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Jan 21

Is Your Club Appearing on Google?

Use Google’s Free Tool to Get Your Club Noticed

Did you know that there is one sure-fire way to get your Club found on Google that’s completely free? It’s called Google My Business (or GMB) for short, an easy-to-use tool provided by Google to help businesses manage their online presence and appearance in Google Search and Google Maps.

By using GMB, someone searching for your club name on Google will see this result:

WebBGC Google My Business Profile

The GMB listing is something that complements your website by giving your Club a presence on Google. It provides all of the important information about your Club, making it easier for people to find you. Information shown in a GMB listing includes:

BGCC Canada GMB Images

  • Your Club name
  • Address
  • Hours of operation
  • Phone number
  • Map to your location
  • Photos and videos of your Club
  • And even a link to your website!

It Gets Better!

GMB is not only a place for you to share your Club’s information—it also gives you an opportunity to interact with your potential members through Google Reviews or by answering Questions. It even has a Posts section where you can upload your latest news or create awareness for your upcoming events!

It’s Easy to Get Started

By having a GMB listing, your Club will be able to heighten the awareness of your mission and story, while attracting volunteers and increasing membership. Google has made GMB super easy to use and even provides a comprehensive guide on how to get started:

 

SEE GOOGLE’S GMB GUIDE

Or get started now!

SETUP YOUR GMB LISTING NOW

 

Need help? Team WebBGC has the experience to help you set up and manage your GMB listing. Contact us to get started!

Jan 15

5 quick ways to provide additional recognition for your BGC Club Supporters

 

The more recognition the better!

Many of the wonderful programs and initiatives at BGC Clubs would not be possible without the support and participation from generous partners and individuals. Take a look at 5 quick ways to acknowledge their contribution on your Club website, and remember, your WebBGC team is here to assist!

  1. Highlight Supporters on your Club homepage in the slider.
  2. Keep your partners and supporters logo roll call up to date
  3. Mention partners and supporters in your BGC Club website news
  4. Mention partner and supporters in your Social Media posts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram . . . )
  5. For WebBGC Standard and Plus BGC Club websites, take advantage of the homepage ticker to thank partners and supporters

A little thank you goes a long way

Partners and supporters alway love to hear about what impact has been achieved by their participation. Make sure they know and can continue to spread the word for your BGC Club. Reach out to your WebBGC team to help out with any of the above quick tips!

Dec 21

Keep your BGC Club Audience informed with WebBGC Homepage Alerts

WebBGC Homepage Alerts keeps everyone in tune

Your club users have now become accustomed to coming to your website to find out about all club happenings and communications. It’s time to take advantage of a WebBGC Homepage feature that will allow you to post a message on your WebBGC Club Website for all your users to see before they enter the website. It’s great for important announcements and notifications, for example:

  • Key Registration open dates
  • Highlighting upcoming Events
  • Club Announcements
  • Holiday Hours
  • Website Scheduled Maintenance

These are just a few examples for your consideration. Interested in using this feature? Reach out to your WebBGC team and they can activate Homepage Alerts on your WebBGC Club website . You’ll posting alerts in no time!

Oct 31

WebBGC SEO Assured

Is your BGC Club Website being found?

Now available – WebBGC Search Engine Optimized (SEO) Assurred Add-on!

Our roadmap team at WebBGC has been listening and has heard from our WebBGC clubs that they want to be sure their local community, partners/supporters, parents and youth can consistently find them all the time on the web.

All our WebBGC packages come out of the gate SEO prepped and ready for Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Campaigns.

It takes consistency and work to be found

Our team will work with your WebBGC site on a monthly basis to ensure that it maintains the same SEO health as it did at production launch. As your site evolves and content is added things will change “behind the scenes”, we’ll check for proper use of title tags, meta data, image tags, page code, links and more. We won’t stop there, we’ll fix any items that are uncovered. We’ll make sure that users can find your site when they search for it by name.

New sponsors and events, “hey Google look at me!”

We will monitor setup configuration and preferences each month as well to be sure that your site will be fetched and indexed properly by Google.

Does this sound great to you? Have questions or suggestions? Would you like to find out more?

We’re here! Reach out to us and we’ll take care of the rest!

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Oct 01

WebBGC Members Lite

Is your BGC Club Staff and Board of Directors ready for this?

media devices with screenshots of members lite

New WebBGC feature on the way!
Our roadmap team at WebBGC will be releasing a handy private file storage feature for BGC Club Staff and Board of Directors in just a few days!

We’ve heard from our BGC Clubs over the last few months that as they work collaboratively with their staff and board, they need to say and share different things with these two groups.

Have a Private Page right on your website
The new WebBGC Members Lite is an intuitive and convenient way to post content and secure private files for your Club Staff and Board of Directors directly on your website.

Sensitive Materials for your Board
Have a single page that only Club Board of Directors can access. Post a message for them and let them download secure private files like Board Meeting Minutes, Compliance Correspondence, Invoices and Financials.

Have a challenge keeping your Staff on the same page?
Keep your staff in the loop by posting a private message directed to your team and private files that can help them with their day to day work routine. Your specific Club Guidelines, Staff Manuals and materials all on one convenient easy to digest page for your Club Staff.

Quick and easy setup
Add your Club Staff and Board members to your WebBGC website via their email and have them create a password to access their WebBGC Private Page. Manage this WebBGC Private Page with the same ease of publishing as the rest of your WebBGC website. Simple as that!

Your team will love you for this additional support and convenience!

Does this sound great to you? Have questions? Would like to see a DEMO?

We’re here! Reach out to us and we’ll take care of the rest!

May 23

WebBGC – The BGC Greater Halifax is now live!

