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Atricle Dump - Passion for Entrepreneurship - Lessons Learned
Measurement and control equipment comes in many different guises, yet it is collectively an essential component of any tradesman's toolbox. For decades, these objects have featured as both domestic and commercial solutions, in addition to vital players in the trade service industry, considered as assets designed for life. Measurement equipment has always had the traditional characteristics of expense and quality, although with the rise of the Internet comes an increase in availability of this type of equipment, at more affordable and attractive prices. Add to that the tenfold expansion of availability compared with your average hardware retailer, and you're looking at a natural focal point for this type of acquisition.The Internet is a haven for low prices, and is a consumer-dominated marketplace. There is such a wealth of competition for every individual type of good, every make and model, which means that only those providing the lowest price and the best service survive. Of course, the companies that sell their equipment online benefit from having minimal overheads in comparison to your average hardware store. With only storage space and the website to pay for, they can usually afford to eat into what would be their profit margins to encourage sales and detract customers from the competition. Another advantage of buying your measuremen
American manufacturers are turning away lucrative business because they can't attract or retain enough qualified workers. Productivity diminishes when there are not enough skilled employees, and the situation convinces – or forces – many employers to lower their hiring standards while simultaneously canceling profitable contracts.The Jacksonville Business Journal, for example, recently reported that Atlantic Marine Holding Company in Florida has passed up millions of dollars worth of new business due to a lack of productivity based on too few employees. As alarming as that might sound, the incident is not an isolated one. Businesses across the manufacturing sector are experiencing significant shortages and rates of attrition that directly affect the bottom line. In fact, a recent survey by the Manufacturing Institute, the research arm of the Washington D.C. based National Association of Manufacturers, revealed that 90% of manufacturers report a moderate to severe shortage of qualified skilled production employees.5 Proven Ways to Attract and Keep Quality EmployeesTo overcome this challenge, manufacturers need to take a vigorous and proactive approach.Here are 5 ways to attract quality employees and retain those you have already trained:• Use dynamic marketing techniques.Posting a dry job description is no longe
Inspired at a very young age by his grandfather who started and built his own land surveying firm, Roger Pierce loved the idea of owning his own company because he could see the immediate fruits of his grandfather's labour. Entrepreneurship is definitely in his blood as he still remembers his first ever contract was to mow lawns and at age 16, he organized his first big dance gig where he sold 500 tickets!
After graduating from Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough for business, he launched Pierce Marketing Communications in 1994 and made his first client the college. How's that for salesmanship! According to Roger, college provided him with the practical and tactical skills necessary to run his own business. To his credit, his small business ventures ranged from selling electronic bill boards, to tradeshows, to media buying, to marketing, to barter exchange and eventually to his current business, BizLaunch (www.BizLaunch.ca) which he co-owns with business partner, Andrew Patricio, to train new entrepreneurs to succeed in business.
BizLaunch opened its doors for business in 2003 and has since trained over 4000 entrepreneurs. What makes their business unique is their one-on-one coaching and post-support after their clients have taken their 30-hour training program. With no real competitors except for the government, BizLaunch has adeptly made them an alliance partner and has worked with them on government sponsored business programs for youth.
