How to Pick the Right Financial Advisor

Are you a person who spends sleepless nights worrying about money and whether you’ll have enough of it when you retire? Are you looking for someone who can answer questions about how to manage your money? Or do you need to start looking for advice from new sources? If any of these scenarios apply to [...]

Black Daddies Club (BDC) – A Movement Built On Love

“We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – It’s the courage to raise one.”
President Barack Obama – Father’s Day Speech – June 2008 on his campaign trail.

All You Need to Know about the Tax-Free Savings Account

If you have not already opened up a tax-free savings account (TFSA), you may want to consider taking advantage of this exciting and relatively new savings vehicle. The government introduced it to the Canadian public on January 1st, 2009. Its best feature, the account is exempt from taxes: neither capital gains not investment income are [...]

The “Investable” Entrepreneur: How to make you and your business attractive to investors

If you are an entrepreneur looking for sources of funding for your business, you have surely heard about obtaining small business loans through your bank, applying for lines of credit, and possibly, asking for funding from family and friends. There is, however, another popular source of financial support: funding through investors.
According to the Angel Investment [...]

Paying It Forward – Empowering Community

Nova Scotia’s Black Business Initiative (BBI) aims to improve the economic and business opportunities available to the African-Nova Scotian community. Here, BIM talks with the BBI’s Chief Strategist and CEO Rustum Southwell about the organization’s purposes and strategies.
Southwell migrated to Canada from St. Kitts in 1972 and settled in Halifax. A devoted contributor to African-Nova [...]

Dealing with Debt: A five-step plan to be debt-free in three years or less

If your employer tells you to expect a week’s delay for your next pay check, how will you respond? Will you find yourself panic-stricken, scrimmaging to rub two cents together to get by, or will you rest easy knowing you have a contingency plan—money saved in an emergency nest egg to see you through this [...]

BreadFruit Lane Charity: Serving as a Catalyst for Change for Communities in Need

In December 2006, Mike Slocombe and a collective of friends embarked on a cross-Atlantic voyage from Canada’s largest metropolis, Toronto to the remote village of Baro in Guinea, a West African nation with a complex history and a rich culture. They embarked on their globetrotting adventure to learn and culture themselves to the traditional African [...]

BBPA to award 14 winners at the 28th Annual Harry Jerome Awards

There is an abundance of excellence amongst the black Canadian population and this year the Black Business & Professional Association will be presenting awards to 14 of those black Canadians who represent excellence in business, education, academic, community, technology, arts, athletics and more.
The BBPA introduced the winners at the Harry Jerome Awards media launch on [...]

Experience Matters

Improving your customer’s experience improves your bottom line.
Experience matters. Your customer’s experience that is. When was the last time you walked in your customer’s shoes? What do your customers experience when they interact with your company?
Touch Point Fact: A mere 5 per cent decrease in customer attrition can increase profits by 20 per cent
Source: Reichard [...]

Two Types of Workers

In today’s workplace there are two types of workers: the employee and the professional. The employee is the individual who recognizes himself as someone hired to do a particular job for a particular salary. The professional sees herself as the person within the company who reliably performs to make a difference. The employee focuses on [...]

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