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New Game, New Plan

If they’re to suc­ceed today, knowl­edge entre­pre­neurs must use new meth­ods of busi­ness oper­a­tion (A ver­sion of this post was pre­vi­ously pub­lished in the Finan­cial Post) In a recent sur­vey reported by the Finan­cial Post, one in three Cana­di­ans said they were inter­ested in start­ing their own busi­ness in the next two years. Of that group, 35% said they’re going to...

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Nice Credentials! Who Cares?

Stop wor­ry­ing about your cre­den­tials and start wor­ry­ing about the value you pro­vide to clients. You’ll be more successful. Sev­eral years ago, when I was fas­ci­nated by the power of the Inter­net and was in a play­ful mood, I had my dog, Katie, accred­ited as an ordained min­is­ter by an online church. For my five bucks, I received a nice cer­tifi­cate and a notice that she...

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Your Aging Brain Is A Competitive Strength

Mid-life entre­pre­neurs have a dis­tinct advan­tage because their brains are better. If you have fled the cor­po­rate straight-jacket for your own entre­pre­neur­ial pro­fes­sional busi­ness, you’ve prob­a­bly wor­ried often how you’re going to keep up with all those young hot­shots out there. Maybe you saw glimpse of that in your old work­place. For 20 years you toiled in the...

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Micropreneurs: Small Is Beautiful Again

Increas­ing num­bers of pro­fes­sion­als are dis­cov­er­ing that oper­at­ing very small busi­nesses can pro­vide them with a good liv­ing while also let­ting them have a life. Recent sta­tis­tics show that almost a quar­ter of US work­ers are now oper­at­ing as “inde­pen­dent” entre­pre­neurs in their own small busi­nesses. In Canada, where gov­ern­ments pro­vide cru­cial...

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Seven Ways To Survive The Change To Your Own Service Business

One of the most dif­fi­cult parts of rein­vent­ing your­self into your own entre­pre­neur­ial ser­vice busi­ness is man­ag­ing the change from cor­po­rate to inde­pen­dent.  But there are ways to get through it. Let’s say right here that no one really likes change. They may say they do, and they may indeed like the idea of change in the abstract. But the details of change? Not...