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Tag Archives: Opportunity
Why Start a Business?
Central Vancouver Island has a few thousand businesses. Some do well, others survive. If you asked all of them why they started the business, you may be surprised at the myriad of answers that you hear. Some start it for … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Clients, Coaching, Community Futures, Customers, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Entrepreneurs, self-employment, Young Professionals
Tagged Business, Cash Flow Projection, Central Vancouver Island, community, Community Futures, Customer Service, Employment Insurance, Entrepreneur, Nanaimo, Opportunity, Vancouver Island, Work Environment, WorkBC Employment Centre
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The Business of Business
When some think of business men and women, they think of them as successful, they have a good life with all the money they could want. Other’s think of fast food chains and the success that must go with it … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Clients, Community Futures, Customers, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employees, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Marketing, self-employment
Tagged Business, Business Model, Clients, community, Customers, Employees, Entrepreneur, Franchises, Independence, Opportunity, Passion, Product, return on investment, Service
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Opportunity
Waiting for the light to change at an intersection I was entertained by a murder of crows. One had what I presume to be food and the others were engaged in wanting what it had. At one point the crow … Continue reading
Paying Attention!
Ever wonder how some businesses seem to always be on the cutting edge? It is not really that much of a surprise. It usually is a combination of networking and observation. Networking will connect you with the information in the … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Career professional, Chamber of Commerce, Coaching, Communication, Community Futures, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Life coaching, Networking, Relationships, self-employment
Tagged Building Permits, Business, Business Examiner, Chamber of Commerce, Change, Change Management, Coaching, Communication, Major Projects Inventory, Networking, Observation, Opportunity, Small Business, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island Economic Alliance, VIEA
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Changes and Opportunities
Looking back, the face of business in my lifetime has had quite a ride. As a teenager in Five Acres in Nanaimo, I remember the neighbourhood and what it provided to our family. Our eggs came from two blocks away, … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Customers, Economy, Elephant in the Room, Elephants, Entrepreneurs, Marketing
Tagged Business, Change, Departure Bay., Eaton's, Entrepreneurs, Marketing, Nanaimo, Opportunity, Shopping malls, Simpson Sears, Vancouver Island
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What are the Odds?
Every day, all around us there are opportunities. Sometimes, most times, we miss them. When a door closes, we are usually wrapped up in what happened to close the door, or are grieving the fact that it closed so we … Continue reading
Posted in Believe and Succeed Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Coaching, Community Futures, Elephants, Employment, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Life coaching, self-employment
Tagged Business, Career, Change, Change Management, Coaching, Employment, Life coach, Opportunity, Organizational Change, Risk
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$7 Cauliflower!!!!
Time to bring things closer to home To say we live in interesting times is an understatement! Someone sneezes halfway around the world and we are impacted. If a new mill starts up somewhere it can change our markets here … Continue reading
Posted in Business Coaching, Business Planning, Career development, Career professional, Chamber of Commerce, Coaching, Community Futures, Customers, Elephants, Empowering people, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Life coaching, Marketing, Relationships, self-employment
Tagged 100 mile diet, Change, Change Management, Coaching, Employment, Farming, Life coach, Opportunity, Vancouver Island
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