Welcome to the first edition of Canada 9-5 – a blog carnival that presents you with Canadian blogs that talk about work and business. Mostly we’ll be featuring blogs by small business owners. However, we’re also interested in other topics, such as people blogging about their work, blogs published by associations, and probably all sorts of other topics that we haven’t even thought of yet.

So here we go – our first edition!

Becoming a Successful Consultant
Consultant Journal by Vancouver marketing consultant Andrea Coutu takes advantage of a specific niche: not only does she know about marketing, but she takes it one step further, by sharing her knowledge about how to market consultants of all striped. And even there she specializes: Writing sales proposals is something that she discusses frequently in her blog.

Home-Based Businesses
Barbra Sundquist from Vancouver Island is someone who I’ve come across quite a bit here in the blogosphere. She obviously knows how to get her name out. Her specialty is home businesses. On her blog, HomeBusinessWiz, the article How One Woman Went from Olympic Champion to Motivational Speaker tells the story of how Lori-Ann Muenzer, a Canadian cycling record holder, two-time Olympian, and gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics became a professional speaker.

Money Coach
Nancy Zimmerman is a money coach here in Vancouver. She has fabulous, down-to-earth tips on turning your financial life from worried drudgery to confident prosperity. And she practices what she preaches.

Real Estate
I like the tone of the Saskatoon Real Estate Centre Resource Blog – fresh, with pictures, interesting and entertaining topics, such as Dude, where’s my house? Winnipeg man charged with theft after house disappears.

Canada doesn’t do much business blogging yet. It’s not easy to find business blogs that are not directly related to technology.

I think that needs to change.

Not that we don’t want to feature technology bloggers – but we’re not going to concentrate on them, mostly because there are already lots of other avenues that do that, and there are many tech bloggers. We’re interested in who else is blogging.

If you have or know of a Canadian business blog, let us know here. The next edition will come out on September 8.

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