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Business Tools & Guides

On-line information products designed for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs

These interactive guides will assist you in developing your business idea, preparing a business plan, assessing your entrepreneurial qualities and also give you an overview of the benefits and challenges of owning a small business.

Canada Business Small Business Workshops
These workshops are designed to provide you with techniques for developing your idea, starting a new venture and improving your existing small business. Customized by province, you can choose a workshop from British Columbia This link leaves our Web site, Alberta This link leaves our Web site, Saskatchewan This link leaves our Web site, or Manitoba.This link leaves our Web site

The Inventors Guide
WD has developed this guide to help you determine whether your idea is commercially viable. You'll find tips, leads, information and links to useful resources - some specifically geared to inventors.

Online Small Business Workshop This link leaves our Web site
A web-based workshop designed to provide techniques for developing a business idea, starting a new venture, and improving an existing small business.

Business Start-up Assistant This link leaves our Web site
This web site provides essential information required by anyone wishing to launch a successful business. It combines start-up information from the Canada Business Service Centres, the federal and provincial governments, the community and many other sources. Information is organized by topics such as market assessment, financing, taxation, writing a business plan, federal and provincial business start-up forms and many others – all critical to starting a new business.

eBiz Enable This link leaves our Web site
eBiz Enable is a comprehensive e-business portal designed specifically to guide small and medium sized businesses through the issues and options encountered in implementing e-business strategies. eBiz Enable can help explore the questions, answers and solutions relevant to your business and its success in the global on-line environment.

Interactive Business Planner This link leaves our Web site
Do your business plan on-line and harness the power of the Internet to assist you with your research and analysis. Available at no cost, this software application assists entrepreneurs in preparing a 3-year business plan for new or existing business.

Interactive Export Planner This link leaves our Web site
This planner assists entrepreneurs in preparing an export plan or an export-focused business plan for their new or existing business.

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Information for Small Business This link leaves our Web site
A user-friendly guide to help small business operators understand Revenue Canada's programs and initiatives.

Steps to Capital Growth This link leaves our Web site
This on-line toolkit outlines how to secure risk capital for your business. Within this site you will find resources such as a tool to assess your “investor readiness,” information on workshops and links to additional resources for entrepreneurs.

Labour Market Information This link leaves our Web site
This web site provides information on local Canadian labor markets. The information found here will assist small businesses with preparing job descriptions, identifying employee skill requirements and making general employment and training decisions.

Regulations for Small Business
WD offers this invaluable collection of links to important business regulations applicable to Western Canadian business people. A must-read for every entrepreneur.