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Home-Based Business Directory |
| Home-Based Business Directory - Resources | ||
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about this page | general information | young entrepreneurs | media & publications | |
There are many resources available throughout Canada for the home-based business entrepreneur. Whether you are young or old, just starting out, or an established home-based business owner, you will find something to peak your interest in this list of small business resources. I have limited the list to those resources available within British Columbia and on a national level.
Canada / British Columbia Business Service Centre. The centre is jointly operated and funded by the federal and provincial governments through Western Economic Diversification Canada, and the Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture. Their web site includes an online small business workshop, links to web sites for small business, and an interactive business planner.
Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD). WD is committed to helping Western Canadian small and medium-sized businesses grow and create jobs. Whether your business has one employee or one hundred, WD offers a network of business professionals to help you with business planning and development, accessing capital, export or trade development, selling to government markets, and providing you with information on government programs and services for which you may be eligible.
One-Stop Business Registration for B.C. Cut through the red tape and take care of several government forms all at once by visiting this web site.
Helpful Home-Based Business Services. Provides helpful start up packages for home-based businesses in B.C. The package includes city licensing regulations (customised for the appropriate location), sources for financing, statistical information, GST information, business plan sheet, and information on how to market your product and/or service. A bi-monthly newsletter allows home-based businesses to advertise at a considerably lower rate than other paper media. E-Mail: hhs@mag-net.com.
Canadian Home and Micro Business Federation. Provides home-based and micro business owners with information, inspiration, advice, education, mentoring, marketing assistance, and a public forum for political and social advocacy.
British Columbia:
You BET! (Youth Business & Entrepreneurship Training). Assessment, education and training in how to start a small business. For 19- to 24-year-olds. Contact: Michael Izen, Ministry of Small Business Tourism and Culture, (250) 356-0800.
Greater Vancouver Venture Centre For Youth. A place where young entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 29 can come to grow their businesses or explore opportunities to go into business. Contact: Ken Munroe, (604) 412-4141.
Canada:
Canadian Youth Business Foundation. Connect with other young entrepreneurs online and create your own free business web page. Loans up to $15,000 for 18- to 29-year-olds sponsored by CIBC and the Royal Bank. Contact: Larry Mah, 1-800-464-2923.
Young Entrepreneurship. A program offering training to help youths aged 17 to 24 become self-sufficient in starting their own business. Contact: Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), 1-888-463-6232.
Western Youth Entrepreneur Program. Loans are available up to $10,000 and monitoring and counselling services for youth aged 1 - 25 years to assist youth entrepreneurs in starting their own business. Provinces include British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Contact for B.C.: Community Futures Development Association of B.C., (604) 681-7130.
Small Business & Cooperative Development Publications. An on-line library of the B.C. Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture. Here you will find information on almost every aspect of running a small business.
Home Business Report ("Working for people working from home"). Published quarterly, Home Business Report provides lively, down-to-earth editorial, practical advice and sensible tips for people operating or thinking of starting a business from home. E-Mail: hbr@cyberstore.ca.
HomeBiz Broadcasting Network. The HomeBiz Website is a division of the HomeBiz Broadcasting Network. The HomeBiz Broadcasting Network has as it's flagship, the HomeBiz Show, Canada's first open line radio program totally dedidicated to the home office/small business entrepreneur. The show, hosted by Allan Holender, a twenty year veteran of the homebased insdustry, originates in the studios of CFUN 1410 AM in Vancouver B.C. The website is a global resource centre providing information, resources, and support for home business.