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BMO Bank of Montreal and PROFIT Magazine Launch Podcast Series for Small Business

BMO Bank of Montreal has teamed up with PROFIT Magazine to launch the Business Coach podcast, a new series of audio information segments for small business owners.  The free, bi-weekly podcast will be available for download on both the BMO.com and the PROFITguide.com websites as well as on iTunes and other podcast distributors. The series will feature extended interviews with a wide range of small business consultants, human resources specialists, business-planning experts and senior economic forecasters.

Podcasting is an innovative way of publishing audio or video files to a website. Subscribers to the podcast receive updates as soon as they are posted to the host website.   Each Business Coach episode will focus on several small business-related themes or topics. 

“Podcasting is rapidly becoming a medium of choice for many time-pressed business owners who are looking for in-depth business information or educational opportunities in an easy-to-access format,” said Michelle Field, Vice President of Business Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal.  “Our podcast will deliver relevant and topical interviews which subscribers can listen to at their desk, as they commute to work or when they go for a jog in the morning.”

The Business Coach podcast, available today, is hosted by Ian Portsmouth, Editor of PROFIT Magazine, and features interviews with Rick Egelton, BMO's Chief Economist and Lara Dodo, Vice President at Robert Half International, an international human resources consulting firm.   Future podcasts are expected to cover topics such as:

  • succession planning for business owners,
  • developing a business plan,
  • effective cash management techniques,
  • choosing a franchise,
  • inventory and cash flow management strategies, and
  • small business marketing techniques. 

Subscribers are invited to provide feedback and to suggest topics they would like to see covered in future episodes.

The Business Coach podcast and other relevant small business information can be accessed at www.bmo.com/podcast.

About PROFIT
PROFIT: Your Guide to Business Success, offers news, strategies, tips, interviews and other resources to the CEOs of Canadian growth companies. Published six times a year, PROFIT was founded in 1982 as Canada's first national magazine geared to entrepreneurs, and currently reaches more than 370,000 readers nationally.

About BMO Financial Group

Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified North American financial services organization.  With total assets of more than $311 billion as at July 31, 2006, and more than 35,000 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.  BMO Financial Group serves clients across Canada through its Canadian retail arm, BMO Bank of Montreal and through its wealth management firms BMO Nesbitt Burns, BMO InvestorLine and BMO Harris Private Banking.   BMO Capital Markets, our North American investment and corporate banking division, provides a full suite of financial products and services to our North American and international clients. It is the second largest small business banker in Canada and one of the largest in North America.

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