Vancouver is Bullshit???

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Bunker Project Episode 142

Bunker Mavens in attendance:

Bonnie Sainsbury @bsainsbury

Margaret Reynolds @bc_insurancegal

Andrew McGivern @podcasthero

Bob Garlick @bobgarlick

Randall Orser @numbercrunchers

Kurtis Lockhart @kurtislockhart

MarilynAnderson @mande2

Marcel Lapointe @ unknown

Sanj Sukerkar @genesysdesigns

Ken McGrath @kenamcg

James Karg @twisted_majic

Listen to the episode and read the full show notes to get all the details.

 

Show 142

We start the show off talking about our sponsor, Brewmaster Black. Marcel said once you go black you never go back. Marcel asks if everyone agrees… Marcel has gone back and will not go back (when it comes to beer). Margaret has gone black and been back. She is using the blonde exception clause. OK Spring 1516 is made using the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 which means the beer is made with only four ingredients and no preservatives…

Andrew brings up the podcast patent and the possibility of getting patent and trademark lawyer, Andrew Mincov to join us for a show again to discuss it.

Round Table Intros:

Round Table Intro Question: Name, Twitter Handle and which social media platform or app are you burnt out on and why?

• Marilyn isn’t into Pinterest anymore. Margaret said Pinterest is for great recipes and food porn.

• Sanj is having difficulty getting engagement on his Facebook business page.

• Kurtis is burnt out on Linked In with all the spam going on.

• Marcel doesn’t have a good answer but doesn’t want to be thrown under the bus.

• Randall only uses the big three. Linked in Twitter and Pinterest… oops. He meant Facebook. He is burnt out on Facebook cat pictures.

• Bonnie is burnt out on Social Media Kumbaya. She was bored of Pinterest after two days. We talk about if people are really making money on Pinterest.

• Margaret is also burnt out on Pinterest because she finds it the least useful.

• Bonnie said that Social Media for SEO is bullshit. Sanj and Bosco say that social click throughs can be bad for SEO because it can seriously increase the bounce rate.

• James isn’t burnt out on any social platform because he can effectively manage his time. Although he doesn’t like the new Google Plus layout… Ken like the layout but doesn’t like what they did with hangouts.

• Bosco is burnt out on Foursquare because he was stalked by people who saw him speak at events.

• Andrew was excited about the New Myspace before it came out. But he was burnt out after a few minutes. Margaret said it is because it is lonely there. Andrew says that the New Myspace should invite all the podcasters to host their media files for free (or use the fremium model) and everyone would have been talking about the New Myspace on their podcast shows. It would have been free advertising for the site and could generate a ton of buzz and make it place worth hanging out in.

• Bob is burnt out on a lot of things but mostly he is burnt out on Vancouver. Oh oh.

Is Vancouver bullshit?

• Bob said that Vancouver is full of a bunch of posturing wannabees and nobody does real business here.

• Andrew asks in the digital age does it matter where you are physically located? Can’t you do business from anywhere to anywhere in the world? Bob said that is true but Vancouver has such a bad international reputation for being a bunch of idiots that you can’t get the big deals.

• In Asia,