Canadian Tour Coming To Saskatchewan

It's about time!

The Canadian Tour announced yesterday that they will be returning to Saskatchewan for the first time since 1984 with the playing of the Saskatchewan Open June 30 to July 6. Up for grabs is a $150,000 purse.

Thank you goes out to Darcy Bear of the Whitecap First Nation and everyone else involved in bringing the Canadian Tour to Dakota Dunes. It will be great for the local economy and will be a great event to attend.

Bear even mentions bigger things for Dakota Dunes, tossing around the PGA and LPGA as possibilities in the future. Let's take things one step at a time, but it never hurts to dream big.

This is a great thing for the province of Saskatchewan, and I hope the event is supported as well as every other event this province hosts.

For more information on Dakota Dunes, vist http://www.dakotadunes.ca/

To read the press release from the Canadian Tour, click here.

Marketing Tips - Be Real For Your Customers

By creating videos, posting to your blog, and responding to comments from your customers you become real to your customers. People are no longer buying from a company, they are buying from a familiar face.

Adam Hicks Wins Saskatchewan Student Entrepreneur Competition

Congratulations goes out to a friend of mine, Adam Hicks, who recently was crowned the Saskatchewan Student Entrepreneur Competition Champion for 2008. Adam started his company, Adam Hicks Painting Enterprises, in 2007. The company provides residential painting services under the College Pro Painters brand and he has also branched out to buying and flipping houses in the Regina market as well.

I've known Adam since high school and also took business classes with him at the U of R. He's probably one of the most intelligent people I know and always seems to have a new idea or project to work on. In addition to his business ventures, he's also working to put together Dancing With Regina's Stars April 26, 2008 at the Conexus Arts Centre. You can visit www.dancinregina.com for more information on that event.

To view the full press release put out by ACE Canada, click here.

There was also an article written by Braden Husdal of the Regina Leader-Post in today's paper. You can view it online here.

Congratulations Adam and good luck in Calgary at the regional competition on February 29th!

Marketing Tips - Talk With The People Who Are Listening

Advertising has become such a big part of our day to day lives. We are inundated with it, which is why we have all got so good at ignoring it. The other reason we've got so good at ignoring advertising is because we have become on-demand people. Internet marketing guru Rich Schefren calls this the Attention Age. Basically, people don't have time to do just in case learning because by the time they get around to applying what they've learned, they'll probably have to go back and re-learn it. That's a big time waste. With the Internet, people know that they don't have to pay attention to any mass media advertising because when they actually need information it will be available to them online and on demand.

Don't Want To Build Your Own Website? We'll Do It!

So just as we announce that we're starting a blog to help people build their own websites using the online web builder at OnlineWeb4u.com, we would also like let everyone know about our web design services at LRS Consulting.

If you want a website done quickly, professionally, and for a relatively low price, our web design services are for you. Watch the video embeded below to get a better sense of what our web design services entail (if you watch the video you'll realize that we put the emphasis on getting your website listed in the search engines to get you results rather than primarily on the design aspect).

Your Website Tips Blog Launched

We've had a web builder for a while now at http://www.onlineweb4u.com/ but haven't really done anything to market it so far. Right now we only use it to build and maintain websites for our small business clients. Hopefully that is all about to change.

We just started the Your Website Tips Blog at http://www.yourwebsitetips.blogspot.com/. The goal is to provide a bunch of tips that will help people build their own websites with our online website builder at http://www.onlineweb4u.com/. The web builder is extremely easy to use, but with a few helpful tips you can get a whole lot more out of your website. Hopefully people will find the tips helpful.

Again, head over to http://yourwebsitetips.blogspot.com/ to check out the blog in its infant stages.

An intro video for onlineweb4u.com is embeded below.

New Design for LRS Consulting Website

Hey all, just wanted to drop a note to say we just finished a redesign of the LRS Consulting website. We really tried to overdo it with video because really, who likes reading a bunch of text anymore? Anyway, the intro video for the site is embeded below. Head over to http://www.lrsconsulting.ca/ to check out the rest.