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How to start your own business
Recession, schmecession — now is the time to become your own boss. Here are six handy tips to get you started.
Be original
Coming up with a brilliant, money-making idea is the first step on the path to selfemployment. The second: checking to see if that product or service is already available. However, if it has been done, don’t automatically throw in the towel. “There’s nothing wrong with...
Remembering Holly Jones
Nominated for a 2010 National Magazine Award
Every day during the week, my daughter Holly would walk home from school, which was just at the end of our street in the west end of Toronto. A lot of her classmates lived between the school and our house, so she’d often stop at a friend’s, but she’d call to let me know. On Monday, May 12, 2003, she came straight home. She brought this shy, beautiful...
Hatch an investment plan
Christine Marshall* is a seasoned investor who has money in Registered Retirement Savings Plans and numerous funds, but it’s her earliest investing adventures that she’s most fond of. “My grandparents bought me shares in Irwin Toy when I was very young,” she says, still excited by the memory. “I went to the shareholder meetings and got free toys.”
Eventually, the 35-year-old, who works...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based web and print writer, editor and blogger working mainly for business and entertainment publications. He regularly contributes to Canadian Business magazine, writes Metro Canada's weekly Audio Files music column and shares personal finance tips on Rogers TV's Daytime Toronto. He's also written for Maclean's, MoneySense, PROFIT, Chatelaine, Hello Canada, MSN Tech, Yahoo Finance and the National Post. He was recently nominated for five National Magazine Awards, winning one in an online category.
