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Banking
Coast Capital Savings
Royal
Bank
TD
Canada Trust
Van City
Savings
Legal
www.legal-forms-on-demand.com
Marketing
Conrad Levinson -
www.gmarketing.com
Robert Middleton -
www.actionplan.com
CJ Hayden –
www.getclientsnow.com
Kendall SummerHawk –
www.kendallsummerhawk.com
Results Exchange Inc. - www.results-exchange.com
For postal codes
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/default-e.asp
Public Relations
www.aboutpr.com
Publications
www.globeandmail.com
www.bcbusinessmagazine.com
www.hrreporter.ca
http://www.profitguide.com/
Research/Resources
Strategis
www.strategis.ic.gc.ca
BC Stats
www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca
http://www.bizvic.com
http://www.smallbusinessbc.ca
www.sbinfocanada.about.com/
www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca
www.wes.bc.ca
http://www.viwbn.org/
www.superpages.ca
www.gov.bc.ca
http://www.vicstart.com
An extensive new internet directory for Victoria BC. It is easy
to navigate and worth adding to your favourites!
'Find Articles' - a source of 10,000,000
free articles
www.findarticles.com
Look up restaurants on Vancouver island and
find out how they fared with their most recent safety inspections
with this Link to the health inspection site:
http://www.healthspace.ca/Clients/VIHA/South/VIHA_South_Website.nsf/food-frameset
From The VicBizTalk Digest:
The City of Victoria
website is a great ‘entry resource for information. Check out
the recent publication ‘The City of Victoria Profile’ (June
2004) with the most up to date sector and demographic local
information available.
http://www.city.victoria.bc.ca/common/index.shtml
www.100.com
This is a great search tool. It summarizes and gives you the
best sites for information from all the top sites on any topic.
Just type in any subject that you want the best available information.
TRENDWATCHING.COM and its 1,500+ trendspotters
scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea,
India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations
& regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related
new business ideas.
Points.com
Arrange for the automatic combining of the points and miles
you have at over 3600 possible plans into one more useable amount.
Do you have Aeroplan, Esso and Starbucks cards? You can combine
the points!
https://www.points.com/home/login.do?method=enter
What on earth is a Blog?
It is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts
and Web links. For a great resource and related links try
http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog/
http://webvictoria.com
"the art of finding people easily" boasts 2 million
hits per month and offers free listings. For example,
it has over 500 links including school boards 61, BC ferries,
several tourist attractions, theatre box offices....
http://www.sendthisfile.com
This site enables you to easily transfer a large file to anyone,
anywhere! Use a Free Account to transfer audio recordings, home
movies, CAD files, databases, graphics prints, accounting files
and other data! It doesn't overload the email system. You won't
have problems with fire walls, proxy servers and routers. And
with no additional software to install, large file transfers
couldn't be easier.
http://www.fpinfomart.ca
a great source for research, media monitoring and company information
from Canadian sources. Infomart.ca offers same-day and archival
access to over 230 national and regional sources including newspapers,
magazines, newswires and broadcast
transcripts.
http://www.acronymfinder.com
Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for...The
web's most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations,
and initialisms.
399,000+ definitions!
Internet Search
Tip
Analyze Your Topic and Search With Peripheral Vision
In searching for this month's tip, I cam across a great website
that offers a five step search strategy - recommended by UC
Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshop. The two
of the five step strategies include a form you can use to analyze
your topic and picking the right place to start your search,
two important steps in completing a good search.
This website also includes search strategies that
they do NOT recommend. Start by using the form to analyze
your topic and you're on your way to great research! Visit
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html
Surveys
www.surveymonkey.com
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
MacIntosh Info
www.macintouch.com
www.macfixit.com
www.apple.com
http://developer.apple.com
Internet/Web
www.localteckie.com
www.doteasy.com
www.google.com
www.ebay.com
www.godaddy.com
www.shopincities.com
www.vicstart.com
Technology
www.cata.ca
www.cips.ca
VIATEC
Tourism
www.hotels-victoria-bc.com
www.vanstart.com
CAREERS
Employment Listings
www.canadajobs.com
www.kenevacorp.mb.ca
www.victoriajobs.net
Looking for new employees?
