Before we take our year-end break, we want to update our clients and readers about our progress in 2017.
It’s been a wonderful year for Entrevestor, and the highlight has been hiring a tremendous young reporter, Jennifer Lee. Jennifer is a graduate of the King’s College School of Journalism and she’s a great addition to our team.
With Jennifer, Carol and I all hard at it, we’re producing more stories on Atlantic Canadian startups, and they’re reaching more people than ever. In its six-year history, Entrevestor has published more than 3,000 blogs, and more than 1,000 of them were published in 2017.
As of November, our number of readers had increased 49 percent year-on-year and our pageviews were up 31 percent. We’re reaching readers beyond Atlantic Canada – about 30 percent of our sessions were initiated by readers outside the region, and 13 percent of them were outside Canada. In Montreal, for example, our readership increased almost 60 percent since November 2016. Both Toronto-based Betakit and PEHub, Thomson Reuters’ private capital publication, both picked up Entrevestor articles on several occasions.
One of the highlights of the year was working with our marketing partners Charcoal Marketing to put on “Atlantic Canada's Startup Industry - By The Numbers” – the luncheon in Halifax that presented our most recent data. We’re looking forward to working with Charcoal more in the future.
Many thanks to all our clients and readers – and especially to the startup founders and staff. Entrevestor is growing only because you’re growing your businesses so rapidly. May it continue in 2018.