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Four Innovative Canadian Small Businesses Selected to Compete for $100,000 Award From TELUS

Dave Ockwell-Jenner and myself were very excited to attend the event at TELUS House when TELUS and The Globe & Mail announced the finalists in the fourth annual installment of "The Challenge" - the contest that helps Canadian Small Business owners overcome their greatest challenge with a $100,000 award from TELUS.

How to Win the B2B Price War

In this world of high speed communication and 140 character limits, we seem to have become infatuated with short forms and acronyms.  It isn't too hard to draw the comparison between our communications today and the game of horseshoes. In other words, we use vocabulary with less precision than a given word actually conveys, but that's okay because getting close seems to be good enough.

LinkedIn - Yes or No?

An Article I Wrote on LinkedIn

I am sure by now most of you are getting bored with me plodding on about building your brand and getting as much exposure as possible for your brand.

Bill C-28 – Canada’s Anti-spam Law (PART 6) – Other Details

In the first five posts on Bill C-28 I have covered an overview of the upcoming law, consent, exemptions, other important facts, and penalties. I will continue with other details and further expansion on some points from earlier posts.

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5 Steps to a Great Sandwich

mikeKITCHENER, ON – April 22, 2014 – Breadbaron Sandwiches is the newest addition to the Kitchener Market, offering a rotating selection of goodies. Its chefs, Nick Hatten and Mike Lurz, apply their culinary training from the Stratford Chef School to designer sandwiches, soups and various other fare; the results are yummy indeed. If you’re looking for ham and Swiss on rye, you won’t find it here. What you will find is the “porksgiving” or “b.b.

Bill C-28 – Canada’s Anti-spam Law (PART 5) – Penalties

In case you care to brushoff the new Anti-spam Law, taking a look at the penalties involved might make you think otherwise. The CRTC is the main regulatory body that is in charge of enforcing this new law, the regulatory body that will be receiving complaints to act upon.  The CRTC also has been given numerous powers, including the ability to serve telecommunications providers for the preservation of data for their investigation.

All penalties are monetary as they are meant to enforce the new law, not to punish.

Become a Hunter to Discover the Many Opportunities Out There

When opportunity knocks open your door, if you don't answer the door, someone else will benefit from the opportuity you missed out on.

Opening our eyes to the possibilities out there is the first step to building our success.

Looking around, listensing and hearing what our connections are saying and knowing what they are doing offers us a chance to benefit in so many ways.

The Levers to Your Sales Growth Success

Dun & Bradstreet conducted a study that evaluated the factors that contribute to business success. They concluded the following:

- businesses with high sales tend to succeed

- businesses with low sales tend to fail

all else is commentary    

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