So, I’m wondering how many of you remember when a pound of bacon was a standard measure of food, 16 oz. or 450 grams, – now it’s one-quarter smaller at 350grams or 11.5 ounces. I dare you to find a big notice anywhere that says your Sunday morning staple of Bacon and eggs has been […]
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Much has been spoken about how to make money, how to find customers, how to make conversions on your marketing material or how to manage your business effectively. Does anyone actually advise small business owners on how to deal with the running of a business on a personal level? I see people making milestones of
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A lot of my contemporaries still don’t get Twitter and other Social Media, heck some of them still struggle with email. It’s a sad state of affairs but then I have always been an early adopter and slightly ahead of my friends on anything Internet-related. Twitter, after all, is simply a one-to-one communications platform built
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You may have heard people say ‘the guy drank his own kool-aid’ and I’m sure you all know what it means, but if you don’t, it’s from the ill-fated Jim Jones massacre where people blindly followed their leader to their deaths by drinking poisoned kool-aid. Companies are doing it every day by blindly growing their
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Passion – We all start our businesses with passion and excitement. It starts to get strained when lawyers and consultants suddenly appear to guide you through the next steps. My current newco, in the energy field, quickly became much more complicated when my new ‘compliance’ officer told me we needed to incorporate our IP’s in
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People always ask me questions about entrepreneurship. They ask is being an entrepreneurs good as people say, can I really make money or can anyone do it? As I was giving a speech to a room of recent immigrants on ‘Starting Your Own Business’, a tiny South Asian woman asked me if it was too
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