All posts tagged Business

Just The Bill, Please and Thank You

  Accounting and I go together like mustard and cashmere. I absolutely can’t stand it. Over the past few years I’ve started using an Accountant for my taxes and that has made my life much easier… but until recently, I haven’t really needed to keep receipts for an extended period of time because I had [...]

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Jeff Rogers, Inc. – A Sales Training Spoof

Alright, time for a bit of humour. I dug this phone conversation up the other day after my buddy reminded me of it. One of the things I enjoyed about BCIT was that we were provided with real-world training. One day, we were taken to a call centre in downtown Vancouver to work on our [...]

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Hiring Internally vs. Co-sourcing – Finding The Right Balance

Studies have shown that IT spending and hiring will increase this year. If your company follows suit, how will it allocate the funds for expansion? A difficult decision needs to be made: Should we hire additional IT staff members (either full-time or contracted), or look at co-sourcing with providers that can assist us in that [...]

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How Will Your Business Cope if Disaster Strikes?

The other day my Financial Advisor asked me about getting life insurance through him. I politely declined as I already have it, but after digging a bit deeper he informed me that it might not be enough to take care of my loved ones if I were to pass on. Since our meeting I was [...]

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Selling Yourself First – Advice from Mike Lipkin

So now that I’ve written about gallivanting around in Gravenhurst, Ontario with my coworkers and listening to Mike Lipkin for a few days, I suppose I should write about what I took away from the days spent there. Fortunately for me, that’s going to be quite easy. As I’d mentioned in the previous post, it [...]

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