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Simple SEO - Search Marketing and Assessment

Simple SEO and Search Marketing

SEO is daunting, the level of complexity and branching into different disciplines from the early days is huge. This article is aimed at those who don't really care what industry agencies call it but simply want to increase traffic and visitors to their websites. And while we are saying that yes, SEO is a very complex and specialised field a company or website doesn't necessarily require a specialised SEO campaign or huge budget to substantially increase their visitors and search results position on search engines.

Rain and BMW create the first BMW International Golf Challenge, June 9th

BMW International Golf Challenge, June 9th - Website

In partnership with BMW Japan, Rain Interactive are producing the first new BMW Japan golf event experience: The BMW Golf International Challenge on Friday June 9th, 2017. The BMW International Golf Challenge is a 2 person per team best-ball scramble event on the esteemed Taiheiyo Golf Club's Minori Course designed by Shunji Kurakami. For full details you can check out (and sign up on!) the BMW International Golf Challenge website >

Healthwise Foods at Food-Ex Japan 2017

Healthwise Foods at Food-Ex Japan 2017

Healthwise Foods are the producer of the highly popular Royal-T Rooibos Tea product line and Rain are their official online distributor and marketer for Japan. With their increase in business for Royal-T Rooibos, Healthwise also wanted to introduce their new exciting products to the Japan market including by attending FoodEx Japan in Makahari Messe, Chiba. We created a full display Royal-T wall panel, digital signage video and product information pamphlets, as well as displays for the actual products and product sampling/demostration section. Needless to say, we were all extremely happy with the results and the booth and display were complimented by a number of visitors to the booth who especially liked how it expressed a cohesive brand image rather than just a display of goods.

Selling Online in Japan with Rakuten, Amazon and E-Commerce Websites

Selling Online in Japan with Rakuten, Amazon and E-Commerce Websites
When looking to bring a product into Japan or to sell online to the Japan market there are a variety of ways to go about it - each with their benefits, difficulties and obstacles. Most commonly we see requests for onsite e-commerce stores using payment gateways and companies wishing to sell through Rakuten. There are other options such as Shopify and Amazon. Each platform suits each particular case which we’ll summarise in this article.

Rakuten Japan Ichiba Store - Selling in Japan with Rakuten

Selling on Rakuten Japan, 楽天市場
Rakuten is Japan's largest online re-seller with 7 out of 10 of all Japanese owning a Rakuten account. At roughly 94 million people that's a number of consumers any company serious about entering the Japanese online market can't ignore. But how many international companies are opening up in Japan? At Rain we've helped brands build and launch stores in Japan on Rakuten and we are fortunate to have professional Rakuten store managers and consultants who can inform clients about what works and what doesn't.

BCCJ British Business Awards 2013 - Rain Interactive Nominees for Entrepreneur of the Year

British Business Awards 2013 (BBA)

In a rare opportunity to wear a tuxedo Rain's Creative Director Ben attended the BCCJ British Business Awards, representing Rain Interactive, nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year 2013.

Rain Joins BCCJ

British Chamber of Commerce Japan Website

Rain Interactive is pleased to join the BCCJ, one of the most active chambers in Japan. With a good balance of large international companies and small to medium sized organizations, the British Chamber of Commerce is a perfect place for Rain to grow and share its expertise in digital media and design.

Canadian Embassy Japan - Digital Media Event

Canadian Embassy Japan - Canadian Digital Arta and Multimedia Group

On Thursday 24th from 7:30 is the inaugural event for the Canadian Digital Arts and Multimedia group in Tokyo sponsored by the Canadian Embassy in Japan. Open to Canadians and friends of Canada who work or have interest in the Digital, Media and IT Industries.

Rain gets real! Augmented Reality with Bully! Entertainment

Rain Interactive - Bully! Entertainment : VW Juiced Up Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a steadily growing new way to deliver interactive experiences, merging digital media with the real world. Therefore Rain is incredibly excited to have teamed up with Bully! Entertainment and StringLabs to bring intelligent and high-end Augmented Reality experiences to our clients and the Japanese market.

Drupal Experts Japan

Drupal Experts Japan
Drupal has grown into an internationally used platform for enterprise level websites and applications. So where are all the Drupal Experts in Japan?