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  • Business Start-up in New Brunswick

    The Business Start-up guide has been prepared to provide you with a list of possible steps and issues to consider in carrying out your project.

  • Online Small Business Workshop

    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.

  • Business Start-Up Assistant

    A Web gateway to all the information you need to start a business in Canada.

  • Business Plan Guide

    This fact sheet is intended to assist an entrepreneur in writing a business plan for the establishment, the purchase or the expansion of an existing business.

  • Financing Your Business

    Financing Your Business is a document designed to help you navigate through some of the most common Federal and Provincial government financial assistance programs available to individuals starting a business or operating an existing business in N. B.

  • Dealing With Your Banker & Other Lenders

    This fact sheet offers suggestions on how to develop good relationships with your banker and other lenders.

  • Legal Issues in Starting a Business

    This fact sheet deals with legal issues in starting a business.

  • Setting the Right Price

    This fact sheet highlights issues to be considered when establishing the markup on a product.

  • Guide to Market Research and Analysis

    This fact sheet provides information on market research and analysis.

  • Advertising Do’s and Don’ts

    This fact sheet describes the do's and don'ts of advertising.

  • Forms of Business Organization

    This fact sheet provides a brief description of the four types of businesses and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

  • Ways to Promote Your Product or Service

    This fact sheet describes brief examples of ways to promote your product or service from the various print and electronic media.

  • Basic Bookkeeping

    This fact sheet describes a simple, single entry bookkeeping system suitable for a small business that has a limited number of transactions.

  • Store Location - "Little Things" Mean a Lot

    This fact sheet takes up site selection criteria and offers questions the retailer must ask before making the choice of store location.

  • Naming Your Business

    This fact sheet gives a list of items to consider when naming your business.

  • Business for Beginners: Simple Step-by-step Guide to Starting a small business Starting a Successful Business In Canada

    Learn how to: know where to start; understand legal & tax requirements; choose the right business; research the market; build entrepreneurial skills; organize accounting & paperwork; develop a winning business plan; survive a home office; understand financial statements; successfully market on a budget.

  • Starting Your Own Business

    This guide gives you practical, easy-to-follow advice from industry experts and fellow entrepreneurs for every aspect of the start-up process.

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