Canadian Small Business Show

Does your business rely on people showing up for appointments? Do you get paid for the appointments that you make? How do you track upcoming appointments? How do you book follow ups? What happens when a client cancels? Does this fustrate you? Listen to the Canadian Small Business Show as Tara Kelly and Brad Fenniak of Splice Software join Stuart Crawford and Regina Minger for a discussion about their Rendezvous product.

Join Big In Japan's Jake McKee and Stuart Crawford of the Canadian Small Business Show as we discuss what is needed to create an awesome online community. We have all heard of Web 2.0 and what the experts say this is all about. We have heard about blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds - How do these all come together to create an awesome online community.

Today's small businesses demand easier and more efficient ways to share business data with colleagues, business partners and staff. Introducing this new way to share business data in a secure, reliable and efficient manner. Join Calgary's award winning Small Business Specialist Stuart Crawford of IT Matters and Minneapolis' IT guru Erik Thorsell and we discuss sharing business data in a new and smarter way.

Starting a small business is a stressful experience. Is your personal blueprint in check with your business blueprint. Do you have a visionary in your business to allow your business to stand the test of time? Are you putting the building blocks in place to allow your business to function without you? Louis Barajas is a premier example of the American dream. Born in the barrio of East Los Angeles and the son of Mexican immigrants, Louis began his financial and small business career in his teens by helping his father and mother with their wrought iron business. He graduated from UCLA in 1984, received his MBA from Claremont Graduate School in 1987, and attained a Certified Financial Planner designation from the Denver College of Financial Planning in 1990. After some personal life changing events and years’ of experience at major financial planning, accounting and consulting firms in Southern California, Louis left the “yacht and Mercedes” crowd and returned to East Los Angeles in 1991 to form his own wealth and business planning firm. Louis wished to make a difference with the kind of people he grew up with – hard working men and women who, because of a lack of information or understanding, often made bad financial choices that kept them from achieving the success, security, and significance they deserved.

Sales is one of the most important components in your business. It doesn't matter if you are in the computer business, trucking or providing consulting on whatever. You need to sell your services! PERIOD! How do you build an effective sales team! Join Seattle's Dan Hay and Calgary's Stuart Crawford as we discuss how we build an effective sales team.

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Join a great podcast with Stuart Crawford and Magnus Mulliner on how living healthy and having a excellent diet will increase your productivity and overall personal satisfaction.

Lots of bosses are good at dumping, but not at delegating. They're great at off-loading the things they don't like to do and dropping assignments on their subordinates with little or no guidance. Other bosses think that delegating is always the best way to assign work. That's not right either. When you've got a competent and willing worker, delegation is the right way to go, but it's not a good choice for workers who aren't as competent or committed. Delegation is only one among the four basic options you when you ask a subordinate to do a piece of work. Wally Bock is an author, speaker, consultant and coach who helps leaders improve the performance and morale of their teams. Wally is the author of Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership (http://www.performancetalk.com/) and the Three Star Leadership Blog (http://blog.threestarleadership.com/). You'll also find tips and resources about all aspects of leadership at the Three Star Leadership site (http://www.threestarleadership.com/).

IT Systems are growing in complexity everyday, small business are becoming more and more reliant on their computer investments, they are wanting to do more with these and maximize previous investments. Alex Bethlehem and Laura Armstrong from Desktopsites discuss how Konect will bring value to any small business who is faced with rising technology costs and support expense. Desktopsites has a solution for your small business.

There are 3 questions every business should be able to answer confidently What do you do? Who is your target audience? How do you differ from your competitors? Strategies for Success helps small businesses utilize their resources efficiently to get the greatest impact for their sales and marketing efforts. Listen to a great podcast with Cidnee Stephen of Strategies for Success and Stuart Crawford of the Canadian Small Business Show.

Kelly Perdew joined Episode 11 of the Canadian Small Business Show to share some of his tips and trick to success as an entrepreneur. Kelly won Donald Trump's Apprentice, he is a avid writer with his book "Take Command". Kelly joins Stuart Crawford to talk about Entrepreneurship.

Small Businesses need reliable computer support and services to keep them competitive in today's marketplace, that is you need a Microsoft Small Business Specialist who is in tune with everything that your small business needs to keep you systems up and running. Join Stuart Crawford, Tim Loney, Anne Stanton and Andrea Russell as we discuss the merits of the Microsoft SBSC Community.

The Canadian Small Business Show is joined by Jeff Williams who is the chief coach with bizstarters.com. Jeff talks about the challenges to starting a new business when you have been in the corporate world for a long period of time. Stuart and Jeff talk about starting a new business, how to leverage your local community college for resources and why being a lone wolf in business is not a good idea.

Your business networking success depends on the quality of your conversations, not the location where you have them! Stuart Crawford interviews Srirupa Dasgupta on the Canadian Small Business Show. Srirupa Dasgupta helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals build, sustain and leverage the professional and personal network that is necessary to succeed.