The Q4 team is off to the NIRI National Conference in Orlando, FL June 12-15.  For those who are attending stop by booth #617 to meet the team and learn how we have helped hundreds of companies across North America drive IR website traffic, expand content distribution and increase investor engagement.
There is a great lineup of sessions, but you won’t want to miss ‘Social Media Disclosure – Is Now the Time?’ – a Q4-sponsored Lunch ‘n’ Learn on Tuesday, June 14th at 12:15 p.m. in the Ritz Ballroom 4-6 on the …

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Let’s take a look at how the site recently changed when they upgraded their IR website from Thomson’s IR website template to the Q4 web platform.  The comparison from a design and user experience standpoint is night and day.  We have provided a number of screen shots in the slideshare below, or you can visit the live site at …

When it comes to sharing investor-related information, IROs have many options available to them.  But generally a decision to use a particular channel is made on the basis of what fulfills disclosure requirements. However, a good online communications strategy should include having your message in multiple channels and in multiple formats.
That said, many companies are coming to realize that a balanced approach that integrates social channels and an effective IR website can help increase awareness and engage with investors in their chosen channel.
Specific case studies of companies who have seen …

With Facebook now counting more than 600 million users, the reality is that a large segment of any corporate website traffic has a Facebook account.  If you’re company has a Facebook page and you’re actively using it, then it makes sense to extend the capabilities of your corporate website with Facebook social plug-ins. Below are the 4 ways that we integrate Facebook social plugins into corporate IR websites.
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Starting in 2009 a default component of all Q4 websites is the ability to share any page to a number of …

On March 22, Catherine Crofton, Q4’s VP Sales & Marketing hosted a webinar that showcased some best practice examples that companies are doing to optimize their web communications.
If you were unable to attend, you can view the presentation and video replay below:
 
Q4 Webinar – IR Website Best Practices to Optimize your Online Presence from Q4 Web Systems Inc. on Vimeo.
You can download the presentation by clicking here.
You can also download a copy of the complete transcription by clicking here.
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“Readers will still have access to the same great content they have come to expect from our blog“, said Darrell Heaps co-founder and CEO of Q4 Web Systems, “with a continued overarching objective of striving to have the blog serve as a key resource to IR professionals – which is currently accomplished by staying apprised of and sharing news relevant to IROs such a changes in the regulatory environment and online IR best practices“.
We will continue to share findings from our active research into IR website and social media best …

Back in January of this year a question was posted to Quora (the hot new social media question and answer community) asking which vendors help integrate social media into the corporate website.
Our CEO, Darrell Heaps responded to the question and his answer has remained the top ranked answer. I thought it would make sense to share it here:

Darrell Heaps, Co-founder/CEO at Q4 Web Systems
2 votes by Broc Romanek and Brian Chen

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IR Web Report recently wrote a blog post that explains how we work with the Twitter and Facebook API to allow our clients to easily share content published to their public website on both of these social networks.  An excerpt from Dominic’s post:
By using Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which enable web services to exchange information, Q4 is giving its clients the ability to post new information on their corporate websites while simultaneously alerting investors to its availability on a growing range of other sites.  The approach is more secure and eliminates …

A few weeks ago Google updated their algorithm with the goal of reducing spam and low value websites in their search results. The most impacted sites were those generated by content farms, that churn out low quality content designed more to rank well in search engines than being useful to humans.
In addition to this target, the algorithm change also affected many IR websites in North America. IR Web Report subsequently reported on the incident in this post “Google search change hits investor relations sites”.  Here is a short …

We are pleased to announce that Q4 has partnered with RiccaRI, a Brazilian based Investor Relations firm as our exclusive channel partner in Brazil and Latin America.
Together with the features and best practices of the Q4 platform, RiccaRI adds a full package of website solutions to its portfolio, including a communication strategy, analysis and segmentation of shareholders, information architecture, as well as visual and written content creation and translation.
Darrell Heaps, our co-founder and CEO had this to say:
I’m very excited about our partnership with RiccaRI and about offering our IR …