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Can Red Tape Kill Your Start Up? Business Permitting Help
When you are planning a new business, there is always going to be the issue of permitting. Various levels of government have jurisdiction over different aspects of your business and will require you to...
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5 Things to Outsource When You’re Working and Traveling
The blog’s been a little quieter the past few weeks. I’ve been away on a lengthy road trip, which was 7,500 kilometres long and stretched from Vancouver, BC all the way down the California coast, east...
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Meet Our Sponsors: Aleha McCauley, BA, MLIS Community Engagement Librarian UBC
Did you know the Small Business Accelerator is a UBC initiative? I didn’t until I met Aleha McAuley at the SOHO Business Expo last month. SBA has long been an important “cheat sheet” here at Write...
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The Cost of Indecision
Part of being an entrepreneur is making tough decisions about how you want to run your business. This can be very scary for some people. What if you make the wrong choice? What if you don’t have...
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Restaurant Suppliers- A Restaurant Owner’s Best Friend
Have you ever thought that you would like to open a restaurant? Who hasn’t! There is a certain romance inherent to the idea of making wonderful food and welcoming guests to your unique establishment,...
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How To Set Payment Policies that Make Your Clients Love You More
Do you feel like you’re always chasing clients down for payment? Do you feel guilty asking for money up front before you start a new project? Do you start projects in good faith after being promised...
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Just Say No: When To Turn Down a Potential New Client
Have you ever been ask to start a new job with a client, but something just doesn’t feel right? Perhaps they asked for a discount before ever really explaining the scope of their project. Or maybe they...
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Are You Afraid of Succeeding in Business?
I’ve taken a pause from my weekly Starting a Small Business series to talk about something that’s been all over my emails and news feeds lately. It’s fear of success. Derek Halpern of Social Triggers...
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Re-Evaluating Everything
There’s just something about a traumatic event that forces you to look at your entire life from a totally new perspective. That perspective can be revealing, depressing, sad. And in many ways it is...
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Why You Should Never, Ever, EVER Discount Your Professional Services
It used to be that when my business got a little slow and I had fewer clients, I would offer some sort of discount to encourage people to get their projects started. Sometimes it worked really well,...
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