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Fresh Faces of Finance: Michael Gokturk & Kevin Short

In two years, VersaPay’s revenue jumped a whopping 3,000 percent. Founders Michael Gokturk (R) and Kevin Short are transforming the payment-processing industry.
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The Opportunist: David Bhimji & David Holmes

In business you don’t get paid for degree of difficulty, but try telling that to David Bhimji and David Holmes. By identifying and serving web needs of two-and-three diamond hotels, Bhimji and Holmes have grown Digital Hospitality exponentially to dominate this market on the West Coast and are now moving aggressively into the US.
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Coaching to Success

Is hiring a business coach your path to success? For Rob Thompson, it was. In six months, Soho Sales Coaching’s Tom Abbott guided Thompson of Cornerstone Technology to a 300-per-cent increase in revenue.
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The Growth Coach: Kaizen Consultants

Though he’s a passionate Canucks fan, what really gets Kaizen Consultants’ Michael Walsh excited is helping push success-oriented companies to the next level.
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Small Business Connecting with Big Business

A spirit of cooperation between big and small business has enabled The North American Tour to Inspire Entrepreneurs to help small companies succeed.
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Don’t Cut Your Marketing Budget in a Recession

Perhaps the most widely ignored recession survival "rule," is to not cut back on marketing efforts. A McGraw Hill study done during the early 1980s recession divided firms into those that continued to spend on advertising versus those that cut back. Researchers found companies that continued to spend doubled their sales and profits. Those that cut back lost about 20 percent of sales and profits. The most dramatic gains came in the first two years of the recovery when businesses that had continued to spend enjoyed sales and profit growth of 273 percent. Those non-spenders, they had 20 percent growth in sales and profit after five years compared to 1980.