Had a great weekend getting out of Canada for the first time in over 2.5 years. In case you missed my update last week (how dare you…), I decided to spend the weekend in NYC to visit one of my best childhood friends. To spend time with him, his wife and also their baby, who …
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Had a busy day due to the networking event I ran last week, which meant leaving the office early to get to the location downtown, still taking a few calls in the afternoon, buying snacks and setting up ahead of time, and not getting home until late. Luckily the event went very well, so please …
Hey folks, hope you had a great weekend. Mine wasn’t so bad, it’s just so freakin’ hot here in Toronto. It’s weird to say, because the running joke is usually about how cold it is in Canada, but: we usually get pretty warm summers, and this seems to be an abnormally hot summer around the …
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Hey folks, in case you missed my recent blog post, we’re on the topic of buying and selling businesses. I’m very bullish on buying and selling businesses as a solopreneur, and have actually had two experiences of my own. My first experience was with an online business. This was a few years ago – I …
The first time(s) I ever bought and sold a business Read More »
Happy Tuesday folks, for those not living in certain Canadian provinces, we actually had Monday off as a holiday – hence no update. But we’re back in action. Interesting topic on my mind because yesterday episode 115 of the Solopreneur Grind podcast went live. And in the episode, I interviewed an expert on buying and …
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This week is quickly turning into a week of testing. As you know from my emails last week, I did some digging into an industry that turned out not to be a good fit for us. I quickly got back on the grind (after a quick sob on the weekend – just kidding…) and now …
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Happy Monday folks, hope you had a great weekend. Here was pretty good, with Saturday being very hot and relaxing, and Sunday a little more grey and productive. One thing I did was circled back to tighten up my content calendar – aka my strategy on what to post, and when. My biggest takeaway after …
Tightening up my content calendar and posting strategies for social media Read More »
Had a pretty productive day yesterday on the outreach side. And one of the main reasons is because my network started to kick in. What do I mean by that? Well, when you’re trying to do sales, research a new industry, find a job, anything – there’s generally two forms of outreach: cold and warm. …
Happy Monday folks, we’re off to a good start this week. Today I had a quarterly catch up call with the incubator that my immigration tech company, Visto, is a member of. Quick step back here. For those not so well-versed in the tech world – I didn’t know most of this ~3 years ago …
Renewed excitement and an overlooked resource for solopreneurs Read More »
As you know, we’re evaluating some other industries because the tech scene has been quieter lately. Luckily there are plenty of other industries in short supply of talent, so I consider us lucky. Cold calling and emailing in business But doing this kind of outreach and research means lots of cold calling and cold emailing …
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