During March and April I will be featuring a Cherry Blossom Photo of the Day, sourced from the Miss604 Flickr Pool and/or the #Photos604 tag on Instagram. You can barely walk a full block in the city without encountering a photographer capturing this pink blooms — or stopping yourself — so it’s the perfect time to start this series. Enjoy!
Let’s face it, the thought of “internet marketing” doesn’t always conjure up the most pleasant feelings as pop-up ads, spam email, and unwanted selling opportunities come to mind. However, there is a very good side to internet marketing, and it’s the bigger, better side. The side where a campaign raises thousands for a cause, where a video can move you to happy tears, and when the independent business can connect with major brands to reach customers and audiences they wouldn’t have dreamed of reaching before. Making connections and achieving goals.
This is the side of internet marketing that I know and that has allowed me to grow my dream business over the last ten years. I love what I do, and you should too, so with the Canadian Internet Marketing Conference coming to Squamish, I hope I’ll see you in the audience when I take the stage for a panel presentation about blogging for business.
CIMC Information
Where: Quest University, Squamish, BC When: Saturday March 28th and Sunday 29th, 2015 from 9:00am each day Tickets: Available online. Tickets include admission to the two day conference, lunch and coffee on both Saturday and Sunday, and goodies. There is currently a limited number of Student Tickets available right now for $129.00.
Speakers include everyone from prolific local bloggers and the UBC School of Journalism, to individuals from Invoke Media, TELUS, Whistler Blackcomb, 1-800-GOT-JUNK, and more.
CIMC is hosted by Marwick Marketing and Jelly Marketing, two BC marketing firms who were fierce competitors who realized there wasn’t a solid internet marketing conference for them and their staff in BC so they banded together to bring this event to our backyard.
Follow CIMC on Facebook and Twitter for more information. Join the Thunderclap campaign to show the world you’ll be at CIMC in Squamish this month.
The Vancouver International Auto Show is coming up March 24th to March 29th, 2015 and Honda Canada wants you to check out the action.
On Tuesday, March 24th AJAC will announce their inaugural Green Car of the Year Award and Jack Poole Plaza will host exotics and supercars. Get into an electric vehicle on Wednesday with the Green Ride and Drive and on Thursday it’s Province Sports Day, with fun and car culture activities all day long. On Friday, bring your RBC banking card for 2 for 1 entries all day long. Saturday will have a modified drive up hosted by Drive Marketing Group and on the final day, Sunday, the BC Hot Rod Association hosts a drive up on Jack Poole Plaza.
Honda at the Auto Show
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Honda Canada (including Acura) over the last few years, putting many of their latest models to the test as we drive out to the valley to pick up groceries from farm gate stores, tackle the Sea to Sky for an afternoon in Squamish, road trip over to Victoria in style, or pack up paddle board gear for a soggy afternoon on the water.
At the Vancouver International Auto Show, you’ll learn about: The 2016 HR-V, based on the Fit platform, it’s a brand new vehicle for Honda, a subcompact SUV. The 2016 Honda Pilot, completely re-engineered, and redesigned with a new body shape. The 2016 Acura ILX, a compact luxury sedan is positioned as the gateway to the Acura brand and all models come standard with the award winning Acura Watch safety technologies. Honda Fit, which is a finalist for Canadian Green Car of the Year and recent winner of AJACs Best New Small Car Under $21,000.
The Honda Fit joins the Kia Soul EV, Toyota Camry Hybrid, and Subaru Legacy as a finalist for the Canadian Green Car of the Year.
Show Hours, Tickets
The Vancouver International Auto Show will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre (West) and will be open Tuesday, March 24th from 5:00pm to 10:00pm; Wednesday, March 25th from 12:00pm to 10:00pm; Thursday, March 26th from 12:00pm to 10:00pm; Friday, March 27th from 10:00am to 10:00pm; Saturday, March 28th from 10:00am to 10:00pm; Sunday, March 29th from 10:00am to 6:00pm.
