We often hear this cliché but what does it mean exactly? It means that to run a successful business, one of your main objectives should be to preserve cash in the business. How do you do that? Short answer is lease as opposed to buy and whenever a project can be done in-house as opposed [...]
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Solutions & Opportunities
It seems these days that many companies, probably due to the recession, are almost afraid to make major spending decisions. They appear to have decided that the best decision is no decision. Status quo actually seems to be becoming the norm – more so here in Canada where we tend to be more conservative than [...]
Three Things Matter in Business…IMAGE, IMAGE, IMAGE!!!
Of course this is a revised version of the well-known Real Estate saying that 3 things matter in real estate… Location, Location, Location. Just as Location is important to Real Estate, Image is extremely important to business and sadly is often overlooked. It starts with the common business card, which most companies put little thought [...]
Where does the name Ravenshoe come from?
We are regularly asked how the company name was selected. Here is a bit of background. There is a two-tier answer to this question. In 1996, Rick Wigmore decided to start his own business after a long career in the graphics and print business. He made a list of 32 creative names for his new [...]
Growing a Business?
KEEP YOUR ACCOUNTANT & LAWYER CLOSE KEEP YOUR BANKER CLOSER My experience of growing a business over the past 14 years has taught me that other than your clients there is no more important business relationship than that with your banker. Growing a business is like most marriages you grow through the rough patches. Look [...]
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Over the years, It’s amazing the number of large and small corporations that we’ve worked with that all have the same problem… a war, whether declared or just understood, between the sales, marketing and production departments. Sales departments are like the “Rodney Dangerfield’s” when it comes to the opinion of most marketers production staff in [...]
New Website Design Launched: ravenshoegroup.com
Ravenshoe Group is proud to announce the launch of our new website. We have created a simple design with easy to find navigation. Our new website helps you find what your company is looking for faster. You can follow our most recent blog posts and stay in tune with our twitter tweets, where we will [...]
Moving On Up!
Ravenshoe Group has reached another milestone in its episodic corporate journey to be the little company that grew. By November 30th we will be fully moved into our brand new 40,000 square foot Markham facilities. This is a company that in May of 1996 consisted of one person, an 8’x10’ office and a dream of [...]
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