IRAP R&D Program Runs Out of Money

I saw it coming. Now it has happened. As foretold in my recent open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) has again abruptly halted accepting new requests for support. Unfortunately, IRAP program suspensions are becoming regular annual affairs. Only back in business for [...]

Dear PM Harper: Help SME Business Now!

March 19, 2010 The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Leader of the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Calgary Southwest AB Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa  K1A 0A2   [Sent by email to: pm@pm.gc.ca] Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Re: Please Help iSME Business Now! Canadians [...]

Serious Biz Advice 4U: GET NAKED!

Now I have your attention, let me tell you what’s remarkable about this article. It’s not the controversial title or any suggestive pictures. Rather, it’s in the practical advice about how you can best stand up, stand out, and be vital to those you need to get passionately excited about what you have to offer [...]

Seth Godin @ The Art of Marketing

SETH GODIN was the BIG DRAW at The Art of Marketing Conference held in downtown Toronto on March 2, 2010. Sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics CRM, this Conference drew an audience of 1,600 people to to hear six internationally renowned thought-leaders and bestselling businessbook authors talk about critical cutting edge marketing issues What Seth Godin DID [...]

How to Succeed Like TIFFANY & CO.

Want more revenue? Well then, make your offerings stand out more, so much so that your customers and prospects see what you have to sell as head and shoulders above the competition. You can do this if you harness the power of focus, clarity, simplicity, and utility, for these are the hallmark aspects of so [...]

How Best to Grow & Sell More

It’s hard finding ways to beat the competition let alone keep up with them, especially in the challenging economic times we have today. So, if you get a chance to hear about key business strategies that ambitious companies intend to follow in the coming year, I think it’s well worth the time and effort to [...]

Matt Barrett & the CEO Mindset

After a very distinguished and sometimes controversial long career in international financial services, Matt Barrett finally retired three years ago. That’s when he stepped down from being Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC after having been a long serving CEO of both Barclays in the UK and Bank of Montreal in Canada. Here are some career [...]

Business Development Methods Poll – VOTE TODAY

The key to driving sales and enjoying predictable revenues is in getting ‘the right type of material’ for your sales staff to put through their sales process. What is that? Simple, it is giving them lots of specifically-identified ‘suspects’ that through some form of interaction have been partially qualified as a sales lead. When you [...]

Clean Tech & How to Fund Growth

With all the environmental concerns getting bigger and bigger every day now, Clean Tech is an emerging business sector with lots of promise – presumably. I say presumably because on one hand, if we are to avoid self extermination, it is quite clear that we need collected humanity to reduce the size of our species’ [...]

[Recession Recovery] ‘VW’ Ride Coming?

“What kind of recovery does the group expected now?” – this was the key business question asked by a Partner in a Toronto based mid-sized accounting firm in the group discussion phase of the TEC Trusted Advisor meeting I attended earlier this week. Here’s what came back from the employment lawyer, commercial landlord, retirement pension [...]

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