4Growth Resources
Whether you are looking for new approaches to management or are simply trying to optimize your business, we want this site to be a place where you can find the latest ideas in the industry.
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Media Releases
Epilepsy Canada Names Bill Hutchison as Honorary Spokesperson
Epilepsy Canada Names Gary Collins to Board
Viking Gold Exploration Names 4Growth's Mark Edwards as President and CEO
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Blog
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Articles and Links
As the Recession Ends, Boomers Look to Sell
We've said it before and we will say it again, sell on your own terms. Don't wait until you are forced into a decision.
Eight Lessons from Gawker's Redesign Atrocity
Considering a site redesign? Know these lessons inside and out first.
Offline Plus Online Marketing
Are you taking advantage of both mediums?
How to Start a Small Business Empire
Do you know how to bring your business to the next level and beyond? Clcik through to find out.
Starting a Franchise: The Need to Know Information
Here is some information from the Canada Business page which could be very useful for anyone considering this career choice.
The Manager's Cheatsheet
Are you the perfect manager? If so keep moving. This page is for managers who want to get better at what they do for a living.
Top 15 Google Apps for Business
You have probably heard of some of these apps but most companies are missing out on many of the services Google offers at a free or low rate.
Google's 10 Golden Rules
WWGD: What Would Google Do? You can start by removing all of your employees' barrier's to success.
How to Start a Small Business Empire
Do you know how to bring your business to the next level and beyond? Click through to find out.
Starting a Franchise: The Need to Know Information
Here is some information from the Canada Business page which could be very useful for anyone considering this career choice.
When Dad's Business Becomes Yours
Do you have a succession plan for your kids? Operating your business might not as easy as you might think.
101 Useful Resources for Entrepreneurs
This is a link to a list of tools geared for the Online Entrepreneur but will be of value to people in any business.
Key Personality Types
How well do you know the members of your team? Have you appropriately balanced the various personality types?
Opinions of the Week
The Challenge with Management Consulting 
In a world where the customer is always right, it isn't always easy informing them otherwise.
Sabotaging Growth
Sometimes the thing that is preventing growth is your own corporation's unwillingness to change.
The Most Effective Debt Collection Email
Most of the time, real, honest speaking is the best way to get what you want.
How to Sell Your Ideas- Lessons from Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs has made a good living selling his ideas. Carmine Gallo desects what makes him one of the world's most recognized sales people and provides good advice for your own sales career.
Is it the Salespeople or Your Value Proposition?
For salespeople to be successful, they have to be selling a solution. Now is the time to ask whether your company sells products/services, or solutions.
Optimizing your Workflow
Dr. Steve McLaren does a fantastic job in this week's opinion dissecting the process for optimizing workflow. Although it is written in a medical context, it is very transferrable to other business practices and industries.
Steve Job's Strategy - Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff
In our latest Opinion of the Week, author Carmine Gallo gives us a taste of one of the fundemental business strategies that has made Apple the tech powerhouse that it is. The advice is in the title!
Newsweek 1995 - Why the Internet will Fail
We are borrowing this opinion from Clifford Stoll who in 1995 predicted the internet's failure. Read on for a perspective you will never see again.
Boost Your Business With An Advisory Board
In this Globe and
Mail Q & A, 4Growth's own Gary Collins explains the benefits and
process for setting up an effective Advisory Board.
How to
Make an Idea
What really is the measure of human progress?
Intelligence? Good will? Hard work? Read on to get the idea.
Slide 19
The best mouse trap isn't always the one people walk away with.
Building Online Communities
Ben Kelly shares some of his secrets for building successful, content driven online communities. His main message: Love your 1%!
Creativity and Practicality
Seizing opportunities in a creative way is the goal of every marketer; delivering instant value at the same time is what we dream of.
Who is Your Ideal Client?
As an entrepreneur, do you know you who your ideal client is? If you haven't asked yourself this question now is the time.
Who Owns Your Brand?
Does a company's brand really belong to the corporation or is it something more than that?
Readings
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
"If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time."
Our Iceberg is Melting
Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations.
John Kotter
On the Shoulders of Atlas
After a lifetime of success, Victor Banks faces his toughest challenge yet -- what to do with Atlas? Victor has spent the last 40 years building his company into a thriving enterprise, but now it's time to pass the reins to someone else. Who will carry on? Should he sell the company or keep it in the family?
Susan Latremoille
Blue Ocean Strategy
Tomorrow's
leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by
creating "blue oceans" of uncontested market space ripe for growth.
Chan Kim
What Would
Google Do?
Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers the success of the
fastest growing company in the history of the world, the one company
that truly understands how to succeed in the internet age.
Jeff Jarvis
Marketing
in the Age of Google
In the age of Google, your customers are
searching. Will they find you?
Vanessa Fox
Exit: A Guide to
Selling a Company
Exit: A Guide to Selling a Company is
written as a quick reference guide for owners contemplating selling
their business.
The Vant Group
Entrance: A Guide
to Buying a Business
This book is designed to be a synoptic
excursion into the buying process to acquaint the reader with the major
steps involved and, just as important, what to watch out for.
The Vant Group