Small Business Blog from Atlantic Canada

[ May 4, 2009; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Rivers Corbett, President of The Marketing Factory, is now sharing his marketing tips in a series of “Cash Cow Marketing” seminars to be held across Atlantic Canada.

The seminars will teach you how to take advantage of today’s unique marketing strategies and market a business or organization for less and break free of a reliance on [...]

Did you take a moment to notice the tag line for this blog? “Helping Atlantic Canada’s businesses achieve their BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)”. So it is only natural for us to seek out individuals who set their goals high, do not fear failure and work smart to achieve their BHAGs. The quest to meet such individuals in Atlantic Canada led me to Dan Martell. A native of Moncton, New Brunswick, Dan is a serial entrepreneur with a string of companies, successes and failures - Maritime Vacation, iThink Interactive, Spheric Technologies Inc and now Flowtown.

[ May 8, 2009; 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. ] Hear world-class innovators like the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, a winner of 18 major golf championships, and top leaders from Harvard and Disney in YOUR community during a one-day leadership event. The 2009 speaker lineup includes Tony Blair, Jack Nicklaus, Bill George, John C. Maxwell, Al Weiss, Liz Murray, Linda Kaplan Thaler, Mark Sanborn, Kevin Carroll, and Ernie Johnson.

[ May 11, 2009 to May 12, 2009. ] Fullsail Summit 09 Special Edition
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[ May 18, 2009; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] Rivers Corbett, President of The Marketing Factory, is now sharing his marketing tips in a series of “Cash Cow Marketing” seminars to be held across Atlantic Canada.

The seminars will teach you how to take advantage of today’s unique marketing strategies and market a business or organization for less and break free of a reliance on [...]

[ May 21, 2009; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is a cemetery. Change is an inevitable part of every project, and the management of project change is one of the most important aspects of a project’s lifecycle. If you enter a project with the opinion that nothing will change you are in for a huge surprise. The presentation will center on change management, tools, techniques and processes surrounding change management and some best practices on how you can make projects more successful by embracing change and managing it well.

We are living in one of the most unsettling periods in human history. Businesses are being nationalized. William Gale, an economist at the Brookings Institute, along with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke suggests that while the recession might end by the end of the year, sustainable recovery may take a while. Perhaps the greatest economic lesson we will learn is that we cannot spend our way out of a recession. People cannot spend what they do not have. And this goes for governments too. Speaking of people, when they find themselves on path to poverty losing everything they have worked for all their lives, I guess rationality goes out of the window.