Not surprisingly, Pierce understands youth and business. He has been involved with Junior Achievement (JA), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics, since high school. Now that he has an opportunity to give this knowledge back, he is enthusiastic about working with young entrepreneurs who make up part of BizLaunch's client base. He says working with young entrepreneurs out of school is great because they "have unlimited enthusiasm, are fast learners, and are flexible to adapt to changes." In fact, BizLaunch was hired by the Ontario government for their "Summer Company Program" to provide enterprising students aged 15 to 29 with hands on business training and mento
If you would like to earn an additional income from home or start your own home based business, there are many home business opportunities available online. You can plan for your future with a home business without losing precious time with your family or spending most of your salary on high gasoline bills and car maintenance costs.Future SavingsPerhaps you're planning to save a little extra money each month for a future goal - a new car, a new home, college, or retirement. These are great goals and require planning to have successful results; however, working a 9-to-5 job doesn't always provide enough extra income for savings. Most people barely get by on their salaries after paying out for personal monthly bills, groceries, car payments, house payments, daycare, and other expenses.With online home business opportunities, you might earn a few extra hundred dollars per month or even per week with some businesses. Even $100 per week would add up to a savings of $5,200 per year! It can add up quickly.Which Home Business Opportunities are Legitimate?There is a great concern today about which home-based business opportunity is legitimate. Fortunately, you can do a little research and learn from others' experience online. There are many people just like you that are earning a lucrative income on the Web. People make money
After graduating from Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough for business, he launched Pierce Marketing Communications in 1994 and made his first client the college. How's that for salesmanship! According to Roger, college provided him with the practical and tactical skills necessary to run his own business. To his credit, his small business ventures ranged from selling electronic bill boards, to tradeshows, to media buying, to marketing, to barter exchange and eventually to his current business, BizLaunch (www.BizLaunch.ca) which he co-owns with business partner, Andrew Patricio, to train new entrepreneurs to succeed in business.
BizLaunch opened its doors for business in 2003 and has since trained over 4000 entrepreneurs. What makes their business unique is their one-on-one coaching and post-support after their clients have taken their 30-hour training program. With no real competitors except for the government, BizLaunch has adeptly made them an alliance partner and has worked with them on government sponsored business programs for youth.
Not surprisingly, Pierce understands youth and business. He has been involved with Junior Achievement (JA), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics, since high school. Now that he has an opportunity to give this knowledge back, he is enthusiastic about working with young entrepreneurs who make up part of BizLaunch's client base. He says working with young entrepreneurs out of school is great because they "have unlimited enthusiasm, are fast learners, and are flexible to adapt to changes." In fact, BizLaunch was hired by the Ontario government for their "Summer Company Program" to provide enterprising students aged 15 to 29 with hands on business training and ment
The exciting term, infopreneur, is becoming a hit among today's entrepreneurs who want to capitilise on the sea of opportunities available on the internet. An infopreneur, apparently combined from the two words "information" and "entrepreneur", refers to an entrepreneur who makes money by selling/sharing information on the web.Infopreneurs fall into two categories. One is where infopreneurs sell information which are created on their own. The other kind is whereby infopreneurs piggyback off information from certain sources, modify as their own and sell them. The selling part might not exactly refer to selling information to readers directly all the time. Instead, sometimes information will be made free to be read by anyone. In this case, revenues are earned through advertistments which are relevant to the information. Infopreneurship serves as an important purpose to the public especially when people are looking for information on a specific topic. Then again, the reliability of the source has to be checked for.The selling part comes in when an infopreneur offers information products in a variety of formats including books, e-books, special reports, audio formats, videos, workbooks, booklets, and virtually any method in which one can deliver information. This method is practised by entrepreneurs cum infopreneurs and successful results are
BizLaunch opened its doors for business in 2003 and has since trained over 4000 entrepreneurs. What makes their business unique is their one-on-one coaching and post-support after their clients have taken their 30-hour training program. With no real competitors except for the government, BizLaunch has adeptly made them an alliance partner and has worked with them on government sponsored business programs for youth.