WebBGC-Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax

Our team at WebBGC is always happy to see another BGC Club Website go live. The BGC Greater Halifax website, www.bgcgh.ca, was launched to production at the end of April, just in time for their Summer Program Registration.

Since the website rollout, their team has received many positive comments from parents, club staff, partners and of course their club youth. The new look and feel has given the club a refreshed online presence while allowing them to take advantage of the ease of publishing news, events, documents, images and videos to their Club website.

Here’s what the Halifax Club had to say about their WebBGC experience.

“We’re thrilled with our new site. The WebBGC team at Radii incorporated our tone, content, and page functionality wishes into its design so that the site is something which works for our charity and our programs. The WebBGC team embedded all of the design elements we wanted: testimonials, social media links, our videos. They continually checked in with us about the site’s progress and were timely with responses. Overall, our site rebuild was a terrific experience.”

– Henk van Leeuwen, CEO.

It was a pleasure working with the Halifax team. We look forward to seeing how their website evolves while supporting them every step of the the way!

Team WebBGC

May 10

Is your BGC Club ready to Unplug to Connect?



We all need to put our devices down and spend some time connecting with the people around us. On June 1, BGC Canada is inviting all Canadians for one hour to Unplug to Connect (unplugtoconnect.ca) with them and to appreciate and focus on those around you, your friends, family and co-workers, instead of your screens and devices.


For All BGC Clubs
Make sure your Club is supporting this initiative by updating your Club website with the latest news and making sure that it also links directly back to unplugtoconnect.ca.

Also be sure to:

  1. Visit the Unplug to Connect “Get Involved” page to find great resources:
    • Club Overview
    • Club Tool Kit
    • Stakeholder Engagement Tool Kit
    • Unplug to Connect – media assets (logo, teaser videos, email signature, posters and social media graphics)
  2. Use the “Tell Us Your Plan” form to share what your Club will be doing on June 1st
  3. Spread the word to your local community
  4. Use the provided Media Assets to post on all your social media outlets
  5. Ask your corporate partners, local news outlets and supporters to post about and link back to unplugtoconnect.ca on their websites and social media properties
  6. Organize events in your community


For WebBGC Clubs
Follow all the above tips and take advantage of the slider area on your homepage to promote Unplug to Connect. Click the below screen shot and download the below slider background graphic that you can use on your homepage and link to unplugtoconnect.ca!

WebBGC page with Unplug to Connect Slider

We’re excited to learn about all the events and activities that will take place on June 1st. Be sure to post up Unplug to Connect plans and events around your Club!

 

Team WebBGC

Kids Food Nation - winnerSep 26

Radii and WebBGC at the BGC Canada Partners Gala

Thank you BGC Canada for inviting Radii to take part in the BGC Canada Partners Gala on Thursday last week at the beautiful Corus Entertainment Building along the waterfront in downtown Toronto. It was an opportunity for BGC Canada to acknowledge the wonderful support from all their Partners and to share with everyone how their contributions have helped 200,000+ youth across Canada annually.

We were treated to 2 great performances from club youth that passionately shared their creativity through spoken word. Another highlight for us was to try the food from the winning President’s Choice Kid Food Nation youth.

We spent the evening speaking with other Partners, BGC Canada Board and Staff, which is always a great pleasure. Thanks again BGC Canada for all the hard work and dedication to our youth in Canada!

Kids Food Nation - winner

BGC teamwork - hands coming togetherSep 19

How to get your BGC Club to Stand Out with WebBGC

Thank you to all the BGC Clubs that have already reached out to us about getting on the WebBGC platform. We understand that your club has various needs and requirements and can face different challenges when it comes to maintaining your Club’s website. We are here to assist.

If you are a BGC Executive Director or part of the team that manages your Club website and want to learn more about the WebBGC platform right away, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at 416.607.7290 extension 1, or via email at [email protected]. It would be our pleasure to provide you with more information and to setup a demo of the platform for you. Clubs are already excited about taking advantage of key features and functionality.

WebBGC Key Features

  1. The ease of publishing content
  2. Page creation and menu management
  3. News management
  4. Event management
  5. Careers management
  6. Access to approved BGC Canada assets
  7. Routine platform updates and enhancements
  8. Access to support
  9. Add ons – analytics
  10. Add ons – cause campaigns

These features will save your team time by reducing the effort required to maintain your BGC Club website. With this time savings and ability to communicate quickly with your Club’s core audience, your Club staff will be able to focus on the key day to day activities required to help the youth in our communities across Canada grow and to raise the profile of your Club and the whole organization.

We look forward to connecting with each and every BGC Club in Canada.

 

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New BGCC Website on all devicesAug 07

Give your BGC Club Website a Boost

For decades, through life-changing programs, community-based services, and relationships with peers and caring adults, BGC Clubs have helped children and youth develop the skills they need to succeed.
It was our pleasure to work with BGC Canada to redesign and develop their national website, www.bgccan.com. We know the importance of being able to quickly and easily share the stories and impact the organization has on youth and communities. These stories are the greatest assets of the Boy and Girls Clubs and we have been very pleased with the input we have received from all BGC Canada staff involved in the website build process.

To help continue to build BGC Canada’s presence online, unify Clubs, showcase the full breadth of services and its national reach, we have taken our learnings and have created WebBGC an intuitive integrated content management service for BGC Club websites.

WebBGC allows clubs to create beautiful Club websites and easily publish content that will raise Club profile, strengthen the BGC Canada brand, increase donations and support while having the opportunity to leverage exclusive BGC Canada content, friendly support and regular platform updates and enhancements.

We invite you to explore this website to learn more about WeBGC and its features. We would be happy to answer all of your questions and schedule a WebBGC demo for your club. Contact us at 416.607.7290 ext. 1, or send us your information via the form on our support page.

We are excited to assist all clubs and will be waiting to hear from you!