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Why Do We Help
Great Businesses Grow?

Because Great Businesses Drive the Economy & Improve the Lives of Everyone.

What We Do

We use our expertise in digital marketing and technology to help great businesses grow and achieve greater success, by acquiring new customers, increasing sales, and expanding markets.

We design and develop websites that appeal to the relevant market, build trust, and present our client’s business as a worthy choice. We build a customer journey that provides decision making criteria while removing all barriers along the sales path.

We continuously refine strategies to make the most effective use of promotional platforms, like search engines and social media, to drive targeted traffic 

Bold makes all the difference.

Website Design and Optimization

Our web team includes strategists, graphic and web designers, developers, programmers, and copywriters. In addition to our technical expertise, we have extensive experience in the psychological aspects of targeting specific audiences.

Optimization for target markets includes creative components like design and layout; and, logical and emotional aspects, such as indicators of trust, navigation, flow of information, images, and calls to action.

Our knowledge and experience extend to ecommerce, data architecture, content management, and web application development.

About Us

Our team includes seasoned pros who experienced the birth of the internet, as well as youngins who grew up attached to their smartphones. In addition to being multigenerational, we are multidisciplinary, and multitalented!

A corporation registered in British Columbia, Canada, Internet Advertising has a core team of seven members. We also have a roster of highly skilled freelancers who can be called upon when needed. We conduct business within both a physical and virtual team environment, facilitating timely consultation with our clients.

Our core competencies include:

Website Design, Development, and Optimization

  • UX/Interface Design and Development
  • Online Sales Platforms
  • Content Management Systems
  • Creative Services (concept, copywriting, graphic design)
  • Data Structure Design, Management, & Maintenance in MySQL
  • Custom Programming
  • Forms
  • Conversion Strategies
  • Website Security

Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing

  • Customer Personas
  • Keyword Research
  • Engagement Strategies
  • Content Structure
  • Copywriting (SEO, ads, blogs, resource articles)
  • On-page SEO
  • Off-page SEO
  • Performance Management
  • Google Map Boost
  • Local SEO
  • Review Funnels

Businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Our Core Values

Our values are important because they attract the type of people we need to cultivate and grow our culture.

In a world where many people view a job as… well… just a job, we want to create a place where people are eager and excited to show up to. Where they find a calling for their skills and have a team to support them. For this to happen we need all our team members to have these four traits because it is the people who shape a company and its culture.

Treat Team Members Like a Client

A client is under our care, protection, and guidance. We protect and take care of each other in the same way. As a united team we’re happier and provide a better experience for our clients.

Ownership & Autonomy

Every team member must have the autonomy to inject their own creativity into projects and build an environment where they can be trusted to make decisions. Taking ownership for choices both good and bad is important because this is how we are able to continually improve. In our view, failure is just experimentation gone on too long.

Kaizen

We combine our collective talents to create a powerful engine for improvement. Constant innovation, learning and breaking bottlenecks is the fuel for our success.

Provable Results

Our entire focus is to produce and communicate meaningful results to our clients.

Our History from Humble Beginnings

2022

3 Best Rated Advertising Agencies
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2021

25 Years in Business

2020

3 Best Rated Advertising Agencies

2020

Developed website for our largest client by market cap – $2.24B – interfor.com

2020

Summit Creative Award – Well Being BC: Educational Marketing www.wellbeingbc.ca

2015

Summit Creative Award – Kosmetae Academy: Educational Institute – www.kosmetae.com

2015

Summit Creative Award Gold For Private Education Website

2014

On June 25th,2014 Fraser Health won the Award of Merit – Top Innovation at the Excellence in BC Health Care Awards for their new surgery web pages and the Soonest Surgery Tool. We built.

2014

Top Innovation at the Excellence in BC Health Care Awards

2010

On boarded our first publicly traded company
Summit Creative Award - Marvee Systems: 3D Animation

2007

Summit Creative Award - Marvee Systems: 3D Animation

2007

Summit Creative Award Silver in 3D Animation

2003

Best of .Biz top ranked website design for leatherchairs.biz

2000

Became one of the first 100 Google QUALIFIED 2007 Adwords Professionals

1998

First Dedicated Fiber Optic Connection for Web Hosting

1997

Developed one of the world’s first shopping carts

1996

Designed our first corporate website!

Meet The Dream Team

The team behind you is Extremely Important!

But looks aren’t the only thing…

Over 100 years of combined marketing experience
in one dream team.

