Got Bobbleheads for Business Buddies?

Here is an important question for all you CEOs out there: – just who are your key business buddies? Are they your high school or college friends, your past work associates, your current corporate directors, your executives that work for you, or that tax accountant / auditor on your account who all too many of [...]

‘DO IT!’ Article Wins Sugartone Prize

[NEWS FLASH] According to the announcement posted on the Bloggertone website on March 24th, 2010, Biz Money Matters has been declared one of the winners of the Sugartone business article contest having submitted the article ‘Timely FREE Advice for Biz Owners: DO IT!’ which received 32 votes on the B2B social media site BizSugar! Here [...]

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 [...]

Biz Owners: Can $’s Buy You Happiness?

Motivation (yours, mine and everyone’s) is ‘the’ bedrock issue when it comes to business. That’s because in capitalism and the study of it (economics), there’s nothing more fundamental. As business people / managers / owners, we’re all focused on motivation: how to motivate ourselves? / how to motivate staff? / how to motivate customers? But [...]

Debt Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Today’s online newspapers have real drawbacks. First, they don’t let you to scan all the news. Second, all too often important articles in the print edition never make it to the paper’s website. And let’s not forget how fewer and fewer people are getting real newspapers delivered these day. As a result, there is a [...]

Risk, Character & New Year Resolutions

It’s January 2010. Welcome to the second decade of the third millennium! To those of you who made New Year resolutions this year, good wishes and good luck achieving your goals. Given that only two weeks has passed since we sang Auld Lang Syne, I trust you still are keeping diligently to all the pledges [...]

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 [...]

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