The opening of the Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa in South East Oakville marks the third spa in the Greater Toronto Area and is part of a steady and strategic plan for the expansion of the Hand & Stone brand across Canada. “We are excited to see our expansion into the Oakville market”, said Gigi Harding, Hand & Stone Canada’s CEO.

The owner of the new franchise, Magdalena Gomez, is a long-time resident of Oakville, living here for 12 years and is now delighted to be part of the Oakville business community with the opening of the spa.

“I am thrilled to be joining the Hand & Stone team. This is a unique concept that fulfills a real need in the community,” says Magdalena. “In addition to those using massage for simple relaxation, Canadians are increasingly using massage therapy as part of their health care regiment to enhance well-being or to deal with a specific health problem. With our registered massage therapists and aestheticians we’ll be able to fulfill those needs with an unprecedented combination of affordability and convenience in a relaxing spa atmosphere. Also unique is the membership program, which allows members to utilize the services at any Hand & Stone franchise outlet.” She added.

Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa is built on a basic concept: affordably priced, open long hours including evenings and weekends, conveniently located, providing guests top quality services. Each location is open seven days per week operating from Monday through Friday, 9am – 10pm, Saturday, 8am – 6pm and Sunday, 10am to 6pm.

The new Oakville spa will provide great benefit to Oakville, not only in promoting health and wellness but also in creating up to 30 new jobs.

About Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa – Oakville

Hand & Stone – Oakville is the third franchise in Canada and located in the Maple Grove Village plaza, on 511 Maple Grove Drive. It opened its door to the public on September 26, 2011. For more information contact Spa owner Magdalena Gomez at mgomez@handandstone.ca or 289.837.3838 or visit the spa Facebook page at www.facebook.com/HandAndStoneOakvilleSE

H & S Massage Spa Canada Corporation is the master licensee for the Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa brand in Canada. Initially founded in 2004 in Toms River, NJ, the concept was developed in response to the rising national need for professional massage therapy and being able to provide it at convenient times and locations with affordability in mind. Currently there are 50 locations in the US and 3 locations in Canada with new spas opening every month. For more information, visit www.handandstone.ca

Aspergers911 is a company dedicated to providing information and support to individuals, families, schools, and other agencies.

Their services include:

• In-home consultations specializing in Aspergers, ADHD, and ADD
• Educational support for families and support staff
• Speaker in training and understanding Aspergers
• Respite services

Julie Welch Wootton, RECE, founder of Aspergers911 believes that Aspergers911 can improve the quality of life for families living with Aspergers by:

For more information on this company, contact Julie Welch Wootton, RECE at www.aspergers911.com or  905-825-9099.

Editors’ Closet is the leading site in private online sales events.

Their private online sales are hot and save customers up to 80% of retail on fashion and designer brands.

How do they do it?

They have direct partnerships with designer brands and created online private sales events. The private sales model allows the featured products to continually change, to provide customers and affiliates with new and exciting offers every week.

Why private sales? Fashion and designer brands, and particularly high-end labels, are very cautious about where they move their clearance stock; primarily because over-exposure of their products at discounted prices can harm a brand’s integrity and exclusivity.

Joining their sales events is free, with no purchase necessary. New members must be referred.

Editors’ Closet has allowed Oakville Chit Chat readers to use the link below to visit the site.

Register and take a look at the great deals waiting.

Go to Editors’s Closet to register and buy great clothing at deeply discounted prices.

Greener Website Hosting is a local hosting company that offers customers 130% wind powered hosting.  By providing affordable, reliable and energy efficient hosting, they believe they can help reduce the pollution caused by other hosting companies.

Bonus: Unlike any other hosting company today, they offer personalized support by providing a 1 hour Free personal consultation to help you get started. No other hosting company offers such personal service.

This company also takes a very different approach to supporting their customers.  Unlike any other hosting company today, they believe that not all customers are technical.  To support non-technical customers, they offer personal setup support unlike other companies in the marketplace.

Starting as low as $5.95/month, they offer a variety of hosting packages to suite different budgets. Domains can also be registered at the company.

