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Spa Espace Nomad Montreal

Maintenant déménagé dans les locaux de l’ancien Sergent Recruteur, le nouvel emplacement du Spa Espace Nomad à Montréal est tout simplement magnifique – vous ne voudrez plus laisser cet oasis de paix!

L’entreprise cofondée par Julie et Marie-Ève célèbre ses 4 années d’existence avec un nouvel emplacement au coeur du plateau Mont-Royal. Ont sait que les premières années d’une entreprise ne sont pas les plus faciles, alors chapeau à elles!

Truc écono: la promotion 3 certificats-cadeaux pour le prix de 2.

Et sinon, profitez des récentes trouvailles de voyage de Julie, cofondatrice passionnée des soins holistiques, qui a rapporté de Bali des secrets bien gardés: gâtez-vous avec le soin beauté et détente Bali Boreh – sûrement mon prochain achat!

Wednesday, on my desk…

This image is part of the ‘On my desk‘ project. As it often happen, since a week the floor is becoming my desk, this to help me gain a perspective on my work. Stuff is spread around, until i decide to sort things out!

Chalk it up!

Ring House

Happy monday to you! Since dreaming is free, i thought we could afford to show you some images of the Ring House – a truly wonderful gem among trees, located at Karuwisawa, Nagano Prefecture.

Argument Clinic

Moving picture

Lac St-Jean from viewfromthemoon on Vimeo.

The Beckhams and the Hiltons of the web

A british school survey carried out by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers lead to the conclusion that 75% of today’s school children want to become famous sport or pop stars. Boys prefer David Beckham while girls favour Victoria Beckham or Paris Hilton.

The teachers are alarmed, because most of the children will realize that they won’t become the next Beckham or Hilton easily. They will grow up with a feeling of failure or low self-esteem when celebrity status is not achieved.

In my opinion this is not something new at all. Hey, my hero was Captain Kirk

I believe that most of the people nowadays want to become famous in the one or another way too:

being a successful entrepreneur, becoming financially independent (popularly known as “becoming rich”), having a lot of readers on your blog, hundreds of “followers” on Twitter, all these are indicators of the silent wish to be liked, valued and seen by other people.

I think these wishes are natural among all human beings, as long as people don’t suffer from peer community pressure, stress caused by pressure to become “famous”… and that’s where my critique of the “Web 2.0″ comes in:

I think the web tools we are currently using (like blogs, Twitter, MySpace or Facebook) can increase exactly this feeling of peer community pressure, because we are permanently following the life of our new “idols” (a blogger, or someone on Twitter or facebook) and then compare and measure ourself with these “idols”.

These new behaviours can easily result in a feeling of failure and low self-esteem. And beware! Some people are really good at “personal marketing” and trying to increase their community status on behalf of your feelings. Be conscious about it. Just think of it the next time you compare the number of people following you (”followers”) and people you follow (”following”) on Twitter.

On this, i wish you a relaxed day, without any peer community pressure!

(text by Chris Car)

Ron Paul – The High Tide

Silence

Wishing a nice weekend to all, off from busy-ness!

On aime

Etsy’s Alchemy

This video shows what is Etsy’s Alchemy: a way for crafters to create custom items on request, and for buyers to ask for exactly what they want!

Found on Millea’s blog!

My Starbucks Idea – business 2.0

“Name tags on employees. I like to be able to start a conversation with a name. I see the same folks all the time and enjoy speaking with them, but i don’t always remember their names.”

“Not all employees are as friendly as they should. I think you should reemphasize customer service since that is one of the reasons I go to Starbucks.”

“Hire more mature people who have a more developed idea of what customer service is.”

“have a separate line “express” for drip coffee only.”

“Starbucks needs to make ALL stores have free Wi-Fi. In Seattle I go to Tully’s, because of the free Wi-Fi, not superior service.”

“More of the comfortable-type chairs (cushion) – fewer tables and hard chairs. Offer the bar-type seating in more stores.”

All the above quotes are taken from Starbucks’s new venture, MyStarbucksIdea.com, a true web2.0 jewell, both for Starbucks, and their customers.

Raw, yet friendly and simple : hand your customers a mic so that they can let you know what they want. Show them that you listen with both ears, and they’ll tell you exactly what you need to do to make your business better.