Matt Handal has written an intriguing and extremely useful e-book, Proposal Development Secrets: Win More, Work Smarter, and Go Home On Time, available through the Amazon.com Kindle store. The book is certainly inexpensive, at $3.99, under normal circumstances, but Handal has gone a step further — if you download it by Tuesday, Feb. 14 2012 [...]
Canadian Design and Construction Report — January 2012 issue
The January 2012 issue of Canadian Design and Construction Report is now online. You can view it at www.cadcr.com and if you wish to order printed copies, request them through magcloud.com. We’re planning some updates to the website, as you can see the progression in the page turning software. This leads to a question? Is [...]
Ottawa Renovates fall 2011 issue published
Ottawa Renovates is an intriguing — and successful — extension of the publishing business associated with this blog. We started publishing the twice-yearly magazine about three years ago at the request of the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association Renovators’ Council. The challenge: While we had published the association’s internal newsletter, The GOHBA Impact!, for about [...]
Canadian Design and Construction Report
The latest issue of Canadian Design and Construction Report has been posted. You can request a printed or PDF copy through MagCloud (see sidebar). The printed version is $19.95, the PDF is free. You can also of course visit the publication’s own site at cadcr.com. Content in this issue includes a Canadian-focused report on my [...]
The Frugal Construction Marketer
This year (2012), I’ll be writing my second book: The Frugal Construction Marketer: How to build and promote your architectural, engineering and construction business for less than $5,000 a year. The book will show that you don’t need to spend huge amounts of money to be successful with your marketing if you are creative, understand [...]
Fighting the deadline with “fighting nature”
The price of the print version of How Humans Fight the Laws of Nature — and Lose: Discover How to Thrive in Life and Business, increases by 50 per cent on July 2. You can order the book through the fightingnature.com site (and receive volume 2 free, whether or not you purchase volume 1) but [...]
New Canadian Design and Construction Report published
The latest issue of the Canadian Design and Construction Report is now online, though it will be a few days before the cadcr.com website is prooperly updated, two weeks before it will ‘port’ to the MagCloud service and a few weeks more before printed copies will be available. There’s some useful content including a close [...]
Review: Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible
Presumably because of my blog, the publishers sent me a review copy of Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible by Alina Wheeler and Joel Katz. This is, intentionally, a visual book, where graphics and design are intended to focus and set the stage for the words. I liked it, but sense the concept would have [...]
Fighting nature: The Book
Book publishing — like writing — is a delayed gratification exercise. Even with new technologies and capacities, moving from the “idea” of writing a book to achieving the printed or electronic publication can take upwards of a year. I experienced this (slow) process in writing Construction Marketing Ideas: Practical strategies and resources to attract and [...]
The Canadian Design and Construction Report (Spring, 2011)
We’ve just posted the latest issue of The Canadian Design and Construction Report online at http://www.cadcr.com. I will wait a week before setting up the printed and IPad versions to allow for late changes and corrections. The latest issue includes a feature interview with Dave Paul, president of the Economic Developers Association of Canada (EDAC), [...]
