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Small Business BC provides practical business seminars and online education to develop your business skills and strategy to run a successful business. Whether you need help starting your business, hiring employees, managing operations, or anything else, Small Business BC has a business education seminar for you.
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Business Networking Skills for Success (In Person Only)
In-person networking remains the single most effective way to put your business on the map. Attend Business Networking Skills for Success and learn how to make a big impression during your in-person meetings.
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Start Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business
Starting a business is one of the most exciting decisions a person can make in their life. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills you need to get it off the ground with Start Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business.
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Start Smart 2: Key Considerations of Starting a Business
Starting a business is tricky enough without adding unnecessary risks. Our Start Smart 2 seminar focuses on how entrepreneurs can protect their business, their employees and themselves during the start-up phase and beyond.
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Business Mapping: Developing a Smart Business Model
Business Mapping offers a more accessible alternative to the traditional business plan process that will leave you with a strategic plan to direct your business. This introductory seminar will empower you to create a fleshed-out business map.
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Business Finance 1: Understanding Financials
Reading a financial statement can sometimes feel like reading a foreign language. This seminar cuts through the jargon, teaching you how to decipher financials like balance sheets, income statements and much more.
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Business Finance Package
Having difficulty understanding vital financial statements? Once you understand your financials you can use them to unlock the potential of your small business. Join us for our Business Finance seminar Package and learn how to analyse your financial statements.
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Business Finance 2: Financial Analysis
Once you understand your financial statements, you can use them to unlock the potential of your small business through financial analysis. Join us for this informative seminar and learn how to analyse your financial statements
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Buying a Business: Essential Steps
Buying a business gives you control of a known entity with a proven track record and an installed customer base. This seminar will take you through each step of the process, from identifying the right business, to the techniques needed to close the deal.
More InfoBusiness Mapping: Developing a Smart Business Model
Business Mapping offers a more accessible alternative to the traditional business plan process that will leave you with a strategic plan to direct your business. This introductory seminar will empower you to create a fleshed-out business map.
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Make it Happen: A Business Goal Setting Workshop
Unsure of how to achieve your business goals? Entrepreneurs, caught up in the day-to-day running of their business, can lack the time to set business goals. Our Business Goal Setting Workshop will help participants to dedicate time to set goals, provide tools to develop targeted goals and define the actions needed to achieve business goals. Setting Goals Goal setting offers a proven pathway to achieve business success. Utilizing the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely), and other goal setting principles, entrepreneurs can set goals and…
More InfoStart Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business
Starting a business is one of the most exciting decisions a person can make in their life. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills you need to get it off the ground with Start Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business.
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Start Smart 2: Key Considerations of Starting a Business
Starting a business is tricky enough without adding unnecessary risks. Our Start Smart 2 seminar focuses on how entrepreneurs can protect their business, their employees and themselves during the start-up phase and beyond.
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Finding and Bidding on Opportunities with the Government of Canada
Interested in finding out about the Government of Canada’s tendering process? This FREE seminar will equip you with the knowledge you need to bid on government contracts.
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Business Viability Package
Are you sitting on the next big business idea? Our Business Viability seminar package will help you determine the start-up viability of your concept and how to map out those first few months financially.
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Selling a Business: Essential Steps
Selling a business is one of the toughest decisions an entrepreneur can make. This seminar will introduce the essentials of selling a business including business valuation, the selling process and key steps to optimize the marketability and price of your business.
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Creating a Website for Your Business
Wondering how to make a website? Thanks to platforms like WordPress, Shopify and Squarespace, it’s not as difficult as you think. Our Creating a Website for Your Business seminar will guide you through the basics.
More InfoBusiness Networking Skills for Success
In-person networking remains the single most effective way to put your business on the map. Attend Business Networking Skills for Success and learn how to make a big impression during your in-person meetings.
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Operations Management for Small Business
Running a business will always be a challenge but having a solid foundation in place can lessen the load. Our Operations Management for Small Business Seminar will teach you how to merge all the essential elements of operating a small business.
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Market Research 2: Surveys and Focus Groups
Primary market research empowers you to collect important data straight from the source. Learn how your small business can leverage these numbers by attending Market Research 2, our fascinating, hands-on seminar.
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Starting a Consulting Business
Do you possess a special skill, ability or talent you feel can help others and earn an income? Our Starting a Consulting Business seminar will show you how to turn your skills into a potentially lucrative career in the consulting and contracting field.
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Creating Google Ads for Your Business
Google Ads are one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your site. Our Creating Google Ads for Your Business seminar will teach you how to harness this powerful platform to generate conversions.
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Optimize Your Landing Pages
Landing pages are often the first page a customer will interact with on your website. Attend our Optimize Your Landing Pages seminar and arm yourself with the tools you need to master this digital sales funnel.
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TaxSense for Incorporating Your Business
Thinking about incorporating? As your business matures, the realities of your legal and tax situations will change. Incorporation for Small Business will teach you how a registered corporation can help lower risk and optimize tax benefits.
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Small Business Incorporation Package
Incorporating can unlock a range of benefits for you and your business. Our Small Business Incorporation Package is all-day tax and legal information series that instructs on how to do business as a corporation in BC.
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Start Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business
Starting a business is one of the most exciting decisions a person can make in their life. Equip yourself with the knowledge and skills you need to get it off the ground with Start Smart 1: Basics of Starting a Business.
More InfoStart Smart 2: Key Considerations of Starting a Business
Starting a business is tricky enough without adding unnecessary risks. Our Start Smart 2 seminar focuses on how entrepreneurs can protect their business, their employees and themselves during the start-up phase and beyond.
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Doing Business with the Government of Canada: Half Day Condensed
Interested in doing business with the Government of Canada? Join us for this FREE half-day seminar and learn about the various aspects of doing business with the federal government.
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