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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…
Inventory management practices to maximize your cash flow
In our recent article on Cash Management, we briefly discussed the importance of inventory management in the cash flow cycle. The focus of this article elaborates on the importance of…
New technologies – am I a dinosaur if I don't use them?
The marketing efforts of many small and midsize companies are often caught between using and ignoring the new emerging technologies. It’s not always about implementing these technologies – that’s the…
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…
Collection practices to maximize your cash flow
In a recent article on Cash Management, by the authors, we mentioned that the best time to address how payment is to be remitted by the customer is when the…
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…