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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Yes, the Blogging Boomers Carnival has reached 150 editions. That’s 150 weeks of interesting and varied posts by this collection of baby boomer bloggers. This week includes articles about being both gym free and guilt free (boy do I need that one), the 100th birthday of RVs, medical research on aging, wearing plaid after 40
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By Janet Barclay One of the greatest challenges many people face in business and in their personal lives is that there never seems to be enough time to accomplish everything they need to do, let alone finding time for things they want to do! They look with envy at those who are able to successfully
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The other day I was listening to the Marketing Over Coffee podcast featuring an interview with Seth Godin, talking about his new book Linchpin. While the entire podcast was interesting – as always – there was one section in particular that stood out. Godin said, “real artists ship.” By artists, he didn’t necessarily mean people
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Happy Family Day everyone! What’s Family Day you ask? Well, Canadian winters are long. Really long. Canadian summers are full of long weekends – three days to get away, get outside and enjoy the sun. But for the longest time, winter stretched on without end between New Year’s and the March Break. And if you
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