One of the great advantages of owning a small business is being able to adapt to meet your customers needs, respond to market opportunities, and changes. Therein lies the $64,000 question - how do...
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Solo-entrepreneurs often get started with $5,000 of self-funding and never employ anyone other than themselves. Whereas, many of the startups I see typically use an average of $50,000-$250,000 to...
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According to CA Magazine there is a boom in Canadian Business Startups For example the 55-and-over age group now accounts for 15% of total startups, compared to 11% in 1990. The self-employment boom...
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Over at "The Performance & Talent Management Blog" I came across an interesting question: "Is self-awareness a competency?" and I think that a managers self-awareness is not...
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Today your customers have more choice and options than ever before and keeping your customers is more important than ever. How do your customers feel about your company and it's products or...
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The Business Development Bank of Canada is a Canadian Crown corporation and as with all large bureaucracies things do not move at the speed of business. Via the Ottawa Sun "The business...
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Cash flow is the name of the game for most small businesses. When you are running a business, it doesn't take long to figure out that if you are not managing your cash, you can get into trouble....
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"Forty-nine top entrepreneurs who have demonstrated leadership, drive and innovation have been chosen from an impressive list of nominees as Prairies region finalists in the Ernst & Young...
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Industry Canada has a great resource called 'Strategis' that has numerous free resources including "self-assesment tools, articles and resources for "owners and managers of small...
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Via Blogcritics.org Richard Marcus writes a relatively balanced update on the progress of the $5 billion US and Canadian Softwood Lumber dispute in his "Canadian Politics: Softwood Lumber, The...
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Susan Ward over at the Small Business Canada Blog has written "A Business Weblogs Primer" that is true to it's title. She answers eight questions including: What is a blog? Why should...
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To continue the discussion started "CFIB States 2 Million Jobs To Be Impacted Due to Lack of a Succession Planning" here is a page from the Canada-Ontario Business Service Center on...
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An editorial in the Edmonton Sun commented on the fact that the "Stephen Harper government is considering lowering the premiums we pay for the Canada Pension Plan as part of a "fiscal...
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I was reading in the Toronto Star that "Being a millionaire is no longer a big deal. In Canada there are now 232,000. That's a decent-sized city. Add in spouses and children and you've...
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I was reading Canadian Business Online and noticed the "Lessons from startup school" headline. The Centre of Entrepreneurship (COE) at Centennial College in Toronto is opening up its...
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Saskatchewan business owners a bit more upbeat due to tax breaks announced in the April provincial budget. The new provincial budget will lower corporate income tax rates to 12 per cent from 17,...
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Canada's close proximity to the US positions Canadian companies to be viewed as a 'near shore' alternative according to Outsourcing News. "Our overall labor costs put Canada midway...
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The Business Edge is reporting that "Corporations as massive as McDonald's and General Motors are wading into the online "blogosphere" - with employees and even business-suited...
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