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Blueprints for Success – Growing an eCommerce Business
Membertou, Shalene Johnson,a mother of 4, works full-time, does volunteer work in her community and also owns a small e-commerce business. She came to ICN with idea of launching her brick and mortar gift shop while growing her e-commerce business. Having gone through the discover process, Shaylene was accepted as an Entrepreneurial Intern in ICN…
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Marketing Using Social Media
The INS and OUTS of Using Social Media to Generate Revenue Lisa McKenzie, founder of McKenzie Moxie Media and Chief Bliss Instigator.talks with host Business Entrepreneur and Advisor Jacques Pilon and with ICN’s Entrepreneurial Interns Shaylene Johnson, Jennifer Harper and Esther Stewart about the INS and OUTS of using social media to launch product or service and generate both…
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5 Key Metrics for Measuring Your Project’s Progress
Increase Your Productivity Project management metrics enable project managers to assess status of ongoing project and deviation of schedule and cost. It also enables to foresee potential risks and potential problem and to rapidly pivot when needed. To view …/ 5 Key Metrics
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The Entrepreneur – Measuring Your Startup’s Progress
How to Measure your Business Progress? The first of The Entrepreneur Series on the Art of the Start In this segment we are discussing of ways and means, in addition to traditional financial statements , to measure the progress of a startup. This production, The Entrepreneur, is the first of a series of six…
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The Money Side of a Custom Sewing Business
Generating sufficient revenues to earn a living wage from a home custom sewing business With the help of Ingrid Tiffe, a member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinty, ON, and an Eco-Fashion Designer, running her own company IsaTe’s Designs out of Seattle, WA; and with Metis-Entrepreneur Jacques Pilon , we are…
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The Entrepreneur – What it means
Sponsored by: Launch Lab Entrepreneurship its Risks and Rewards In this first segment of “The Entrepreneur”, a new series focused on the early stages of entrepreneurship with Metis born business man Jacques Pilon. Jacques, an entrepreneur for 25 years is President of Corporations and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Launch Lab Innovation Centre, located in Kingston, Ontario,…
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Blueprints for Success – Entrepreneurial Intern: Esther Stewart
Meet Esther Stewart This FN woman from northern BC has a dream, to startup a home business sewing and embroidery Aboriginal custom design shop. To produce modern day clothing that incorporates designs from various collaborating First Nation artists from across Canada. Esther has been working on her dream for a few years, as a…
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Young Fashionista
ABC’s to building a career in the Fashion Industry Angela talks about her career path in becoming a fashion designer. She tells us that fashion is a very satisfactory career. However, fashion design isn’t for the weak at heart, because to break through you need perseverance and flexibility as well you need to find…
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A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk
By Janice McDonald, and Clare Berckon Last summer, as part of our study to ascertain how women entrepreneurs look at risk, we crossed Canada asking entrepreneurs about their approach to risk in their businesses. We wanted to test the oft quoted assumption that female entrepreneurs are risk averse. As we spoke to predominately female entrepreneurs…