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
As a husband, my hearing can be good or not so good, depending on what is being said to me and when. So when my wife’s birthday was approaching and she started giving me ideas as to what to buy for her, I started to make a list in my head. My hearing was good but I wasn’t letting on.
I decided to see if I could “shop local” without driving to either Nanaimo or Duncan to a “big box” store. I had also heard about the growing 10% Shift movement and was keen to see my dollars go into my community rather than my neighbour’s. Why not read the rest of this article?
Posted by LDBA Admin under: Articles.
We think WordPress is an awesome website updating tool but is so much better with some key plugins (additional pieces of software, which can be easily added to your WordPress system). Here are our essentials and some of our favourites.
Essential
Developed by Yoast, this is an essential one for hooking your WP site into Analytics.
I thought that the All in One SEO Pack plugin was the best SEO plugin until I tried Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. It actually previews your title and meta description tags and lets you know if you’ve missed an element in your post based on your targeted keyword phrase. It also adds sitemap.xml and Google, Yahoo! and Bing site verification functionality! Joost “Yoast” de Valk is one of the best.
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Posted by LDBA Admin under: Articles.
Luxury Housing Market Showing Signs of Recovery
Record-setting residential sale –$100 million! Russian billionaire buys Silicon Valley home. Luxury housing market showing signs of recovery.
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Posted by Tracey Defrane under: Articles.
Are you happy with your website? Are you satisfied with its performance and the way to benefits your business? Are you aware of the latest developments and upgrades from Google and Facebook? It can be hard to stay on top of things when you have to run your business in Ladysmith, Nanaimo or anywhere else on Vancouver Island.
Things change rapidly on the internet (a little quicker than Ladysmith!) so if you have your head down, you just may not be aware (or understand) the latest trends that are now available (most of them are free) for you to take advantage of. Today.
If you don’t have time (or just want us to take care of the messy stuff), we are here to help. Let us know if there is something from this list that you would like us to take care of and we’ll get right on it.
- Update Google Analytics code to the latest version.
- Improve your website page load speed.
- Update title and meta tags, remove meta keywords tag.
- Review/add WordPress plugins, update WordPress to 3.0.1.
- Do you have new content? Is it optimized for your customers to find it in the search engines?
- Can we write a keyword-optimized and linked blog post for you?
- Want to update your website yourself?
- Want to be listed in “Google Places”, add menu items, coupons, see where your visitors are coming from?
- Want to get into Facebook Business? Take advantage of the new on-site “Like” button and “Open Graph” technology to drive more traffic!
- Need help branding? Logos, print, web.
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Posted by LDBA Admin under: Articles.
Downtown Ladysmith.
Some of the best things in life are right in front of us and in our own back yard. I was on a cruise a few years ago and was on the Island of Roatan in the Caribbean. The island is about the size of Salt Spring Island. A local guide whom I had hired, informed me of a Roatan gentleman while building a septic field in his backyard, discovered a trunk of buried treasure left by pirates who visited the island. The estimated value of the find was approximately $4 million. I am not encouraging anyone to venture into the back yard with a hoe and shovel. However, this month’s article is about a different kind of treasure and one that is readily found in our back yard if one wants to look for it and seek it out. The treasures I am speaking of are tied to creating a stable base in our local economy.
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Posted by Teddy McCrea under: Articles.
Top sale of Ladysmith/ Saltair/ Chemainus this year, $1,150,000
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Posted by Tracey Defrane under: Articles; News; Real Estate.
