Collaboration Zone Partnership
- 3/7/2019 10:34:14 AM
- Bridget Postuma
There are so many useful tools available for your business these days. They can help your business become more efficient and make it appear professional. For this blog I wanted to highlight some of my favourite apps that are out there that can really help your business. The best part is that these tools are reasonably priced and typically have free options for smaller companies. To start, let us look at improving your web presence. Wix is very easy tool that will let you build a professional website with ease. It provides attractive templates for a wide variety of business applications that you can start with and customize. Like with any website you’ll still need attractive photos and good content in place to really make your site pop. One drawback with using Wix is that you lose flexibility that you would get with using other content management systems like Wordpress or having a developer code the site from scratch.
You have this great business idea in your mind, and you’re willing to spend the hours to get it off the ground – but the inevitable hiccups start happening, and eventually your idea runs out of stream.
The Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre launched their first Go Global program in May 2017 and I was thrilled to be a part of this 15-month program. When I first heard about the Go Global program I was finishing my business degree at Lakehead University looking for my first full-time job. Coming straight out of University and getting thrown into the real world of sales was quite daunting but looking back at it I am so happy I had the opportunity be part of this program and the great team that runs it.
When you hear the word innovation, a lot of people immediately think of technology. That’s not always the case though, innovation can be seen across all sectors. Whether its innovating a new product, changing the way you communicate with clients, or changing the process of how you do something.
Just like that, another Disrupt It Weekend is in the books. This past weekend marked the fourth Disrupt It Weekend-style event in Thunder Bay. If you are not familiar with these events, they are weekend-long events where individuals pitch ideas, form teams, and build the foundation for a business; and finally, participants finish with a pitch of the plan to a panel of judges.