I attended a Rapid Time Network* (@rapidTimeNetworks) event at Buzz Cafe the other Friday in Vancouver and my friend George Moen (@georgemoen) gave me another zinger to contemplate – hyperlocal tweeting!

George and I go a way back from Sandwich Tree, through President of Blenz Coffe chain and now Founder of Rapid Time Networks with Mark Wright. My brother Dave did some of Blenz Coffee’s original coffee designs. Lately we have been Twitter and networking friends. We both know our way around Twitter. I had 160,000 Twitter followers Read the rest of this entry

One of my clients lives in Vancouver and is struggling with his business. He decided to take a respite and take a month off to his native El Salvador to get energized. Ouch I thought that was my job! Read the rest of this entry

(reprinted from Michael E. Gerber’s Blog)

Vera Unwin, Michael Gerber & Gary C. Bizzo

The Dreaming Room is designed to awaken the entrepreneur within you.  Not to make you more effective at working IN your business, but to make you more effective at working ON your business.
The entrepreneur is the one who creates the opportunities that are waiting for you in the world around you.
To fill them with your vitality.  With your spirit. With your passion.  With your imagination. With your Soul.
But in order to create opportunities, the entrepreneur within you must first recognize what an opportunity is, and what purpose it serves.
That’s what happens in The Dreaming Room.
What happens in the Dreaming Room is that each and every participant is taken on a unique, one-of-a-kind journey.  Unique, because it is their journey and their journey only.
The journey one goes on in the Dreaming Room is therefore completely unpredictable because no two participants are the same.  No two journeys are the same. Read the rest of this entry

Get an Edge
Your Unique Selling Proposition is that special thing about your business that totally differentiates you from the competition. Sometimes it‘s the quality of your product that is outstanding compared to the others, sometimes it’s service above and beyond the call. Rolls Royce is known for its supreme quality of its vehicles, and yes the price, of course. It is also renowned for its outstanding service. My friend’s Rolls broke down on a remote place in the country. Rolls Royce sent a limo to pick him up and be with him until the factory mechanic and assistant flew in direct from England within hours to deal with the problem and fixed his car. Read the rest of this entry