Archive for June, 2009

A great day in Vancouver

What a weird day…have you ever had this happen to you in the same day.  You run into two people that you haven’t seen in years in the same day.  The first was my buddy Sean, who now works at HP but I knew him from Dynavar.  Sean’s firm did Watchguard firewall support when I [...]

The story of the brick

When we were out and about on Saturday and having lunch at Coco Brooks Pizza in Northeast story the menu had an inspirational story about a successful business person in his brand new Jaguar.  This story really hit home with me on the fast paced life I wanted everyone to think I lived.  I also [...]

Is Calgary really awesome?

On Friday night I attended a blogging research group at the University of Calgary.  I thought it was kinda strange that a meeting like this would take place on a Friday night, however I kept an open mind and decided to honour my commitment and attend this research group.  It was a great experience and [...]

When are you making your version of Thriller?

I reflect back on what I was doing on Thursday when I first heard about the “King of Pop” has died, I will always remember hearing about it first from the staff at Cindy Woo’s, a Chiropractor in SW Calgary.  Just like 1977 on August 16th when the “King of Rock and Roll” passed, I [...]

Are you marketing?

I had a great conversation with a colleague yesterday about the importance of marketing in your small business.  I wonder what the majority of us are doing today to market our business out there in the big wild world.  I am still shocked how many professionals sit back and complain about the economy, the impact [...]

Did Larry King understand the secret of networking?

Blackberry Training in Alberta
Over the past couple of days my great friend, Darci LaRoque from Swirl Solutions was in town to instruct two days of Blackberry training for business owners, managers,sales professionals and users of the Research in Motion SmartPhone.  Darci and I go back a number of years and it is funny how we [...]

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