Start-Up

Guides | Fact Sheets | Programs and Services | Resources

Guides

• Info-Guide – Business Start-Up
• Info-Guide – Cooperatives
• Info-Guide – Not-for-Profit Organisation (NPO)
• Info-Guide – Permits and Licences Required for Certain Types of Businesses
• Financing a Business
• Social Economy – Financing and Technical Resources

Guides for potential entrepreneurs who wish to start a specific type of business:

• Starting a Beauty Salon/Barber Shop/Esthetics/Tanning
• Starting a Bed and Breakfast
• Starting a Consulting Business
• Starting a Convenience Store
• Starting a Personal Care Home for Seniors
• Starting a Restaurant
• Starting an Alternative and Complementary Health Care Business
• Starting an Early Childhood Centre

Fact Sheets

Business Plans

• Business Plan for Retailers
• Business Plan for Small Construction Firms
• Business Plan for Small Manufacturers
• Business Plan for Small Service Firms
• Business Plan Guide
• Guide to Market Research and Analysis
• Market Analysis
• Marketing Plan Outline
• Venture Checklists

Contracts and Licences

• Bonding
• Joint Venture Agreement Checklist
• Product Licensing
• Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease
• Standard Outline for a Partnership or Shareholder Agreement

Cooperatives

• Articles and Bylaws Regarding Cooperatives
• Co-operative - Business Structure
• Cooperative Glossary
• Cooperative Structure
• New Generation Co-operatives for Agricultural Processing and Value Added Projects

Financial Management

• Attacking Business Decision Problems With Breakeven Analysis
• Bad Cheque Control
• Basic Bookkeeping
• Checklist for Profit Watching
• Credit and Collections
• Dealing With Your Banker & Other Lenders
• Lending - The Basic Criteria
• Preventing Theft
• Profit Pricing for a Manufacturer
• Profit Pricing for the Costing of a Service

Management

• Selecting Professional Services

Managing a Retail Store

• Advertising Guidelines for Small Retailer Firms
• Departmentalizing and Inventory Management in a Retail Store
• Labelling Fact Sheet
• Marketing Checklist for Small Retailers
• Merchandise for Profit
• Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business
• Profit by Your Wholesaler's Services
• Selecting Your Supplier
• Setting the Right Price
• Store Location - "Little Things" Mean a Lot

Sales, Promotion and Marketing

• Advertising Do's and Don'ts
• Developing New Accounts
• Do You Know the Results of Your Advertising
• Guidelines for Developing a Company Brochure
• Invite Your Trade Show Prospects
• Making Presentations
• Measuring Sales Force Performance
• Naming Your Business
• Plan Your Advertising Budget
• Selling Products on Consignment
• Signs and Your Business
• Trade Shows
• Understanding and Developing Your Sales Force
• Ways to Promote Your Product or Service

Types of Businesses

• Buying a Business
• Checklists for Franchisees
• E-Commerce - Exploring Your Options
• Forms of Business Organization
• Home-Based Business

Programs and Services

• Information Services
• Marketing and Promotion
• Regulation/Law
• Start-Up
• Statistics and Analysis

Resources

Business Start-Up Assistant (BSA)—Canada Business

The BSA is your one-stop site to useful and authoritative information for launching a business in Canada. It combines start-up information from the federal, provincial and territorial governments, the community and many other sources.

Outils COOP" Collection—MDEIE

The "Outils COOP" collection provides information on how to incorporate, organise and operate each type of coop.

Créer son entreprise—Services Québec

This section of the Services for businesses portal presents information on the different stages of a business start-up and an entrepreneur's obligations. (In French only)

Guide budgétaire marketing—Canadian Technology Network

This guide will assist emerging innovative SME's in Québec to structure their marketing department. (In French only)

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)