Tag Archives: entrepreneur

Feb 2016

Things to Consider Before Starting Your Own Business

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If your heart is set out on starting your own business – CONGRATULATIONS! The first step to any success is to really put your mind, heart and soul in whatever you do. Having your own business requires great effort, patience and wise decision-making skills.   Here are some things to consider when you are diving …

Nov 2015

The Essential Tools of the Modern Entrepreneur

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If you’re building a house you need a wide variety of tools to do the job right. Building a business requires no less skill or quality of materials. The tools however, are a lot different, and though those tools can often be accessed by something you hold in your hand – like a smartphone – …

Sep 2015

Mobile Apps that Maximize Entrepreneur Efficiency

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Sometimes it feels like a business owner has to keep track of just about everything. That’s because, for the most part, they do. Thankfully, as technology has given us the ability to consume and create more data so too has it given us the tools to deal with that data. Here are a selection of …

Sep 2015

How to Build a Better Company Culture

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Part of building a long-lasting successful business is building a culture within it. A company culture, simply put, contains the behaviours and values that are part of the social environment and employee mindset of that company. It’s the group of shared assumptions that arises in businesses through defining appropriate behaviour in specific situations. Culture can …

Sep 2015

Work-Life Balance for the Entrepreneur

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Since the industrial revolution work, for the most part, has been easy to separate from your home or leisure life. However, as technology has recently enabled constant connection with the workplace it’s become an issue where work begins to overpower all other aspects of everyday life to the point where it becomes a serious issue. …

Sep 2015

Things to Remember When Planning an Expansion

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Restlessness is part of the identity of every entrepreneur. The idea that things could be done better, done bigger, and made more profitable is a constant one. Sitting back and enjoying the fruits of labour is what retirement is for. Right now, you’ve got a business to run. When a business reaches a certain level …