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
Quebec Contact(s):
Info entrepreneurs
380 St-Antoine Street West, local 6000
Montréal, Quebec
H2Y 3X7
Telephone: 514-496-4636
Fax: 514-496-5934 Toll Free / Sans frais 1-888-417-0442
Toll-free (information): 1-800-322-4636
TTY Toll-free (hearing impaired): 1-800-457-8466
E-mail: infoentrepreneurs@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
Web site:
http://www.infoentrepreneurs.org
Hours of operation:
Regulars Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Summer Hours: (from June 25 to Labour Day) 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
Documentation Centre (Library) Hours for On-Site Research: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday to Friday