To many, small business branding is a necessary evil. You’ve launched your business, you need to start earning, and there’s a big blank on the store sign or landing page where your brand should be. So you dream up a

In 2009 Paul Holmes and I co-founded Social Media Camp. After 10 years of producing, nurturing and growing the event to become Canada’s largest social media conference we have sold the business. Now that I have had a couple of

If you are not 100% sure about the answer to this question, NOW is the time to find out and do something about it. In the ten years that bWEST has been operating, we have worked with hundreds of clients

It’s February, and all these snow days we’re getting make now the perfect time to hunker down inside, stay warm and watch Netflix. Speaking of Netflix, have you seen ‘Tidying Up’ with Marie Kondo? It’s all the rage and a

The world of social media is constantly changing. Every year brings new trends, ideas and tools. In most cases, the changes are gradual and somewhat predictable; were you really surprised to see GooglePlus bite the dust? In this seminar, we

Hmmm. You had to think about that for a minute – am I right? With over three billion social media users across the world, follower status is a big deal. And it’s competitive out there. Large numbers of followers, friends,

Following is a true story. I have changed the names to ‘protect the innocent’ as Sgt Joe Friday would say. Anyone else remember Joe Friday?  We recently had a long-standing client sell their retail business after 14 successful years serving

 I have been very fortunate in business in Victoria and around British Columbia to have met some awesome people and made some great business friendships. Much of that has been through doing presentations for various conferences and organizations. I enjoy doing

We hope you are enjoying the last remnants of summer as we slowly drift into fall and the kids gather up their stuff for back-to-school. We had a particularly busy summer launching 4 new websites for StressMarq Biosciences, Brad Maclaren(Realtor), Clapham’s

As the curtain slowly closes on another year, the requisite “Predictions for 2016” posts are popping up faster than Christmas trees. Check it out, I found “About 711,000 results in (0.33 seconds).”  Not one for wanting to be left out,