The holiday season is supposed to be full of comfort and joy, but for many, it's just plain full of stress. From gift shopping through gathering together all the trimmings for the traditional turkey dinner, there just seem to be dozens of extra things to do with no extra time to do them. ... Read more

Getting the respect from your employees is something I see new managers and entrepreneurs struggle to get. It is not easy, it could be your youth, inexperience in handling people, maybe you are too passive and people just seem to be able to walk all over you. Whatever it is you need to correct it, ... Read more

The driver of the old economy from the twentieth century was the auto industry.  The old saying was that if General Motors sneezes, the rest of the economy caught a cold. The driver of the economy in this century has been entrepreneurs.  From the sounds of the latest survey from the Kau ... Read more

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's proposed Code of Conduct for the credit and debit card industry is a definite step in the right direction and a step that needed to be taken with Visa and Matercard about to enter the debit card competition. The Retail Council of Canada has said credit card proce ... Read more

I continue to be in the camp that is worried about inflation -- even possibly hyper-inflation -- in the not too distant future.  Our ballooning debt along with the many latent inflationary pressures could soon create the spark that ignites a fire storm of runaway prices.  If we see a curre ... Read more

The keyword this holiday retail season? Competitive. According to TELUS research*, small business owners have seen an increase in competitors as a result of the economic downturn and being able to differentiate your small business from the competition is more important than ever. The following ... Read more

It looks like the Obama administration is considering a move to increase taxes to deal with the exploding federal deficits caused by their massive give-aways and bailouts.  Their plan would be like throwing a bucket of cold water on the embers of entrepreneurial growth in this struggling econom ... Read more

What type of Christmas cards should you send? What should you write inside the card? What's the proper way to address your business Christmas cards? Business Christmas Card Dos and Don'ts answers all these questions. And what's the deadline for having Christmas cards done and in the ... ... Read more

In celebration I'm taking friends out to watch the remainder of the Leonid Meteor Shower tonight! ... Read the full post ... Read more

One of my former dorm room entrepreneurs, Andy Tabar , sent me a story from CNN.com about the growing trend of students starting businesses on campus: While the founders of Google built success in their garages, these college students found it in their dorms. In addition to their course wo ... Read more