Started using YouTube ads to promote our client’s monthly promotions. Attended Orgill’s Spring Dealer Market in New Orleans to meet customers and prospective retailers from the US, Canada, and the Caribbean, a 4-day show that included the Technology Symposium.

Added 200th article to our DIY Library. Created a Paint Library for paint-specific articles and topics for client websites. Automatic tracking of phone link clicks for website analytics. Made enhancements to Bongo4U Scam Detection Matrix. First time since Covid, we returned to Orgill’s Spring Dealer Market in Orlando to meet our building and hardware customers and prospects.

Published the 160th article in our growing Library of DIY home improvement articles. Bongo4U website tools now include a sticky button widget. Paint & Stain Catalog created for website development. Bongo4U File Uploader updated (decommissioned legacy Adobe Flash). Phone number tracking added to website analytics.

Free pandemic communication solutions made available to over 100 clients. Solutions developed for clients to comply with pandemic restrictions such as the Christkindl Market festival where we created an online 24-day Advent Calendar, Online Marketplace of vendors, and a unique Christkindl-in-a-Box. Upgrades made to Bongo4U for mobile user experience. Started offering free monthly Analytics Reports to clients. Our Digital Marketing services grew to include Instagram and flyer program promotions. Social Icons on our websites can now be displayed with custom colours. Repository of reusable Vendor Pages (e.g. Diablo, Napoleon Fireplaces, Napoleon Grills) created for easy website and brand development.

Custom lumber chart capabilities added to Bongo4U. Knowledge Base of articles created to make it easy for users to search for help when using or editing their Bongo4U website or Boost catalog. Our most effective Digital Marketing Program yet, launched with 3 different levels of marketing opportunities: Base, Standard & Prime.

Emerge2 became the exclusive supplier of support for Boost eCommerce solutions for Orgill dealers. Started writing and publishing home improvement articles that can be automatically added to any Bongo4U website. Digital Marketing services expanded beyond Facebook Ads to include content marketing, Google Business services, Google Ads, and Email Marketing.

Bongo4U CMS v4 launched with universal SSL secure support and numerous performance and infrastructure developments.

Launched significant enhancements and new features within the Bongo4U system. All new capabilities instantly available to all Bongo4U clients.

Implemented quick-to-market strategy and architecture for online client contests.

Website Validator makes clients' lives easier, letting them do their own manual or automated website “check-ups.”

Emerge2 embraces Responsive Web Design to make websites work across all devices and screens while this new concept was still being debated by the developer community.

National Dealer Recruitment Campaigns integrating comprehensive targeted off-line materials with online incentives and sophisticated tracking.

Automated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) implemented with customized algorithms in GC and CMS - no website owner involvement required.

Foreseeing the importance of SEO and the need to find ways to earn stronger rankings, we built automatically generated Integrated Search Engine Sitemaps into our platforms, as soon as the capability was launched by the major search engines.

Bongo4U Content Management System (CMS) launched - at the time, available CMS services were limited in functionality and/or difficult to use - Bongo4U solved these issues out of the gate.

Email Marketing platform launched in-house to support large scale cost-effective private email communications for clients.

Emerge2 wins the iCON Award for Website Design. Woo hoo!

Already tired of spam, we are an early adopter of spam avoidance technologies long before the methods were accepted as an Internet standard.

Early-to-market with a 1-to-1 direct marketing 'variable print' solution that empowers over 6,000 dealerships from one of the big 3 automakers in North America to personalize print materials unique to each customer's demographic, psychographic and other attributes.

Emerge2 awarded a Federal Innovation Grant for its proprietary ecommerce algorithms after building a real-time configurator using regression analysis to model all possible scenarios to determine the best solution for custom ecommerce purchase combinations based upon varying user requirements.

Emerge2 launches Galileo Commerce (GC) v2, a flexible, deeply configurable B2B and B2C ecommerce system utilizing “early adopter” technology features few competitors were offering.

A leading North American B2B marketing agency (The Reid Group) and software company (The Galileo Group) in Canada’s technology supercluster come together to carve out a niche building custom digital marketing programs for dealer groups, retailers, distributors and manufacturers. The “e-merger” of our unique blend of strategy, creative and technical expertise was sparked by an invitation by Industry Canada for both our companies to represent Team Canada at an emerging technologies trade exposition "MultiMedia Market '99" in Stuttgart, Germany. And, the rest, as they say, is history.