Your apps, iOS or Android mobile operating system regularly update to work more efficiently. Thanks to the continuously evolving technology in this tech savvy world.

As well as that, HQi, your website’s content management system (CMS), constantly upgrades to make your site run smoothly for your investor relations (IR) needs.

HQi’s new features include stats and charts to help you analyse and tweak your email communications. Expanded functions cover your website’s image upload, contact form submission, among other capabilities.

Your Annual Report deadlines are just around the corner.

Thankfully, you’ve got it all covered -- the figures and the statements. Details of your activities, financial results and strategies. Well… almost.

You just need a better way to present your report and achievements over the past year.

No, not the old boring Word file PDF, please.

To attract and retain investors. That's what your investor website should be all about, right? Especially when you're launching your IPO.

But what details are important to headline first? 

A simple web design and a coherent story about your company is your goal. You’d want to highlight the information and features they want most from your website. Without overwhelming them with complex or irrelevant data.

Investors expect it. Whether your company is small or large, a start-up or well-established. Stakeholders take it as a given that you have a website. No matter what industry you are in.

After all, would you trust a business with no website?

Today’s tech-savvy investors assume your company has an online presence, including a website. In fact, without a website you would be considered less professional, causing investors to look elsewhere for their intended investments.

Read about 10 elements to check on your website so you can improve its SEO capabilities.

You’re happy with the running of your website but has the focus changed on a new aspect of your company or you need to feature a project prominently on your homepage?

Then it’s time to refresh your website with a makeover and update elements to improve user experience for investors.

The beauty of a smart website’s content management system (CMS) running your website is that you can tweak pages without affecting your site’s overall design. It’s easy to add features for your latest products/services or highlight newest business endeavours without the need to overhaul the entire site.

When investors find your website, do they immediately know it's the right one they've been searching for?

Or would they need to sift through your web pages just to understand what your company is all about? (Uh-oh.)

That’s why it’s not only important for your website to be visually appealing. It should also be easy to navigate, providing information investors seek.

Do you want an easy way to connect with conference delegates? Then this one is for you!

IRM have partnered with Vertical Events in aiming to add more value to companies and speakers with a service called Keep In Touch. This service enables conference speakers to connect with attendees by email during and after a Vertical Events conference.

Most recently, IRM rolled out the Keep In Touch service at the RIU Good Oil Conference September 2019 in Perth. Eleven selected speaker companies participated in this initial trial run and their ASX Announcements were emailed to 592 delegates/investors from the first day of the conference and 6 weeks thereafter.

"If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business." - Bill Gates

That’s why you have a website, right? You understand this full well.

But how user-friendly is your site? Can your clients and investors find the information they need in three clicks?

There is no point in having a website that’s impressive and creative if your stakeholders and potential investors cannot use it. If they cannot navigate it to find important data they are searching for - what’s the use?

Investors frequent company websites as part of their research process. In search of a better class of information about the business they’re interested in.

Investors of all types (private, institutional, etc.) as well as other stakeholders consider a company’s investment story through its site. They want to size up the organisation’s business model and performance, among other key facets.

How does your website measure up? Does it communicate your corporate story the best way it can?

Shareholder value.

It’s the value stockholders enjoy as owners of a company’s shares. The company delivers this value to its shareholders based on its capability to sustain and grow profits over time.

For ASX-listed companies, the duty to maximize shareholder value rests on the shoulders of corporate directors and management. They must have the best interest of stakeholders in mind and be efficient decision makers to increase shareholder value.

It’s not enough to just have a website. These days, people are way more tech-savvy and choosy about sites they visit.

When clients and investors look into your website, what do they see? A stale site with outdated information on your company? Or a website offering fresh and engaging content about your business?

More than 300 new ideas for online investors relations to over 50 companies. How awesome is that?

What a brilliant way to close out our recent series of seminars on "5 New Ideas for Better Online Engagement with Investors" this year! And a big THANK YOU goes to all those who joined our sessions in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane from March to July! In fact, we’re shouting out to the more than 100 attendees since the seminars began in November 2018.

No doubt, your website is crucial for your business. It represents your company and is the centre of your online presence. Giving you credibility to accomplish strategies that help your business grow.

It tells your corporate story. An invaluable source of information that’s frequented by customers, investors, as well as analysts and journalists. Available 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Your website is one of the most effective communication tools your company holds.

That's why you have a well-designed site to give investors a great first impression of your business and what it's all about, right?

But is your site still aligned with your organisation's latest plans?

Perhaps you've adopted a new corporate strategy and your website’s purpose has changed to support such move. Maybe you've just launched a brand-new product or service and you're now targeting a certain audience, in addition to your investor community.

Announcing the latest new release of IRM HQi, incorporating IRM Newsroom, we offer a fully functional HQi experience on mobile devices and tablets and a full display from IRM's CRM system of the relationship with IRM in a new "My Account" Section. We've upgraded and simplified the navigation, made a number of usability improvements, and added some new IR tools.

We've added a capability for IRM to provide additional help through a series of complimentary "IR Suggestions" and the ability to ask us to implement them from right within HQi. You can also see your full support history, lodge support requests and monitor progress on support tasks. 

If you’re serious about improving your investor relations. If you want your online IR to be a game-changer. Then a trusted advisor is what you need.

A trusted advisor has the business acumen to help you navigate IR challenges and enhance your investor communications. After all, he has the experience and the subject matter expertise to be trusted to advise you well.

You’ll need one who’s a veteran on ASX-listed companies. He’ll know the ins and outs of online IR like the back of his hand.

Doing things right or doing things over?

If you had to choose between the two, pretty sure you’d choose to do things right the first time. So you won’t have to start over!

Doing things right the first time makes you work smarter, not harder. Because taking time to work right from the start would result in a higher quality by-product than it would to go back from the beginning.

Plus, your effort will take significantly less time, in the long run. As you won’t have to start from scratch again, in case you need to redo any areas that need fixing up.

First impressions last forever. Even with businesses.

If you think your initial contact with investors or suppliers occurs on your first phone call, email or meeting – think again. Nowadays, a first impression with your company is usually made even before you reach out to them.

How? Through the world wide web, of course!

They came. They saw. They conquered.

More companies took on fresh concepts to improve investor communications at IRM’s recently launched seminar, "5 New Ideas for Better Online Engagement with Investors".

In March and April, IRM CEO Martin Spry led discussions in the “5 New Ideas” exclusive sessions for ASX-listed companies. The exchanges centred on latest ideas for online investor relations (IR) that businesses consider advantageous. Dynamic interactions where other IRM clients and advisers shared insights as well.