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WooCommerce
28% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
- 1+ million active installations
- 16+ million downloads
- 400+ extensions to add functionality
Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.
Jetpack
Transform how you work with your WordPress sites and rest easy knowing they’re always firing on all cylinders. Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com so you can focus on the stuff that matters.
Jetpack automatically shields your site from the unwanted attention of spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time sync and backup means you don’t have to worry about data loss. Straightforward traffic-building tools help you attract the attention of readers and search engines. Pages and videos are delivered at high speed from a global, ad-free content delivery network.
With Jetpack’s Affiliate program you can earn 20% for every sale of Jetpack to your customers and clients. And with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit! Refer as many clients and contacts as you can, and get paid for every sale you generate.
Make your site work for you. Get your Jetpack today at Jetpack.com
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.
Abtek Web Design
Abtek Web Design is a Calgary marketing agency that was born from our WordPress community. We are committed to building websites that not only look great, but work hard to make your business better. That’s why we obsess over all the little details, and deliver a stunning and simple-to-use user experience across all devices.
Our team knows how to leverage the best online tools to build a strong foundation for your brand. We pride ourselves in providing a full range of services, intentionally designed to propel your business forward.
Yoast BV
Yoast helps you to get the most out of your website by making SEO available for everyone. You might know our Yoast SEO plugin; with over 7.8 million active installs, Yoast SEO is one of the most popular WordPress plugins worldwide.
At Yoast, we believe in holistic SEO: not just one aspect of a website, but all aspects are important and should, therefore, be as good as possible. We don’t approach SEO as a trick to rank higher in Google but stimulate site owners to make their site the best search result. All awesome websites have three things in common: they’re easy to use, contain the right information, and they’re fast and reliable. If you do all that right, a website becomes easier to find as well!
Our products help people create remarkable sites. We offer WordPress plugins that make optimizing your WordPress website as easy as pie. In addition to that, our online courses help you develop the skills to make your website easier to find. And it doesn’t stop there: we’ve partnered with Magento and TYPO3 experts and brought Yoast SEO to other platforms too, as we love to contribute to open source projects. All that ties up nicely with our ultimate goal: trying to make the web better for everyone.
Local by Flywheel
Local by Flywheel is a fuss-free (and cost-free!) local WordPress development app designed to simplify the workflow of designers and developers. We make it super simple to spin up a local WordPress site, develop it, share it with your clients, and ultimately take it live.
Stop debugging local environments and spend more time designing, developing, and launching WordPress sites with Local by Flywheel.
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DreamHost
Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs and developers the world over bring their dreams to life on the Internet. From domain registrations to traditional web hosting and highly-optimized managed WordPress hosting, more than 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. DreamHost supports the WordPress project and community with dedicated resources and a passionate team. Packed with excellent value, DreamHost is a great place to launch a blog, website, or online application into the stratosphere! Learn more at www.DreamHost.com
GoDaddy
GoDaddy Pro is a free membership program for web developers, designers & agencies. It offers exclusive tools to help onboard, manage and maintain multiple clients and their sites fast and easy. With GoDaddy Pro tools, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage their products from a single dashboard. Additionally, your membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support and rewards for recommending GoDaddy to your clients.
You can use GoDaddy Pro with all of GoDaddy’s newly refreshed hosting products, including Managed WordPress, cPanel shared hosting, our brand new cloud product, and our virtual and dedicated solutions.
And, always get the best price on GoDaddy products with your “30% off list price” member benefit.
Learn more about GoDaddy Pro.
Build Studio
Build Studio is a Calgary design and development agency specializing in WordPress websites. We also provide graphic design and marketing strategy services for those clients we’ve partnered with. Build Studio has worked with business owners to create an online presence that engages their customers since 2011.
Converting visitors to a website into paying customers is the goal of most business owners. In order to do it effectively, it involves a deep understanding of their habits. Designing an experience that is easy to navigate and allows customers get to the content they’re looking for quickly gives them reason to engage with your business. We’ll work with you to better understand your current customers and make new ones.
If you’re looking to re-establish your business or start a new one, contact us.
Dream Team YYC
Christina Workman of Amethyst Answers and Jaime Wedholm of JWedholmDesign.ca have joined forces as the Dream Team YYC.
Combining Jaime’s branding expertise and Christina’s tech-savvy, front-end web talent, the Dream Team YYC offers an affordable web solution to help Build Your Brand. We develop fully branded + functional WordPress websites for our small business clientele.
Michael Bourne
Michael Bourne is a Calgary based web designer and developer specializing in custom WordPress development. I make your website faster, optimize it for mobile and build the foundation for you to rank higher on Google. I use customer data and metrics to determine smart choices for your business, not opinion and conjecture.
If you’re looking for a clean, functional website that caters to your customers and aims for higher conversions, drop me a line.
Just want some advice? See me at WordCamp or one of the monthly WordPress Meetup Groups.
Hover
Hover is a domain name registrar and an email service provider. Since 2008, we have been proudly selling domain names to customers all over the world. We are happy to offer you a wide variety of domain name extensions to satisfy any business idea you have. Don’t put it off any longer – get that company launched! Put your passion online with a Hover domain.
