Powell River book tackles small biz marketing

Powell River’s own Kevin Wilson has published an e-book on small business marketing, and it’s well worth the read for any small business trying to attract attention. Local Business Power System: Small Business Marketing Strategies and Ideas to Attract and...

Why failure is good

Why is it that we are so scared to fail? Why do we want to protect our children from failure so much that we will go to great extents to stop them from experiencing this natural part of human growth? Not long ago, my 14-year-old announced that he wasn’t going to do a...

Retail merchandising

Are your customer counts not translating into sales? People are certainly hanging onto their money a little more tightly these days. But could you help them part with it in your store? Merchandising is not my area of expertise, but I do know, both from personal...

Cooking with Iz

When I was in seventh grade my home economics teacher Miss Harrington told the cooking  class to tie long hair in a pony tail or put on a hair net. I chose to tie my hair back in a pony tail. Or Two. Or ten. I used to wear my hair quite short in those days and I...