Stephen Jagger has been an entrepreneur since he and partner Michael Stephenson founded a web-hosting company near the height of the dot-com boom.
They now operate four businesses with a combined total of 92 workers.
Their web-hosting venture, by 2005, had morphed into becoming Ubertor, which helps real estate professionals build effective websites complete with videos and social media components.
The duo realized that a good business which would feed Ubertor would be if they could teach search engine optimization and other Internet marketing tips to real estate agents.
That was the genesis behind Reachd.com – a venture that the two started in 2007. Clients for Reachd.com’s monthly training seminars now span a variety of sectors.
“In 2008, we started dabbling with the idea of offshoring or outsourcing workers,” Jagger said of what led he and Stephenson to found OutsourcingThingsDone.com.
“Now, we lease labour from a Philippine office back to the North American market. Ubertor is a client of the outsourcing business and uses the services of 10 workers.”
Jagger’s latest venture is something he describes as a payroll and scheduling software company that provides products for employers whose employees are millennials – the Facebook generation.
Those workers want to be able to see their schedule, pay and other work-related data via the Internet, and for that information to be continually updated in real time.
Jagger often speaks about social media at real estate conferences, Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) events and at other expositions.
His status as a speaker was helped by his new book Sociable, which he wrote with Shane Gibson.
He is a director of the Vancouver College Alumni Association and was on the communications committee of the Vancouver Board of Trade. •
