One of my dearest friends, Joey Hundert (pictured right), is rocking it out hard with Sustainval. What is it? Says his website: Sustainival has been designed to become the world’s premiere Green Carnival & Festival, bringing in all of the coolest stuff that you can possibly imagine. The world of “Green” is pretty huge these […]
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I recently had the pleasure of meeting Calgary’s very own Leigh Clark. I got word of a new community calendar called Karma Community where holistic types could list their practice and their events for free (or pay a little bit for a snazzier listing). I got excited because I’m very excited about anything ‘hub’ related.
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So, I’m about to hit the road on tour with my workshops. I might even be coming to your town. And so I need to describe my workshops to people. You might be in the same boat – needing to describe something that’s . . . complicated. Maybe it’s a service, or maybe it’s a
I want to share with you six lessons I got on how you can fill up your workshops from a colleague of mine Callan Rush. Poor Callan (pictured right). She had me in her audience. This might seem like a good thing, but let me explain. So, the other night I attended a workshop called,
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“How do we run workshops that sustain us financially – without selling out soul?” That’s a question that’s been on my mind a lot lately. So, I’ve been in the seminar industry since I was in high school. It started out with working for a franchise of Anthony Robbins and Associates, then leading workshops across
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One of my favourite people in Canada is Andrew McMartin of the PINE Project. And he just shared with me a brilliant example of authentic Marketing 2.0, becoming a hub and community building: a cross Canada, snow fort building competition. People are invited to submit pictures and a story to them (info@pineproject.org) by Thursday evening
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You may have heard of Green Drinks. It started in England years back and now is in over 600 cities globally. It’s an event where people in the ‘green scene’ (e.g. academics, entrepreneurs, ngo or government workers) can get together to meet each other in a casual environment. We host one here in Edmonton and
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Wow. So many practical little nuggets here from Seth Godin on how to organize an effective retreat. I love this. There’s a tremendous opportunity to create events where people connect. Unfortunately, it’s also easy to turn these events into school-like conferences, not the emotional connections that are desired. You can create an advance with a
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One of the best books I’ve ever read on marketing is Monopolize Your Marketplace. I’ve read dozens of books on marketing and this is one of the few ‘must haves’ for a marketing collection. Truly. I might just reread it soon actually. It’s one of the best organized and well structured and through books on
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Here’s a marketing challenge: why should people pay for live theatre when they can just surf the internet for hours? Arts administrator and live-theater fan Ben Cameron looks at the state of the live arts — asking: How can the magic of live theater, live music, live dance compete with the always-on Internet? At TEDxYYC,
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