Connecting With Your On-The-Go Investors: Why We Created This Resource

When we first sat down to brainstorm the resource, Connecting With Your On-The-Go Investors, we had one goal in mind: to better educate you – an individual working within investor relations – so that you feel more informed on the mobile landscape, including how being mobile-friendly impacts your SEO rankings and user experience, and how your competition – or other Canadian issuers – are adapting within this new landscape.

With the frequency of change in the mobile and web space, it was clear that we needed to be proactive instead of reactive, and issue a resource now that could be used not only throughout this year of 2016, but into 2017 as well. As the resource is online, it’s fluid in nature, meaning that we will be constantly evolving and updating with the latest updates so that you feel more confident within the mobile landscape.

As you’ve likely taken a look at a few of our blog overviews (like some of our favourite IR website examples), we wanted to rewind and share with you why we created this resource in collaboration with CIRI.

 

Here’s why we created Connecting On-The-Go Investors…

 

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We wanted to educate those working within investor relations.

You’re so focused on your day-to-day, so your website is often the least of your concerns. We’re here to tell you that it should be at the top of your list, at least one per week.

Why?

In America, 64% of adults now own a smartphone of some kind, up from 35% in the spring of 2011. What’s most interesting is that smartphone ownership is especially high among younger Americans. This demographic across America, Canada and other countries will be your target persona in years to come. It’s more important than ever to leverage today’s technologies in order to engage more effectively with the future IR community.

 

We want you to reach your goals for 2017.

With the New Year right around the corner, it’s more important than ever to set goals that will impact your business in 2017.

If a potential investor or business visits your website and they bounce off before letting it load, for example, this could be because your website isn’t mobile friendly.

And bounce rates significantly impact your business. Overall, they will impact your search rankings within Google, which means potentially less visitors to your website, but absolutely less organic, earned traffic and media.

 

We want Canadian companies to succeed.

With such a competitive landscape in the marketplace, we want to help Canadian companies within Investor Relations succeed. By providing resources to those within the Canadian Investor Relations industry, we believe we can truly help fuel success for brands and business moving into 2017.

 

If you have yet to read “Connecting With Your On-The-Go Investors”, you can click here now to view. This resource is complimentary, and we encourage you to share with colleagues.


Nicole Van Zanten
Nicole Van Zanten

Nicole is fascinated with all things Investor Relations, lending her penmanship to Blender's blog subscribers and loyal readers. She's focused on delivering the goods (and latest IR updates) each and every week.