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What are your business habits?

I read an article recently in Business on Main, 7 Bad Business Habits to Break this Year, and it got me thinking about what business habits I have that have been of value to me.

Let me share a few things that have been successful for me and hopefully you’ll walk away with a nugget […]

Is There Conflict In the Business…

Between what you ask your employees to do and company policies?

Can you relate to this story?

Each employee was asked to take at least 25 hours of professional development training related to their field of expertise each year. Much of the training that related to their expertise (financial in general) was held during the […]

4 Small Business Tools from Google

Google clearly “gets” that Small Businesses Owners are constantly looking for online tools that help. Although Google has hundreds of business focused applications we would like to highlight our favourite. They’re essential for Entrepreneurs and their completely free services.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics has become the industry standard for advanced website monitoring. This free […]

Mission and Vision = Purpose and Pride

Had an opportunity to help someone craft a Mission and Vision statement for a new product line recently. It was an interesting experience, and gave me a chance to demonstrate how focusing on the intangible, humanistic side of things is so much more than just pie-in-the-sky “fluff.”

While struggling with the concept, he was doing […]

Forecasting Misunderstood

Anyone who has ever been involved in working with the financials of a company, in any capacity, has had to deal with forecasting. Whether establishing the AOP or identifying manpower requirements, there’s a need to project (meaning “predict”) future needs, associated costs, and their impact on revenues since Revenue – Cost = Profit.

Much like […]