Online Small Business Workshop - OSBW

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

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

Ressources Entreprises
Suite 290
2014 Cyrille-Duquet Street
Québec, Quebec  G1N 4N6
Telephone: 418 649-INFO (4636)
Fax: 418 682-1144
Toll-free (information): 1-800-322-INFO (4636)
E-mail: ressourcesentreprises@cbsc.ic.gc.ca
Web site: http://www.ressourcesentreprises.org

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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.canadabusiness.ca/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OSBW%2FCBSC_WebPage%2FCBSC_WebPage_Temp&cid;=1102594891135&c;=CBSC_WebPage⟨=eng
Hours of operation: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Friday