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Got a home business? Remember to keep your expenses -- and your bank accounts -- separate. This will help you with record keeping, especially for tax purposes. Read More

If you are a Canadian small business owner with a Visa Business Card you can enter Visa’s Go Biz Elevator Pitch contest. By filling out an entry form on Visa’s site, you can compete for a $10,000 credit to your Visa Business Card. Read More

A quick guide on how to perform a local search audit for your business. Focusing on your local listing is a great way to keep the phone ringing. Read More

This is a good blog post about how focusing too much on short term costs can be detrimental in the long run. Read More

Nothing in life is guaranteed but as Benjamin Franklin famously said: "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." By doing some preparation before you start your business you can prepare to succeed instead. Here are 10 things you can do BEFORE you start your business.

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Google has teamed up with a number of sponsors, including the Royal Bank, to offer a free website to any Canadian business. In the video below, Kevin O’Leary introduces the program. Read More

Like our readers, we keep our eyes open for business insight on the web. We came across John Warrillow, a writer for the Globe and Mail. He comes with the credentials of a newspaper writer – published author, successful businessman. It’s quite shocking to read his blog. Each post contains a stateme Read More

Many people’s first instinct when starting the business planning process is to find a template, outline or sample plan that they can copy to create their own business plan. A quick Google search will show that there are thousands of these templates on the internet. Like anything on the internet, th Read More

People come up with ideas for new businesses every day. How does one judge whether an idea has merit or not? Should the business be pursued or should the idea be tossed on the scrap heap of bad ideas? Here is a process you can follow to find out. Read More

Google Insights will, according to Google, compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. It's a great way to see what terms and phrases are being used on Google to describe your product or services, especially in different geographical locations. Read More