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Joel Auge at IN09 conference

March 17, 2009

Joel Auge will be speaking at the IN09 conference held in Toronto on the 18th of March.

For more details please go to www.inexchange09.com

HitGrab Inc. wins $225,000 in final round of fbFund competition.

December 17, 2008

5 fbFund (a fund sponsored by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund) finalists were given $225,000 on top of the $25,000 already received by the top 25 apps, and HitGrab is one of those recipients.

HitGrab's MouseHunt game is wildly popular with it's players and between 33% and 40% of it's players come back daily.

The non-recourse grant will allow HitGrab to grow its user base and scale an already talented team of developers.

Mouse Game Wins Coveted Grant from Social Web Giant Facebook

November 5, 2008

Our recent press release.

Burlington, Ontario (PRWEB) November 5, 2008 -- The social giant Facebook has awarded 25 recipients with $25,000 each in a worldwide search for the best applications on their 120 million user social network.

Among these 25 recipients is the 2 year old Burlington, Ontario company, HitGrab Inc. who was awarded the grant for it's facebook game MouseHunt. One of only two games in the list of awarded developers (the other being vDream Racing), The 7 man MouseHunt development team is completely funded by game players who purchase SUPER|brie+ digital cheese to enhance their performance against friends and family who play the game on the social network. Over 50,000 "MouseHunters" from more than 100 countries play the game daily. The 25 recipients will go on to compete for five additional facebook-awarded grants of $225,000 each.

"I woke up from a dream-like state and had the image of a mousetrap-type game for facebook", says co-founder of HitGrab Inc, Bryan Freeman. The 34 year old South African moved to Canada in 2002, and a few years later while working at a dot.com, took his dream of running his own internet business to a friend of his, international christian major-label recording artist on Integrity Music/ SonyBMG, Joel Augé. Together they started HitGrab Inc. in 2005 as an internet marketing and sales firm. With the strong guidance of business training guru Andrew Patricio of BizLaunch.ca, the two started staffing a small internet firm. "It was in November of 2007 that we decided we would try developing applications for facebook", says Joel Augé. "By that time there were 4 of us and we knew the platform's social elements would make the distribution of our online applications even stronger".

Failure... then success. HitGrab first developed a wedding application for facebook to help brides and grooms organize their registries from different bricks-and-mortar stores through their facebook accounts. It was a dismal failure. But, lessons were learned, and the team took another swing at it. MouseHunt, an RPG-type game was delivered to a small group of beta testers who, within a week, got angry at HitGrab for the chains imposed during the testing phase - beta-testers were not allowed to invite friends. The newly addicted players wanted to share the game. It was then that HitGrab knew they were onto something.

Upon seeing the passion of MouseHunters, the team came up with the idea that perhaps users might donate to the development of the game in exchange for a slight performance boost. SUPER|brie+ cheese was devised as a consumable in the game and to HitGrab's delight, was a huge success. The game's development is now fully funded by MouseHunt users purchasing SUPER|brie +.

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Staples Seminar Markham

March 4, 2008

I just finished presenting the Bizlaunch/Staples "How to Promote your Website" Seminar at Staples in Markham. It went very well and those braved the storm warnings learnt a good deal.

Staples gave away two $50 dollar gift cards and we all enjoyed free Starbucks coffee.

The notes for the seminar can be downloaded from www.hitgrab.com/seminar/Promote_Your_Website.pdf

Posted by Bryan

Looking for offices...

January 16, 2008

HitGrab is looking for a two-office space to rent in Burlington or Hamilton, Ontario. If you're in the area and know of anyone who might be leasing out space, feel free to contact us via our about us page.

2008 is here.

December 10, 2007

We're excited about 2008. We're moving early in the new year and as we try to find new offices. With our new SEO programs and Audiobooks.net products flying off the shelves, we're set to have a record years. Stay tuned.