A Wider Range of Employee Benefits
To what extent might we see the landscape expand in what are deemed to be ‘employee benefits’, in relation to being potentially taxable?
Take the case of the electric automobile. (more…)
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Minting More Customers
A post nearly two years ago provided my observations about perhaps the most popular of ‘atypical assets’, namely collectible coins. Here’s a revisit of that commentary, with some updated points.
The Royal Canadian Mint has become much more than a creator and distributor of Canadian daily coinage. In addition to special orders for foreign governments, transit authorities, etc., it has expanded offerings to the world of coin collectors and investors, in Canada and beyond. (more…)
Life Lessons from the Winter Olympics
We’ve just had the latest round of the Olympic Winter Games play out in Korea in the latter part of February.
Some nations, particularly the three highest medal count countries – namely, Norway, Germany, and Canada – found relative success after their long journeys to southeast Asia. Other countries didn’t have their usually expected triumphs (U.S.A.), and one wasn’t even able to compete under its national flag (Russia) – so, bigger is not always better. (more…)
Travel Tips
Open any travel related periodical or insert, and chances are that, in addition to glowing enticements to visit sites far or near, there will be some degree of tips from supposed experts. Sometimes the expertise is limited to lessons learned by the author about specific destinations; sometimes it’s more general ‘rules of thumb’ (not the green kind).
Case in point: the spring edition of CAA (Canadian Automobile Association) Magazine devotes several pages to recommending travel locations for 2018, with brief comments from CAA travel specialists. Some remarks are more insightful than others. (more…)
Adding Value
The proposition of ‘adding value’ has been an underlying foundation for success in service-oriented businesses for many years.
If one wants to generate a positive, lasting and loyal, relationship with customers, providing those extra ingredients of value is vital. This could be indirectly related to business, i.e. taking clients to lunch, paying for tickets to events, etc., or more directly, such as keeping in regular contact, or going the extra mile in solving problems quickly, or obtaining more helpful data for decision making. (more…)
TOP Craft Show Products of the Future
The year-end holiday season is the ripest time of the year for most retailers, providing more customers the chance to satisfy their gift buying goals.
While the ‘bricks-and-mortar’ version of the typical retail establishment has become increasingly usurped by on-line alternatives, there remains an important factor in favour of the former: the tactile experience of checking out items in the flesh. There are times you need to feel or examine a potential purchase before being truly satisfied the cost/benefit analysis works in your favour. (more…)
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When Sales Skills are Life Skills
Many are the skills we can develop which help us to grow, making a positive ripple effect of our efforts on others, gradually wider and fuller.
Some aptitudes have wider applications than others – consider cooking versus negotiating skills. The significance, the impact, of some talents may expand beyond the borders of their logical environments. (more…)
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