Hover offers a variety of benefits over your typical registrar. For one, we include Whois privacy for free with all eligible domains – we believe your privacy is a right, not a way for us to pocket some extra cash. We also offer volume discounts on domain renewals – so feel free to grab any domain name you please! Finally, we are firm believers in having real people answer the phone to respond to your questions. Our Customer Support staff is available seven days a week and will never upsell you on any Hover products. Plus, the Canadian kindness is included for free.
We offer premium and familiar Top-Level Domains (TLDs, or domain extensions), such as .COM and .NET, as well as unique ones. Ever wanted a .BLOG for your blog? A .TECH for your tech company? A .DOG for your dog? You can get them all at Hover! Attach your domain name to your WordPress website quickly and easily.
WordCamp & Hover
We are so excited to be attending and sponsoring another WordCamp this year. Hover has been sponsoring WordCamps for a while now – from New York, to Montreal, to Miami, and we absolutely love getting involved with the WordPress community. We always look forward to meeting people interested in growing their tech skills and networking. Find more information about Hover at WordCampYYC!
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BoldGrid
BoldGrid is a website builder powered by WordPress. It is a free set of WordPress plugins, themes, and other content that allows site creation and management similar to non-WordPress website builders. By placing WordPress more in line with DIY site builder solutions on the market, our mission is not only to make WordPress more accessible and easy for beginners to utilize, but also automate and streamline typical WordPress tasks to provide a fast, creator-friendly platform that even web professionals will appreciate.
Experience WordPress as a website builder, including: free pre-built themes, drag and drop editing, integrated image banks, simplified photo editing, built-in staging, automated backups, and so much more.
BoldGrid will have you creating professional looking WordPress sites in minutes!
Wanderoak
An adventurous and smart creative studio. We make really great stuff with purposeful design to help inspiring people + businesses make a positive difference.
Small businesses love working with us because we’re a small team that listens to them and makes sure the project is aligned with their particular goals. Learn more about us and how we work.
We also run We Start With Good — where you’ll find ethical business building resources, helpful instructions, and things we’re learning along the way (particularly lots of WordPress tutorials!).
Market.Biz
Market.biz is a market research and market analysis company that uses WordPress due its reliability and versatility. The company relies heavily upon a content management system (CMS) that is consistently reliable and easy to use. Market.biz offers a number of services to many different businesses that need important information on their market sector.
The company provides highly penetrating and deeply researched critical business information. Our target market demographics services assist domestic and international businesses. We can focus directly into your specific market. By doing that, we can provide you with the data that can give you an insight into what your competitors are doing. Understand that and you can plan how to best compete in your market. Data is our strength – we not only know how to use data, but also how to acquire the data that is most important to our clients.
To help you achieve that, the Market.biz team offers a comparative market analysis and custom industry assessment service. It is a service that its clients find reliable, useful and in some cases game-changing in their never ceasing strive for a competitive edge. Market.biz not only provides your company with useful business reports and news, but also helps you stay ahead of your competition by giving you a handle on what is happening in your business sector.
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Sticker Giant
StickerGiant prints high-quality stickers and labels. They have the best customer service, quick turnaround times and free custom shapes using state of the art laser cutting. Every sticker has a story. Want to share your story today? They’re waiting to hear from you at stickergiant.com.
Creative Factor
At Creative Factor we thrive on positive customer service to make your printing in Calgary buying experience an easy one. We listen to your requests and provide you with the best solutions such and business card printing or large format printing options. You can trust we will deliver a high end digitally printed product in half the time our competitors do. Our secret to this is “listening to your requests” and “properly queuing jobs” like flyer printing or poster printing so they are delivered on time every time. When printing in Calgary please remember that Creative factor has very competitive business card printing pricing as well as plastic card printing. This does not end here, at Creative Factor we can produce rush printing, within 24-48 hours, for most of our products like, business card printing, flyer printing, banner printing, t-shirt printing, poster printing, window decals printing, carbon copy form printing, Banner printing plus so much more!
Our team of talented Creative Factor graphic designers can help develop your graphic design ideas and create the right product for you. Most graphic designs will be completed within 24-48 hours for proofing and changes usually are done the same day with our Creative Design Services. We also can work through email communication on most orders, this lets you say in your office while we work from ours designing your graphics, once the product is ready we will call to arraign pickup or delivery. Come into Creative Factor and sit with one or simply call one of our designers today!
With our large format printing services you have the option to print on a variety of materials which are several different sizes, including trade show display printing. We can handle any printing job, big or small, and still keep your pocket happy with the end product. Large media printing in Calgary is not a challenge for us, contact Creative Factor today to find out more!
We take our work seriously at Creative Factor, so come in and experience the Creative Factor difference today
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The Haps
The Haps is currently hand-crafted with only the finest quality ingredients by Tony Grimes and John Smiley. We’ll be adding more hosts as we get into it so that we can make sure that we’re providing you with the best and most wide-ranging intel that we can about what’s coming up in the city.
You can check out the podcast at http://thehapscalgary.ca/
CMO4Hire
CMO4Hire was founded in 2016 from research, frameworks and agile marketing processes created since 2009, which we now call DBMMS (Digital Brand Marketing Management System).
We are here to not just level the playing field, we are here to help you dominate online.
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!