Reading Time: 4 minutes Policy levers can strengthen incentives for entrepreneurship and improve the likelihood of successful new business startups
Category: Small business
Entrepreneurship is at the heart of economic growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rate of small-business startups is declining in Canada. Here’s what we can do to spur risk takers, who help reshape an economy
Ready to sell your business? Make sure it has value
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fifty-five per cent of businesses are going to transition to new owners or close in the next decade
Name your year, put new focus on your goals and achievements
Reading Time: 4 minutes We only have a limited number of years in our lives and breaking them down into time frames of intention could make all the difference
Mastering the fine art of marketing for the betterment of your business
Reading Time: 3 minutes The best marketing plans make offers that benefit customers and give the businesses involved tangible boosts.
Social media strategies to grow your business
Reading Time: 3 minutes Shred employee turnover, improve ROI, and increase the lifetime value of your customers
A tax turnaround that punishes the risk-takers
Reading Time: 3 minutes By targeting small business owners, the federal government is undermining the very essence of economic growth. And they’ve pulled this trick before
Imagining the worst, getting the best out of your business
Reading Time: 4 minutes The exchange rate could shift, interest rates could rise, NAFTA could be rewritten or buried. Do you have strategies to deal with such changes?
Fed’s small business tax tweaks won’t help the middle class
Reading Time: 3 minutes The uproar across the country to Ottawa’s small business tax reforms has triggered more back-pedalling, but no good solutions
Trudeau’s small business tax grab will hit Atlantic Canada hard
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa’s plan is confiscatory and destructive for a region where everyone already pays far too much in tax