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Questions and answers to Business owners wanting to exit their business and or entrepreneurs wanting to purchase a business. things to watch for, advisors to use, steps to take, preparations etc.
Will gladly participate with education, advise and answers.
Pino L. Bacinello CBI,CMEA
Sunbelt Business Brokers Pacific Inc. and Pacific Mergers and Acquisitions Inc.
pino@sunbeltpacific.ca or pino@pacificmergers.ca 604.696.6111

OlyBLOG.com is for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) that are interested in leveraging 2010 Olympics momentum - for profit.

As most SMBs are now becoming painfully aware, they have absolutely nothing to offer directly to Olympic organizations. Ironically though, small and midsize businesses make up 98% of the 2010 Winter Olympics regions of Vancouver and Whistler.

SMBs are paying for 2010 through an obscenely and artificially elevated cost of doing business in our region, but they are not benefiting economically. We at OlyBLOG.com don't think it's right. Consequently, we decided to educate SMBs and inspire them to become proactive and not just bob around like sitting ducks - like SMBs did in Salt Lake City, Athens and Turin. The Olympics created severe economic hardship for many SMBs in these three cities, but you'd never know it by following our local mainstream news media.

Once you know "all" the rules of the game, especially the hidden rules and the ones that change at the last minute, you will be able to more easily compete on a business level with the big players, and possibly even take back your community. In the day, knowledge was power, but today, "dynamic" knowledge is the key. We invested over three years and a six-figure budget learning the rules, and we share them freely, all of them, in our book, blog, and workshops.

OlyBLOG.com is "pro-Olympics with a twist "- we love the sporting aspect, but through extensive research know that the Olympics business model is broken, and that management of the enterprise is too secretive and has to be substantially modified so that our entire community (small businesses & citizens included) benefits in a profitable manner proportionate to big Olympics sponsors like Visa & NBC. (NBC boasts that they sold advertising to 4 billion viewers at the last two Olympics, while the last 3 Olympics regions suffered overwhelming deficits totalling well over $13.6 billion. Turin threatened bankruptcy just two months before their big show, and here we are, eighteen months later and we still don't know exactly what it cost.)

Our strategy is based on "citizen journalism & crowdsource" techniques. Basically, all we do is publish the truth (documented and openly shared) about what happened in recent past Olympic business communities. We tell you what local mainstream news media (who are also Olympics partners) fail to report. PLUS, we offer solutions so SMBs don't get trapped in the same money pit.

For example did you know that Olympics organizations like VANOC will not hesitate to pull local doctors out of our critically malnourished health care system so they can volunteer at the Olympics? Did you know that when doctors and nurses leave to work the Olympics that elective surgery is cancelled, sometimes for six weeks or more? Did you know that VANOC has already announced a plan to build an Olympic hospital compound within their walls, but that so far they have not indicated where volunteer doctors, nurses and staff will come from, even though in all past Olympic regions medical staff is pulled locally from the host region?

Recently our media communication efforts have been recognized by Wired magazine, plus I've had exposure here in BC Business Magazine (3 times), CityTV, The Globe and Mail, Business Edge, and Public Eye Online.

I am Maurice Cardinal, the editor of Vancouver based OlyBLOG.com, plus the author of LeverageOlympicMomentum.com, a sister business book publication. My blog has been online since 2004, and we began research in 2003.

We are extremely happy that BC Business Magazine is also now incorporating "comment" sections in their publication. This is a BIG step towards citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. We're looking forward to their contribution because we think they understand very clearly that times are changing, and that unlike the music industry, it makes more economic sense to manage it than it does to fight it.

We don't break the news. We fix it.

OlyBLOG.com
http://www.olyblog.com/

Another shameless self promo, but certainly relevant:

http://www.theworkblog.ca is a new joint blog by a bunch of recent business grads... one getting her CA, one working abroad in London, one pondering a life in agriculture, and more...

This might be interesting to current students and other people who want to find out what young, non-necessarily millionaire business students are doing and thinking.

"Cutting Through the Noise" (http://blog.steadyhand.com/) is a blog written by Tom Bradley, the former head of Phillips, Hager & North, and the current President and founder of Steadyhand Investment Funds.

Tom writes about issues, trends, and other "interesting stuff" on the mutual fund industry and investing in general. He also provides plain English advice for individual investors.

Your new site is amazing, what a leap forward for your mag. Well done! I'm a small business owner and I was pointed towards the GP BC Leader's new blog -- www.victoriabound.blogspot.com. It's good, has some great ideas for business and politics in BC with a green spin. It's actually one of the better ones we seen. Good traffic too, it seems.

Worth looking at - hope you like it, keep up the great work on this site!

Lisa Anderson (lisaandersonsurfs@gmail.com)

Thank you! We'll look into it.