Business Basics to run your small business
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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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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Recently some local colleagues and I came together to create a one-day training session for local small businesses (www.BrandCamp.ca). Although we are all technically competitors, we have all been talking and sharing ideas for years. Since we enjoy each other’s company and respect the work the others do, it seemed natural for us to look
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I was watching an interview with Randy Bachman on The Hour. George commented that Bachman is really busy. He asked how does Bachman handle doing so many things. Bachman replied, “I love to work at nothin’ all day.” (from the song by Bachman Turner Overdrive) Bachman then clarified what he meant. As a musician his
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By Dennis J. Hocker, Ph.D. Success and achieving goals are two topics that have universal appeal. You would think that something that commands the interest of so many people would be understood and used by nearly everyone. However, what I have discovered is that most people make the same mistakes again and again. They never
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When I first struck out on my own almost four years ago, one of the decisions I struggled with most is how much to spend on books, training, and development. In fact, looking back I can safely say that I made a big mistake in spending too little. My biggest problem was mindset. I say
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A few summers ago my then seven-year old son and his friend participated in a common summer-time rite of passage: the lemonade stand. They decorated their stand, made signs and posted them throughout the neighbourhood, drew chalk arrows on the sidewalk and got started. At the end of the day they had made $14, a
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As an entrepreneur without a business degree (I studied history and then journalism) I’ve had to spend a lot of time learning on my own. This has meant reading a variety of business books. However, even if I had an MBA, I suspect I’d still be doing a lot of reading. Things change so fast,
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For many small business owners, learning is a key part of becoming successful. No matter how much experience you had in the work world, there will be areas of running a business that are new to you: perhaps accounting, marketing, sales, technology. And worse, technology changes so rapidly that even if you were up to
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I was reading the latest issue of Inc. magazine and noticed with interest an article about “Cool Campus Start-ups”. While I’m primarily interested in older entrepreneurs, I flipped to the article to see what the kids were up to. Looking at the photos of these young entrepreneurs I was startled to realize only 3 of
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