The cost of business insurance has skyrocketed. Use these five suggestions for saving money on the cost of business insurance to reduce your small business's insurance bill. More: Do You Have ... Read More

"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well." – Benjamin Franklin. In business, reputation is paramount. You can't attract new customers and keep regular ones without a good ... Read More

What abilities do you need to get a successful business off the ground? Why do some small business start-ups fail and how can you avoid this? Find out if you're ... Read More

In the Small Business: Canada Forum, small business people are talking about: Getting started in e-commerce; Life coaching as a business opportunity; Liability insurance; Buying from the States. Read other people's comments and add ... Read More

Blogs are filling the information gap for Symmetricom, the world's leading provider of atomic clocks, and precision devices and equipment - and using a blog to communicate with its large, ... Read More

Pull ahead of your competitors by offering the kind of customer service that not only keeps your current customers happy but draws new customers. Just follow these four steps. More: Custmer ... Read More

The cost of business insurance has literally gone through the roof. Here are five tips for saving money on home-based business insurance. Related: More Business Insurance articles and resources.

Even the most time-pressed business owner can attract more customers with less effort through the right cross-promotions. Kare Anderson explains how cross-promotion works and provides ideas for jump-starting your cross-promotions. Related: ... Read More

"Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment." – Arthur Brisbane. Odd moments give our days both ... Read More

In the Small Business: Canada Forum, small business people are talking about: Finding wholesalers; How to grow a memberbase; Getting started in importing; Is web site design tax deductible? Read other people's comments and ... Read More

Is GST registration necessary for your business? That depends. Small suppliers don't have to register (or collect and remit the GST). But you might want to register your business even ... Read More

The beauty of eBay is that it lets you get into e-commerce without having to go through the trouble and expense of setting up an e-commerce site of your own. ... Read More

Word-of-mouth is fabulous business promotion. But why sit back and wait for word-of-mouth to build? You're impressed with your products or services, aren't you? Speed up the word-of-mouth process by ... Read More

Do you care if people find and visit your web site? Of course you do! And most people still find web sites through search engines. That's why SEO or Search ... Read More

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"If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have ... Read More

An outline of the process of charging, collecting, and remitting retail sales tax (RST) in Ontario, using the example of a small retail business. This provincial sales tax explanation also ... Read More

That the Tim Hortons Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win marketing campaign is highly successful isn't news. But the fact that the campaign originally started because Tim Hortons didn't have much money for advertising is. ... Read More

Can you help answer these questions posed by other small business people? What is considered for capital gains when selling a corporation? How does a standalone dwelling on your property affect ... Read More

A marketing plan makes your marketing more effective by coordinating your marketing objectives with your marketing activities. You'll learn how to create a Unique Selling Proposition, a pricing strategy, a ... Read More

Setting up an filing system and using it efficiently. Keeping paperwork organized. Keeping track of and managing your time. Designing an office for optimium use. These are only some of ... Read More

Full featured business phone systems have traditionally been out of reach for small businesses but the smart new generation of small business phone systems have all of the features of ... Read More

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence." – Calvin Coolidge. In the rest of this quote (which you can read in full by following the title link), Coolidge ... Read More

Does your web site have a 'Contact Us" form? Is it generating leads for you? Probably not, says Philippe Suchet. In "Online Forms That Generate Leads" (ClickZ Experts), he explains ... Read More

There's a double installment of the Business Start Up Diary this week. "Business Start Up Diary Entry 7", and "Business Start Up Diary Entry 8". Things are starting to look up for Peter ... Read More

It's grad season. College and university grads have either just finished or are in the last throes of their studies before graduation. If a grad you know is headed into ... Read More

Incoming phone calls can eat up a lot of time and seriously decrease your productivity by pulling you away from other tasks. Cut down on the amount of time ... Read More

The U.S. market is filled with fabulous opportunities, but incredibly difficult to enter, says Oliver Berton in The Globe and Mail. The problems include the litigious environment in the U.S., ... Read More

Becoming an eBay seller lets you get into e-commerce without having to go through the trouble and expense of setting up an e-commerce site of your own. These seven eBay ... Read More

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." – Robert Half. This cuts to the heart of the management dilemma, I think. We know we should delegate, we want to ... Read More

Post your comments and add your advice in the Small Business: Canada Forum by clicking one of the links below. Staying active on the customer list; Cheap online shopping carts; Small business ... Read More