Linda's Favourite Resources

It is my pleasure to share with you some of my favourite resources
from my business coaching practice that I've collected
or written over the last 4 years.
Linda Conn -Your BusinessCoach

Index:

Content for Sale
Free Articles
Poetry
Banking
Careers and Hiring
Information Technology
Legal
Marketing
Office Tools
Publications
Research Sources
Tourism
Victoria
Recommended Books

Content for Sale

This is a FREE sample of a 12 part series of themed Editorials AND Top 10 Style Ezines that are currently part of a *sale offering at wwwvictoriabusinesstalk.com

Courage
Dreams
Passion
Wisdom

*Would you like to have 24 pieces of writing on these themes (one for every month!) to use in your marketing? Courage Perception Choice Passion Wisdom Gratitude Change Peace Loyalty Tolerance Dreams Kindness
For More Information...

Free Articles

4 Seasons of Publicity

Reality Check Quiz

Cash Flow Budget Plan template - for use with the free audio:
Part 2 #1. A Simple System for Cash Management at Home or in Your Business.

Current Trends in Marketing (also check out the free audio)

Introduction to Business Coaching

The Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

Logo and Name Protection in Today's Business Climate

An Introduction to Relationship Marketing
(also check out the free audio)

The ‘How To Choose’ Series...
A Bookkeeper
A Business Partner
A Coach
A Networking Venue
A Strategic Alliance
A Virtual Assistant
A Web Master

'Find Articles' - a source of 10,000,000 free articles
www.findarticles.com

Poetry

The Poetry of Dean Christy:
Climb the Fence
Burning where is yours?
The Coach
Change
I will listen
One View
Wisdom
Sunday spirits
Only Then
Its yours
Two words
I’ll Be There
Warm Place

Banking

Coast Capital Savings
Royal Bank
TD Canada Trust
Van City Savings

Careers and Hiring

Employment Listings

www.canadajobs.com
www.kenevacorp.mb.ca
www.victoriajobs.net/jobs.htm

Looking for new employees?
Post ads on these popular job search sites:

www.monster.ca
www.provenceconsulting.com
www.workfutures.bc.ca
www.workopolis.com
www.postings.gov.bc.ca
www.bcpublicservice.ca
www.jobbank.gc.ca

Information Technology

www.cata.ca
www.cips.ca
VIATEC

MacIntosh Info

www.macintouch.com
www.macfixit.com
www.apple.com
http://developer.apple.com

Internet/Web

www.localteckie.com
www.doteasy.com
www.google.com
www.ebay.com
www.godaddy.com
www.shopincities.com
www.vicstart.com

Legal

www.legal-forms-on-demand.com

Marketing

Conrad Levinson
Robert Middleton
CJ Hayden
Kendall SummerHawk

What on earth is a Blog?
It is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. For a great resource and related links try
www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/blog

Office Tools

For postal codes:
www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/default-e.asp

www.webvictoria.com
"the art of finding people easily" boasts 2 million hits per month and offers free listings. For example, it has over 500 links including school boards 61, BC ferries, several tourist attractions, theatre box offices....

www.points.com
Arrange for the automatic combining of the points and miles you have at over 3600 possible plans into one more useable amount. Do you have Aeroplan, Esso and Starbucks cards? You can combine the points!

www.sendthisfile.com
This site enables you to easily transfer a large file to anyone,
anywhere! Use a Free Account to transfer audio recordings, home movies, CAD files, databases, graphics prints, accounting files and other data! It doesn't overload the email system. You won't have problems with fire walls, proxy servers and routers. And with no additional software to install, large file transfers couldn't be easier.

www.acronymfinder.com
Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for...The web's most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
399,000+ definitions!

Publications

www.globeandmail.com
www.bcbusinessmagazine.com
www.hrreporter.ca
www.profitguide.com
www.careerjournal.com
www.bookfinder.com
www.biv.com

Research Sources

www.strategis.ic.gc.ca
www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca
www.bizvic.com
www.smallbusinessbc.ca
www.sbinfocanada.about.com
www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca
www.wes.bc.ca
www.viwbn.org
www.superpages.ca
www.gov.bc.ca

Surveys
www.surveymonkey.com

www.100.com
This is a great search tool. It summarizes and gives you the best sites for information from all the top sites on any topic. Just type in any subject that you want the best available information.

TRENDWATCHING.COM and its 1,500+ trendspotters scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations & regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas.