Starting at $5.95 per month you get:

• Unlimited Disk Space
• Unlimited Bandwidth
• Free Website Building Tools
• Easy Control Panel
• 1-Click Script Installs
• Free Website Templates
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• No Contract or Setup Fees
• Technical Support
• Comprehensive Help and Video Tutorial website

Bonus:

1 hour Free personal consultation to help you get started. No other hosting company offers such personal service.


Why Offer Personal Help to Get Started

After hosting with 4 hosting companies and spending countless hours and money trying to get websites up and running with what was needed, the owners of Greener Website Hosting decided it was time to provide personalized service especially for those ‘non-technical users’ who wanted a website for their local business, home business, event, fundraiser or interest but had no idea how to start.

Besides not knowing how to register a domain, protect it from everyone on the Internet knowing their personal information, setting up databases, loading tools to build a website, adding functionality or knowing how to transfer files, the owners of Greener Website Hosting discovered that they wasted hours making mistakes and learning only through trial-and-error.

“Many customers today just want to get a website up and running. They have no idea of what is required to set it up, how to develop the site, what is required to get it on search engines, or how to change it once it is live. We have experience in setting up the accounts, letting customers know what is needed, what tools are best to build the site based on the customer’s expertise, and how to get it on search engines. Lots of people don’t want to have a programming degree they just want to get a site up and running so we are here to help.  Our free 1 hour consultation finds out the specific needs of our customer and how we can help to get them up and running quickly. No other hosting company offers such personalized service. We have also included a website containing Help topics and video tutorials to help our customers.”


Why is Green Hosting so Important

“Saving the planet….one website at a time” that is their motto.

Greener Website Hosting is  130% wind powered. It is their way of helping save our planet. That’s right! 130%! They not just neutralizing our environmental impact, they are reversing it!

Here are some really scary stats on the pollution caused by website hosting.

Did you know that the average server produces the same emissions as a 15 mpg SUV?

Their hosting facility hosts over 2,500,000 websites on its web hosting servers. That means a lot of servers, and a lot of carbon emissions. To help the environment even 1 website at a time they switched all of their hosting to wind powered hosting.

Just how big a dent in climate change does that make?

It’s the equivalent of:

1. Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
2. Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or
3. Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
4. Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year

They believe that their focus on personalized web hosting support and environmentally responsible hosting will make them a leader in our community for website hosting.

Go to GreenerWebsiteHosting.com to take a look at the features and signup for a domain or hosting.

Website Design Divas setup, design, host, maintain and promote websites

Whether you are just starting your online business or needing a refresh, they are here to help! Before you can develop a website certain activities must take place. Registration, hosting and software installation must be completed before any development can begin.

Hosting

Website Design Divas is proud to offer web hosting that is 130% Wind Powered. Their hosting provider purchases certified Renewable Energy Credits representing 130% of the electricity used to both power and cool every last one of their servers!

To make it even better, they also offer various Managed Hosting packages. These packages not only include the physical hosting of your site by their hosting provider, but also includes WordPress installation, customization, maintenance and troubleshooting. If your only concern is your content, let them worry about everything technical about WordPress. They can customize the best package to suit your specific needs.

Website Setup

They offer customized Website Setup packages depending on your requirements. Setup can include hosting, WordPress installation, plugins and more.

Website Design

Whether you need a completely new site or your current design refurbished, they will work with you to determine your requirements before any development begins. They believe in maximizing the look while minimizing the costs that is why we offer various design solutions to fit your budget.

WordPress Training

Do you want to learn WordPress to setup your site, design its layout and functionality or simply maintain the content once your site is live? They can provide WordPress training. For over 30 years, our staff has provided user documentation so we know how to make learning easy and tailored according to specific needs. Whether you just want to know how to update content after having us design your site or if you want to take the time to learn many features of WordPress and plugins, they can customize the training so that you can get back to business.

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing creates a community around your company and creates digital conversations with your customer and clients. Whether you want us to setup where the conversations take place or develop a strategy, they can build a social media campaign resulting in explosive traffic, greater levels of leads and sales for your company.

Go to WebsiteDesignDivas.com and take a look at their services, portfolio and pricing.