Going back to 1970, Virginia Bruneau recalls her father having a passion for his people. Being on the school committee and a counselor for Cold Lake First Nation, he and some colleagues went on a strike to get a new school for the community. The movement gained momentum, and three other reserves followed suit, giving recognition to Virginia’s father. In the end, all four reserves were approved for brand new schools.
“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay!” Sage words from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but how do they apply today?
Registering a domain name for your website is a big step towards getting your business online. While you might expect this to be a difficult process, it's actually quite simple, quick, and inexpensive. In this post, we’ll show you how simple registering a domain name is and give you some tips on choosing a registrar and starting your website.
When I open Facebook, my feed is filled with posts about the top ways to gain more business through webinars, email, and Facebook ads (among other pay-per-click advertising). The struggle is the average e-commerce site only converts 3%[1] of the traffic that comes in, which means we spend a lot of time and money on trying to get people interested in our business before a sale is even made.
As a millennial, I’m the supposed cause of a lot of problems. Just a few of the things I’ve been credited for killing in the past ten years are the Olympics, diamonds, bar soap, marriage, and of course, socializing.
Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are ruining our attention spans and ability to actually talk to other human beings, right?
When an idea sparked in Ismail’s mind a couple of years ago, he knew it was the right time to pursue it. As he came into his 30s and wasn’t getting much fulfillment from working as a General Sales Manager for a large corporation, he moved his life from Montreal to Edmonton and began his entrepreneurial path. His biggest motivator was never wanting to regret anything, to not look back when he gets older and think “I wish I had done that”.
Every bank and credit union has turned you down, you’ve gone through Canada Business Networks grant lists and there’s nothing you can use. You’ve worked your way through all the financing sources that we've sent and have still come up empty. Perhaps the only money that anyone is giving you is the change your grandma lets you keep when you buy her milk. It’s time to face facts, you’ve just discovered that no one is going to give you any money to start your business. Is that it? Well maybe it’s time to think about things a different way.
To become an entrepreneur, you needn’t choose between people and profits. As tech entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki once said, “Great companies start because the founders want to change the world…not make a fast buck.” Caring people all over the world create businesses that are not only profitable, but also create lasting positive change for those in need.
Money makes the world go round. Okay, maybe that isn’t entirely true. However, as someone who is trying to get their business off the ground or trying to take their business to the next level, money is your lifeblood. It’s likely that every company is going to need financial assistance when starting up but before you rush to just any bank, organization, or family member to hand over money, it’s important you think through some critical things first.
Since she was 3 years old, Jacquelyn Cardinal has been calling herself a computer nerd and an entrepreneur. For as long as she can remember, she’s been building websites, and breaking and fixing computers. In junior high and high school, she always found a way to make money. She remembers handing her father $1,500 to deposit into the bank for her when she was just 13 years old.