Internet Search Tip
Analyze Your Topic and Search With Peripheral Vision
In searching for this month's tip, I cam across a great website that offers a five step search strategy - recommended by UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshop. The two of the five step strategies include a form you can use to analyze your topic and picking the right place to start your search, two important steps in completing a good search.

This website also includes search strategies that they do NOT recommend. Start by using the form to analyze your topic and you're on your way to great research! Visit www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html

Tourism

www.hotels-victoria-bc.com
www.vanstart.com

Victoria

www.vicstart.com
An extensive new internet directory for Victoria BC. It is easy to navigate and worth adding to your favourites!

www.healthspace.ca/viha
Look up restaurants on Vancouver island and find out how they fared with their most recent safety inspections with this Link to the health inspection site.

www.fpinfomart.ca
A great source for research, media monitoring and company information from Canadian sources. Infomart.ca offers same-day and archival access to over 230 national and regional sources including newspapers, magazines, newswires and broadcast transcripts.

www.victoria.ca
The City of Victoria website is a great ‘entry resource for information.

Recommended Books

Keeping the Funnel Full: The Definitive Authority on Solution Selling
by Don Thomson The title says it all. ISBN: 0973579005
Also worth a look: The Leaky Funnel: Earn More Customers by Aligning Sales and Marketing to the Way Businesses Buy
by Hugh Macfarlane ISBN: 0975116320

Love Em or Lose em - Getting Good People to Stay
by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans Promotes a happier and more productive workforce. Many of the concepts can be applied to all interpersonal relationships - between co-workers, family and friends.
ISBN: 1576751406

Getting Business to Come to You
by Paul and Sarah Edwards ISBN 087477845X
A Complete Do-It-Yourself Guide to Attracting All the Business You Can Enjoy.

"The E Myth Revisited" What Every Successful Entrepreneur Knows
by Michael E. Gerber.

Meaningful Marketing (Doug Hall).Best Marketing Book to Generate Tactical Ideas:
Could a book generate too many ideas? This one might. Seriously, if you are a marketer in search of tactical ideas - read this book.

How to Become a Marketing Superstar (Jeffrey J. Fox)
This book is chock-full of sound marketing wisdom.

The Brand Gap (Marty Neumeier)
A designer who understands marketing and can help you cross the bridge from logic (marketing) to magic (design).

Creating Customer Evangelists (Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba)
By deepening customer relationships, successful organizations create communities that generate grassroots support and value for their products and services. "Creating Customer Evangelists" focuses on this ultimate marketing approach. McConnell and Huba demonstrate how you can convert good customers into exceptional ones who willingly spread the word.

Double-Digit Growth (Michael Treacey)
Not as ground-breaking as The Discipline of Market Leaders was, bit it is still a very thought-provoking book.

Purple Cow (Seth Godin)
A Great Book!!!!! Author of Permission Marketing. The why, what, and the how of being remarkable - the essence of unique!

Breakthrough, How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them
by Bill Davidson
How companies who are number one in their industries stay that way. This book was presented as a gift to a recent class of Royal Roads MBA Graduates.

Pension Paradigm
by Hugh Carter and Ralph Hahmann
A complete guide to the facts and opinions that exist with pension plans. This book cuts through the mystique of government and corporate regulations and put you in control of your own money. I met Mr. Hahmann at a networking event and found this little book fascinating.

Simple Meditation and Relaxation
by Levy and Levy
Another great little title in the Simple Wisdom Series. Make sure you discover the chart on page 17 that helps you find just the technique that deals with any specific area you wish to work on, i.e. enhancing creativity or innovative thinking.

Get Slightly Famous: Become a Celebrity in Your Field and Attract More Business with Less Effort
by Steve Van Yoder
The best clients and customers are those who seek you out because they have already heard of you. Get Slightly Famous show how to build visibility and credibility by positioning yourself as a valuable resource and mini-celebrity within your target market.

The Seat of the Soul
by Gary Zukav ISBN 0-671-6907-X.
Consider this... Spiritual psychology will support the choice to learn through wisdom, the choice to release patterns of negativity, of doubt and fear, that are no longer appropriate to who we are and what we are becoming.

Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (published around the time of the early days of the women’s movement) ISBN # 0394724550
‘..At first, the tired body takes over completely. As on shipboard, one descends into a deck-chair apathy. One is forced against one’s mind, against all tidy resolutions, back into the primeval rhythms of the seashore. Rollers on the beach, wind in the pines, the slow flapping of herons across sand dunes, drown out the hectic rhythms of city and suburb, time tables and schedules...’

