Winning Awards
February 16 2012 | Chris Grabiec
My partner John Janisse is a member of Rotary International. He takes his membership very seriously and I believe wishes to contribute to the good work that Rotary does. Did you know that Rotary through it's extrordinary efforts has virtually eliminated Polio on our planet? That's another story...but nevertheless really important.
Because he is a Rotarian I was able to go to the Paul Harris awards night yesterday. Four people were awarded Paul Harris fellowships mostly due to exemplary community service.
I'd like to talk about one of them. In 1988 a young lady bought a small pharmacy on James Street North in Hamilton Ontario called Marchese. The pharmacy was destined to grow beyond what anyone would imagine under her leadership over the next years. Marita Zaffiro, very committed to staying on James Street North would soon purchase more buidlings and build an incredible compounding pharmacy that would reach out to patients receiving care in their homes with infusion therapy services, a wide range of medical supplies and specialized medication programs, as well as an on-site dispensing pharmacy.
Categories: Events
Websites that really produce!
February 01 2012 | Chris Grabiec
The constant question for a firm like the Dunham Group is what makes a website work and what makes it not work? We recently had a comment about a ecommerce site that was built by another company. It has produced all of 5 sales in approximately 6 months. The owner of the site has invested a good amount of time, energy and money into this endeavor and the ROI is non-existent.
First of all let's just acknowledge the facts. There are between 350 and 375 million websites on the World Wide Web. (Not an entirely accurate figure, but it gives us an idea.) Obviously the competition out there is incredible. However, we do need to acknowledge that there are winners and losers….so the real question is how a website gets on the winning side.
Categories: Web Design
The photo shoot
December 14 2011 | John Janisse
One of our clients needed some photography for the new website we're creating.The available stock photography didn't suit our purposes, so after some brainstorming we arranged a photoshoot and offered our own house as the location (this worked well as the client was a homecare company).
We contacted Tom Vogel who has done some great work for other Dunham Group clients and who happened to be available on short notice. We asked friends and family to be models, and to our surprise, they all said 'yes'!
The client provided some resource staff and the uniforms. The day came and I was a mess worrying that people would get grumpy and the day would be an unorganized mess with no product to show for it
Categories: General
A Successful Wine Tasting in support of the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice
December 09 2011 | Chris Grabiec
On Friday evening November 25th the Dunham Group hosted approximately 60 people for a Wine Tasting evening. The proceeds went to the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice in Hamilton Ontario. The evening was an immense success and we raised over $9000.00 for the Hospice.
We want to thank Vinexx, the wine importers who donated all the wines and spent the evening discussing the various wines with everyone present. We also want to thank Lorne Gaffe of Hamilton Store Fixtures who donated 60 Riedel glasses to the hospice for such events. There were many others who helped preparing food, serving the food, mixing music, appraising wine, running rare wine raffle, collecting the fees for the evening and much more. It was a wonderful collaborative effort on the part of some 60 people to help a very worthy cause in our city.
Categories: Events
A wine tasting evening, supporting the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice
October 25 2011 | Chris Grabiec
You may know about The Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice in Hamilton Ontario and the incredibly important work that is done there.
My own mother was at the hospice a couple of years ago, and I can personally say that it was wonderful way for her to spend her last days and a good place for the family to be while those days were happening.
The Dunham Group is committed to supporting the hospice (along with other worthy charities in the area). We would like to invite you to a wonderful evening of "Tasting Fine Wines".
