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		<title>How important is drive by traffic for your business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a retail store or franchise, the most important aspect of location is the traffic that comes to your location.  Are you a destination where people come specifically to your location or do many of your customers come on impulse when they are driving by?  Is all traffic the same?  How important is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is better to expand your business or keep the status quo if you want to sell your business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All business owners want to retire with the most money in their bank account so that they do not have to work again.  Many business owners believe that their business is worth more than it actually is or more often that is the amount of that they believe they need to retire on and want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should you go to China to save money, increase profits to get your business worth more when you sell?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current thought is that you will always save money by transferring your manufacturing to China, but is this always the case and for how long?  If you have a product which is labour intensive, there may be a considerable benefit for moving the manufacturing facility to China or some of the other countries in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HST &#8211; will that affect your business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HST is a new tax in Ontario and in British Columbia being implemented on July 1.  Some items already have PST and GST but the number of items subject to tax will increase.  Will this affect your business?
 
HST will have two impacts on your business. One &#8211; it will make things cheaper for businesses as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you grow your business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have been operating your business for many years and now it is at a critical stage.  Do you invest more money in the business to take it to the next level, keep it the same size and coast or buy a business to jump start the growth.  In fact, the acquisition may be cheaper than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business strategies, are you ready for HST?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You operate your own business and you know that the tax changes that happen on July 1 do not impact you for several months, have you started to think about how you will be able to deal with the transition, when does it affect you.  Many people may not realize that things you do now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to use the phasing out of Ontario and BC sales tax to your advantage when you sell a business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are planning for the sale of your business sometime next year.  In order to attract a higher price, you want to increase your profits as high as possible in the year before the sale.  If you have a business in Ontario or British Columbia, you may have one time opprtunity to save money without having to take any risks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do you do when you take over a business which you just bought?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just bought a business but the quarters are cramped, there is not a lot of space and it is poorly laid out.  Papers are everywhere, there is no rational for organizing the office the way that it is, what do you do?  Did you buy the shares of the business or did you buy the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic dependence on a customer &#8211; is this a good thing for a business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you start your business, you may only have one customer.  As time goes on, hopefully you get more customers.  What happens if that customer grows and grows and keeps giving you more work and now your revenue is in excess of $1 million with that customer.  Do you continue to look for more business but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can your business survive your death?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Landa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people do not plan for the future and they believe that if they are healthy, they do not have to plan for succession.  They do not plan to sell the business or if there is someone who can take over the business and run it in event of a premature death.  Untimely deaths happen [...]]]></description>
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