If you're going to put up a website for your business, make sure your content is clear, coherent, consistent, and that it correctly portrays the service or product you're selling.

Pages that are too full of content are distracting, and so are grammatical and spelling errors. I wonder if the business owner is aware of them and how those errors might impact the business.

Make your written communications the best they can be.

Carolyn Wilker

FineTune Editing

www.carolynwilker.ca

"When  your words count most, hire an editor."

Please listen to my recent interview with Kerstin Kramer, Premier Focus, here:http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/motivational-steps-podcast/id77545516

Please read our Market Update - Quarter 2 - 2010 http://stevebentleycfp.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/client-connect-market-q2-update.pdf

Mid-year market review
 
Message from Scott Penman, Executive Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer Investors Group Inc.
 
Following four consecutive quarters of positive returns we are reminded, after experiencing a negative quarter, markets don't always grow in a straight line. Results like this can test investor resolve and may lead to questions like "is the recovery over?"
The short answer:

Not likely.
 
Reasons for recent challenged market activity
 

Have you noticed how stores dress their windows? They want to show off their products so arrange the dresses, shoes, purses, etc nicely in the window for all to see. Some stores have taken to putting curtains in the windows and not showing people what they sell until the customer walks into the store. I think once you have taken the leap of faith and walked into one of these stores to see what they sell you probably know straight away if you are going back or not. I notice the younger generation clothes stores definitely are popular with the curtained window idea.

Looking for better results from your marketing campaigns? One of the hottest new trends is Interactive Marketing—leveraging the power of interaction to promote your brand.

Coined by Professor John Deighton at Harvard, Interactive Marketing is all about the conversation.

I love to network, face to face, online, on the phone, I was definitely born to network. Saying that I am intuitive and I pick things up fast. I listen, learn, take notice and see how the experts do it because they do it well. Recently I experienced the joy of meeting one of my hero's who is well known on the social network sites, particularly Twitter. That person is Scott Stratten, President of Unmarketing. Scott mentions in his seminar that being transparent will take you far. I took this one step further and thought about transparency being mistaken for being naked.

Take a look at the action at the SBCN Summer Social...

The Small Business Community Network are excited to announce we will be offering 1-hour extra to our Members at the beginning of each monthly meeting, starting September! Members only can come along at 6pm to enjoy presentations offered by Dave Ockwell-Jenner and Linda Ockwell-Jenner, co-founders of the SBCN. There will be a round-table discussion where our members can interract and ask questions and offer thoughts and tips during the presentation.

When: September 16, 2010

Where Bingemans Conference Centre, Kitchener, Ontario

Time: 8:00am - 4:00pm

Website: www.iiiforyou.com

Please click on this link, you can participate too:) http://fcinf.com/v/czna

Here is a selection of short interviews with some of the attendees at the SBCN's recent UnMarketing special event, with social media guru Scott Stratten. We had some terrific feedback, so this will hopefully give you some perspectives from several of the people who were there, including Scott himself.