These three avenues will help you focus on the core while capturing new growth opportunities. Every business we know struggles with the tradeoff of investing in and maximizing the core business while trying to take advantage of growth in new, adjacent markets. It’s generally easier (and more profitable) to focus on your core business. That’s […]
Before you have a company–or even a fully-formed idea–you can benefit from a formal or informal board of advisors. Your new business may be nothing more than an idea scribbled on a cocktail napkin, or it may not be written down at all. Believe it or not, you should already be thinking about creating an […]
Today, instead of owning a hot stock or tulip bulb, the thing to do is become an entrepreneur. But what happens when reality sinks in? Uh-oh. Be careful. Be very careful. Something’s up. I can’t be entirely sure, but I think another bubble is building. Yes…all the signs are there. A bubble happens when the […]
In my experience, many business owners particularly those who have built a successful business feel they are doing “perfectly fine, thank you” without conducting marketing research. I even run across those who are contemplating a new start-up who feel that this step can be rushed through at best, or skipped completely, at worst. From the […]
The local MP Larry Miller’s comments on the Canada-China investment deal are an insult to the intelligence of voters in Grey/Bruce. To say we “misunderstand” and the deal is, “to protect Canadian interests who are investing in China,” is ludicrous when we have nothing of consequence there to protect and little hope of ever getting […]
Exemplifying the age old career advice to “do what you like,” Neil Morrison and his wife Holly took over the popular Owen Sound café, Frog Ponds, in 2009, because Neil liked coffee. Holly’s first choice was to own a bookstore that served coffee, but when the original owners of the Frog Ponds wanted to sell, […]