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Small Business Advice from Enterprize Canada 2012
The 2012 Enterprize Canada Conference in downtown Vancouver brought together more than 350 university and high school students from throughout BC, and even across Canada. Students networked with professionals in seven-minute personal sessions, lunches, and the Saturday evening Gala Dinner. They received first-hand business advice in a series of panel discussions. SBA had a chance to sit in on several.
Business Planning Just Got Easier - Expanded Access to Gale Business Plans Handbook
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Visit The SBA At Enterprize In Vancouver
As one of Canada’s leading entrepreneurial organizations, Enterprize Canada provides a glimpse into the future of Canadian innovation and growth.
Avoid These Common Mobile Marketing Mistakes
A quick summary of a great post that will definitely help you focus your mobile marketing efforts for 2012. Here's the lowdown - there are 4 common mistakes that you can easily avoid if you take the time to understand the needs of mobile searchers, and make good use of the tools at your disposal, and offer a value-added experience. 1. Using Mobile to Share Non-Mobile Content 2. Using QR Codes to Direct Customers Back to Your Site 3. Missing a Chance for Better Targeting 4. Not Optimizing Your Mobile Website
What's your go-to source for business info? Poll results
Over the last 2 months we ran a poll asking where our users consider their go-to source for business info to be - not surprising, over 80% selected either the internet or their local library. Quickly breaking down the results and explaining the value in each option for business info:
Get To Know The BC Small Business Sector
About the Small Business Sector in British Columbia and Canada: Small business is BIG business in British Columbia.
Canadian Business Owners Mostly Optimistic, But Some Are Struggling
A new report on Canadian Business Owners from Angus Reid Published Today Check out the Full Report, Detailed Tables and Methodology (PDF). Below is reposted from Angus Reid Public Opinion blog. A third of respondents have worked longer, cut expenses, and experienced increased stress due to the global financial situation.
DIY Legal Research to Start a Business
Hiring a lawyer can be expensive, time-consuming, and may not always be the best solution to simple legal problems. In today's do it yourself (DIY) world of online information, it pays to do a bit of digging before hiring a lawyer. SBA has recently put together a new page that will assist you with finding some of the most useful legal information for starting and running your business. Many of these resources are directed towards common concerns such as how to incorporate, forming a partnership, ways for non profits to obtain legal status, or other frequently asked questions.
Open Access Resources for Business Research
Open access resources are a great way to boost your business research without opening your wallet, and the resources are often just a click away!
Highlights from Statistics Canada Report - BC's Economic Performance 2010
Provincial and Territorial Economic Accounts Review - 2010 Estimates (This post is extracted from Statistics Canada Website and the full report available here: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/13-016-x/13-016-x2011001-eng.htm)