Successful business owners come from all types working backgrounds, skills and abilities, ethnicities, and cultures...they combined their knowledge, experience, skills, and learning abilities with a bit of help from selected trusted sources, and became members of that exclusive group of Vancouver Islanders 50+ who enjoy the freedom, pride, and happiness of being Highly Successful and Profitable Entrepreneurs!
Welcome Vancouver Islanders 50+
to the Island's Centre for
Entrepreneurial Success
We’re here to help all aspiring
Vancouver Island Entrepreneurs 50+
who want to realistically envision, develop, create, start, operate, and sustain a highly successful and profitable business.
Welcome to Your Members Only
Accelerated Business Ownership
Education Web Portal
For Vancouver Islanders 50+
Current, Accurate and Relevant Entrepreneurial Business Knowledge,
Information and Methods All Right Here at Your Fingertips...
Although a great many people aspire to become successful entrepreneurs,
very few ever even attempt to start a business because they are unable
to get past the natural emotions and feelings experienced
in the first phase of entrepreneurship...such as
uncertainty, apprehension, and self-doubt.
For anyone to conquer this first phase requires establishing a process for building
competence and confidence in business ownership skills and knowledge.
This process involves recognizing and accepting your true strengths and weaknesses,
expanding your education where needed, and then reducing your limitations by
aligning yourself with, and learning from others who are experienced and
skilled in the many facets of actual business ownership and management.
Then you will be able to effectively and confidently move forward with the
phases of planning, starting, operating, managing, and owning
a highly successful and profitable business.
WE ARE HERE WHENEVER YOU NEED HELP THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS
We all have different levels of business experience and skills...and we all learn in different ways...that's why we provide you
5 different sections/levels of content so
you can learn and excel at your own pace.
To ensure that none of our members gets overwhelmed (information overload)
or underwhelmed (bored because they already know the information)
we have segmented all the information presented in this membership site
into these 5 sections/levels...which you can always access whenever you want.
LEVEL 1 CONTENT
THIS LEVEL FOCUSES ON LEARNING THE BASICS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
and is ideal for those who are new to business and are now just thinking about how great it would be to be their own boss...but don't yet have the
competence and confidence they need.
LEVEL 2 CONTENT
THIS LEVEL IS FOCUSED ON AND ALL
ABOUT BUSINESS STRATEGY
AND PLANNING
and is made for those who may be familiar with basic business concepts and want to learn more about starting the process of creating a business. Here is where entrepreneurs begin to put their ideas to paper and where a blueprint or foundation for a business starts to come into focus.
LEVEL 3 CONTENT
THIS LEVEL IS ALL ABOUT EFFECTIVE AND COST-EFFICIENT MARKETING STRATEGY AND TACTICS
Communication, and how good you are at it will determine your level of success and profitability in your business. Here is where you learn about varied marketing strategies and methods (internal, external, online, offline) and how to implement them.
Learn more about these business development phases by clicking the pictures or links below...
Assessment and Formulation
The objective of the Assessment and Formulation Phase is to help you to clearly assess your business idea, market niche, demographics, psychographics, geographics, competitive advantage(s), market variables and conditions, actual cost factors, etc...and to clarify the extent of your vision, skills, resources and more.
Business Planning and Strategy
The objective of the Business Planning & Strategy Phase is to help you establish a strong and flexible blueprint for your business...including a solid foundation, and ways and means to acquire the varied resources, tools and materials you will need to effectively and cost-efficiently create, start, and manage your business.
Marketing Strategy and Tactics
The objective of the Marketing Planning and Tactics phase is to help you to plan and create external and internal effective messaging, and deliver them via the most well received platforms to your planned marketplace and targeted customers (external marketing) and to your staff and support services (internal marketing).
Operations & Task Management
The objective of the Operational Tasks Management Phase is to help you to effectively and cost-efficiently complete the many varied operational tasks (via delegation and outsourcing) that your business must get done on time and on budget...which allows you the time you need to focus on the things that you do best.
Along with the business related information provided in this portal,
we also address 3 main factors that have a significant affect on
your level of success as a Vancouver Islander 50+ Entrepreneur
EMBRACING YOUR AGE AND EXPERIENCE
Understanding how valuable your experience, knowledge and skills really are in today's business world.
EFFECTIVELY DEALING WITH CHANGE
Accepting that change is all around us and that we need to teach ourselves to effectively deal with it.
THINKING LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR
Broadening our knowledge and perspective inspires us and opens up a multitude of opportunities.
This following is noteworthy and not meant as a knock against formal education...
Since business schools and most universities/colleges are "for profit" institutions, their services
(that is course content and scheduling) are designed to maximize the generation of revenue
to add to their fund raising and any grants they receive.
In other words, getting a business degree from an accredited post secondary school
can be well worth it if you have the money and the time to invest...
yet we Vancouver Islanders 50+ who want to start a successful business know full well
the value of money and the ever increasing importance of investing our time wisely
Fortunately for us, technological advances have opened up unlimited entrepreneurial
opportunities, as well as given us the ability to acquire a real business education
in a short amount of time and at little or no cost.
LEVEL 1
ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS BASICS
THIS LEVEL FOCUSES ON LEARNING THE BASICS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS OWNERSHIP
and is ideal for those who are new to business and are now just thinking about how great it would be to be their own boss…but don’t yet have the competence and confidence they need.
LEVEL 2
BUSINESS STRATEGY
& PLANNING
THIS LEVEL IS FOCUSED ON AND ALL ABOUT BUSINESS STRATEGY AND PLANNING and is made for those who may be familiar with basic business concepts and want to learn more about starting the process of creating a business. Here is where entrepreneurs begin to put their ideas to paper and where a blueprint or foundation for a business starts to come into focus.
LEVEL 3
MARKETING STRATEGY
& TACTICS
THIS LEVEL IS ALL ABOUT EFFECTIVE AND COST-EFFICIENT MARKETING STRATEGY AND TACTICS Communication, and how good you are at it will determine your level of success and profitability in your business. Here is where you learn about varied marketing strategies and methods (internal, external, online, offline) and how to implement them.
LEVEL 4
OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT
THIS LEVEL FOCUSES ON OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT
In every successful business there are a myriad of daily, weekly and repetitive tasks that must be performed and accomplished. And you as the owner are ultimately responsible to ensure they get done, either by you or by someone else. Here we help you determine the most effective and cost-efficient ways to get things done and who is going to do them.
LEVEL 5
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER FOR SUCCESS AND PROFITABILITY
Whatever your definition for the achievement of success, there is always a common element…it always involves expertly putting the necessary pieces together to create something of value that people recognize and want. As an entrepreneur you must create something that genuinely satisfies need(s) and/or solves problem(s),and make it easily attainable.
The Five C's of BUSINESS LEADERSHIP...character, chemistry, competency, capacity, courage