It’s a rare moment in history when a professional athlete holds North America’s attention for six weeks of summer plus an hour long nationally televised special. When we see a basketball player garner attention like a presidential candidate it’s not a stretch to think Lebron James might have changed the way people view athletes. But can it change the way we view the owner and employee relationship?
A few months back we had a booth at a digital day conference and I thought I would share my thoughts on what I feel you need to do at a trade show if you have a booth and if you are attending. If you have a booth:
From us here at Canada’s Web Shop, advance Happy Canada Day!
(Photo source: I took the photo at Kingston, ON. A beautiful city located in Eastern Ontario.)
HST is coming to Ontario and British Columbia July 1, 2010. Are your e-commerce stores ready? There are implications for small business and online retailers. HST is not simply PST + GST. For the purpose of this article we’ll stick to what online retailers need to know for selling goods between provinces, i.e. if/when/how the taxes are collected and remitted.
Entrepreneurship is something I care so much about that when I decided to make it my second major in university, it totally changed my outlook on school. I started to love going to class, reading text books, and writing assignments, because everything we did centered around different businesses that all have their own story. It has been said that innovation and entrepreneurship are the fuel of an economy, and I feel they too fuel my passion for business.
It’s been over a year since the Bing search engine launched. It’s done fairly well, often beating Yahoo! in terms of market share; not surprisingly, though, it doesn’t come close to Google. However, lots of people are considering Bing to be a positive alternative to Google.
Including Facebook. Facebook may not be the first place you’d go to do a search, but if you’re looking for something on Facebook, whether or not Facebook itself has results, it offers web results served by Bing. See the screencap below.
I like to listen to one station going to work as it gives good local and Canada wide news and it also offers good timely traffic tips so I know where to avoid on my way downtown. But along the way I hear a lot of ads and here are some of the annoying radio tactics I hear and some of the good ones.
Annoying Radio ad tactics:
We have a competitor in Winnipeg that advertises all over the city for professional websites for $599. Every time I see this sign I think first of all this is a lost leader if I ever saw one. I am sure they get you in there and try to up sell you, they must? There is just not enough hours to produce a site with quality that actually pays for itself with online sales or leads. Then I read this article that really hit home on what you need to produce a high quality website. This article is a little technical but really describes what skills truly go into a professional website that pays for itself and more.
Google Tasks has been available inside Gmail for many months now. But what if you wanted to only load that functionality? More so, you want it loaded on your Firefox sidebar? How do you do it? Well it’s easy. Here’s how:
1) Login to your Google Account (assuming you have a Gmail account)
2) Go here https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1
3) Drag that google.com favicon (green check mark icon) to your bookmarks menu bar
4) Once you have that right there, right-click on it and select “Properties”
Before the invention of movable type and printing, simple grids based on optimal proportions had been used to arrange handwritten text on pages. One such system, known as the “Villiards Diagram,” was in use at least since medieval times. Interior designers arrange rooms based on a grid system, and city planners work on a grid too. It’s a wonder what took web designers and developers so long to show interest in a system that has been essential to the printed word since the ‘30s.
