Healthy Families Conference This Weekend!

Healthy Families Conference
UBC Student Union Building, Vancouver
April 18 & 19, 2009

Creating Community at Home and in School! Educators and parents from across the Pacific Northwest will gather to participate in an event designed to inspire, support, and connect the amazing individuals who contribute to building community for our children at home and in school

This two-day conference is packed with great presentations, breakout sessions, workshops, discussion groups, and meals that will create a collaborative and participatory setting giving each participant a toolkit of resources and contacts to take home.

Attend the Healthy Families Conference to learn skills and strategies to nurture strong relationships within your family and create strong ties for children within your community.

Call 604.569.6544 or visit www.healthyfamiliescanada.org.

Time for Spring photos!

Spring is a GREAT time to get family photos done.  Think Mother's Day & Father's Day coming soon... So our friends at Bopomo Pictures is giving a free sitting fee for all photo sessions for the month of April only.  That's a $30 value.  At Bopomo you get to review your photo session shots on a large full colour Mac screen at the studio, and pick exactly the shots you want to print.  You can also get the shots edited & cropped to make them picture-perfect.

Check out their work at www.bopomo.ca

This shot setup below, spelling out their name, is one of our favourites for little ones.

WestCoast Families on Global TV

Check us out on Global TV Noon News Hour on Monday April 6!  This week we'll be talking about Kids Camps for summer 09.  No it's NOT too early to be thinking about summer camps for your kids... especially residental (sleep-over) camps!  The Parenting segment is on at the end of the Noon News Hour, about 12:50pm.  all of the information covered on the segment will also be listed on our website - just click on the GLOBAL TV button.  or click here: www.westcoastfamilies.com/globalTV

Attention Mom Entrepreneurs!

Funny, why do we have to tag ourselves as "Mom" Entrepreneurs.  Why are we any different from any other entrepreneurs?  Why are we classified?  Well, here's what I think.  I think it's because being an Entrepreneur on top of the full time job of being a Mom shows what amazing, hard working multi-taskers we are... so why not tell the world!  Another woman in business has recognized the fact that although we MAY not be running multi-million dollar corporations, we still want our businesses to succeed.  

Holly Klaassen has started HerSEO for Moms just like us.  We know online presence is crucial to business success in these times, but we can't always afford an expert to come in and assess our website, optimize our website for search engines, and ensure it's the best it can be.  Holly has created HerSEO so that we CAN afford it.  They offer services with flexible and affordable packages (starting at just $50) to make our websites BETTER and get more hits by browsers out there.  Each package comes with the understanding of why Search Engine Optimization is so important to our business, what they are doing to help, and what we can do in the future to rank higher on search engines.  

If I'm talking above & beyond your technical understanding of websites and search engines, you could probably use HerSEO!!

If you have a website and want to drive more traffic to it, this could be the answer for you. Check it out ...  www.herseo.com