CanClean Janitorial Services - James Maniam and his business

Great meeting today! 


After the dramatic shift of power that occurred few days ago, Matt the Mortgage Man, newly elected president of BBN, was running the meeting for the first time. His style proved to be so efficient that each of us has phone numbers and emails of each other in cell phone now. Quite scientific approach indeed!


We also had a guest speaker, James Maniam, owner of CanClean Janitorial Services. James has successful company that operates in Langley and serves multiple commercial properties. James' specialty is cleaning of churches and his hallmark client is the oldest (over 150 years in existence!) church in Langley. It was great to learn about James' business model and what makes his business unique in that fiercely competitive industry. We hope to see James again and wish him the very best in his business.


Also, possibility of opening a new BBN chapter was briefly discussed. It seems like there is a genuine interest of certain Mission business people to see it happening. The good thing is that our BBN website can be easily extended to accommodate this kind of development. Meanwhile, we should see profiles of Ray Salvador, the comp tech, and John Hubbard of Integral Inspections to be added to the growing list of BBN members on our website so every visitor can learn more about fantastic services they offer.

Helen Williams, the wordsmith

Helen Williams, the wordsmith and copywriter, was out guest speaker last week.

Helen is running a wordsmith business in Langley, BC, helping business owners provide content for the websites, prepare newsletters and doing research. Helen has many years of experience of writing for tourism industry of British Columbia and is well known member of our Langley community.

It was great to hear Helen's tips of how to write best to the web and all those subtle nuances about formatting and color selection. Multiple questions and comments from the audience generated a very interesting dialog about the content of the web for business in general.

We would like to thank Helen for visiting us and hope to see her again.

Those who would like to learn more about Helen's business can visit her website http://williamscopywriting.ca/

The Pitchman

Great meeting today! Thanks you so much guys for listening so carefully my presentation, I appreciate it. Regarding that book of Malcolm Gladwell, which was mentioned please see it here:


What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures


The chapter about salesman is called "The Pitchman". It is quite interesting reading indeed. Those of us who has to persuade people a lot while making a sale might find it useful and even somewhat inspiring.

Golf as tax deductible entertainment

As all business owners know, certain types of entertainment can be tax deductible for business. For example, if you take a client to a hockey game to seal the deal, half of it can be written off. Well, that is not the case for golf at the moment although there is a chance it might change in the nearest future. In this article it is explained what would be rationale behind it:

Canadians debate tax and golf

I am not sure if our group has any golfers but if this tax project comes through OK, some might consider to become one for Walnut Grove has several great golf courses. It may not happen at all - I have double checked with an experienced accountant about the topic and was told that actually chances for passing that tax bill are fairly slim.

But the most shocking news is that golf in Canada is more popular than ice hockey. Who knew? Bizarre facts come out from shadow once you start digging into Canadian taxation.