Post ads on these popular job search sites:
www.monster.ca
www.provenceconsulting.com
www.workfutures.bc.ca
www.workopolis.com
www.postings.gov.bc.ca
www.bcpublicservice.ca
www.jobbank.gc.ca
Publications
www.careerjournal.com
www.bookfinder.com
Outside Victoria
http://www.biv.com/ Vancouver Business
Recommended Books
Love Em or
Lose em - Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye
and Sharon Jordan-Evans Promotes a happier and more productive
workforce. Many of the concepts can be applied to all interpersonal
relationships - between co-workers, family and friends.
ISBN: 1576751406
Getting Business
to Come to You
by Paul and Sarah Edwards ISBN 087477845X
A Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Attracting All the Business
You Can Enjoy.
"The E
Myth Revisted" What Every Successful Entrepreneur
Knows
by Michael E. Gerber.
Best Marketing
Book to Generate Tactical Ideas:
Meaningful Marketing (Doug Hall).
Could a book generate too many ideas? This one might.
Seriously, if you are a marketer in search of tactical ideas
- read this book.
How
to Become a Marketing Superstar
(Jeffrey J. Fox)
This book is chock-full of sound marketing wisdom.
The
Brand Gap (Marty Neumeier)
A designer who understands marketing and can help you cross
the bridge from logic (marketing) to magic (design).
Creating
Customer Evangelists
(Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba)
By deepening customer relationships, successful organizations
create communities that generate grassroots support and value
for their products and services. "Creating Customer Evangelists"
focuses on this ultimate marketing approach. McConnell and Huba
demonstrate how you can convert good customers into exceptional
ones who willingly spread the word.
Double-Digit
Growth (Michael Treacey)
Not as ground-breaking as The Discipline of Market Leaders was,
bit it is still a very thought-provoking book.
Purple
Cow (Seth Godin)
A Great Book!!!!!
Author of Permission Marketing. The why, what, and the how of
being remarkable - the essence of unique!
Breakthrough, How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives
and Achieve Them
by Bill Davidson
How companies who are number one in their industries stay that
way. This book was presented as a gift to a recent class
of Royal Roads MBA Graduates.
Pension
Paradigm
by Hugh Carter and Ralph Hahmann
A complete guide to the facts and opinions that exist with pension
plans. This book cuts through the mystique of government
and corporate regulations and put you in control of your own
money. I met Mr. Hahmann at a networking event and found
this little book fascinating.
Simple Meditation
and Relaxation
by Levy and Levy
Another great little title in the Simple Wisdom Series. Make
sure you discover the chart on page 17 that helps you find just
the technique that deals with any specific area you wish to
work on, i.e. enhancing creativity or innovative thinking.
Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field
and Attract More Business with Less Effort by Steve
Van Yoder
The best clients and customer are those who seek you out because
they have already heard of you. Get Slightly Famous show how
to build visibility and credibility by positioning yourself
as a valuable resource and mini-celebrity within your target
market.
The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav ISBN 0-671-6907-X.
Consider this... Spiritual psychology will support the choice
to learn through wisdom, the choice to relaese patterns of negativity,
of doubt and fear, that are no longer appropriate to who we
are and what we are becoming.
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(published around the time of the early days of the women’s
movement) ISBN # 0394724550
‘..At first, the tired body takes over completely. As on shipboard,
one descends into a deck-chair apathy. One is forced against
one’s mind, against all tidy resolutions, back into the primeval
rhythms of the seashore. Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines,
the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the
hectic rhythms of city and suburb, time tables and schedules...’
If I had my life to live over I would pick more daisies
edited by Sandra H Martz ISBN 0-918949-24-6
From the same author as ‘When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear
Purple’. Short stories and poems.
