This past weekend was the unofficial end of spring here in Canada. This coming weekend is known as the May 2-4 weekend; a long weekend officially celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria but in reality, the traditional time for opening the cottage for the summer. In unusual fashion, this year’s long weekend actually includes May […]
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When networking on the site LinkedIn, you want to make sure you target the right people to connect with. While I believe you should be some sort of open networker, you don’t need to have an enormous list of connections if you target the right people. A network of 500 highly targeted connections is far
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Many entrepreneurs who are publishing online have questions about copyright. In particular they are often worried about their material being stolen. From a marketing point of view, having your blog posts, videos and slide shows reused by others is useful, as long as you get credit (and a link back to your own site). That’s
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This past weekend saw me heading off to London (Ontario, not England … I wish!) for Podcamp London. If you’ve never been to a Podcamp, photo by Jason Fredin it is billed as an “unconference”. Admission is free, speakers are unpaid, the schedule changes on the fly and it’s a great networking event, not to
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One of the biggest drawbacks to being a solopreneur is the lack of tech support. When you work for a large company, these is usually an IT department. When your computer won’t work or your network is down, you know exactly who to call for help. When you work from home, or even if you
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Seems like this is my week for hosting. Here in Owen Sound my dance group just held their big dance weekend plus I was host to two out-of-town dancers who needed a place to stay. It was a lovely weekend and my feet are just starting to recover. I even learned to tango and sort
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The title of today’s blog post is actually a quote from Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation. He goes on to say: “Just like in marketing, it takes a certain type of person to drive a BWM, and that may not be the same kind of person who likes retro country funk music. The point
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Being in business (as well as being a wife and mother) means that I often feel like I have too many balls – or pins – in the air at any one time. This week I’m working on a major project for a client, trying to get some of my own sales copy online and
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Although I have a StumbleUpon account and have the plugin installed in my web browser I have to confess I haven’t really done much with this social bookmarking site. There are just so many hours in the day and I can’t do everything. However, I recently added an analytics tool to my blog admin page.
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Welcome to Episode 1 of The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur Podcast. In this new project of mine, I will be interviewing small business owners about how and why they run their businesses. My hope is that by hearing about what others are doing with their businesses, you’ll be inspired to try new things and motivated to
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