A very important, and often overlooked, task for any small business owner is to monitor your analytics. Where is your website traffic coming from, where are they landing on your site, when are they leaving. Particularly if you have a blog, it is important to notice what blog posts attract the most attention and which […]
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Thanks to my colleague Jeff Apton, I recently discovered the report The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. This study states that in the United States an entrepreneurial boom is looming; a boom created by baby boomers. Apparently, Americans aged 55 to 64 are more likely to become entrepreneurs than those aged
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A collection of interesting and entertaining blog posts all in one place – that’s what a blog Carnival is all about. Each week, member bloggers submit their best work to that week’s host so readers can pick from the most interesting posts for the week. This week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by Vaboomer.
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LinkedIn has created an application to connect your LinkedIn connections with your Outlook inbox. If you’re using Microsoft Outlook for your email, and want the two connected you need to download and install the Outlook Social Connector and the LinkedIn Outlook Connector. Once you’ve done that, information about people in your LinkedIn network will appear
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If you are in business you must focus on making a profit. Without profit, without earning descent money, you don’t have a business, you have a hobby. Putting your focus on profit doesn’t make you a Ferengi. It is a necessary part of the business world. When you have a j-o-b, someone else is responsible
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It’s an unseasonably warm March day here in Owen Sound. The sun is out, the sky is blue, the snow is melting. Of course, we Canadians know mother nature is just teasing us because we’re bound to get at least one more good snow storm. However tempting it is, I never put away my winter
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I have a confession to make. Even though I’m an adult – a middle-aged one at that – and I’m not currently parenting a breastfeeding baby, I nap. There, I’ve said it. I’m a napper. Oh, it’s not like I nap every day. If you call me at 2 p.m. and I don’t answer, it
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Recently I had become frustrated with my management – or rather lack of management – of my email inbox. As a business owner, a blogger, and an information junkie, I often scour the internet looking for information that will help me run my business or help me help my clients and readers run theirs. When
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The Olympics may be over for another year, but we Blogging Boomers continue to blog. No medals are on the line. No world records will be broken. However, we share interesting thoughts and ideas about life as a baby boomer. This week’s carnival covers office romance, hiding your age, career change, a four-month backpacking trip
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This past weekend I attended Podcamp Toronto. It was an amazing weekend, in part because of the people who were there and in part because I had a plan. I went into the weekend knowing what I needed to get out of the event and how to get it. My personal event strategy is one
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