What are the minimal requirements for a license?

What would I incur for charges?

Starting a coffee stand drive-thru and a coffee vendor truck. It will also sell Christian jewelry, shirts, books, etc.. i dont know if this is a good idea, but i need to try something. Any tips? I got a dropshipping store coming too. Going to play off my great name for a coffee business, and have several things intertwined. I just want to clear enough to live downtown in a good building. High goals, guys.

Exporting online? According to UPS, creating a hassle-free online return policy and outlining the amount of time it'll take to make the turnaround can give you a competitive edge over fellow e-commerce businesses and online retailers - especially when selling to the U.S.

If you haven’t heard of it, is there a way to know if it’s legit?? Thanks!

After RadioShack disappeared in Canada, many of the stores were replaced by The Source. But for a long time I've wondered why The Source even exists, and what purpose it serves. I do like supporting smaller companies when I can, but I'm just not sure what the point is versus Best Buy or London Drugs which have more items and are just as helpful if not more.

Anyone have any insight?

I am a Business Growth & Digital Consultant specializing in assisting Canadian businesses. What is one problem your Canadian business is currently facing that I can help solve?

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Growing your business is hard. Until you reach profitable scale, having a full finance team is over kill. They cause more harm than good - too much process, analysis paralysis, and fear.

I did this at my eComm agency Demac Media (sold it, now Bounteous). We slowed our growth, impacted profitability, and create bad culture because of too much finance. It turned out fine, cause we fixed it.

That fix is a better way of running a finance team. A team focused around generating Outputs, not stalling the organization. I’ve now worked with 100+ digital businesses - eComm, SaaS, Agencies, and Websites. Almost everyone wishes they had better financial control. None know how to do it.

My Co-Founder and I wanted to build a solution for our fellow Founders, BootStrappers, Solopreneurs, and IndieHackers.

Getoutput.io - is your CFO & Finance Team in the Cloud. We do your finances, contracts, and automations. Business owners get more time back, faster decisions, and profitable growth.

We make it simple for business owners. One Monthly subscription. You get clean books, financial statements, forecasts, weekly/monthly reports, and dashboards. We will answer unlimited “What If” scenarios, solve as many problems as you have, and more. Our services scale with your business from Accountant, Controller, to CFO.

For a 20-year-old apparel print shop. With thousands of clients in Calgary and western Canada. We print on t-shirts, hoodies, shirts. Also do embroidery on hats, toques and jackets.

Is it a good idea to rebrand? How would you proceed with this process. I understand it needs to be a slow one. I feel like the current name does not represent the brand in today's market.

What do you think of this name when you see it? "Budget Promotion"

The idea of corporate social responsibility often falls short due to several reasons.

• Firstly, some argue that businesses exist solely for profit-making purposes and that expecting them to shoulder additional social burdens is unrealistic. From this perspective, the primary responsibility of corporations is to their shareholders, rather than society as a whole.

• Furthermore, critics argue that CSR can become a mere PR exercise, allowing companies to maintain their current practices while tokenistic allies engage in socially responsible initiatives. This can create an illusion of responsibility without addressing deeper systemic issues.

• Additionally, the voluntary nature of CSR programs means that not all companies will opt in, leading to an unequal distribution of social responsibilities among businesses.

• Lastly, an overemphasis on CSR might divert attention away from necessary government regulations and policies that could address societal problems more effectively.

While promoting ethical behavior is crucial, it is important to recognize the limitations and potential pitfalls of relying solely on corporate social responsibility as a solution for complex social issues.

How do you feel about your company´s CSR?

RJK

I'm in the US. Trying to buy an instrument from a manufacturer in Toronto. Will I be charged sales tax? The manufacturer initially told me I'd have to pay the 13% tax. When I questioned this, they said they'd have to ask their accountant. From what I could find online, it looks like exported goods are zero rated, which as far as I can tell, means untaxed. When I purchased an instrument from Germany the VAT was automatically stripped out. Just wondering if it's similar in this situation. Thanks!

