Entrepreneurship

My favourite food is pizza, but if I bait the hook with pizza I can’t seem to catch any fish. The fish don’t like pizza, they like worms. So instead of thinking about what I want I have to…

Care for your clients so much that they feel the need to refer you to others. Create an irresistible low cost and short time commitment offer to help prospects take the first step. Hit the phone and get former…

Seth Godin has been one of my favourite authors for the over a decade. I admire his way of thinking, his values and his wisdom. His books have helped me through many hard times in business. They’ve also enlightened…

Someone pitched me a business idea yesterday. He had 5 different things he was working on. When I asked him which one of those things where working right now he said none of them. Every business has a lead…

1. Who’s story is it? 2. What’s their flaw? 3. What is the inciting incident? 4. What do they want? 5. What obstacles are in their way? 6. What’s at stake? 7. Why should we care? 8. What do…

There’s a sign nailed to a post by my house that reads “tree cutting service”. Needing a few dead trees cut I had starred at that sign many times on my way home but never took action. One day a…

This is my story.…

My alarm went off, it was 3am. I threw on a pair of those rubber boot overalls. I drove to a near by Tim Hortens and I walked into a swamp of water next to the drive through. I…

I get business ideas sent to me all the time. But success isn’t really about the idea. It’s more about the passion of the entrepreneur, the cleverness and the drive towards the problem they want to solve. An entrepreneur…

1. A good student makes a good entrepreneur I have a mug I use most mornings for my green tea that has a collage of dropout billionaires on it. I made it myself. It’s a reminder that good grades…

People will work a job they hate their whole life only to feel safe. They let fear control them, and as a result they never get to experience life to the fullest. It’s a scary thing to tell your…

Companies that win are companies that take action. Period. Information is everywhere these days. It’s easy to get caught up trying to know everything instead of doing the work needed. It seems that the more we learn the more…

I just got off the phone with my team of entrepreneurs at MIYAGI which inspired this post. One of the key principles of business is to understand and know the numbers/metrics in your business. Metrics or “key performance indicators”…

When I think back to what was stopping me from stepping outside the box and becoming an entrepreneur, it was because I didn’t think I was worthy. I didn’t think I could do it. From an early age we…