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Diana Peloquin found out recently that she had secured the property she was hoping for: a much sought-after piece of commercial real estate in Surrey, British Columbia...

If you have ever read any books on marketing you are no doubt familiar with the 4 – “P’s” of Marketing – Product, Price, Place and Promotion. When com...

5 Kinds of Trolls Hiding Under Business Bridges — Trolls aren’t just creepy creatures from fairy tales. As Tim Berry explains, they really do exist in the business world. Th...

Melodie Ellis knows what it’s like to work for somebody else. And she knows what it means to work for herself. In fact, she managed to do both for almost eight years, holding down a job as an employee at a private piano studio while also teaching students on her own in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. ...

“Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to be like a job,” says Paul Graham, programming language designer, author, and venture firm partner. “I...

What makes social networking so exciting right now is that “the book” is still being written. What I mean by that, is that people are finding a multitude of ways to use tools like Facebook, Linked In and Twitter to promote themselves and their businesses. Are they producing the intended results? In...

Some of our best business conversations happen in the most unlikely places, including our daily walk to the local coffee shop we fuel up in, and the dog park where Liz takes her border collie, Mike. One of our dog park buddies is a woman we’ll call Mary. ...

When looking for a product or service they’ve never used before, what do people most often do? Ask someone who has had experience with the product or service of course. This would include taking the advice of an unbiased product review. ...

Define Your Strategy by What You Aren’t Doing — Tim Berry suggests figuring out who isn’t your customer, to help narrow down who you actually ARE going to serve. Is Disaster Recovery Possible When the Computing Cloud Evaporates? – Data loss happens. Are yo...

“I don’t get no respect!” That was Rodney Dangerfield’s catchphrase. I say this is terribly true today in the universe of electronic communications where, I point out, it is we that don’t give any respect. In our t...

Tim Berry to Present His New Approach to Business Planning for Growth Tim Berry, principal author of Business Plan Pro Software and The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan will present “Planning For and Managing Your Business Growth,” held Tuesday, November 10 and Thursday, November 12, from 6-8 p.m. Le...

Guest post today by Cidnee Stephen of Strategies for Success. I love to write – creatively as well as for business. So last year I decided to take a course at a nearby college to learn how to hone this skill. ...