Not surprisingly, Pierce understands youth and business. He has been involved with Junior Achievement (JA), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics, since high school. Now that he has an opportunity to give this knowledge back, he is enthusiastic about working with young entrepreneurs who make up part of BizLaunch's client base. He says working with young entrepreneurs out of school is great because they "have unlimited enthusiasm, are fast learners, and are flexible to adapt to changes." In fact, BizLaunch was hired by the Ontario government for their "Summer Company Program" to provide enterprising students aged 15 to 29 with hands on business training and ment
For the past few years or so now we've been creating and printing our own posters. And the best paper that I've found for this is satin paper. And not just any satin paper. The best that I've found is made by Hewlett Packard. And what works best is the 7 mil paper.Satin paper that's 7 mil thick dries quick. Even for dark prints. Cause there's enough paper to absorb the ink. Thinner paper takes a lot longer to dry cause not all of the ink isn't aborbed. So it has to just sit there and dry. Sometimes run and bleed through to the back of the paper.And the 7 mil paper isn't so thick that you can't roll it up and plastic sleeve it without any problems. Like wrinkling the print for making it too tight to get the plastic over it.So it dries quick, rolls good without sticking to itself, and is ready to ship the same day if not the next day from when it was printed. Very ideal for the high humidity climate that I reside in.I have tried other papers from other manufacturers and different thicknesses. Like glossy paper. Yeah it puts a high gloss on the print. But the ink sits on top and takes forever, like 3 days or so, to dry enough to roll and ship. 5 mil and thinner satin paper. The ink sits on top and soaks through the paper. You roll it up and gets ink onto the back side of the print. Not very professional.
Not surprisingly, Pierce understands youth and business. He has been involved with Junior Achievement (JA), an international non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young people about business and economics, since high school. Now that he has an opportunity to give this knowledge back, he is enthusiastic about working with young entrepreneurs who make up part of BizLaunch's client base. He says working with young entrepreneurs out of school is great because they "have unlimited enthusiasm, are fast learners, and are flexible to adapt to changes." In fact, BizLaunch was hired by the Ontario government for their "Summer Company Program" to provide enterprising students aged 15 to 29 with hands on business training and ment
Tips for your Job SearchIn the old days, finding a job was easy. All you had to do was get your hands on a flint-tipped spear and skewer a few mastodons and you were considered gainfully employed. The only headhunters were people who were after your skull, and "getting your name out there" meant painting it on a cave wall. As much as we may long for these simple times, the job search of today is a much more complicated and often vicious process. After all, they don't call it job "hunting" for nothing. Today's competitive and fast-paced job market has forced job seekers to develop a variety of techniques in order to stay ahead of the evolutionary curve. The only way to go about your job search is to think as though you're employed in the business of finding yourself a job.For most people, having a job means that they go to work at a certain time, do their best to finish a certain number of tasks, and leave at a certain time. While the actual amount of time and energy spent varies from employee to employee, the formula remains the same. But when most people look for a job their search often turns into a free-for-all. Many job seekers don't realize that organization and time management pose just as much of a problem for them as it does for the employed. This is especially true for people coming out of college, who may or may not have held a
With the number of women starting their own businesses and the increasing immigrant population in Canada, Roger reports that 60% of BizLaunch's clients are women and 33% are new Canadians who are of Chinese, Spanish, East Indian and South African descent. As I sit in on a free 90-minute Staples BizLaunch start-up seminar and look around me, this statement is confirmed.
BizLaunch offers a series of free seminars at various Staples & Indigo locations around the Greater Toronto Area throughout the year to educate new entrepreneurs and to drum up new business for their 30-hour "Up & Running BizLaunch Program". This affordable program was designed to help new entrepreneurs create profitable small ventures.
With manufacturing being sent out to third world countries, Canada is becoming a service based economy and is confirmed by Industry Canada's business statistics that reveal that the greatest job loss has come from the manufacturing sector. According to Roger Pierce, there are tons of small businesses opening up, namely web-based, special niche, online retail and outsourcing companies. And with one million Canadians predicted to start their own businesses in this decade, it is necessary to understand how to set-up a business for success.
"Clarity, momentum and accountability is necessary for entrepreneurs to succeed," says Roger. You need to be clear and focused on what your goals are to be successful in business. In addition you need to be motivated to execute, and be accountable for all your actions. Therefore a business plan is necessary to guide and map your efforts. According to Pierce, "4 out of 5 small businesses do not have a business plan." This is a costly mistake because business owners become reactive rather than proactive as a result of not having a viable business plan. He believes that an ideal business plan should not be longer than two years as market conditio
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