{"id":5463,"date":"2013-11-28T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2022-03-03T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:45:26","slug":"building-a-business-from-a-cabin-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2013\/11\/building-a-business-from-a-cabin-in-the-woods.html","title":{"rendered":"International Bonus: Building a business from a cabin in the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bonus for you in Canada and around the globe,<\/strong> while the US is busy with family and Thanksgiving: an interview with Canadian entrepreneur Gregg McLachlan.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"GreggGregg McLachlan\u00a0built a nation-wide resource site in Canada from his cabin in the woods using dial-up internet access. He told me how in this short, 3 minute interview.<\/p>\n

I was struck by what a great lesson he had for any business struggling with limits and for any people struggling with an industry that is dying or at least changing around them.<\/p>\n

Catch up with Gregg at Work Cabin Communications<\/a>\u00a0or on Twitter as @GreggMcLachlan<\/a>. Or take a look at his Canadian environmental jobs site, Work Cabin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Transcript of Gregg’s comments:<\/p>\n

I’ve spent 22 years in media. I’m actually from the city of Toronto, and I moved down here 23 years ago. In 2007, I realized that the media business was changing dramatically. So it was time to look for a Plan B.<\/p>\n

I looked at what were the things that connected me to a potential business opportunity. I live in the forest, do a lot of work in the forest. I’m an amateur naturalist and wildlife photographer so I decided, OK, there’s an opportunity here to look at the environmental jobs business, because there was a real void in Canada for how you find those types of jobs. I could deliver that service and be genuinely authentic because I’m part of that community. I thought, let’s give it a shot. That’s what I did.<\/p>\n

I live in a community of 200 hundred people. I have a 30 acre forest where I live. When I launched the business in 2007, it existed on dial-up for several years because the forest blocked a lot of the signals.<\/p>\n

The world doesn’t know that you’re on dial-up. They access your service. They don’t know the behind the scenes. It ran fine; it ran smoothly.\u00a0We had broadband come in several years ago, so now I can get my signal going up, rather than through the forest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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