The following is an excerpt from the book The Dream by Gurbaksh Chahal. The book was a quick and entertaining read. I occasionally found the book a little frustrating because Chahal skipped over some details I thought were important to his story, particularly from the point of view of an entrepreneur wanting to learn from […]
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The following article is by coach Gary Glasscock, MCLC, MSLC, The Life Connections Coach at www.ManifestingYourLife.com. Before deciding to seek out a mentor, you must first determine what you hope to gain from the relationship. That means you need to spend time thinking about both your short and long term goals. Once you’re fully clear
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This is a guest post by graphic designer Jennifer Harris at Keylime Creative . Jennifer designed the Baby Boomer Entrepreneur logo you see in the header of this blog. I often get requests to design logos, and of course the first question asked is “How Much?” I dread the question because after being told, most
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Today is Canada’s birthday and we’re 142. Right now, I’m on a train, somewhere between Toronto and Winnipeg. I’m on a three-week quest to see the western half of this country and visit a myriad of family members. Through the wonders of technology, I’ll be continuing to post business-related articles throughout my trip. However, I
Dina over at www.ThisMarriageThing.com is this week’s host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. This week’s selections include dealing with life going off course, is taste something that can be learned, osteoporosis, and of course this week wouldn’t be complete without some reminiscing about Michael Jackson. As always, this is a wonderful collection of writing by
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At midnight eastern June 12th, Facebook opened the doors for people to reserve their usernames as vanity Facebook URLs (I’m www.Facebook.com/AndreaStenberg). There was a fully of activity at midnight and many experts were amazed that Facebook didn’t crash as people rushed to reserve their own names. Meanwhile, many people rushed to reserve vanity URLs for
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Have you ever taken a day off work and come back to the nightmare of hundreds of emails in your in-box? Now what happens if you take a week or two of vacation? I know one day last week I took the afternoon off and woke up to 154 messages in my in-box. I was
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LinkedIn has a much more rigid set of rules regarding adding new people than other social media sites. If you break the rules you are much more likely to get a virtual hand-slap or get your account frozen than on any other site. It’s also not immediately clear how to converse with people you don’t
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Recently I spoke at the Business Women’s Network of the Owen Sound Chamber of Commerce about why every local business needs to be on Twitter. Most of the women present were not using Twitter so I needed to give some concrete examples of how people are using Twitter to promote small businesses to a local
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For those in the northern hemisphere it is officially summer. And here in Owen Sound we’ve finally passed the unseasonablely cool weather we’ve had this spring and are actually having some warm weather. Unfortunately my son is being his usual stubborn self and insists on wearing his winter pants – then wonders why he’s too
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