Business Resources
Small Business BC offers a wealth of business resources and guides to help support and grow your small business.
Whether you are starting a business, or looking for new growth strategies, use our business startup checklists, expert programs, and specialized bookstore to build your business. Our resources provide you with important business tips and tools for Business Planning, Market Research, Marketing & Sales, Import/Export and much more.
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Small Business Insurance – Why It’s Important
Answer These 8 Questions to Determine if Small Business Insurance is Right for You. The golden rule of insurance: if you think you may need it, the answer is always “yes, protect and cover the business you love.” For BC’s busy entrepreneurs, we know that “small business” is anything but […]
ReadPrioritizing Mental Health in the Workplace
Unprecedented times. The new normal. These are some of the phrases that we have all become familiar with over the past year, and with them come feelings of uncertainty, isolation, and stress. Trying to navigate working from home, new school policies, lost income, and staying healthy, all while being unable […]
ReadB.C. Vaccine Card – Learn the Facts
Download BC Vaccine Card Guide for Businesses Across British Columbia, the fight against COVID-19 continues. Widespread access to safe and effective vaccines have allowed us to enjoy a relatively normal summer, including increased access to our favourite small businesses, bars, fitness centres and entertainment venues. As we […]
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Business Checklists
Looking to start, grow or exit a business? Use our free business checklists, how-to guides and resources to achieve your business goals.
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Business Plan Template
This free business plan template will help you define what your business is, show how you will become profitable, and serve as a marketing tool to showcase your idea. As part of a healthy and robust business plan, you’ll need to estimate the cash inflow and outflow from your business over time on monthly basis. Small Business BC’s cash flow forecasting tool is the first step to understanding your true businesses viability.
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Corporate Search Services
Small Business BC can assist in helping you file or replace your business documents. We can also provide a corporate summary document which is a requirement when suing a company incorporated in British Columbia.
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Export Navigator
The Export Navigator Program offers businesses access to community-based export specialists who can provide a personalized, step-by-step approach to exporting and help connect your business to the market information, export programs, financial services, and business development experts it needs at every stage of the process.
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Bizmap
A collaboration between Small Business BC, 17 Vancouver BIAs and the City of Vancouver, Bizmap offers a powerful tool to analyze and compare key market data at the neighborhood level, to help grow sustainable business communities. Bizmap exists to provide easy access to relevant market data tailored to customized business districts. This data, encompassing demographics, business types, building information and the area’s activities, is supplied at the neighbourhood level, providing users with highly specific information to aid in their decision making – from finding the ideal business location to expanding their customer base, and beyond.
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Meeting Room Rentals
Small Business BC offers room rentals in Downtown Vancouver directly connected to multiple transit lines. We have a variety of spaces to rent, from meeting rooms, to seminar rooms, to a lobby area that can act as a flex-space.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Small Business BC is here to help British Columbia's entrepreneurs grow successful and sustainable businesses through expert business advisors, educational services and easy-to-use free tools. For anyone who's a business owner, or thinking of starting a new business, we’re here to help. Read our Frequently Asked Questions for the answers to our most commonly asked small business questions:
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