Press Releases from Evan Carmichael & Associates (10 total)
GOING GLOBAL: How Entrepreneurs are Taking their Business to New Borders
TORONTO, CA – March 27, 2007 – There are 6.5 billion people living on this planet. To the environmentalist, that figure immediately conjures up fears of pollution and global warning. To the true entrepreneur, however, 6.5 billion people means 6.5 billion potential customers.
As small business owners get caught up in the daily challenges of running their company, they are often unable to see the vast range of opportunities that are…
What's Hot, What's Not: Top Three Trends for Small Business in 2007
A new year is upon us and with that comes new opportunities for small business owners everywhere. What new technologies will your business embrace this year? What new partnerships will you form? How will you take advantage of the changing marketplace?
In answering these questions, entrepreneurship expert Evan Carmichael suggests the importance of examining the rising trends that are promising to impact small business in the coming year. “The beginning of…
THE BUSINESS OF BUYING A BUSINESS: Experts Weigh In On What It Takes To Succeed
January 16, 2007 (Toronto, CA) -- Look up the word ‘entrepreneur’ in almost any dictionary and you are bound to come across the word ‘risk’. Entrepreneurship is, by definition, a risky business. The stakes are high and the security is low. However, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are discovering one way to reduce that risk; they’re buying existing businesses that have already proven themselves out in the real world.
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Small Business Means Big Workloads: Studies Find Entrepreneurs Working More Than …
There are only 24 hours in a day, but try telling that to an entrepreneur. For small business owners, time is one of the most crucial resources at their disposal. In contrast to large corporations that have both more money and more staff, time is in fact one of the few ways for entrepreneurs to seemingly get ahead. Whereas their counterparts might only work from 9-5, small business owners have…
Small Business is Big Business: How Selling to the Little Guy is Netting Large P …
They may be small, but what they lack in size they make up for in number. According to the American Small Business Administration, small businesses and entrepreneurs account for 99.9 percent of the over 25.8 million businesses in the United States. Similarly, over the past ten years, small businesses have created between 60 and 80 percent of new jobs in the country. That is why an increasing number of corporate…
Moving Mountains: Entrepreneur Immigrants Relocate for Success
To pack up and leave your home on a hunch is not an easy thing to do. But, from South Korea and Iran, to China and Pakistan, more and more entrepreneurs are leaving their homes in search of greater opportunities, and they are choosing Canada as the place to start.
Ganesan Sugumar and his wife left Sri Lanka in 1992 to try their luck in Ontario. Despite arriving during a…
Logging In, Cashing Out: Internet the New Hot Spot for Entrepreneurs
Yahoo! eagerly snatched up the photo-sharing site Flickr, media mogul Rupert Murdoch hedged his bets on MySpace, and Google recently agreed to purchase the video entertainment site YouTube for $1.65 billion. Wherever you look, entrepreneurs who were once struggling to make a presence for their fledgling companies in the vast maze of the Internet are now seeing their hard work pay off, quite literally.
Married entrepreneurs Stewart Butterfield and Caterina…
COMPANIES ON CAMPUS: College Students Choose Entrepreneurship
Gone are the days when you graduate from university and are forced to send out your resume to so many places that you lose count in the hopes that someone, somewhere – anywhere – will give you a chance and hire you. It didn’t matter if your degree was in Latin American history and you were offered a job as a clerical assistant with the Ministry of Transportation – “I’ll…
SEEING GREEN IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: The Rising Trend of Environmentally Friendly …
The International Energy Association predicts that by 2030, there will be a worldwide increase of over 50% in the demand for primary energy. And, as the pundits have been saying for years, traditional energy sources will not be able to meet this growing demand.
Some people have been reacting to this with fear, and others with pessimism, but a growing number of entrepreneurs are responding to this with new ideas.…
How Entrepreneurs Can Protect Themselves And Their Business
Learn industry secrets from top insurance experts.
Entrepreneurs today operate in a risky environment. Loss and liability have become all too familiar features of many businesses. An accidental fire, a sudden illness, an unexpected natural disaster and suddenly everything you worked so hard to achieve could be gone. Don’t be caught off guard. Protect yourself, your family and your business by properly understanding insurance and how it can affect you.
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