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As an entrepreneur, I can imagine, in great detail, a lot of possible things I could do or build. I’ve run into plenty of others in the same boat. Ideas are rarely in shortage.
Call it chasing the squirrel or the shiny blue ball syndrome.
The solution in most cases is to […]
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People buy Apple products, because Apple has a powerful brand that connects to their ideal customer.
Consumers can see the connection to the iPhone in their hand or the MacBook Pro in their lap along with the company itself.
It doesn’t matter if the products are manufactured offshore by companies and people they don’t know exist. It doesn’t matter if the components in the phones are fabricated by other companies most of us have never heard of. […]
You don’t have to make people lose to win. In fact, it is usually a bad long-term strategy.
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“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.“ ~ Zig Ziglar
If you have been watching Donald Trump in the news lately, you are probably quite aware that he embraces an overt and aggressive bullying technique when dealing with any opposition.
Most recently, this included attacking the credibility of a disabled New York Times reporter […]
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Over our last 15 plus years in business and consulting, I’ve run into many cases of small businesses attempting to work together to deliver better client value, win larger projects, and share marketing and sales costs.
This is one example of what it often looks like:
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Some people have access to more data, but unless you’ve invented the time machine, your guess about the future might be just as good as theirs.
(Update: Since this article was originally published in December 2015, the price of oil has dropped below $30 US per barrel and the royalty review results have been announced. Those […]
When you start to think you know it all, something will happen to make you believe you don’t know anything at all.
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“You know nothing, Jon Snow.” ~ Ygritte – The Game of Thrones
It is tempting to give people advice on starting a business. Do this and not that. As if everything is black and white, yes or no answers. If we had followed all of that advice 15 years ago, we would not have started our business […]
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Sunwapta Solutions Inc. has been in business for over 15 years. Suffice it to say, we’ve been through a few economic cycles during that time ranging from the dotcom bust, 9/11, the 2008 world banking crisis, and now the current slump in oil prices.
Of course, your business might run into problems for […]
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“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” ~ Buddha
We often get in our own way when pursuing success.
Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of people starting businesses because they have lost their job or fear they will lose it in the future. Some people […]
We don’t build great teams in business for the sake of building great teams. It would be like hiring all the best hockey players and then not playing hockey.
Great teams need a purpose or goal.
We build a great hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.
The same goes for business.
For business, the purpose is to serve clients in exchange for revenue. If we do that efficiently, we know we are winning because we generate profit and growth according to our goals.
Our brand is how […]
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I remember coming out of high school straight into the military as a shy and introverted officer in training. I was so quiet a lot of people thought I would quit. I didn’t.
After studying electrical engineering for five years, I went off to serve another seven years in the Air […]