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Canadian Entrepreneur
http://canentrepreneur.blogspot.com/
Rick Spence covers the best practices of entrepreneurs and businesses in Canada and worldwide
Recent Posts
Marketing to small business
My Financial Post column this week offers 10 tips for marketing more effectively to small and medium-sized business.The insights come from Jeff Berry of the Executive Council on Small Business, who shared his 10 points for making your marketing more ...
One Free Ticket to marketing seminar
Want to learn how to market your business better? For free?The American Marketing Association - Toronto chapter is holding a seminar on "How to Market Your Small or Mid-Sized Business (So it Doesn’t Look Like One!)". It's at the Toronto Board of Tr...
Why Put the Customer First?
I’m a customer-first person. I believe that when marketers put their own needs ahead of those of their customers, they lose in a big way. They may make the one-off sale, but they sacrifice the opportunity to turn a single transaction into a relatio...
Staples launches business blog
Staples Business Depot has today launched “How’s Business?” a blog for Canadian small businesses. As far as I know, this is the first small business marketer to invest in a coherent blogging strategy for Canadian entrepreneurs.This is a move I ...
Learn from the past, or forfeit the future
(This post has been cross-posted from New Management Welcome, my part-time blog on chronic business blunders) Holy Lemons! A study quoted in a recent New York Times GadgetWise column says 20.4% of laptops fail over three years.The study, produced by ...
When Entrepreneurs don\'t do the things they should
I got an interesting email this week from a CA with a big problem."My focus as a CA is business advisory services to small businesses. Unfortunately I find that even after signing on clients to an engagement, the clients don’t do the required actio...
