Ladysmith Downtown Business Association
Ladysmith is located on the eastern shores of beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia. With a population of over 8,000, it has a thriving downtown business community centered around historic First Avenue.
The LDBA actively works to cultivate an environment of economic and cultural vibrancy in the Ladysmith downtown core. The meeting schedule is:
- Executive/Marketing Committee: 1st Thursday of every month
- General Membership: 3rd Thursday of every month
Latest LDBA News, Articles and Events
Is your small business interested in growing your employees potential? If your business has fewer than 50 employees and has one or more employees who have not completed high school and/or lack essential skills you may qualify for the ASPECT Small Business Employee Training Program.
Whether you want to increase employee motivation, improve your businesses adaptability to market changes, or reduce employee turnover, ASPECT’s Small Business Employee Training Program can help. The program is focused on helping small businesses maximize the potential of their growth employees by providing them access to funded training courses that are tailored to the needs of small businesses and their employee(s).
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Paul Mycroft—owner of Paul Mycroft Design Ltd., professional web designer—has been a dedicated and active member of the Ladysmith Downtown Business Association (LDBA). Mycroft has made a significant contribution to the LDBA success through his time and energy spent on improving, maintaining and monitoring the LDBA website. The website boasts one of the most active in Ladysmith, with constant updating of information, including an increase in membership profiles, interesting articles and many exciting events hosted by the LDBA.
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Each month as part of our 2009 membership package, several LDBA member businesses are profiled for free in the excellent TAKE 5 Magazine, which has a readership of over 38,000. In October’s edition, the following 6 businesses were profiled. Join TAKE 5 on Facebook:
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Each month as part of our 2009 membership package, several LDBA member businesses are profiled for free in the excellent TAKE 5 Magazine, which has a readership of over 38,000. In September’s edition, the following 6 businesses were profiled. Join TAKE 5 on Facebook:
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Would you spend $30/month to expose your business to 771 pairs of eyes AND be able to see exactly how many visits your profile page received for that $30? Thought so. Not to mention the $10/month to be a member—now, that’s a deal!
In January 2009, the LDBA relaunched this website as part of a renewed marketing effort to attract new members and better service our existing members. As part of this, we decided to become more transparent and open about how we operate and what benefits our members receive. This included our website’s performance, statistics available at every membership meeting on profile views, search engine traffic, keywords and more valuable marketing information.
You can see for yourself from the graph above how traffic has increased since January: from 65 unique visitors (different people) in December 2008—our old site—to 771 unique visitors in July 2009! That’s a 1,086% increase in 7 months! (psst… we provide more goodies later in this article).
With this improvement comes opportunity. We now have some fantastic advertising opportunities for your business at very reasonable rates—we’ll also provide precise feedback (click-through rate to your profile page) to you at our monthly meeting so you can see how effective your ad is, something print advertising cannot offer.
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What a Wonderful Way to Spend our Sunday by the Wandering Wine Wayfarers.
Recently, we were picked up at Art of Brewing and Wine Making in South Wellington by Randy’s Nanaimo Shuttle Service. We had a fabulous day touring and tasting at several wineries in the Cowichan Valley.
The fruit wines and hospitality at Silverside were charming, the side trip to Organic Fair left us with a bounty of specialty chocolate, and lunch in the great outdoors of Glenterra was delightful
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