Briefcase Moms by Lisa Martin is written for
women to help them live balanced lives while raising children,
finding joy in their careers and fulfilling their dreams. Lisa
lives in Vancouver, is a Certified Professional Coach. Visit
www.briefcasemoms.com ISBN 0-934560-0-0
Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind is a book
about waking up every morning with a will and a willingness
to practice doing and being. The journey continues in this fourth
book of the highly acclaimed Zentrepreneur Guide® series,
embraced by readers and reviewers everywhere. by Ron Rubin and
Stuart Avery Gold, Published by New Market Press; April 2004;
1-5570-4621-2
Power Over Stress by Dr. Kenford Nedd
Stressful situations or stressors are unavoidable in life, the
the possible resulting illness is not. Read about 35 Quick prescriptions
for mastering the stress in your life.
ISBN 0-9733291-0-6
The best book on the Forbes.com list of the year.....
Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea
by Seth Godin
The message is that marketers "ought to come with a market-changing
innovation”. Godin recommends looking at what you are selling
and, as he puts it, going to the edge. What's on the edge of
the product or service that could be turned into a free prize?
He calls this "edgecraft." Edges fall into numerous
categories: ones that confound expectation, ones that satisfy
real needs and desires, ones that address overlooked senses.
He provides examples in each category.
How to Make Hot Cold Calls: Your Guide to Making the
Sale or Landing That Perfect Job
Author: Steven Schwartz ISBN: 0773762531
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
The Hot Calls system and its tools in this best selling book
have helped thousands of people to make more money, find jobs
after being downsized, launch a successful business, and develop
the confidence to open any door of opportunity.
It's Not Business, It's Personal: The 9 Relationship
Principles That Power Your Career
Author: Ronna Lichtenberg ISBN: 0786885130 Publisher: Hyperion
In this cogent, insightful, inspirational book, Ronna listens
in on some of today's most forward-thinking business leaders
while they show how to forge truly beneficial and long-lasting
business relationships.
Referral
Flood by John Jantsch
This is an eBook and he very wisely only sells it as part of
a whole 'system'. I would recommend you go to http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/index.html
and sign up for his free Newsletter, you can get a lot from
it first. I also found this good summary article
http://www.successfuloffice.com/How_To_Create_A_Complete_Referral.htm
How To Control Your Anxiety Before it Controls You
by Albert Ellis
A guide to controlling unhealthy anxiety explores the wide range
of anxiety-related dysfunctions and includes more than two hundred
rational maxims for staving off anxiety.
ISBN: 0806521368
Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself
by Richard David Carson
If you have a low tolerance for self-help books or they haven't
worked for you, here is a more creative yet practical approach
to solving life's problems. Through the powerful metaphor of
the gremlin, presented so imaginatively by Richard Carson's
writing and Novle Rogers's artwork, you will find ways to identify
and banish the tenacious, self-defeating aspects of your personality.
ISBN: 0060961023
Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes
Women Make with Money by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
Now, with the same frank advice and empowering information that
made Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office a bestseller, Lois
P. Frankel, PhD, tackles the 75 financial mistakes that keep
women from having the wealth they deserve. She isolates the
messages about money given to little girls that little boys
never hear.
ISBN: 044657709X
You Can Be Happy No Matter What:
Five Principles Your Therapist Never Told You
by Richard Carlson PhD Author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
.
Carlson reminds us that life is not your enemy, but you thinking
can be. He explains that our minds are very powerful tools that
can work for us or against us ay any given moment. We have a
choice. We can learn to flow with life or we can struggle against
it.
ISBN # 1-57731-064-0
Getting Them To Give a Damn:
How to Get Your Front Line to Care About Your Bottom Line
by Eric Chester.
This is either a humorous book or a politically incorrect one
- but it is very entertaining. Chester rails against what he
calls Generation ‘Why’ (Y) those born between 1980 and 1994.
If you employ what Chester calls “Kidpoyees” this book is for
you!
The Sound of Thunder by Tailor Caldwell -
Looking for a good novel with lots of business savvy? Try this
fascinating classic story of a disfunctional entrepreneurial
family. This is not a quick read but hard to put down.
Developing Intuition - A Practical Guidance for Everyday
Life
'We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom
through our intuition: an inner sense that tells us what feels
right and true for us at any given moment'. By Shakti Gawain
ISBN 1577310802
Second Wind by Suzanne Caplin ISBN 1891984470
A practical real-life approach to small business turnaround.
The business owners definitive guide to troubleshooting.
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