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Blooker Prize calls for entrants

Hot on the heels of the Booker Prize comes the Blooker Prize. According to the folks at self-publisher Lulu.com, a blooker is what you get when you turn a blog into a book. The prize recognizes blooks in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and web-comics. The overall winners will receive up to $2,000 — “in addition […]

Yahoo Answers member

As part of my blog, I’ll occasionally be answering questions from Yahoo Answers. Visit Yahoo! Answers (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.

Marketing Plans for Service Businesses

Looking to grow your service business? Check out Marketing Plans for Service Businesses. Academic press giant Elsevier sent me a copy of the book a few weeks ago. Written by a couple of marketing professors, including a former Canada Dry marketing director, the book takes a practical approach to using marketing to improve the bottom-line […]

Advertising rip-offs

Via BoingBoing, here’s a French site that compares original ads with knock-offs. Do great minds think alike or do they just tear the same ads out of magazines? (c) 2005 by Andrea Coutu. Vancouver Marketing Consultant. All rights reserved.

Vancouver Sun phone number

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.

BC Business Service Centre – Small Business BC

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 […]

Small business resources in Vancouver

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 […]

Vancouver direct mail from Reader’s Digest

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 […]

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