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  • Coaching your Controller – Part 1

    This article first appeared in CanadaOne, an online business newspaper and resource centre. As the owner of your business, do you have a person heading up the accounting function who…

    Why do customers leave you?

    Does someone in your business ever-so-often ask, “Whatever happened to (fill in the name) and how come he doesn’t shop with us any more? Several surveys asking this same question…

    Creativity comes in many forms

    In tough times, the extra bit of creativity could make the difference.  Here’s a story you will love: An old man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his…

    Oblivion without change

    I recently came across an article in Forbes magazine that put this topic into clear and unambiguous  perspective (I will attach a link to the full article at the bottom…

    How is marketing different to strategic marketing

    Most business people have an understanding of marketing.  They equate that mainly to the communications side of the business: advertising, media, brochures, social media, websites, public relations etc. But how…

    10 tips to improving your presentations

    Powerpoint has become a tremendous tool for presentations.  However, how often do you see people presenting, with the actual Powerpoint presentation becoming the ultimate focal point?  It becomes the presentation…

    The leading face of change

    According to Albert Einstein: The definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Death, taxes and change – these are the only…