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Monday, September 15, 2025

Getting Started with AI in your Business

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Today I recorded a podcast with Google's Natasha Walji about how AI is changing the game for Canadian entrepreneurs. (I will link to the...
Friday, August 22, 2025

CEOs are in the simplification business

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I just sent a note to a friend embarking on his first business media project, to help him understand his audience. Business leaders are a co...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Five Rules for Selling to Small Business

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

"Never close the door on someone wanting help"

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My friend Michael Hughes , a networking coach/advisor in Ottawa, believes relationships are the root of business success. He underscored tha...
Friday, July 18, 2025

"Talk to 100 customers"

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Talking to some startup entrepreneurs yesterday, I  got the definite feeling they haven't spent enough time talking to customers. It rem...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Canadian Entrepreneurship Advantage

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In Dubai yesterday, as part of my work with NextStars, a Toronto-based business advisory/mentoring firm, I gave a speech to a group of entre...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Why are Trump's lies so effective?

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 As a lifelong journalist (I co-founded a classroom newspaper in grade 5), I have always venerated truth. Which is why serial liar Donald Tr...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Three keys to great leadership

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There are more books on leadership than you could read in a lifetime. Yet few people understand leadership, and I suspect more people brea...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

How to convert uncommitted customers

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 ( A trusty  article written in 2009) At a ramshackle roadside tourist market on the north coast of Jamaica, if you stop to investigate the ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

What are some common reasons for the failure of startups?

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Quora asked me to reply to this question:  What are some common reasons for the failure of startups? Is it primarily due to poor leadership ...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

A tribute to some of Canada's journalism giants

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Like many of you, I no longer subscribe to a paper newspaper. I subscribe to three paper magazines, and many online newspaper news sites - b...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Ten questions to build sales now

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Every business starts as a hypothesis: "We think this market needs this product/service/innovation/angle."  Through research and e...
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Rick Spence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Writer, speaker and consultant on business growth, entrepreneurship and opportunity. Former editor of PROFIT Magazine, former national entrepreneurship columnist for the Financial Post. My speaking topics include innovation, best practices, social media, and the future of business success.
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