Rather than entering that world of stress again in devising a plan to expand, relax. By doubling your company’s size, you are actually going to be doubling your free time and your employees’ free time as well.

The book covers strategies on everything from hiring to marketing to productivity, and a quarter of the book deals with the crucial subject of leadership, which Herold believes is a defining factor in the success of any business.

If you think online ads are the only way to make money on your computer, Cameron Herold has a deal for you.

A $2,500 deal to be exact, which is the price he charges companies for sticker space on the lid of his Mac-Book Pro...

Cameron Herold has a knack for being on the winning side of the franchising game.

The 42-year-old Vancouver-based entrepreneur has had a string of successes, from his early days building a small fortune by opening up the westcoast for College Pro Painters to co-founding Boyd Autobody and Glass to leading a major expansion of...

"If you share something like, 'I think my CFO is stealing from me,' or 'My business is almost bankrupt,' the last thing you want to hear on Tuesday afternoon from your buddy over a beer is, 'Hey, I hear your company is in trouble,' " Cameron Herold says.

It's lonely at the top for CEOs trying to run multinational businesses without seeming to break a sweat, tie clip or nail. No wonder corporate leaders and entrepreneurs at smaller companies need to periodically get away with others of their own ilk to partake in a little networking, whitewater rafting, early morning yoga and, yes, talking about how it feels to be on top of the world...

Bored to tears - even to death - at work; Job boredom affects many high-flying executives and entrepreneurs when they are most successful. The consequences can be disastrous, Kevin Marron writes

By the age of 34, Cameron Herold felt he had reached the pinnacle of success. But an encounter in an elevator made him realize that...

"If you are an entrepreneur and want to be the leader of a $500,000 to $50 million company, you have to focus intently on everything you do to grow quickly and successfully. Everything must be on target and geared toward that specific growth goal."

By the time Cameron Herold is 15 minutes into the phone interview for this article, he has already unpacked his suitcase, arranged everything in his four-star hotel bathroom and neatly rearranged the chairs on the deck overlooking the ocean.

Cameron Herold puts all the pieces in place in this best seller for any business person. Whether you are established or a new start-up, this is a book that will put money in your pocket.

On Friday, September 10th “The American Entrepreneur” Ron Morris will talk with one of the most respected business mentors in the country, Cameron Herold of BackPocketCOO.com. In addition to sharing his thoughts on how to build an effective organization from the ground up, Cameron will also discuss one of his other passionate topics: how to effectively raise our children to become entrepreneurs...

I started running my first real company, a College Pro Painters franchise in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1986 while in my second year of college. I had 12 full-time employees and I thought I was going to take over the world. But I also spent a lot of my time stressed out.

None of my friends understood what I was going through, and I felt alienated from them. I recognized early on that I was different, but I didn’t realize until later that I was going through periods of...

Some activities are easy to rule out based on simple cost comparisons. This method comes from Cameron Herold, founder of Backpocket COO, a service that coaches CEOs to build "infectious, profitable and long-lasting brands."

1. List everything you do in a month, one task per line. Take some time to really break down your hours, days and weeks. It may take a little while, but you only have to do it once...

NSM:What are the benefits of being an entrepreneur?

Herold: Freedom. You only go to the meetings you want and only do the work you want. And there is a lot of diversity in your day-to-day activities...

Do you have any employees you just know you need to fire?

That big question was recently asked of the leaders of some of Canada’s brightest young businesses at GrowthCamp, the conference for this year’s...

THE entrepreneurial journey from start-up through growth and onwards to exit is a real roller-coaster ride; thrilling and terrifying in equal measure.

There's a model that explains the journey: the Transition Curve. American entrepreneur Cameron Herold says there are five stages in the cycle, beginning with "uninformed optimism" with the entrepreneur at the top of the roller-coaster filled with...

In your business, it's more important than ever to paint an optimistic yet realistic future for your employees.

It's hard to avoid the bad news these days-the stock market falling towards zero, home prices declining, homelessness rising, our spending power being...

John Friess, like a lot of entrepreneurs, needed a sounding board when he and his brother Mark started a health-education company, Portland, Ore.'s Wired.MD in 2000.

So he began hitting business events, only to notice some of the same faces in attendance. Friess, who sold Wired.MD seven and a half years ago...

Ever since the media’s Chicken Little response to the tremors in the financial markets, I’ve felt like shouting from the rooftops “now you know how it feels to be an entrepreneur!”

I just lost 9% overnight?! Fill a bathtub and get the toaster. I’ve had enough. Wait... I actually gained 13% while in the bathroom? I’m...

THE SCRIVENER: Please tell us about your childhood and your early life in the East.

CAMERON: I was born in Toronto, grew up in Sudbury, and attended Carleton University in Ottawa. I have a brother and a sister—both are entrepreneurs...

Entrepreneur extraordinaire Cam Herold, BA/88, loves what he does but one of his latest ventures caters to people who have fallen out of that state of bliss.

Fairway Divorce is billed as the friendlier way to split, making divorce as positive an experience as possible, avoiding the sometimes spiraling escalation involving...

