Yesterday, I had the honour of presenting live and via videoconference from the NABI (North Alberta Business Incubator) office in St. Albert. How it came about would be a whole other post on the power of networking, but I’ll get to that another day. Or maybe later today – we’ll see how it goes. It [...]

Last week, or maybe it was the week before, I answered a query in the HARO, from The Toilet Paper Entrepeneur.  They were looking for quick marketing tips focused on small business, do I immediately jumped at the chance to share my thoughts. The hard part was figuring out exactly what I wanted to say, [...]

This video pretty much sums up how any small business can utilize the internet to service their local markets. It clearly illustrates why you as a small business owner should be paying attention…because applying it can do wonders for increasing your exposure within your community! (And with paying customers!)

For several months now, I’ve been encouraging my clients (and even non clients) to get their businesses into Google Maps whether they had a website or not. Turns out my instincts (oh okay…and my mentors and sources of inspiration might have had a little to do with it) were correct. News began to break yesterday [...]

Yesterday, I talked about social marketing and local business and an article I found on Business Week. Well,  as I was reading my email later in the evening I learned of a small business that has been very effective with a very simple experiment in social marketing. It really shows how this crazy internet stuff [...]