Do Your Signs Tell Your Story?

Chances are, every product or service you sell has a story. You may have tested the product in your own home. You may have chosen to sell the less expensive item because, in your experience, there is minimal difference in [...]

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In The News: HSBC Drops Hundreds of Small Business Clients

HSBC has decided to cut small businesses out of their clientele in favour of businesses that are planning on becoming, or already are, international. The world’s fourth largest bank states that it has been reviewing its portfolio of small and [...]

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Buy the Business, Keep the Employees

So, you’ve come to agreement with a business owner to buy their business, and to help them into retirement. You, the ambitious entrepreneur, bring new energy and ideas to the opportunity. You’re going to take the business forward in a [...]

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According to Who?

For an unprecedented number of business owners it’s time to consider succession planning, Retirement tidal wave to hit Canadian businesses. It takes time and involves a lot of change. Some do, some don’t and some won’t, The pros and cons of working [...]

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In Control

Priceless advice, “… it's crazy to obsess about things over which I have no control”. Success Means Learning to Let Go, developing staff adds value to the eventual sale of your business. This is like ‘Dragons’ Den’ for engineers and undergrads, Many [...]

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You’re Just As Normal As You Think

Do you have a weird idea? It may not be so unconventional.  Money can be made wherever there’s a need. Can you add onto your existing product or service in any way? At the end of the day, there's an [...]

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You Don’t Say?

Say Hello to Everyone, from the Globe and Mail is a challenge that addresses a peculiar phenomenon that seems to be taking hold of a lot of people.  You don’t say “hi” or make eye contact with people anymore, unless [...]

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2015’s Worst Passwords List

Earlier today, Splash Data (a California-based data management company), released its always-entertaining “Worst Passwords” list. And to clarify, by “worst” they mean the ones that are most common, and most easily hacked. The vast majority of these passwords are in [...]

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- Wayne Gretzky
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- Jim Rohn
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You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money
into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
- Tom Hopkins
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
- Walt Disney
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The first rule of any technology used in a business is that
automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient
operation will magnify the inefficiency.
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- Jim Rohn
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it’s who is going to stop me.
- Ayn Rand
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Give yourself something to work toward, constantly.
- Mary Kay Ash
Slide Although your customers won’t love you
if you give bad service, your competitors will.
- Kate Zabriskie
Slide If you want to make a permanent change,
stop focusing on the size of your problems and start
focusing on the size of you!
- T. Harv Eker
Slide Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn
their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service
worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors
that drive this customer revolution.
- Rick Tate
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
- B. C. Forbes
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Slide There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in
the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending
his money somewhere else.
- Sam Walton
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
Slide Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
- Sam Levenson
Slide Be nice to people on your way up because you meet
them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
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Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.
- Mark Knopfler
Slide Quality in a service or product is not what
you put into it. It is what the client or
customer gets out of it.
- Peter Drucker
Slide Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down
to his level and beat you with experience.
- Greg King
Slide Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not
putting it in a fruit salad.
- Miles Kington
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