If you're in business for yourself, you know that maintaining the status quo is not nearly enough. You must continually think of ways to...

Once upon a time, there was the Chargex card. Some received it from their bank but most Canadians lived without it. Today, more than 40 year...

The period of low interest rates is coming to an end. According to current forecasts, the rates will start rising midway through 2010. For m...

If you own a retail business, you will understand exactly what the issue at hand is all about. How much of your hard-earned money goes to t...

Imagine conducting business in an ideal world – a world where everyone is honest and truthful and the thought of cheating someone never ente...

A person needs oxygen to survive. A business needs credit. Even in the most difficult of times, the flow of oxygen remains uninterrupted. No...

Statistics are like a cat. Rub its fur one way and it purrs; rub the other way and the results are somewhat less positive. So it is with e...

Strangely enough, the best and easiest time to raise cash for your business is when you don't need it. Cash and credit are the lifeblood...

Volumes have been written in the last few months about Canada's inflation rate, currently sitting at 0.25% annually, and the interest ra...

Let's be honest; most of us have done it. Embarrassing as it might be, most people have removed an item from their shopping cart while w...

The downturn in the economy has created "economic collateral damage." Small and medium-sized businesses have been forced into ban...

A recent poll conducted by the Business Development Bank of Canada found that small business owners are positive about their own future, m...