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Free Webinars for Small Business Owners

Andy Buyting — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:28:36 +0000

I was recently looking for some inspiration and new topics and noticed that Bizlaunch.ca is running a series of (FREE) webinars taloired to small business owners. They cover numerous topics and are running throughout the year. Some topics that caught my attention: Simple Systems to Manage Your Time and Build a Great Business Sources of Finance for Business [...]

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My Grocery Store is out of Kraft Dinner & the Car Wash is out of Soap

Andy Buyting — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:52:40 +0000

Keep Loyal Customers Loyal by Being Dependable and Stocking Essential Items Become dependable to your customers in the services and products you offer and you’ll go a long way to keep your customers loyal to your company. Let me illustrate my point. A few weeks ago I needed a car wash and drove to the local car [...]

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Top Secret Mission: Success

Andy Buyting — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:20:33 +0000

You, and how you conduct yourself are the secrets to your business’ success Presenting yourself for success is vitally important in everything you do. I love the quote; “How you do anything, is how you do everything”. It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, how you do it will convey to the outside world how you live your [...]

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Marketing Strategies for Today’s Retailer: Out with the Old and In with the New

Andy Buyting — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:52:41 +0000

The Yays and Nays for Marketing a Small Business Marketing is not what it used to be. What used to be all about newspaper, radio and TV advertising, is now all about internet, social media and direct mail marketing. When you look at your own business, have you changed your marketing strategy in the past five years, [...]

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What Impact will the HST have on your Business?

Andy Buyting — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:14:51 +0000

As we prep our (Canadian) businesses for what the new HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) means for us, there’s lots of debate about how businesses will fare, adapt and implement the change to their systems, processes and financials. I’m interested in your opinion. Add your comments below – I’d like to know your point of view – as [...]

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New MyRetailer Site Now Live

Andy Buyting — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:29:28 +0000

Well, we’ve finally launched our redesigned site. We hope you like it. Please feel free to let us know what we can do to make it even better by adding comments below. Oh, and if something doesn’t look right on your side, please let us know! We love the feedback, and it tells us what we [...]

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Canadian Peer Advisory Groups: A National List

Andy Buyting — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Peer Advisory groups are a great way to discuss business issues confidentially with other owners, CEO’s and like minded business people. They offer the opportunity to get new ideas outside your regular circle of people, and can be useful to test ideas and receive some ‘constructive’ criticism. There’s likely a group for every type, and [...]

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“Going Out of Business” is the best way to bring in Customers

Andy Buyting — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:20:07 +0000

Final Sale! Inventory Blowout! End of Season! There’s a reason why Retailers use these Signs. Especially in today’s economy, customers are looking for deals. If you want a sure fire way to build excitement in your business, find a way to offer a great specials and customers will come flocking in. A colleague of mine was telling me [...]

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5 Steps to Increase Your Cash Position, without having to get new Customers

Andy Buyting — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:30:53 +0000

Cash is King. Make sure it rules! We all know, cash flow is the most essential part of running a business, whether it’s a start-up or maintaining an existing one.. This is particularly evident during tougher economic times. As a small business owner, there are several ways in which you can enhance your cash position, without [...]

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Save Money on Your Labour Wage Costs

Andy Buyting — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:49 +0000

My Story – Part 2 I already talked about what we decided to do as a result of our strategy session regarding our new organizational chart and the shifts in responsibilities. Now here is how we implemented the change. Over a period of three weeks we did the following four steps: We finalized the new plan. It came [...]

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