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Vancity’s Each One, Grow One seminar program shows you how Since 2008, Vancity’s Each One, Grow One seminar program has helped hundreds of emerging businesses become more financially stable and sustainable. Specifically targeted to new entrepreneurs, Each One Grow One can help you: identify sources of capital; develop a detailed cash flow projection; understand the [...]
Read more...Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation
February 1st, 2013From the Canadian Chamber of Commerce: Canadian Anti-spam Legislation (CASL) Background on the legislation & why this action now? Spam is a constant and invasive problem. We can all agree to that. The volume of unsolicited bulk email and instant messages – usually of a commercial nature – coupled with an overabundance of spyware/malware – [...]
Read more...Sustainable Business Blog
Check out the latest sustainable business news and trend at The Pledge for a Sustainable Community.
Read more...Hemlock Wins Ancient Forest Friendly Award
Another amazing recognition for Hemlock Printers! Burnaby, BC – Hemlock was honoured to be recognized for their continued sustainability efforts at the 2012 Ancient Forest Friendly™ Awards, hosted by Canopy on December 6, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario. Seventeen awards were handed out for a variety of categories, including four printing categories. Hemlock won the Best in [...]
Read more...10 Tips to Cutting Your Business Travel Costs
November 7th, 2012Guest Blog: Courtesy of Corporate Traveller While there are many costs reduction strategies that can be applied to an organization’s travel program, for small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the secret to success is knowing what the best strategies are and how they can be applied to your individual business. As one of the leading travel management company in Canada, Flight Centre Ltd’s [...]
Read more...Transformational Companies Redefine Business for a Sustainable Future
November 5th, 2012Guest blog by Coro Strandberg, Strandberg Consulting corostrandberg.com When Unilever announced their Sustainable Living Plan in 2010 they set three broad goals to position their company as part of the solution to environmental, social and economic challenges. They committed to help more than a billion people improve their health and well-being; halve the environmental footprint [...]
Read more...Holiday helping gives busy families and businesses an opportunity to share
November 1st, 2012Guest Blog – Vancity At Vancity our vision is to redefine wealth. It calls on us to measure success in terms of how we contribute to the well-being of both our members and their communities. As Canada’s largest credit union, one of our greatest strengths is our ability to connect with the communities in which we [...]
Read more...Transformational Companies Tackle the Double Whammy
September 25th, 2012Guest Blog By Coro Standberg, corostrandberg.com. Consider this definition of a transformational company: To qualify as “transformational,” a company must both transform its own business model toward sustainability and the larger economic ecosystem in which it exists. That’s a double whammy. But no company operates in complete isolation. So, in order to create a truly [...]
Read more...BBOT Going Waste Free!
July 31st, 2012With the Burnaby Board of Trade set to launch its new Pledge for a Sustainable Burnaby program this fall, staff here have been trying to think of ways to be more environmentally friendly around the office. After all, how can we expect other businesses to reduce their environmental impact if we can’t be bothered to [...]
Read more...Takeaways from “The Secret to Getting More Referrals” seminar by Sue Clement
July 24th, 2012Cory Redekop, our Events Manager, is on vacation so Eugene Chang (BBOT Account Executive) and I made our way to the Best Western (Coquitlam) last week to help coordinate Sue Clement’s seminar “The Secret to Getting More Referrals.” Sue is an author, an international speaker and an expert in referral marketing. It was an interesting [...]
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