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Downtown Vancouver is looking for a retail business idea (floorplan and pictures). Want to make some money?

March 8, 2010
Open a downtown business

In a previous post (Business ideas for Downtown Vancouver, do you have one?), I put the word out that I am working with the owner of a downtown Vancouver street level retail space who is interested in partnering up with someone in order to build a profitable business (can be retail, product, or service). A [...]

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Special Networking Mixer and Mini Trade Show for the start of Spring, on March 23rd!

March 3, 2010
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Floor plan for the Special Spring Vancouver Networking Mixer and Mini Trade Show. This year March 20th marks the start of Spring, a time associated with new growth, high energy, and new business. The last time Vancouver Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneur meetup held a networking mixer and mini trade show, it was a huge success. [...]

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Marketing with Wordpess – Training Events in Vancouver, 4-part series

February 28, 2010
Learning Wordpress in Vancouver

If you want a strong presence on the internet then you need to start with a website. However, today it can’t just be any website, ideally it should be a WordPress website. Why? Because it will get you found organically by search engines, it’s easy and simple to use, and it looks good. It can [...]

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Business ideas for Downtown Vancouver, do you have one?

February 27, 2010
downtown Vancouver business ideas

Do you have a Great Idea for a Downtown business? Retail or Service? Or are you wondering how to start a business in Vancouver? (Also posted to the Vancouver Business, Marketing, & Entrepreneur meetup group) Very often I meet people who are tired of working for someone else (some people enjoy an enriching position, some [...]

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Who Do You Associate With (Who Influences You)?

February 11, 2010
You are who you associate with

Napolean Hill, the author of the great classic, “Think and Grow Rich”, wrote about men who were successful, in part because they used mastermind groups. What are mastermind groups? These are groups of men who gather to talk about life and business (i.e. hang out and shoot the breeze). What Napolean found was that men [...]

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Why Coaches, Consultants, and Service Providers Have an Advantage

February 7, 2010
Coaches and consultants have an advantage

As a coach, consultant, or service provider, do you realize that you have an intrinsic advantage over most of the ‘established’ businesses out there? You don’t have to carry large amounts of product and you don’t have to retool and upgrade your equipment every few years to put out the latest models of whatever they’re [...]

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Positioning is Owning a Piece of the Customers Mind

February 3, 2010
Position is Owning a Piece of the Customers Mind

Positioning is one of the most powerful concepts ever to come into the marketing world. The one book on positioning which I consider a ‘must-read’ is Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout (2000). This is where your clients perceive you as being the top, best choice to solve their problem and you can thus [...]

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