SMALL BUSINESS SERVICES

Organize your Business Plan
Often the single most scary part of owning a business for most of us – yet it is not much more than an arithmetical exercise based on your understanding of your business and its markets, and your intuition for its success factors.

If you can’t articulate your business prospects in one or two pages to a lender, then why should they rush to invest in your company?

Prepare your business to apply for credit
Contrary to public opinion, most major banks are pleased to provide many excellent credit products to small business owners. However, they expect you to meet their lending criteria and come across as organized, knowledgeable, and a desirable client for the bank.

Start a new business
Need to know if that crazy idea of yours can work – and how would you get started? Should you incorporate, or set up a simple sole proprietorship?

Create a partnership agreement
The courts are littered with unhappy business people who started a business together in good faith – and alas things went wrong. Protect each other right from the beginning.

Buy or sell an existing business
How do you know what is a good deal and what is not? How do the buyer and seller protect themselves from each other? How do you get the deal done without alienating each other or racking up huge legal and other related costs?

Useful Links

Business Registrations
Canadian Business
The Globe and Mail