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Alberta's small business community.
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The Business Link's
Fall 2002
Seminars and Brown Bag Presentations
Our economically-priced Small Business Seminars
and FREE Brown Bag Presentations feature
the basics of business from start-up to marketing to e-business...and
more! All sessions are held at The Business Link
at 100 - 10237 104 Street in Edmonton. Pre-registration is
required for the seminars; no registration required for the
“brown baggers”, however there is limited seating
on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Schedule |
| Date |
Time |
Topic |
Cost |
| 3 |
12 noon - 1 p.m. |
Identifying Your Ideal
Customer |
FREE |
| 5 |
12 noon - 1 p.m. |
The Alberta SuperNet:
Bridging the Digital Divide |
FREE |
| 5 |
6 - 9:30 p.m. |
Starting a Small Business |
$32.10 |
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For more information on our Small Business Seminars and
to register on-line, visit our web site at: http://www.cbsc.org/alberta/seminars.cfm.
Details on the "Brown Baggers" are available at:
http://www.cbsc.org/alberta/brownbag.cfm.
Our Fall 2002 season is almost over... Once again
our Seminars and Brown Bag Presentations helped new and exisiting
entrepreneurs get a better understanding of important business
concepts. We would like to take this opportunity to thank
the presenters and participants who contributed to another
successful season. Our new calendar will be ready in January,
so stay tuned for more informative and practical sessions!
Quality Council
of Alberta Brown Bag Sessions
The Quality Council of Alberta
(QCA) invites you to attend their FREE monthly Brown Bag Sessions,
held every third Friday of the month at noon until June, 2003.
Bring your lunch and take in this series on "Performance".
Attendees will examine and learn what organizational performance
is, approaches to improve it, and challenges to maintain it.
This month's session on "Lean Thinking to Enhance
Organizational Performance" will be held at The Business
Link on Friday, December 20, 2002 from 12:00 noon to
1:00 p.m. Seating is limited and allocated on a first-come,
first-served basis.
For more information and to register for this session, contact
Ann Beaque at the Quality Council of Alberta at 780-423-6878
or 1-800-224-0848, or by e-mail at: abeaque@telusplanet.net.
It all clicks @ www.e-future.ca
The Business Link's E-Future Centre is proud to announce
the launch of its new web site. The E-Future Centre
is Alberta's first stop for e-business information. With the
launch of our web site, clients can access our services through
the Internet, our 1-800 number, e-mail, or by contacting one
of our 11 Mini E-Future Centres located throughout Alberta.
The web site provides products and services that enable Alberta
businesses to plan or enhance their e-business strategy. On
the site you'll find:
- 28 Info-Guides on everything from search engines to supply
chain management,
- a e-business links directory,
- e-business events, including our free Brown Bag Presentations
and our Small Business Seminars,
- federal & provincial government e-business initiatives,
- information on the Mini E-Future Centres,
- information on our 20 e-business Guest Advisors,
- a listing of our e-business library resources,
- links to the history of the Internet, success stories, e-business stats, and much more...
Whether you're getting connected to the Internet, building
your web site, or considering business-to-business e-commerce,
don't miss this opportunity to learn more about e-business
and its role in your organization.
The new Service Alberta web site recently went live, marking
the first steps to make it easier for Albertans to access
the Government of Alberta. Eventually Service Alberta will
extend to any service channel Albertans choose to use - whether
that's Internet, phone, mail, fax or in person.
By going to www.servicealberta.ca,
Albertans can find information and services from across government
without having to know which department provides what service.
Information and services are organized by popular topics,
life events and customer groups. A range of online services,
publications, forms, common questions and useful phone numbers
are now available in one spot. Albertans don't have to know
how government is organized to find what they need. And the
web site is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days
a week.
For Alberta's entrepreneurs, the site also offers an entire
section for business and one for employers and employees.
The Business Link works in partnership
with 34 Regional Access Sites located throughout the province,
plus the Calgary Business Information Centre (CBIC), to provide
information and resources to Alberta entrepreneurs. To find
the closest Regional Access Site in your area, visit our web
site at: www.cbsc.org/alberta/regional.cfm.
One of these Regional Access Sites is the Highwood Business
Development Corporation.
The boundaries of the Highwood Business Development Corporation
include the following communities: Turner Valley, Black Diamond,
Okotoks, High River, Nanton and Vulcan, along with the Kananaskis
Improvement District, the Municipal District of Willow Creek,
the Municipal District of Foothills and Vulcan Country.
The Centre is committed to doing everything possible to
put the odds in your favour and help you build your business.
The organization offers services to potential and existing
entrepreneurs, including: business plan assistance and counseling;
a lending library to help you research business ideas and
write a business plan; a Mini E-Future Centre; connections
to short and long term training opportunities to assist employers
and employees; financial assistance to individuals starting
or expanding a small business through the General Loan Program;
financing and assistance for young entrepreneurs through the
Western Youth Entrepreneur Program, Student Business Loans
and the Business Program (technical assistance for young entrepreneurs);
as well as the Self-Employment Program to provide training
on how to start and operate a small business.
For more information, contact the Highwood Business Development
Corporation at:
#3, 28 - 12th Avenue S.E.
High River, Alberta T1V 1T2
Phone: (403) 652-3700
Fax: (403) 652-7022
E-Mail: highwood2@hbdc.net
Web site: http://www.hbdc.net
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December 2002
Issue 7
Seasons Greetings!
The Business Link's
staff wishes you a happy and safe holiday season.
Our holidays hours
are:
Dec. 24: 9 am to 3
pm
Dec. 25: closed
Dec. 26: closed
Dec. 27: closed
Dec. 30: 9 am to 5 pm
Dec. 31: 9 am to 3
pm
Jan. 1, 2003: closed
Stay Tuned
Our Guest Advisor Program
has now concluded for the season. Thank you to all companies,
professionals and client participants for contributing to
its success. Don't miss the beginning
of our new season starting on February 3, 2003.
Information and
Services for Aboriginal Business
Aboriginal entrepreneurs
need information and resources to improve their access to
capital and to establish or develop their businesses. As
an enhanced service within The Business Link, the Alberta
Aboriginal Business Service Network (Alberta ABSN) provides
business information, advice and referral services to meet
the needs of potential and existing Aboriginal business
people in Alberta.
Alberta ABSN gives
you access to government programs and services for Aboriginal
entrepreneurs, to a database of Aboriginal business service
providers in Alberta and to useful business information
through its Aboriginal Albertans in Business Series. You
can also find some inspiring success stories, valuable tools
and useful links to other sources of information on Alberta
ABSN's new information-packed web site available at: www.cbsc.org/alberta/
absn (due to be launched on December 10th).
Let the Alberta ABSN be your first stop for Aboriginal-specific business information
in Alberta.
Find a Regional Business Centre
Near You
The Business Link
works with regional business centres around Alberta to provide
information and resources to entrepreneurs and small business
owners. Through the Regional Access Program (RAP), The Business
Link gives you access to business books, on-line databases
and dedicated research assistance in your local community.
To find the closest
Regional Access Site in your area, visit our web
site.
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