Symantec Hosted Services says New Brunswick is the most spammed province in Canada: 92.5% of email there is spam. Not that there’s much difference between worst and first. Newfoundland is the least spammed province, with a spam rate of 86%. According to Symantec’s MessageLabs, 90% of spam is sent by five to six million private computers that have been…

I just read a wonderful little article that came in Arielle Ford’s The Soulmate Secret ezine this week. It really hit home for me. As I work with my clients, we often have to overcome some common stumbling blocks that hold them back from their true greatness — things like “I need to lose 10 more pounds” or “I…

Did you know that when you worry that you may not be able to “handle” growing your business, or that if you doubt you’re “good enough” to raise your fees, that you’re actually swimming upstream, against the current of a universal principle, which is the principle of 1ncrease? Many of us have been taught that it’s wrong to want…

Oops. The weather was so nice I never got around to posting my column in last week’s Financial Post. Which is pretty ironic, since the topic of last week’s column was the work you could be doing this summer (while your rivals are napping in the sun) to get the jump on the competition this fall. Here are seven…

What do you think is the most important characteristic an entrepreneur should have? My column in this week’s Financial Post looks at the biggest challenge facing growth-oriented entrepreneurs. To my mind, it’s learning: constantly seeking new and better way to handle the challenges that no one (and no school) ever prepared you for. Excerpt: There’s only one way the entrepreneur…

“Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.” Royal Little (1896-1989), U.S. entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Textron, considered one of the first conglomerates Are you an entrepreneur or an inventor? Would you rather tinker with your product or get it out the door? There’s nothing wrong…

Here’s news of another great marketing opportunity for one lucky business… Will you be the lucky company? It’s your last chance to enter Toronto-based Mezzanine Group ’s ‘ Win Your Marketing Department For A Year’ contest. Application deadline is July 16th – apply now! Mezzanine Group’s ‘Win Your Marketing Department’ contest aims to help one Canadian firm achieve significantly greater…

To make mo-ney (more than you’re making now) you need someone to help you. That someone can be a coach, a virtual assistant, a programmer, a copywriter or any other kind of support staff. It might even be a mix of “someone’s”. Tending to all the details involved in running your business can take up a big chunk of…

Sometimes it’s a bad idea to flaunt the rules of proper grammar and punctuation. But the online world is changing that in some ways. One way is that anytime you put your Website URL in an email or online, you should leave off any punctuation that might follow. So if your sentence ends with a link or URL skip…

A few weeks ago I decided to go to the movies with a girlfriend. We chose Prince of Persia. As it happened, it was opening weekend so I hadn’t seen the reviews. However, I was a little worried about seeing it. The previews made it look sort of muddled and I was a bit puzzled by the choice of…