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I would like to reach out to you and thank you so much for your kind comments and support of my site. I truly appreciate the many great comments I receive, and of course, ignore the SPAM! LOL!
A number of people are asking me how to get my FEED or Subscribe via Email, so I am providing [...]

It is my pleasure indeed to share this story with you, particularly right after the bad news in the last one!  This is so cool! I’m jealous, and yet, somehow proud that this new young celebrity is also from Vancouver.
Brian Wong of Vancouver, is developing an Advertising Platform for Mobile Gaming 
At 19, Vancouver’s Brian Wong is one of [...]

Hello. I am sorry that I have been away for a while, but there are very good reasons for my absence! No excuses, it’s just that I have been totally entrenched in my new role with a great marketing firm out of the US. Between my new responsibilities, and other issues of a personal nature, I have [...]

Hello. I know this is rather late in being posted but I felt I wanted to let my followers and visitors know why I have not being posting lately.
I have been off the site over the past 12 days or so due to critical back pain and am still in recovery. My posts may be [...]

 
With many companies working on building their brand awareness through digital marketing, the search is on for the top talent in this niche.
The growth of Facebook’s advertising market share is indicative of how firms are coming to terms with new media and marketing techniques, and fully participating in our technological advantages.
Twitter and LinkedIn’s reach, and [...]

‘Floor’ Security’
There are far too many cases of theft in our offices today, particularly in the downtown core of Vancouver. Most of these thefts occur during business hours. In my experience, the focus has been on ‘laptop’ computers and wallets or purses.
In order to do your part in keeping staff and your own floors secure, I offer [...]

Double-Sided Printing & Recycling Your ‘Used’ Paper
These days most firms have instituted firm-wide ‘double-sided’ printing as a cost savings measure. Unfortunately, since many offices do not have the proper printing equipment in place, it is difficult to follow-through on this practice consistently, if at all.
It is not necessarily that the equipment in place cannot [...]

HR professionals that feel the need to make insensitive or embarrassing comments during an exit interview encourage judicial wrath.

An article I wrote on firing a few months back spoke to what ‘not to say’ during the course of an employee’s exit interview.
This article emphasizes the importance of personnel having expertise in this area, in terms of whom is [...]

Over the past several years, this expression has been very popular, and uttered frequently amongst professionals at all levels. That is to say, there never has been any such thing as ‘job security.’
Given our current market conditions, I am confident that a number of my readers are concerned about their futures, and what will become [...]

We all know the first day or two on a new job can be a nerve racking experience, knowing how important it is to make excellent first impressions, and having our own unrealistic perceptions of what the firm will be expecting from us, right from day one.
There is actually no need for a great deal of concern, as [...]