.0 tools, AGORACOM fills the information void created by... [more]
Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
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