ISSCIO in May: Number of Experts Reaches 400

One of the most significant changes in ISSCIO over the course of the last month was an increase in the number of its experts. Joined by more than 30 new experts since the start of the year, ISSCIO has proudly emerged as a website that lists over 400 of Intellectual Property law firms from over 150 countries of the world.

It is not a secret that the bigger part of the information on the website is added by the IP Experts listed in ISSCIO; we are thus very hopeful that the recent increase in the experts will bring about a positive change in Topic editions. From our side, we thinking of developing new and even more effective ways of promoting the IP practices on the pages of  the website.

Finally, as I have mentioned in the previous blog posts, we are waiting for the extensive development of the website to start in the second half of the year. This, again, will hopefully allow for the new ways to emerge in order to help ISSCIO users to “Find” IP information and “Connect” with the experts, and  experts to “Be found”.

As always, wishing you the very best in your business,

Sincerely,

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager

ISSCIO is soon to turn 2

There was quite a long break in ISSCIO Blogs postings in the last months and I am very happy to be writing the first blog of the year. So... what is new about the site?

One of the most significant news of today is that ISSCIO is soon turning 2 years old! And while there have been progressive and not so progressive sides to ISSCIO development during these two years, the better news are yet to come!

Associated with the second anniversary of ISSCIO, ISSCIO mama, Brights Consulting Inc., is hoping to give a little push of encouragement to its child. Starting this year already ISSCIO will receive more ideas, planning, development and, last but not the least, budget for its new projects. The amount of incentives from the side of Brights Consulting Inc. to ISSCIO development is yet to be decided. Nonetheless, we are very optimistic about the future of ISSCIO from now.

More extensive development is going to start later in 2012 and we will be happy to share with you all the latest news about the inventions on the site that, without a doubt, will make it even more comfortable and informative and contribute to finding more clients for ISSCIO Experts.

As always, we appreciate your editing the topics on the site and promoting your practices at no cost. And, we are always happy to hear your opinion about ISSCIO.

Wishing you all the very best in your business and remain

Truly Yours,

Olga Yevetska
ISSCIO Operations Manager

ISSCIO December Blog: Recounting 2011

It is quite emotional to be writing the last blog of the year 2011. Another year has passed for the Intellectual Property Portal ISSCIO.com. Many things were achieved in the life of the site and some - experienced a backlash.

January - February

ISSCIO has started its path in 2011 with the increased emphasis on the new gTLD Topics and many functional additions to the pages, such as adding News and Links sections to the Topics.It is early to talk about success or failure of the News and Links sections: there were just some contributed by experts, yet we would like to consider it as a space for the future useful additions. From January the main workload and responsibility for the website transferred to myself, yet greatly supported and supervised by Lucas.

March

The biggest black spot of the year 2011 was, of course, the earthquake of March 11 that took lives of more than 20 000 people in Japan and left the northern part of the country in rattles, and the aftermath of herein. As an immediate result, General Manager of ISSCIO Lucas got stuck in the airport for 2 days on his flight to San Francisco; and I myself had to walk for 7 hours to reach my house with the transportation system in Tokyo and surrounding areas collapsed. Although we wish to think we could quickly restore the work on the site, we must admit this was the time when the work was going the slowest.

In March, ICANN approved the .XXX domain which until recently continued to be one of the most popular topics in ISSCIO.

April - July

Consequent months showed some positive improvements for ISSCIO in terms of increased popularity in Google. Furthermore, we implemented a clearer concept of ISSICO: “FIND”, “BE FOUND”, “CONNECT” that, we hope, explains better the essence of the site.

August - December

In the second half of the year we also included the Featured Topics, along with Twitter posts on ISSCIO front page. We want to believe that featuring on the front page heps the companies listed in ISSCIO acquire new clients, while the Twitts provide with the most current news.

We proudly acknowledge there were over 100 topic editions this year alone for contributing to which we are very grateful to our clients and colleagues.

Last, but not least, Thank you for your continuous support, participation and contributions to the site! We wish you all the very best in your business and personal life!

