Hello everyone! By the time this post reaches you, I will either be at the airport, or on a plane on my way back from the Dominican Republic. Some of my team and I have been down here since Tuesday, enjoying a short working vacation. I'm sure some of you are now sitting there right now, looking outside in the cold and wind, maybe even snow, and cursing our names...
Picture this: you’re at your job, working on a typical day’s work. Your boss comes over and says that something major has happened, and the company needs you to take on an extra task. What do you say? There isn’t much opportunity for you to say no – in a very real sense, your job is to simply do what your boss says. Neither is there much opportunity to negotiate...
I have talked extensively about picking the right moment, not overextending yourself, choosing the correct path, all great advice, but all with an overarching theme. Waiting. Waiting, picking your spot, and then running with it, is most definitely smart business advice. As the title says, haste makes waste, and the last thing you want to do is pull the trigger on something too quickly and have it fail. But, and...
Black Friday has become something of a holiday season legend, known as the day when retail companies are back "in the black" - in other words, making a profit for the year. It's also the official kick-off of the holiday shopping season. But you know all that. What you may not know is that after the weekend, as people return to work, they don't stop shopping - instead, they log...
For all of our American friends, let me start off by saying a belated happy Thanksgiving to you all! Thanksgiving being yesterday means today is one of the most important days for retailers in the US (and now in Canada), Black Friday. Traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year in the US, today is the day on which many businesses turn so much of a profit, that in a...
Ever wondered why big budget blockbuster films always seem to come out in the summer or winter, while horror films are generally autumn fare? Why entertainment media in general tends to release in the holiday window, or in the three months directly following? The reason for this is simple. The various companies responsible for their release have tracked when they do well and when they don't, and adjusted their release...
As the leader of your business, you are its public face. When people think of your business, you are who they picture in their head. You're the general, the president, the alpha lion, and a few hundred other things too (I could write an entire series of articles listing them, and each post would be very, very long). So when you're out there in the world, you are the key...
One of the best bits of business advice I can possibly give is to prioritize your work. Get the most important, time sensitive stuff finished first, and then work your way down the list. Well, that's today's article. See you all next week! In all seriousness though, when it comes to prioritizing your workday, there isn't much more that needs to be said. But there are other things that are...
Looking at the current weather report, perhaps I should have titled this article "Winter Is Here", but it just doesn't have the same ring to it (nor does it reference Game of Thrones, which is where I shamelessly stole the line from). So, November is here. For many of us that means the temperature is dropping, and the first flurries of snow are beginning to fall. Time to batten down...
A topic that’s seldom come up on this blog before, though one that is incredibly important, is what to do when a business fails. We’ve already established that things will go wrong, and that there’s a good chance that your business might actually fail. We’ve even discussed how to know when it’s time to pack up your things and quit. But it’s not exactly quite so cut and dry as...