Three Ways to Promote Your Business

One of the most important things a business needs to succeed is effective publicity.
Here are three great ways to promote your business quickly:

1) Hold a large, well-publicized event. Advertise it on television, radio, in the newspaper, and anywhere else you can think of. An event for charity is ideal, as you both will prosper. Think of all the concerts and marathons that have brought in millions in fundraising dollars while promoting the companies who support them!

2) Dare to be different. Spend an hour brainstorming on creative ways how you can meet your particular customers’ needs. Think of five new ways to reach them, with five new ways you can help them solve a problem. Pick the best one and use it.

3) Offer rewards and incentives to those who help promote you, whether business partners, co-workers, or even family.

Keep working on promoting those businesses and feel free to share any ideas!

Canadian Pride

The Group of Seven

Among Canada’s Most Famous Artists

Who: The Group of Seven consisted of Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson. All but Harris began as commercial artists, several of them working at the same company in Toronto. Tom Thomson was never officially part of the Group, as he died tragically – and mysteriously – in the wilderness three years before the Group came together.

What: A group of artists who painted and exhibited together, the Group of Seven was influenced by nineteenth century Impressionism but rebelled against “the imitative quality of Canadian art.” (thecanadianencylopedia.com). The Group became known as a landscape school and the members caused controversy by boasting themselves to be Canada’s School of Painters.

When: The first exhibition was held in May, 1920, and the final showing was in 1931. The group disbanded and a new association, the Canadian Group of Painters, was formed in 1933.

Where: The Group’s first exhibition was at the National Gallery of Toronto. The members focused a great deal on painting in Northern Ontario, but also painted landscapes in Quebec and on the East and West Coasts. The members of the Group of Seven were also the first artists of European descent to paint the Arctic landscape.

Why: The Group of Seven, guided by spirituality, was obsessed with portraying the Canadian landscape as rugged, dramatic and transcendent. During this nationalistic era, the artists were intent on creating a purely and distinctively Canadian style. They succeeded, and have influenced Canadian artists for almost a century.

CBC Arts Update

"Vancouver artist Ken Lum and Montreal gallery director and curator Louise Déry won the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards on Monday" - CBC.ca Arts - Vancouver. See the whole story at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/11/26/visualarts-awards.html

What's New in Canadian Art

Canada Council of the Arts is turning 50! Here's a link to their site: http://www.50.canadacouncil.ca
Speaking of Canadian Art, it's about time I reviewed the Group of Seven and their works. Stay tuned for the upcoming article on the history and significance of the Group of Seven!

Welcome to eternal spiral

Eternal spiral is written by the owner of Designs by Sarah, a graphic design and print company in Dieppe, New Brunswick. With several years of fine arts and crafts behind her, Sarah is now looking to put her skills to good use in the community.