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Business Blogging
on January 31, 2007
The Instigator Blog is asking for Montreal bloggers to unite and is proposing:
With that in mind, I'm proposing a weekly (or regularly scheduled) breakfast meeting for every entrepreneur out ther...
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Entrepreneurship
on January 30, 2007
I just learned that February 4-10, 2007 is International development Week.
Held the first full week of February each year the goal is to highlight and illustrate the work of Canada's Development...
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Business Blogging
on January 29, 2007
I came across this post from InstaBloke and was struck by the brilliance of this idea.
I used to bookmark a favorite for everyone who has ever linked to me or commented on my blog. I did it with the i...
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Canadian Small Biz Resources
on January 26, 2007
Here is a list of a few links I found to Canadian Small Business Online Resources that I thought you might find useful.
Canada's Small Business Resource Centre: Get statistics and detailed inform...
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Marketing
on January 25, 2007
This was an internal video designed to wake up the troops. Now it is so popular Kodak has released it onto the WWW via YouTube. I laughed and laughed as they make fun of themselves and pull their hair...
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Misc
on January 24, 2007
One of the great things about D&B is the research and access to information available via their small business site D&B Express. I found these comments from entrepreneurs about having adequate...
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Taxes
on January 23, 2007
Do any of our readers have information about what is going on in Canadian forestry? I was reading the Toronto Star and ran across this article:
"The company told us they wouldn't sell it to a...
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Human Resources
on January 22, 2007
Making your business a great place to work requires more than buying a box of donuts once in awhile - you need to build trust.
This great article from The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, NS explains the...
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Technology
on January 19, 2007
Toronto is home to the MaRS convergence innovation center designed to position Canada for leadership in the highly competitive global innovation economy. They have a great website with tons of informa...
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Business Succession
on January 18, 2007
Family squabbles about money is not new. What is new is the amount of money being left by parents to their adult kids.
Family money is viewed as a special kind of money and takes on many symbolic mean...
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Human Resources
on January 17, 2007
Hiring the right people for the right job, for the right reasons is always a challenge because our own beliefs, behaviors, and actions can get in the way. The key is to be prepared...
"The art o...
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Noteworthy
on January 16, 2007
Seems like lists are all the craze these days and I have long wondered why it was so hard to find Canadian bloggers online. Well the other day sean from Buzz Canuck posted his list of Canada's Blo...
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Taxes
on January 15, 2007
I do not hear it anymore but when I first started in business my friends used to say, "You pay for lunch, it doesn't cost you anything because you get to "write it off."
I would th...
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Misc
on January 12, 2007
Not exactly the first company you think of when looking for a list of leads for your marketing campaign but D&B has a surprisingly wide selection of marketing directories including:
Guide to Cana...
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Marketing
on January 11, 2007
Looking to grow? Looking for new markets?
Maybe it is time to look outside of our Canadian borders and past the US for new markets.
...if you're not exporting finished products, you're still...
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Business Succession
on January 10, 2007
The retirement of baby boomers is starting to get more attention as we get closer to the time when they will be retiring.
As Baby Boomers begin to retire and the labour shortage spreads beyond Albert...
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Economic Outlook
on January 9, 2007
Continuing good news in Alberta, job creation is at it's highest since 1980. The bad news is that strong job growth anywhere will always attract those workers looking for a better pay cheque.
In ...
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Economic Outlook
on January 8, 2007
Over on my original blog I debunk the myth that 9 in 10 businesses fail in the first year - in fact 76 percent of new [US] businesses were open after two years.
I came across some Canadian stats that...
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Marketing
on January 5, 2007
I discovered a new website today, there is a great article titled "How to Get Better Responses to Your Advertising" that contains 12 tips to get a higher response to your advertising.
Writi...
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Marketing
on January 4, 2007
Is this your idea of marketing? Advertising a sales or discounting?
I've argued before that marketing is the glass jaw of Canadian entrepreneurs. But there is no excuse for someone coming out of ...
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on January 3, 2007
Back on December 5th I reported that Canadian Accountants Say Two-Thirds SME Business Owners Retire Next Decade: I Say Buy a Business!.
I purchased their book on succession planning and got it just b...
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Business Loans and Financing
, Misc
on January 2, 2007
Many thanks to D&B for sponsoring this blog and being a catalyst to the small business community in creating this resource of small business Financial management and credit risk knowledge.
This i...
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Business Loans and Financing
on January 1, 2007
This January BDC puts $240,000 up for grabs for aspiring student entrepreneurs.
There will be local competitions in January 2007 with the following universities holding the local competitions: Simon...
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Noteworthy
on January 1, 2007
Via Wikipedia: "In China, the Pig (a more correct form would be the boar) is associated with fertility and virility. To bear children in the year of the pig is considered very fortunate, for they...
