I visited Vancouver 3 three times in the springs of 1995, 2002 and 2009. The first time was with my father who was traveling on business and brought me along as a graduation present. That trip took me also to Seattle, however, at that time, there were no Hard Rock Cafes in either cities. The one in Vancouver opened a few weeks after my visit, on June 6, 1995. The one in Seattle opened in 2011. Continue reading
I haven’t yet visited Edmonton, so I haven’t personally been to the Hard Rock Cafe there, while it was open. My father did visit it although I could not tell you when. The Hard Rock Cafe Edmonton opened on July 7th 1994 and was closed in June of 2000 along with those in Calgary, Banff, Whistler and Vancouver. Continue reading
This is another location I have not visited personally, however I did visit Banff for a conference in May of 2001 – I highly recommend visiting the view, from anywhere in the city or area, is simply breathtaking. The Hard Rock Cafe Banff closed in June 2000, so I missed it by a year. It closed at the same time as other Canadian locations including Calgary, Edmonton, Whistler and Vancouver. But, as luck would have it, my dad who traveled a lot for business back then did visit it while it was open and got me a t-shirt. The Hard Rock Café Banff originally opened on October 22, 1995. Continue reading
This 15th virtual trip covers my January-February Foursquare badge hunting activities. There are a few new badges here and these but many level-ups to expertise badges. The new ones include Audi Winter Ride and AT&T College Football. This badge hunting expedition took me to New Orleans, in Colorado and in New York state. Continue reading
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eMarketer recently published a report (June 6th) on the evolution of mobile in Canada. The report highlighted a few interesting pieces of data about the expected growth of the mobile web as well ad spend going to the mobile web during that same time period. Continue reading
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Canada ranks 4th in penetration of Facebook users WorldWide according to a March 2012 eMarketer study. This places us behind Indonesia with 82,5%, India at 63,3% and Argentina at 62,1% but slightly ahead of the US where penetration is at 59,1%. According to recent comScore data on the reach of Facebook in Quebec (where I live) which I could compare with the total population from Statistics Canada, the penetration for this province would actually be 1 or 2 points higher than for the rest of the country (63%). Continue reading
When asked which ad formats they prefer the most and the least, Internet users in the US, and I presume this would be the same in Canada as well, they answered overwhelmingly (compared to other formats) that they prefer email ads. eMarketer recently published a report on opt-in email offers and loyalty which is where this comes from. Continue reading