An open letter to all Tim Horton employees

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First off let me say that I really do appreciate all you do. You are there for us 24 hours a day and are responsible for ensuring that hundreds of thousands of Canadians get their morning off to a good start. How many times have we heard something to the affect of “I can’t function without my morning coffee”? Most of you happily prepare our coffee, tea and bagels and serve it to us with a smile. Ninety-nine percent of the time I am a very happy customer and the only thing that puts a damper on my morning is the fact that I have to wait in a lineup of 40 cars before it is my turn at the speaker. This is completely out of your control and only serves to validate how essential your products are to our lives.

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Finding inspiration on Yahoo! Answers.

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Lately I have been finding it hard to find inspiration for blog posts on my own sites as well as for some of my regular clients. I am pretty lucky in the fact that most allow me to write about whatever strikes my fancy as long as it relates to the Internet, marketing and preferably both at the same time.

Sometimes this freedom can be somewhat of an issue when a lack of inspiration takes hold. There are days when I can produce 2,000 – 2,500 words an hour without any issue. The ideas are flowing, the structure is simple and the articles or blog posts take very little work to complete. Yet there are other days where countless hours are wasted because I couldn’t come up with ideas or concepts for articles and would have rathered a client say “Please write about topic A and topic B”. Continue reading “Finding inspiration on Yahoo! Answers.” →

Getting pulled over as the Big Bad Wolf

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This past Friday my wife Kelly and I went to a Jack & Jill for friends of ours. As it was the day before Halloween they decided to make it a costume affair so my wife dressed as Little Red Riding Hood and I went as the Big Bad Wolf. My costume consisted of a blue and white checkered Grandma’s nightgown with lots of brown fur, a wolf’s mask and a sleeping bonnet. My wife picked up a pair of baby blue ladies slippers with a bow on them to complete the outfit.

We left the Jack & Jill at around 12:30 am and were driving friends to the bar when lights from a following police car lit up. I pulled over thinking he was going to go by me but the officer pulled in behind me and threw the spotlight on. Continue reading “Getting pulled over as the Big Bad Wolf” →

Twitter headlines that interested me today

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Ok, so I’m a bit addicted to Twitter these days. I’ve been working diligently on finding interesting people to follow and have gained a following myself. I have actually gotten a couple of customers through my interactions on the site which is definitely a bonus.

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