Growth

Guides | Fact Sheets | Programs and Services | Resources | Publications

Guides

• Financing a Business
• Info-Guide – eBusiness
• Info-Guide – Export
• Info-Guide – Import
• Info-Guide – Innovation / R&D;

Fact Sheets

eBusiness

• Doing Business on the Internet
• E-Commerce - Exploring Your Options

Growth Capital

• Selling a Business

Home-Based Business

• Expansion of Your Home-Based Business

Innovation and R&D

• Attacking Business Decision Problems With Breakeven Analysis
• Can You Make Money With Your Idea or Invention
• Critical Assessment Factors for New Products
• Product Licensing
• Profit Pricing for a Manufacturer
• Profit Pricing for the Costing of a Service

Marketing, Sales and Distribution

• Advertising Do's and Don'ts
• Developing New Accounts
• Do You Know the Results of Your Advertising
• Guide to Market Research and Analysis
• Guidelines for Developing a Company Brochure
• Invite Your Trade Show Prospects
• Marketing Plan Outline
• Measuring Sales Force Performance
• New Generation Co-operatives for Agricultural Processing and Value Added Projects
• Plan Your Advertising Budget
• Selling Products on Consignment
• Trade Shows
• Understanding and Developing Your Sales Force
• Ways to Promote Your Product or Service

Public Markets

• Basic Proposal for Tender
• Doing Business in the Government Procurement Marketplace

Programs and Services

• Business Development
• Exports
• Imports
• Innovation and Technology
• Intellectual Property
• IT and E-Business
• Marketing and Promotion
• Partnerships/Joint Ventures
• Research and Development

Resources

e-Business Trade Roadmap—Industy Canada

Directory of hyperlinks to public and private sector Web sites which focus on Internet-based international trade transactions.

E-Business relevancy diagnostic—Business Development Bank of Canada

This tool measures e-business relevancy for your firm and provides a relevancy score and a detailed interpretation of your results.

E-Business readiness diagnostic—Business Development Bank of Canada

This tool measures your firm's readiness regarding e-business planning and implementation and provides an e-business readiness score and a summary page with concluding remarks.

ebiz.enable—Industry Canada

ebiz.enable tells you exactly what e-business is and how it can help you. Learn the basics with the easy-to-use tutorial.

E-Business Info-Guides—Alberta E-Future Centre

4-8 page PDF documents created to help small business owners understand such topics as e-business planning and strategy, Web site design, Internet marketing, Internet security and privacy, selling online, and business-to-business e-commerce.

Entrepreneurship Explorer Platform—SAJE Montréal Centre

Entrepreneurship Explorer is a virtual business site aimed at facilitating the learning process for business start-up and development for entrepreneurs. (In French only)

Other Resources:

• Export
• Import
• Innovation

Publications

• Exporting Goods from Canada
• Exporting to the United States
• Foreign Market Studies
• Roadmap to Exporting