Business
What is your favourite social media platform?
6sMarketing is a local Vancouver Marketing Agency that recently sponsored a study by Insights West that we found fascinating. The study surveyed 838 BC adults between March 2nd and 13th, 2013 regarding their social media use. Not surprisingly… Read More
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Golf as a business expense – Not
Many of you are aware of the golf industry’s efforts to have golf made an allowable business expense. These efforts have been in place for a few years to try to put golf on a level playing field with other sporting events such as… Read More
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AGA BC Symposium
Second Annual AGA BC SymposiumOn March 25th University Golf Club hosted the 2nd annual AGA BC Symposium which brought together golf industry stakeholders from the six member associations (NGCOA, PGA BC, CSCM, WCTA, BCGSA, and BC Golf) to discuss trends, … Read More
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Vancouver Tourism Plan
The City of Vancouver, Vancouver Convention Center, Tourism Vancouver and Vancouver Economic Commission have joined forces to create a Vancouver Tourism Master Plan. According to… Read More
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Business in 2013
Statistics Canada defines a small business as having 5 to 100 employees. Most of the people we meet at conferences, meet-ups, tweet ups etc would fall into this category. Even most of our golf course clients would be considered small… Read More
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Hashtags for Beginners & Business
A hashtag is a word or series of words that begin with the symbol #. Hashtags became quite popular when Twitter was launched. In particular Hashtags were used by… Read More
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Update: Anchored Putting
Back in November we previously wrote a blog, A Dumb Move for the Game of Golf, that was one of our most read posts of the year. It was a post about the proposed anchored putter rule. We remain opposed to the potential rule being proposed by the USGA and R&A regarding the use of “anchored putting” as a stroke. Rather then recap… Read More
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BC Liquor License Announcement
Two changes to the liquor laws now make catered events more appealing to clients. Catering companies can now apply for a liquor license for special events and already existing licensed establishments can now supply liquor to catered events off-site. Previously, people hosting an event serving liquor in B.C. needed to get a special occasion licence, take the… Read More
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Five Things To Prepare For The Upcoming Golf Season
It is hard to believe but the 2013 golf season is right around the corner. Hopefully by now everyone has enjoyed some well deserved time off and is busy preparing for the upcoming golf season. Here is a short list of things you need to consider… Read More
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A Great Use of QR Codes
We have seen them on bus shelters and billboards, magazines and even some books but do your still wonder what the purpose of those square two dimensional bar codes actually is? A QR code (Quick Response code) is a square barcode image that links to a specified URL (web page). QR codes are a quick and easy way to… Read More
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