If I had my life to live over I would pick more daisies
edited by Sandra H Martz ISBN 0-918949-24-6
From the same author as ‘When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple’. Short stories and poems.

Briefcase Moms
by Lisa Martin is written for women to help them live balanced lives while raising children, finding joy in their careers and fulfilling their dreams. Lisa lives in Vancouver, is a Certified Professional Coach. Visit www.briefcasemoms.com ISBN 0-934560-0-0

Tiger Heart, Tiger Mind is a book about waking up every morning with a will and a willingness to practice doing and being. The journey continues in this fourth book of the highly acclaimed Zentrepreneur Guide® series, embraced by readers and reviewers everywhere. by Ron Rubin and Stuart Avery Gold, Published by New Market Press; April 2004; 1-5570-4621-2

Power Over Stress
by Dr. Kenford Nedd
Stressful situations or stressors are unavoidable in life, the the possible resulting illness is not. Read about 35 Quick prescriptions for mastering the stress in your life.
ISBN 0-9733291-0-6

The best book on a Forbes.com list of the year.....
Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin
The message is that marketers "ought to come with a market-changing innovation”. Godin recommends looking at what you are selling and, as he puts it, going to the edge. What's on the edge of the product or service that could be turned into a free prize? He calls this "edgecraft." Edges fall into numerous categories: ones that confound expectation, ones that satisfy real needs and desires, ones that address overlooked senses. He provides examples in each category.

How to Make Hot Cold Calls: Your Guide to Making the Sale or Landing That Perfect Job
Author: Steven Schwartz ISBN: 0773762531
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
The Hot Calls system and its tools in this best selling book have helped thousands of people to make more money, find jobs after being downsized, launch a successful business, and develop the confidence to open any door of opportunity.

It's Not Business, It's Personal: The 9 Relationship Principles That Power Your Career
Author: Ronna Lichtenberg ISBN: 0786885130 Publisher: Hyperion
In this cogent, insightful, inspirational book, Ronna listens in on some of today's most forward-thinking business leaders while they show how to forge truly beneficial and long-lasting business relationships.

Referral Flood
by John Jantsch
This is an eBook and he very wisely only sells it as part of a whole 'system'. I would recommend you go to http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/index.html and sign up for his free Newsletter, you can get a lot from it first. I also found this good summary article
http://www.successfuloffice.com/How_To_Create_A_Complete_Referral.htm

How To Control Your Anxiety Before it Controls You
by Albert Ellis
A guide to controlling unhealthy anxiety explores the wide range of anxiety-related dysfunctions and includes more than two hundred rational maxims for staving off anxiety.
ISBN: 0806521368

Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself
by Richard David Carson
If you have a low tolerance for self-help books or they haven't worked for you, here is a more creative yet practical approach to solving life's problems. Through the powerful metaphor of the gremlin, presented so imaginatively by Richard Carson's writing and Novle Rogers's artwork, you will find ways to identify and banish the tenacious, self-defeating aspects of your personality.
ISBN: 0060961023

Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
Now, with the same frank advice and empowering information that made Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office a bestseller, Lois P. Frankel, PhD, tackles the 75 financial mistakes that keep women from having the wealth they deserve. She isolates the messages about money given to little girls that little boys never hear.
ISBN: 044657709X

You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles Your Therapist Never Told You
by Richard Carlson PhD Author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff .
Carlson reminds us that life is not your enemy, but you thinking can be. He explains that our minds are very powerful tools that can work for us or against us ay any given moment. We have a choice. We can learn to flow with life or we can struggle against it.
ISBN # 1-57731-064-0

Getting Them To Give a Damn: How to Get Your Front Line to Care About Your Bottom Line
by Eric Chester.
This is either a humorous book or a politically incorrect one - but it is very entertaining. Chester rails against what he calls Generation ‘Why’ (Y) those born between 1980 and 1994. If you employ what Chester calls “Kidpoyees” this book is for you!

The Sound of Thunder
by Tailor Caldwell
Looking for a good novel with lots of business savvy? Try this fascinating classic story of a disfunctional entrepreneurial family. This is not a quick read but hard to put down.

Developing Intuition - A Practical Guidance for Everyday Life
'We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition: an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment'. By Shakti Gawain ISBN 1577310802

Second Wind
by Suzanne Caplin ISBN 1891984470
A practical real-life approach to small business turnaround. The business owners definitive guide to troubleshooting.

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