From crisis to opportunity: how remote working has shaped our business
Five years ago this week (back then under our old company name), we grabbed our laptops and worked from home for the first time. Corona was the catalyst. Shortly after, the lockdown came and forced us to work at kitchen and living room tables for a long time. None of us had a well-equipped home […]
Today, we celebrate the diversity of our languages.
21 February is International Mother Language Day! Our team brings together colleagues from many different countries, each speaking their own mother language. Each language is a window into a unique culture that broadens our shared horizons. This diversity fuels our creativity. We don’t just embrace diversity – we live it! Of course, with all this […]
Test Fest – Remote collaboration at its best!
13 of our Excelsea developers came together in four teams to further strengthen the quality of our software Markee – completely remotely! At the first ever Test Fest, the focus was not only on writing new API and end-to-end tests, but also on sharing ideas and learning together. Our goal: to optimise collaboration in remote […]
🌱 Let it sprout – Happy growing 2025! 🌱
At the beginning of the year we would like to share our motto for 2025 with you: Let it sprout! We found inspiration for this on a very special team event last year: Together, we visited a high-end nursery where lettuce is grown in an impressive, fully automated way. This made us realise one thing […]
Spring is feedback time at Excelsea
Our annual 360-degree review is coming up in the next few weeks. Each employee is asked to assess themselves, as well as their immediate colleagues and their team leader. For these peer reviews, we use a standardised questionnaire structured around themes such as ‘Motivation and Commitment’, ‘Communication and Collaboration’ and ‘Skills and Knowledge’. Each employee […]
SEA with Markee: Double the sales potential
Those who place their advertising campaigns on several platforms increase their reach and get more traffic for their money. It is therefore important to publish search campaigns on both Google and Bing. To ensure that your campaigns perform optimally on both search engines, we use the experience of our partner Matchcraft: with its intelligent optimisation […]
Experience, inspire, work – together
We have been looking forward to it for a long time and this week it finally happened again: For three days the same time zone and even the same place was valid for all Excelsea employees. Happurg in the Franconian Switzerland was the meeting point for our team event this year. There we fully enjoyed […]
World Backup Day
March 31 is World Backup Day! The day is to remind us to be prepared for data loss and data theft. We take it seriously and have a sophisticated Backup-strategy – not just on March 31, but 365 days a year. This includes a backup of all your location management data, so that in the […]
Apple Business Connect
Markee secures location presence in the world of Apple In January, Apple launched its Apple Business Connect app, giving more weight to its Apple Maps service. With the launch, businesses now have new and improved influence over how their information is displayed in the Apple Maps location map and other Apple apps. A separate account […]
SIINDA BOARD 2022-2025
This week SIINDA Live took place in Florence. Thanks to the excellent organization of Kimberli Lewis and her dedicated team, we once again had a great time with many valuable conversations with valued partners and experts in the field of local search, digital advertising and digital marketing. We returned from the Siinda conference in May […]