Start Up Challenge Winners!

Press Release: Charlottetown PE, June 11, 2012 Over $5000 in prizes was awarded to Start Up PEI Challenge 2012 winners at an event held at the Delta Hotel Harbourside Patio in Charlottetown on Friday evening. The Start Up PEI Challenge was launched in April, and was designed to provide an award package of cash, in-kind [...]

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Start Up PEI Challenge Award

Have you dreamed of starting your own small business, but haven’t been able to take that first step?  What would it take to get you started?  You know you don’t need much – an idea, a plan, some cash, some support.  Here’s your chance – tell us about your idea, and why you should be [...]

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What Can We Do for You?

The Solution Agency collaborates with clients to develop, focus, and sustain their services by providing guidance and tools for strategic and sustainability planning, managing change, and implementing business process improvements. We can work with you to develop a custom solution for a specific business challenge; design a workshop or facilitated session to help your organization [...]

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ACE Student Entrepreneur Regional Champion

Halifax, NS (March 9, 2012) – The 2012 Atlantic Canada Regional Champions of the Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) program and the Student Entrepreneur Program were announced on March 9 in Halifax at the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Regional Exposition. Post secondary students who balance a full-time course load and a full-time business competed in [...]

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ACE Student Entrepreneur PEI Champion

Press Release: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (March 1, 2012) – Hannah Bell, Owner of The Solution Agency Inc. and full time student at the University of Prince Edward Island, has been named a 2012 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion. The Student Entrepreneur National Competition is operated by charitable organization Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and [...]

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Why Strategic Planning?

Do you know where your organization is going?  What will your organization be like in five years?  Will you be a few steps closer to realizing your vision?  If you don’t change anything, will the future be any different from the past?  One sure-fire way to impact your organization’s future is to undertake some form [...]

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Kiva – The power of Microfinancing

Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. How it works: choose a borrower or group in need make a life changing [...]

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To Tweet or Not to Tweet

I love Twitter.  I am an active Tweeter, regularly sending 140 character updates on my activities and thoughts, engaging in conversation, retweeting things that catch my attention or make me think.    You can see my Twitter stream on the right of this page.   Despite my activity numbers, I am relatively new to this area of [...]

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FreshBooks – Online Invoicing, Time Tracking & Billing Software

Practical, efficient, and effective are three of my favourite words (so are chocolate and wine, but that’s a topic for another day).  One of the most important lessons I have learned in my work and life experience is that if you try to do everything yourself you will not do everything well.  It is better [...]

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Innovation Lessons from Pixar

What does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot. The piece is behind McKinsey’s pay wall, but the following article extract its 9 key lessons below. 1.  Herd your black sheep 2. Perfect is the enemy of innovation 3. Look for intensity 4. [...]

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