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Dispatch from Quesnel - Broadband Over Powerline

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This evening, I rest my reary haunches at a hotel in Quesnel. My day of fame and misfortune in Prince George over, I arrive at my hotel at the South end of Quesnel and am handed, along with my room key, a Broadband over Powerline (BPL) modem. I was dumbfounded. I’ve read about these things [...]

Dispatch from Prince George - The Oil Economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’m sitting in hotel room in Prince George, BC and I’m bone tired from having driven 8 hours to get here. I was planning on writing about an interesting article I saw in the New York times on the wide-ranging impacts of oil price increases on consumer goods. However, my fatique levels will only allow [...]

Volunteerism - Marketing That Money Can’t Buy

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

One of the reasons that I didn’t post on Friday afternoon is because I was representing the SFU Alumni Association at the Spring Convocation Ceremony for Applied Science students at SFU’s main campus in Burnaby. I played a minor role in the ceremony - gave a short speech about life after university and the importance [...]

Lead Generation for Consultants (and non-Consultants)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

As some of you may know, I am a junior partner in another consulting firm called Rocket Builders in Vancouver. It’s a good relationship in many respects but in addition to doing good work with this group, I am learning a lot about how to run a business. One of the key foundations in any [...]

CMC or not to CMC… that is the question.

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

A friend of mine - Tony Wanless - is currently on the executive team for the BC Chapter of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants. This is an organization that I have been torn about joining as a consultant for the past several years. This post is going to be more of a stream of [...]

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