Mike

Nick

Angela

Joanne

Keara

James

Andrew

Paul

Join our dream team of master marketers.

Are you interested in working with a company that helps great businesses grow?

Do you aspire to work with and be one of the best marketers in the world?

Would you like to have a positive impact on our economy?

Can you be trusted to make decisions and take responsibility for them?

Are you creative and enjoy applying new skills you have learned?

professional web design

Our culture is all about one goal: Happiness for our team members, clients, suppliers, and the communities that connect us all.

Our culture runs deep in our company, read how our culture was shaped by Mike and Nick’s Culture Manifesto.

We have lots of experience

Read our blog.

Blog
Mike

Google Reviews – Five FAQs

Google Reviews – Five FAQs Google reviews are the word-of-mouth referrals of the digital age. They build trust in your business and influence others to

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Industry Experience:
25+ Years

Last Book Read:
Mastering Bitcoin

Can’t Live Without:
Love

Mike Johnson

Founder and CEO

Mike received diplomas with outstanding achievements at UFV in CIS and MCB and has been an Internet business development strategist since 1994.

Mike is a continuous learner who prides himself on keeping up to date with emerging technology and Internet trends. He takes a hands-on approach to managing development projects, ensuring that the client and the development team share a common vision of the desired project outcome.

Mike is a charter member of the Abbotsford Executives Association, member of the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce, Director for The Sumas Regional Consortium for High Tech (SRCTec), Director for Abbotsford Airport Authority, member of the Aerospace & Technology Cluster, Past President of the Valley Business Network, and former Communications Director for the Fraser Valley Métis Association.

Nick Man | President

Industry Experience:
8 Years

Last Book Read:
Notes From Underground

Hobbies:
Snowboarding/skiing, Hiking, Competitive Sports, Reading, Piano, Learning new things

Nicholas Man

President / Search Engine Optimization

Nick is an SEO mastermind whose research skills keep him up to date with the latest strategies and search engine algorithms.

With an entrepreneurial spirit and continuous pursuit of excellence, Nick is also a trusted business operations advisor.

Industry Experience:
5+ Years

Hobbies:
Watching TV and apparently nagging!?

Can’t Live Without:
Sleep

Angela Johnson

Reception / Accounting / Office Management

Angela is the domain name manager that registers and keeps track of the status of your website address; she’s the bookkeeper that pays the bills and sends out the invoices, and basically the one who takes care of the many administrative tasks necessary to keep projects on track and the office running smoothly.

 

Industry Experience:
20+ Years

Hobbies:
Gardening

Can’t Live Without:
Butter

Joanne Severn

Strategist / Copywriter

Joanne holds a BA in Psychology and is an experienced management and marketing consultant.With five awards to her credit, she provides excellent advice to our clients regarding the strategic and creative aspects of their website and marketing program.

 

Industry Experience:
3 Years

Last Book Read:
Horticulture books, specifically one on succulents.

Can’t Live Without:
Friends in some form, even if its family or an animal

Keara Johnson

Digital Marketing Specialist

Our in-house millennial is the expert in social media marketing and advertising.

From Buzzfeed to Twitter, our clients’ messages round the globe in record speed on popular sharing platforms.

Industry Experience:
20+ Years

Last Book Read:
Rich Dad Poor Dad

Can’t Live Without:
Oxygen ; )

James Konkler

Senior Web Developer

With more than 20 years of industry experience, James is our “go to guy” for complex development projects.

Up to date with all the latest technologies and applications, James is a future oriented problem solver who delivers high quality outputs for our clients and their customers.

Industry Experience:
20+ Years

Last Book Read:
Taylor’s Differential Diagnosis Manual

Hobbies
Electronics, Painting, Songwriting, Inventing

Andrew Jaster

Web Developer

A former web design college instructor with more than 20 years of experience, Andrew is exceptionally skilled at turning the visualized plan for a website into a fully functioning, cleanly programmed, and easy to maintain website.

Specifically, Andrew’s role is to transform the raw elements of a website into a visually engaging and user friendly experience.

Industry Experience:
18+ Years

Last Book Read:
The Reef

Can’t Live Without:
Anything “Apple”

Artist/Graphic Designer

Senior Web Designer

Paul is an awarding winning web designer whose talents include interface design, CSS3 integration, bootstrapped framework and responsive design.

Working with our team, Paul creates the visual and people pleasing elements for each website.