Tickets are available online in advance, with special pricing for the opening reception, general weekday admission, and weekend admission.
Win Vancouver International Auto Show Tickets
Honda Canada has offered up a pair of Vancouver International Auto Show tickets to one Miss604 reader and their guest. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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The prize consists of two General Weekday Admission tickets, valid for one day of the show Wednesday to Friday. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Wednesday, March 18th, 2015. Follow the Vancouver International Auto Show on Twitter and Facebook for more event information.
During March and April I will be featuring a Cherry Blossom Photo of the Day, sourced from the Miss604 Flickr Pool and/or the #Photos604 tag on Instagram. You can barely walk a full block in the city without encountering a photographer capturing this pink blooms — or stopping yourself — so it’s the perfect time to start this series. Enjoy!
Buchanan Street and Rosser Street in Burnaby. Photo credit: Kenneth Leung on Flickr
Cherry blossoms in February, a pod of orcas breaching under the Lions Gate Bridge, and Dan Mangan playing at the Vogue Theatre are all truly Vancouver experiences. I caught up with the local musician before his Canadian tour early this spring, which is soon to be followed by an extensive European circuit in April.
“It was an interesting experience, I think I would probably do it again,” Dan told me over the phone just a few days after he opened himself up for a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). The experience took several hours and fan asked questions about everything from his influences to his favourite beer. The two-time Juno Award-winner recently returned from a two year hiatus, in which time he became a father, scored Simon Pegg’s feature Hector And The Search For Happiness alongside Jesse Zubot, and joined up with Blacksmith (Kenton Loewen, Gordon Grdina, John Walsh and often Jesse Zubot, JP carter and Tyson Naylor) for his fourth studio album, Club Meds.
“We’re not trying to make records that sounds like anything or anything else, it sounds just like an honest representation of what’s in our guts right now.”
The sound and tone on Club Meds has reviewers talking. They’re loving the hearty, electric feel, and are comparing it to Peter Gabriel, which seems like a far cry from Robots but Dan assures that it’s simply a representation and reflection of who he is today.
“It’s funny because it didn’t feel like a seriously conscious shift [between albums], I think that it was just a matter of sort of going where my ear took me. Mining for sounds and going for different sonic spectrums.”
Dan said that when you’re in the ‘singer/songwriter’ genre as he is, you can get locked into a box pretty easily. “So this is a little bit more experimental on all fronts in terms of there being a lot more collaboration from the band than before.”
The lyrics on Club Meds are a sharper as well, and Dan’s views and opinions have come through as they do in one of his writing contributions for The Guardian’s Arts section.
“You look at the world and you look at your kid and you sort of brace yourself for all of the bullshit that they’re going to experience in their life, and so there’s definitely an element of if ‘I’m going to be making music, if that’s going to be my life’s work then my life’s work should be thoughtful and relevant and sort of reflect the world that we’re in’.”
Feeling a greater sense of duty than before to touch on world issues, Dan says he probably just wasn’t ready to write about them earlier on.
“I think one of the things I need to get across I didn’t make this to be a soapbox album. It’s more about seeing these things in society actually and seeing those paradoxes in yourself as well, and then you know kind of writing about that experience. I have had moments of my life of feeling very awake and very connected and so very intuitive, and I’ve had moments of my life that feel very robotic — and so I think that this album is touching on those two worlds and the ongoing battle between them.”
Harnessing this enlightened expression, through Club Meds’ lyrics and sound, Dan and the members of the band carefully combed through the studio session files to figure out what sounds were important to keep, what could be incorporated into the live show, and what wouldn’t trap them. He said the goal for their performances isn’t to recreate or recite the album, but to create something that allows them to bring its sound to a live arena.
You can catch Dan Mangan + Blacksmith at The Voguetonight in Vancouver and tomorrow, Saturday, March 14th. They’ll then be at SXSW in Austin, Texas next weekend, then off to Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, and UK all through April. Follow Dan Mangan on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for the latest music and tour info.
