Category Archives: Startup

Eight ways to improve productivity in your small business

Eight ways to improve productivity in your small business As a small business owner you wear many hats: salesperson, accountant, marketer, administrator, designer, networker to name but a few. It can be exhilarating, but equally exhausting at times, so anything you can do to lighten the load should be welcomed. By working smarter not harder, […]

How to Design a Great Website For Small Business

How to Design a Great Website For Small Business – Tips & Mistakes to Avoid   No matter how small your business is, with the right strategy, it has huge potential for growth. Your website is a vital part of this strategy. It’s crucial to your digital marketing campaign, it’s necessary for consumers to place […]

7 Best Practices for Small Business Blogs

Writing a blog for your business isn’t rocket science. Although it may seem daunting, you’ll find that writing your first blog post is easier than you think. Whether you’re just starting to blog for your business, or you’ve been at it for a while, here are 7 best practices to keep in mind while writing. 7 Best […]

The Really Big List of Marketing Tools for Small Business

Every marketer needs the right tools in order to succeed in running marketing campaigns. Good tools make your life easier, from blogging tools to research and tracking tools. Unicorn tools are unique and magnificent time-savers that free you up to focus and prioritize. Here’s a list of every marketing tool you need updated for 2018. Every Marketing Tool You Need to Know About in […]

Kitchener startup OpenPhone helps small business owners unplug from work

Open this photo in gallery OpenPhone founders Mahyar Raissi and Daryna Kulya. A pair of Kitchener, Ont.-based entrepreneurs are trying to give smartphone-dependent small-business owners some much-needed work-life balance with their OpenPhone voice-over-IP (VOIP) application. OpenPhone is a monthly subscription service that gives users a local or toll-free phone number that can be used for […]

Six Ways FinTech is Helping Small Business Owners Meet Cash Flow Challenges

Financial technology covers a host of financial services software that has come of age in the 21st century. FinTech is an economic industry composed of companies that use technology to make financial systems more efficient, as Wharton describes it. Most SMBs are affected by some application of financial technology, whether they know it or not, […]