Want The Vancouver Sun phone number? For reasons unknown to me, people keep visiting my site in search of The Vancouver Sun‘s phone number. You’ll find it here. (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.
The BC Business Services Centre aka Small Business BC provides a wealth of information for BC, Vancouver and Lower Mainland business owners. Over the years, I’ve made dozens of trips to the BC Business Services Centre. The Cordova Street offices offer a business library, seminars, coaching and many one-stop business registration resources. Run by Small […]
Vancouver small businesses are growing by leaps and bounds. The following small business resources can help you start and grow a Vancouver company. These are just a few of the many information sources for Vancouver firms. Small Business BC Small business links from Vancouver Public Library BC Business Services Society Canada Business Small business resources […]
So when is an Xpress Post not expressly an Xpress Post? Today, I received the following envelope (front,back) from Reader’s Digest. I actually received the same mailing last year, but never found the time to blog about it. At first blush, it looks like I’ve received an XpressPost, the kind that Canada Post offers. There’s […]
Starbucks strikes again with its red cup campaign for the holiday season. The coffee chain famously serves up beverages in red cups during December. Billboard ads point us to a high tech advent calendar at www.theredcup.com In the US, TV ads follow the plight of red cups and Starbucks has hired taxis to drive around […]
Vancouver GMAT prep course provider Veritas Prep has taken me on as an instructor. I’m teaching the verbal section of the GMAT, the international admissions test for MBA programs. In January, I plan to teach the quantitative section, too. Teaching has been a long-time passion for me. Earlier this year, I completed an instructor training […]
As the start of the holiday shopping season approaches, we can expect some retailers to promote donations for food banks, needy families and other groups. In some cases, retailers act as donation points, provide resources to coordinate fundraising, or even make their own donations. However, some companies simply encourage shoppers to make full-price purchases of […]
Wiley Canada sent me copy of Everything I Know about Business…I Learned from a Canadian, a book by Leonard Brody and David Raffa. Having finally had the time to review it, I’m impressed. Canada is a country of intrepid entrepreneurs, but we rarely hail the success of those people. Whether too shy, too self-deprecated or […]
Vision Vancouver, a contender in the upcoming Vancouver city council elections, needs to optimize its website for search engines. Plunk “Vision Vancouver” into Google, and you won’t have any luck. In comparison, Vancouver COPE and Vancouver NPA are tops in Google. As for the Vision Vancouver website, you’ll find it at VoteVision.ca. But I only […]
The Canadian Tire Guy’s secret life is revealed in this Macleans piece Gill Gunson sent me. Macleans speculates that the Canadian Tire Guy is a high school geography teacher whose history of domestic bliss is precarious at best: “It can’t be easy, even for a fictional character, to have a mid-life crisis play out on […]