Vancouver, Canada, September 28, 2007 --(PR.com)-- John DeHart and Ken Sim, co-founders of Western Canada’s largest senior care provider, Nurse Next Door, announced today the addition of hyper-growth expert, Cameron Herold.

Herold, the former Chief Operating Officer of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and current member of Nurse Next Door’s advisory board, will serve as...

IT was a misty Thursday in the suburbs of this sprawling city, and inside a recently vacated house, Austin Atkins and Stefan Meissner were up to their elbows in junk.

The detritus was the usual: ratty couches, empty paint cans, old mattresses. In a closet sat a dusty upright piano. Out back, in the weeds, lay a...

Want to know what consumers think? Put down the comment cards and poll them online instead.

Don't trust online polls. That's what traditional-minded researchers have been telling business owners for years. The Internet isn't diverse enough to be a valid testing ground, they argue, so...

“Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus and everyone in the right seats,” Jim Collins wrote in his book, Good to Great. In his book about the Merry Pranksters, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Key Kesey said “You’re either on the bus, or you’re off the bus." I’m onboard with both authors.

In business, it’s clear that having the right people matters more than anything else...

When it comes to business travel, Sentwali Lewis is as cheap as they come.

He packs protein bars so that he does not have to waste money on lunch. He takes clients out for burgers and fries in lieu of an expensive meal. And once, he even spent the night at...

Cameron Herold. Cet entrepreneur-né propose différents moyens d’encourager le désir d’entreprendre chez les jeunes.

Vous déplorez le fait que les jeunes ne sont pas encouragés à démarrer une entreprise. Qu’en est-il au juste?...

Email is a major time-suck for people in most workplaces, whether they realize it or not.

Mark Suster recently declared that email is toxic. And it's not hard to see why: our inboxes have become a suffocating reservoir of debris and to-do’s, when they’re really meant to be a tool for communication and better productivity....

Teens may be the recession's hardest hit demographic. According to the Department of Labor, the unemployment rate for teens ages 16 through 19 is north of 20 percent, higher than workers in any other age group.

While teens typically have some financial support from their parents, high school and college students in need of summer cash could find themselves without jobs. Consider these six ways to make money if the summer jobs aren't there...

As recessionary gale storms blow, entrepreneurs are reining in runaway costs. "Smart entrepreneurs are doing more with less," says Joseph R. Cardamone, president of the U.S. Federation of Small Businesses. "With diminished cash flow and tight credit, only those businesses that operate efficiently will survive this economic downturn, which may last several years." So if you're going to make like a bird and go cheap, these measures can help and range from relatively to totally painless.

Systemic Savings - Announce your plan to ration paperclips and watch employees use binder clips like they're going out of style...

The Globe and Mail OTTAWA - Canada's recession is spreading from the car factories to the coffee shops, reinforcing the case for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's $40-billion stimulus program and adding to the risk that he may have to do more.

The baristas, shopkeepers, financial planners, technicians and consultants that make up Canada's services industries are...

OTTAWA - Canada's recession is spreading from the car factories to the coffee shops, reinforcing the case for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's $40-billion stimulus program and adding to the risk that he may have to do more.

The baristas, shopkeepers, financial planners, technicians and consultants that make up Canada's services industries are...

It's Dec. 6 - just 3½ workweeks left in 2008. So how many vacation days do you still have coming to you before the year's up? Two, six or - egad - three weeks' worth?

"Like so many things, we often wait for a perfect time to take a vacation. But rarely is there ever the ideal two weeks," admits Ann Gomez, a productivity consultant in Toronto who coaches clients on...

Does your coworker smell? Have bad breath? Wear too much cologne? Then you’re in luck, because we’re going to tell you how to deal with the situation.

Beth Haiken has led corporate communications teams announcing massive layoffs, explaining plunging stock prices, and reporting unprecedented losses. But in some ways, her biggest challenge may have been telling a subordinate that coworkers were...

When Clive Beddoe, one of the founders and chairman of Calgary-based WestJet Airlines Ltd., sent out an open invitation to his executive team to join him on a sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean, it didn’t take long for executive vice-president of operations Ken McKenzie to say "yes."

“We got to spend an entire week with him just learning about the industry,” says McKenzie, who was joined by Ferio Pugliese, executive vice-president of people, on...

Elizabeth Wickman doesn't smoke, but she spent most of her Hawaiian-themed high school reunion huddled outside with the smokers. At least she was warm. Inside, her classmates, all attired in luau wear, were freezing because the hall they had rented in Alton, Ill., was so nippy.

"A lot of people left early, which was such a bummer because you hadn't seen these people in 10 years," she says. No matter how often they were asked, the maintenance staff...

Earlier this year, Ken LeBlanc was feeling pretty good about his company's growth. As the CEO and president of Propertyguys.com, he'd seen the Moncton business go from a single shop to 94 franchises across Canada in under 10 years.

On a roll, he and his team of six weren't ready to stop. Like many Canadian companies looking to expand, they set their sights south of the border. Propertyguys.com facilitates for-sale-by-owner transactions through its national website, in a...

"We really want our IT team to be part of the company culture, to vibrate at the same frequency as the rest of us," Herold says.