Duplicate Content – Should you worry about it?

There seems to be a great deal of confusion around what is considered duplicate content online and unless you have been living with some isolated tribe in the Amazon, you heard about the serious effect Google Panda and Google Penguin updates had on some sites, even some big established multi million dollar sites. Most of […]

How to write a better blog post

Intermittently my clients, friends and acquaintances ask my opinion on internet marketing related issues. One of the most often asked questions is how to make a blog post better. And by that we mean better experience for the visitors and more found-able (is this a word yet?) for the search engines. I got such a […]

Are small business owners more likely to stress and not know it?

If you are a small business owner or an independent professional do you think you are more likely to stress and not be aware of it? I am curious. If you have a minute read the article the Canadian Heart and Stroke foundation has and do their stress test.  This test is not really a […]

Why do customers leave you?

I have a great blog post here by Darren Morrison. Please leave a comment. Always interested to see what others have to say…. Why do customers leave you? Have you ever asked yourself that question?  Many of us take the easy way out by shying away from the truth and convincing ourselves that the customer must […]

Happy International Women’s Day!

To all women no matter what age, background or profession! We should take a minute to celebrate. We need to stop for a minute from our busy day  just to realize that life for women was not always as we know it today and to appreciate what we have. We came a long way and […]

Cold winters are good for your business, or are they?

Just wondering if this brrrrutal cold weather that mother nature has “blessed” us this winter has had any effect on your business? Do you do more business or less business when the weather is consistently cold? Or does the weather have any bearing at all on your business dealings? Personally, I tend to work more when it’s […]

I thought Yellow Pages are dead but….

I have to share my little “surprise” today.  I had lunch today with a casual friend of mine who is only a couple of years older than me and lives in Calgary. As we casually chowed down a a variety of dishes at the Chinese buffet we talked about a lot of things trying to catch up […]