Someone wrote about our business today and Google sent me a note. Do you know when you or your business is mentioned on a website, forum or blog? Google Alerts is a free service provided by the Worlds leading search engine. A testament to the speed of the Google bot is the speed in which [...]
Is excellent client service at an all-time low? Just take a look around today ’s high-paced, low-loyalty and skilled-labor-shortage economy, and you’ll see that the level of client service is quickly diminishing. But does it have to be this way? Maybe if people just slowed downread more | digg story
As a small business owner it can be difficult to “get out” and take courses. When a great course comes along though, you just have to make the opportunity to attend. Stuart Crawford has been running a series of course in the Calgary area for small business owners, including his “Blogging in Calgary” and “Facebook [...]
20 years ago, when I started working, a business typically had one or two phone lines and, that was it. There was no fax machines, there were no cellular phones, pages, email, blackberries. Executives relied on their pen and paper calendar, and another person that they referred to as a secretary. My first employer, after [...]
Own domain names to stop the misappropriating of your personality. Apparently the premier’s personality was recently misappropriated by an Alberta Blogger. In light of daveberta’s recent receipt of a letter from our premier (whom I am afraid to name here). daveberta registered the domain name edstelmach.ca, soon after he was appointed premier of our Province [...]