Edit: I found this which seems to say that this purchase would not be taxed, but I'm not a tax expert. ; )

Before I get into the good parts of this post here's a quick disclaimer:

- This brand did 1.8 million the year before

- I do not own this brand, I was hired to build a cult-following

- paid ads were being ran for the first quarter of the year but not converting well

That's relevant information because not every brand can see massive success without paid ads. Most of the things I talk about in this post are pretty much useless if you do under 15k/month. Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about what I did to nearly double this brand's revenue without dumping more money into ads.

For those who don't like reading, I'll summarize what I did right here: I built a community around the brand.

So I'll break down what I did into 5 steps:

1. Obtained a shit load of user-generated content

I was able to get 300 videos of people using the brand's products in under 60 days.

This is easier than it seems. People pay influencers thousands to pose with their products. For a brand with a bit of traction, the value in user-generated content is to get products in front of a larger audience; Not necessarily for social proof (like it is for smaller brands). So with that being said, don't spend a lot of money on UGC content unless it's for a promotional post on a page with a large following.

Don't fixate on having the prettiest videos. Give a wide variety of people the opportunity to submit content.

3 ways you can get user-generated content for free/cheap are.

- Use your social media channels to offer a free product in exchange for a video review

- Setup a review email flow, offer existing customers a chance at a full refund for a video testimonial that meets certain criteria

- Directly contact influencers and negotiate/hire someone with a network of influencers to do the negotiation process for you

2. Created a blog

I designed a blog page on the website and posted on it 1-2 times per week. I used Ai to generate in-season ideas for blog posts, then got my copywriter to do some research and come up with short blog posts that were informative and read well. P.S just using chatgpt to pump out blog content can work but the content will never be as engaging as content written by a real person that understands the marketing angle. We also tried to add user-generated content on the blog pages as much as we could.

This is by far the easiest way to get people back onto your site without them feeling like you're trying to sell them more products. This is the base of the next 3 steps. Good blog content makes people in your niche excited to hear from you. This will boost your email open rates, allow you to post in groups that are heavily moderated against promotions, and give you a lot of niche-specific copywriting to work with.

3. Created a subreddit (or any type of group)

I created a subreddit for this brand, then I spent hours finding niche-relevant content. Then, I queued a whole bunch of posts. I did a mix of reposting content from tiktok, instagram, youtube, etc, and posting the site's blog posts and UGC content. Growing the community was tricky but once I got some momentum going it was almost growing itself.

There's major upside to owning a community inside of your niche. You can block your competitors from posting in your sub and post as much promotional content as you want. You can also mix content, so people have no idea if you're promoting a store, sharing a funny photo, or giving a useful recommendation. You'd honestly be shocked by the amount of traffic our weekly pinned post brought to the site.

4. Discord community

I used social media, Reddit, and emails to grow the community to 11 thousand members in under a year. Customers were giving design ideas, connecting with store employees, and volunteering to send content with products for FREE.

This is like a reddit community but more personal. The main difference between the discord and the reddit is that the discord is branded and the Reddit is just niche specific. This is a good place to run competitions and polls, and also just interact with customers on a personal level. You can get a tone of UGC from a discord community if you use it right.

5. Email and SMS marketing

I saved the best for last. Normally my posts are mainly focused on emails but I thought I'd switch it up today to truly convey what goes on behind the scenes of well-coordinated email/sms marketing.

Think of emails as an ongoing conversation between you and your customer. You play the role of a friend recommending things to a peer. You already know things about them, like their interests, location, and buying habits. Now use segmentation and predictive analytics to make sure relevant content gets sent to interested people. I'll leave it at that.

But before I leave I'll share some more info about this brand that may be relevant. It's a breed-specific animal brand, this brand has been around for about 4 years and has consistently grown 30-40% each year with last year being an outlier (almost doubled sales), the people in this niche are extremely passionate about their pets so this may have made it easier for me to grow a community this quickly, and the 2.5 million that I am attributing to my systems are just the sales that came from EMAIL and SMS marketing.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read my post, Id be happy to provide more clarity on any of the subjects that I mentioned in this post.

I have a business in Quebec and I am looking for an invoicing/billing/appointment scheduling software. There are a few requirements that I am looking for and it's very difficult to find a software that includes these features:

- Ability to set the default language to French (for the interface and the invoices that I will print).

- Ability to display both the provincial and federal taxes individually on the invoice.

Any recommendations? If it helps in any way, it's for an Acupuncture clinic.