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager

Why it is important to edit ISSCIO Topics

One of the most significant changes that occurred in ISSCIO over the course of the last month was almost tripled increase in visits to the site, starting from the second Friday of November.

We could see two reasons that contributed to such an increase in visits to the site. One of the reasons was the changed rules of Google SE. Summarized in a couple of words, Google added importance to the freshness of the site cutting on the “appropriate keyword” principle. As such, the page on the appropriate topic that has been updated the last would occupy the top position in Google as opposed to the page that has the best proportion of appropriate keywords.

Although the change in the values of Google could be arguable, the fact remains that there is now an increased importance for ISSCIO topics to be constantly updated. ISSCIO.com currently has over 800 Topic pages, many of which has been updated in the last months. While we make sure to renew 2-5 Topics daily, it is very important for the Experts to contribute and renew information on the topic of their expertise. We thus encourage ISSCIO Experts to login and edit the information in ISSCIO.com, check the information added by others and update the pages with the useful links and news about domain names and trademarks in their respective countries. This way, we can hope that ISSCIO topics will remain on the high position in the Google Search and help the Experts gain new clients.

The second reason for the increased visits to ISSCIO was the start of Landrush stage for the domain name .XXX, currently the most popular ISSCIO Domain Name topic. As we have always been making sure to update this topic of high interest of the Internet community with the latest facts, it is no wonder ISSCIO received extraordinary amount of visits to its DotXXX page.

With the wishes of success in your business,

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager

Increasing Your Chances of Getting Clients in ISSCIO

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Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager

ISSCIO in September: Calm, Steady, Improved

The month of September was rather calm and steady for ISSCIO, yet we have got some important patterns that are worth mentioning. One of such patterns is the improvement in ISSCIO content. It was our greatest pleasure to see many editions of Trademark topics by ISSCIO experts. We have received exquisite and complete information that without a doubt will be useful for ISSCIO users and are grateful to those who contributed their time and knowledge!

September editions add to the number of approximately 60 edited topics in the months of June-September. We have also added a couple of new topics, DN and TM South Sudan, a move outlined by creation of the world’s youngest country to date, as well as six topics (DN and TM) of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. We are looking forward to including experts from these countries to ISSCIO as there are some more adjustments of ISSCIO topics planned in the near future.

Another event of September important for ISSCIO was the presence of a Brights Consulting representative He Yan on the 4th China Trademark Conference. Apart from other responsibilities, Ms.Yan was kindly introducing the concept of ISSCIO to the IP experts present there. She saw a significant interest in ISSCIO among the IP professionals that is already being translated in more expert accounts in ISSCIO.

Last but not least, we are extremely grateful to the experts who have contributed their opinions on the possible improvements in ISSCIO. We greatly appreciate and value your comments and suggestions that without a doubt will be a basis for the further betterment of ISSCIO.

Wishing you all the best of success in your business!

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager

The Heat, the Beat and ISSCIO Growth (ISSCIO in Summer 2011)

As Japan calls to an end its time of summer vacations, exclusively hot weather and numerous summer festivals, ISSCIO team is ready for a busy autumn.

During the summer months ISSCIO was little by little raising its head in terms of visits to the site, number of experts and the overall site popularity. As for the visits, for instance, there was more than 20% increase over the course of July and first weeks of August, which perfectly fitted into the picture of close to 250 % increase in visits since the beginning of this year. We can only congratulate ourselves with such an amazing achievement and thank ISSCIO experts who contributed valuable information to the site.

The second half of August saw a little slow down in ISSCIO activity that we are hoping will increase in the closest weeks.

Using the time of summer vacations, we have conducted some checks of ISSCIO supporting systems.

Our final goal in doing so was a superior quality of communication with the experts through technically better functioning system of communication and more safely preserved database. Armed with the renewed confidence in improved ISSICO, we are stepping into the next phase of its development.

ISSCIO team is wishing you a pleasant start of the autumn and success in your business!

Olga Yevetska

ISSCIO Operations Manager