Ramblings

Woodward’s 84% Sold On Opening Day

I got an email from the Canada’s number one realtor about Woodward’s. Dear Mr. Chow, The Woodward’s sales event today is a huge success. We have approximately 88 suites left with a good selection still available. Come on down and we’ll give you a red wristband for the opportunity to purchase our remaining inventory. See you soon! Bob Rennie Thanks […]

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Ramblings

Checking Out The Estates

The Estates is a private and exclusive community of 17 showcase homes in the award-winning community of Heritage Woods, Port Moody, where all the dot com moguls lives (according to Stephen Fung). I’m still skeptical. The homes at The Estates are definitely fit for a dot com mogul. The show home was 5,639 square feet of luxuriously finished living space. […]

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Fine Dining

Dining At Le Crocodile

Fine Dining Thursday moved to Friday as we hit Le Crocodile restaurant in downtown Vancouver. Le Crocodile is a French restaurant that’s been around for 20 years. Iron Chef America winner Rob Feenie got his start there. Rob helped Le Croc vault to Best French Restaurant honors. Then he left to start Lumiere and Le Crocodile has never won a […]

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The Net

The Google Image Trick

I’m sure by now many of you have heard of the Google image trick. If not, then you’re in for a treat. The Google image trick is where you place an image next to a Google ad to help give it some attention. The first time I read about it was on a thread at Digital Point. I tried searching […]

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The Net

Digg Censorship

Some issues about Digg censorship has come to light. The Digg website “about digg” page states the following. Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. This story […]

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The Net

The Honda Fit On TTZ

It looks like Google has bagged me another direct site targeting campaign sale with another tier 1 advertiser. Honda is running an ad for their new Fit across all my sites. The ad shows up on US traffic only, so anyone outside of the USA won’t see it. Here’s a screen shot of how the ads looks on Digital Grabber. […]

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The Net

Google Gets Its Groove Back

After missing earning projections last quarter, Google stormed back and posted Q1 earnings that were substantially higher than Wall Street’s consensus estimates. The news shot shares of Google up more than 7 percent in extended-hours trading. Revenue for Google was $2.25 billion, up 79 percent from a year earlier. Excluding traffic acquisition costs (or TAC) that the company shares with […]

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Ramblings

This Is Your Neighborhood

If anything, the upcoming sale of Woodward’s demonstrates the sheer marketing genius of Bob Rennie, Canada’s (maybe the world’s) number 1 realtor and owner of Rennie Marketing Systems. Mr Rennie has managed to generate so much buzz over the Woodward’s development that people are no longer thinking straight. 6000 people pre-registered, 1 hour long line up on opening day of […]

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