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We are looking for a student to fill the position of Marketing Coordinator; 35 hours per week, for 8 weeks starting on or about June 20 at a pay of $18 per hour! This is mostly an on-site position with expectation that the student be working in Alexandria, ON. This...

Note: the content of this post was first released in our bi-weekly e-Newsletter. If you want access to this content first, sign up here. In the last e-news message, I described how my spinning plates (aka all the priorities I was trying to juggle) came crashing...

Do you ever feel like a circus acrobat performing crazy tricks while spinning plates in the air? It can be so exhausting to keep a business going — marketing, accounting, inventory (insert the long list of tasks here) — while taking care of kids or parents, or...

Most aspiring business owners waste an enormous amount of time and energy. “How do I write a Business Plan?” they ask, often after they’ve downloaded countless templates. I’ve been a business owner for 25 years. I also work with an economic development agency and run...

There is a myth that entrepreneurs are the hero of their business and it’s solely up to them to find all the solutions. In my first business I bought into that myth; I guarded my ideas fiercely until I felt they were “perfect,” ready for public consumption. It was an...

In my 25 years as a business owner, I've spent an estimated 1,123 hours learning in at least 13 different programs. Those were hours spent on formal learning, not on homework or reading. Some courses were from traditional institutions, spanning several years and...

In my research on the entrepreneurial resilience of women entrepreneurs I have heard stories of women who were spurred to keep going in their business endeavours because they had been… belittled, overlooked, told to take a back seat. Claudia* told me about pouring her...