Business and Entrepreneurship- DURHAM BUSINESS TIMES: Beautiful Game, Big Business: What’s Canada’s biggest participation sport? Hockey? Baseball?
Try soccer. And why not? All you need is cleats, shin pads, a soccer ball and a little patch of green.
- DURHAM BUSINESS TIMES: How Blogging Can Build Your Business : Every minute, 122 new blogs burst into life; every second, 18 new posts are entered. Will blogging gain importance over the next five years? – 89% of businesses say yes.
- DURHAM BUSINESS TIMES: Lick's reopens in Whitby, saves 25 jobs: “Ordering two of those juicy home burgers, ordering a sky high and a gobble-gobble.”
- DURHAM BUSINESS TIMES: Upscale Resale: Champagne taste and a beer budget? Look around in Durham and you’ll discover an abundance of consignment shops, some as far removed from the local Sally Ann as haute cuisine from hamburgers.
- DURHAM TRADE & COMMERCE: Summer Company's Coming: Durham Region’s Summer Company program nurtures young entrepreneurs. The provincially-funded program provides students aged 15 to 29 with up to $3,000 in start-up funding, business training and one-on-one mentoring to build their own summer business.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE:
Durham Region means business : Durham's mayors share their vision for the future
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Who’s catering to small business? : Everyone wants to feel special, including entrepreneurs. Until recently, small business owners were used to being misunderstood — even ignored. But the world is waking up and recognizing the role that entrepreneurs play in our economy.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: A tale of two mayors : Clarington Mayor Jim Abernethy and Ajax Mayor Steve Parish square off
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: All in the Family: The SECRETS to family-run business
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: At Your Service: Their story starts with a bed. But not just any bed — the $3,000 “Rolls-Royce” model. Paul and Tiffany St. Germain had ordered it from one of Canada’s largest retailers.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Blurred Boundaries -- Farming in the Urban Shadow: A sun-warmed strawberry, a cool glass of milk, a sizzling steak, a crisp apple. The signs on some country roads remind us: farmers feed cities. But as the boundaries between farmland and cities blur, new challenges face the farmer who feeds us. How is he adapting to farming in the urban shadow?
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Get With the Program: Serious about starting your own business? The Self-Employment Benefit program can help set the wheels in motion. The Self-Employment Benefit (S.E.B.) program is a federally-funded program, combining training and business coaching, that transforms EI claimants into successful entrepreneurs.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Half-full or Half-empty? --
Cautious Optimism for Durham’s Economy
: A strong Canadian dollar is slamming Canadian businesses, but the news in Durham Region isn’t all bad, according to Liisa Ikavalko, senior development officer for Durham Region.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: How B&B's are Thinking Big
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Manufacturing the Future: Automobiles, antacids and armchairs. What do they have in common? They share more than just the same first letter. They are all manufactured goods, like many of the everyday essentials that we eat, wear, drive and work with.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: New Grid on the Block: A new frog has jumped into the energy pond. Its name is Bullfrog Power and it’s making a big splash.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Pretty in Pink -- Construction Gear for Women: Who says you can’t look good to work hard? Not Marissa McTasney. The Brooklin entrepreneur has successfully launched a line of women’s construction gear in female-friendly pinks, blues, reds and greens.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Small Business is Big Business: Highlighting three small business associations available to entrepreneurs in Durham Region
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: The Changing Faces of the Trades
: As more and more tradespeople retire, those who are replacing them are not who you'd expect...
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: The Connector: Eric Novak is an “ideas man”. The ideas bubble over and spill out whenever he speaks, which is often and quickly. But he’s more than just talk. In little more than a year, the Ajax resident has built a one-stop shopping mall for media and promotion based in Durham Region.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: The Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Peter Miller meets people who stand at life’s crossroads. He’s the program coordinator for Essential Communications Ltd., which runs Durham’s Ontario Self-Employment Benefit Program, a remarkably successful provincial initiative that helps people transition from unemployment to self-employment.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Virtual Businesses: Home, sweet home—you can’t imagine working anywhere else. Except on days like this. You’ve been waiting all morning for an important phone call and a FedEx delivery. Car keys in hand, foot tapping, you need to leave for your 1:00 business meeting at the neighbourhood Tim Horton’s. It’s 12:45; you’re convinced that the moment you leave the house, the phone will ring and the FedEx van will chug around the corner. Ruefully you admit it may be time to move out of your home office.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: We Deliver: In today’s world, time is our most precious commodity. The universal cry, “Stop the world I want to get off!” has reached the ears of five resourceful Durham entrepreneurs. In their own unique manner, each enterprising business person aims to rescue us from life’s fast pace with their product or service. Time to stop and smell the roses, they say – we deliver.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: Wonder Women: The turning point for one came when her commute time jumped from one hour a day to two and a half. For another, it was the prospect of another summer of aching feet and low pay from waiting tables. Yet another became disillusioned with her company’s worker-bee mentality. Another followed her love of home décor. Their paths were diverse but their destinations were the same—small business. Four female entrepreneurs talk about the journey.
- DURHAM TRADE AND COMMERCE: You Do What? A Trio of One-of-a-Kind Entrepreneurs: Where does the germ of a business idea sprout from? Peter Miller of Essential Communications knows. He’s the program coordinator for Durham’s Self-Employment Benefit program, a federally-funded training ground for entrepreneurs.
- EAST OF THE CITY: Music Man: The call came out of the blue while Dan Clancy was sitting at home with his family.
“Hi Danny. It's Paul Hoffert from the band Lighthouse. My wife Brenda and I would like to come and see you perform at the Tartan.”
- EAST OF THE CITY: The Art of Sustainability: Scratch the skin of an artist and you’ll often find an environmentalist beneath.
- EAST OF THE CITY: Wine, Women and Song: The story of Port Perry farm boy Irwin Smith and how he turned a winemaking hobby into a successful, award-winning enterprise.
- REM: Home Staging -- A win, win situation: “Staging saves me time, the house sells quicker and the client gets more money. I hire a CSP for all of my listings, regardless of price.” ~ Paul T. Cody, Re/Max Twin City Realty
- REM: The Feast or Famine of Staging Suites: No matter how spacious it is, an over-furnished condo feels like a too-tight suit. Buyers look elsewhere. The trick is to replace these “house-sized” groupings with “condo-scaled” equivalents. The result? A suite that feels bigger. ~ Canadian Staging Professional™ (CSP™) Darren Brand.
- THE WORDWEAVER: My Secret Love: Paul Feldman, an Ajax entrepreneur, distributes and teaches Dragon NaturallySpeaking. He has also written his own manual, one that connects straightforward commands to the actions they perform. He could have entitled it Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Dummies.
- TORONTO SUN: The Power to Make a Difference: What do authors Kenneth Oppel, Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie, chef Jamie Kennedy, horticulturalist Mark Cullen, politician Bob Rae and former Toronto Mayor David Crombie all have in common? They’ve all been “bullfrogpowered”.
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