Small business owner profiles
Google has many – many – free services. One of them is to create a public profile using your Google account. It’s really designed for personal, not business use. Google’s blog post claims they’re working on ways for businesses to have a profile. However, you can and probably should create your profile on Google. Just […]
Do you have your Google Profile? Read More »
Because Twitter is such a short and sweet medium with very few options for creating a profile many people don’t put much thought into their Twitter profile. However, there are a few things you can do to make the most of your Twitter profile. Your Bio Although your Twitter bio is only 160 characters it
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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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In 2000, Harry Wagter moved to Ontario from Alberta and like many out-of-work baby boomers, he had difficulty finding in job in spite of pundits telling us employers need to court older workers. “I was a dinosaur,” says Harry. He began looking at purchasing a franchise. “I wanted to buy myself a job.” Harry was
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Whoever said bloggers can’t make BIG money had not heard this story. Yaro Starak – my blogging coach – interviewed his previous student, Alborz Fallah, who is the owner of caradvice.com.au – a car blog for Australians, which was valued at $5 million dollars and generates close to $50,000 a month. You can listen or
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Julia-Isabel Davenport comes from a long line of educators and entrepreneurs. As a child, she was either playing teacher or store owner. She even made and sold necklaces. Although the seeds for entrepreneurship were already there, after Julia-Isabel got her degree, like many Boomer women, she didn’t feel entrepreneurship was an option. “I was expected
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“What’s going on in general society first happens in sports,” Bruce Rumpf, CEO and President of Job1USA, told me. I must have sounded skeptical so he explained. Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson In 1936 the Olympics were held in Nazi Germany. Jesse Owens, an American track star who also happened to be African American, was
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Sports Pages Read More »
Sharon Evans, owner of Kinexions Holistic Health Studio, has broken every rule in the book; she has no business plan, makes snap decisions and follows her gut. Not a smart way to run a business – right? Wrong! Although Sharon doesn’t have a written plan, she DOES have the one thing very successful entrepreneur must
Are You Breaking the One Rule No Entrepreneur Should Ever Break? Read More »