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Online Small Business Workshop - OSBW

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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

Saskatchewan Contact(s):
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Canada-Saskatchewan Business Service Centre
#2 - 345 Third Avenue South
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  S7K 1M6
Telephone: (306) 956-2323
Fax: (306) 956-2328
Toll-free (information): 1-800-667-4374 (Anywhere in Canada)
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-457-8466 (Anywhere in Canada)
E-mail: saskatchewan@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.cbsc.org/sask

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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