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Online Small Business Workshop - OSBW

Canada Business

Last Verified: 2004-04-01

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The Online Small Business Workshop (OSBW) is a Web-based workshop designed to provide you with techniques for developing your business idea, starting a new venture and improving your existing small business.

Summary

The OSBW will assist you to visualize and develop your business. When appropriate, it will also provide you with links to provincial information. It is organized in six sessions, each focusing on a different area of business. These six sessions and their sub-topics are as follows:

Session 1 - Starting with a Good Idea
Exploring Business Opportunities
Forty Concepts for a Small Business
Evaluating your Ideas
Protecting Your Idea

Session 2 - Marketing Basics
Marketing Primer
Researching Your Market
Sales Forecasting
Business Promotion Idea List

Session 3 - Financing Your Business
Equity Financing
Long Term Debt Financing
Short Term Debt Financing
Alternative Sources of Financing

Session 4 - Planning Fundamentals
Preparing a Cash Flow Forecast
Preparing a Business Plan
Sample Business Plan

Session 5 - Basic Regulations for Getting Started
Proprietorship, Partnership or Incorporation?
Taxes
Becoming an Employer
Start Up Checklist

Session 6 - Setting up an E-business: The Basics
Marketing
Technologies
Regulations

New Brunswick Contact(s):
Canada/New Brunswick Business Service Centre
Ground Floor, Barker House
570 Queen Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick  E3B 6Z6
Telephone: 506-444-6140
Fax: 506-444-6172
Toll-free (information): 1-800-668-1010 (Atlantic region only)
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-457-8466
E-mail: cbscnb@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.cbsc.org/nb
Hours of operation: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday thru Friday - except Government holidays

National Contact(s):
For technical problems
National Secretariat
Canada Business
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0H5
E-mail: cbsc@ic.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OSBW%2FCBSC_WebPage%2FCBSC_WebPage_Temp&cid;=1102594891135&c;=CBSC_WebPage⟨=eng



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