Basic tips for moving receipts out of your wallet and into time-saving order. Talk to your accountant. Make sure you are clear about what is expensible in your business area. Keep all your receipts! Credit card and bank statements are not enough if your are audited. When you get a receipt, indicate what and/or who [...]
Are You Doing it? People are any business’s greatest assets and businesses with the highest calibre people, committed to the organization and its goals, have that advantage. Interestingly enough, while many businesses prepare a formal business plan, few have a written human resources (HR) management plan as part of their overall business strategy. But if [...]
I have been fortunate over the years to be able to increase my business by an average of about 15% per year. People ask me how I achieve this. Over the next few issues of Mingle I hope to share some of what has worked for me, and also hope to hear from you. There [...]
A Guide to Financing for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Atlantic Canada Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), generally defined as businesses with fewer than 500 employees, are a core component of the Canadian economy. In 2008, SMEs with fewer than 50 employees made up 97.8% of all businesses in Canada. The 5-year survival rate for [...]
How will you reduce your risk? As a business owner you’ve worked hard to accumulate your assets, so it is important to take precautions to protect them from risk. Following are some strategies that may help. Protect personal assets Gifting assets. If you gift assets to family members you may reduce the amount of assets [...]
To Pay or NOT to Pay – That Is the Question Exploring the Cost of Social Media Social media, unlike other forms of marketing, is truly designed for long-term relationship-building and NOT the immediate sale. Using social media consistently as a virtual networking tool is effective not only in increasing contacts but also in increasing [...]
The uncommon group starts an uncommonly good thing. When I meet up with Gordon Stevens, owner of Halifax’s the Uncommon Group, at the flagship cafe on South Park St. he is finishing a meeting with the latest addition to I Love Local (HFX), a grassroots coalition of local independent businesses that Stevens spearheads. Halifax Seed [...]
We’ve all thought about it – what would it be like to be able to read minds? Apart from cheesy sci-fi flicks, the notion has yet to materialize; but one researcher has brought us a little closer. New “social x-ray specs” may change the way we view conversation. The brain child of Rosalind Picard from [...]
