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Best Small Business Opportunities 2007Discover the best business opportunities for starting a small business When it comes to the best business opportunities, contradiction is the key word for 2007. While we’ll see ever-increasing conspicuous indulgence, buying patterns will also reflect more of an emphasis on health than ever before. The best business opportunities of 2007 are those opportunities that meet people’s needs on one end of the scale or the other. Here, in no particular order, are predictions for the best business opportunities for 2007, business opportunities with the best potential for profit and growth.
Creating Your Business Guide Coaching SessionsBeginning January 2007 in Vancouver, Victoria and Toll-free across BC
Women's Enterprise Centre is offering complimentary coaching sessions to support women as they complete the Creating Your Business learning guide. Face-to-face sessions are available in Vancouver and Victoria and telephone sessions are available for women around the province. Sessions will be held every two weeks and each session will focus on a different step in the Creating Your Business Guide. Sessions will offer guidance from a business advisor as well as peer support. For more information on these coaching sessions, a session schedule and to register, click here Order Creating Your Business Guide here Mentoring Eases the Transition to Self-employmentMentoring programs for women entrepreneurs March 2007 Whether they’re coming at it from employment, retirement, stay-at-home parenting or unemployment, starting a business can be a little intimidating for anyone. ‘Why?’, was the question posed recently to entrepreneurial women from across BC, who came together in seven cities to discuss the barriers they face when entering self-employment. Organized by Women’s Enterprise Centre, these groups explored the issues around women transitioning to entrepreneurship. Their candid disclosures will form the basis for a comprehensive mentoring program to be launched in March 2007.
Wanted: Women Entrepreneurs for Mentoring ProgramAre you an experienced woman entrepreneur ready to be a mentor? It is clear that women prefer and learn best from the wisdom and experience of each other. Women's Enterprise Centre knows there is big demand for mentors, but what we don’t know is how much interest lies on the other side of the fence from 'potential' mentors. Please take five minutes to complete a short questionnaire that will help us mould a mentoring program that works not only for mentorees, but also for the special women who become their mentors. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please leave your contact information with us in the space provided at the bottom of the survey.
Women's Enterprise Centre Client Success StoryDiscover Wines win prestigious national business award Kelowna entrepreneurs, Tracy Gray and Suzanne Mick, can now count being the 2006 BC winners of the prestigious RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur Award, among their many accomplishments. Eight hundred women from across Canada were nominated in six award categories. Gray and Mick, who won in the Deloitte Start Up category, are two of only eighty women across the country, who have received the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the 15 years since it was established. Women's Enterprise Centre Client Success Stories, click here Are Women Shortchanging Themselves?By Paul Lima, The Globe and Mail 'Equal pay for equal work." Anyone who is familiar with the fight for pay equity knows that expression. While the issue is not yet resolved, women have come a long way in the fight for pay parity with men. But as more people start their own businesses, women have encountered a new gap. It seems that women, who have fought hard for pay equity, shortchange themselves when they launch their own businesses. Compared with men, they typically charge less and their businesses generate less revenue. They are doing to themselves what the corporate world has been doing to them for ages - undervaluing their worth.
An Entrepreneur’s JourneyThink you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Many of us wish we were a succesful entrepreneur, but do we know the skills necessary to build a successful business? Robeez founder Sandra Wilson and Dean Barbour, director of Business Development for BC Urban Entrepreneur Development Association, offer their insight on developing a business idea and becoming a successful entrepreneur. Barbour believes that self-employment training is beneficial and suggests that anybody considering starting a business take a self-employment info session to avoid making crucial mistakes. Available info sessions can be taken through Small Business BC, Be Your Own Boss and Women’s Enterprise Centre.
Recommended ReadingStrategic Planning for the Growing Business (pdf file) To many people, strategic planning is something meant only for big businesses, but it is equally applicable to small businesses. Strategic planning is matching the strengths of your business to available opportunities. To do this effectively, you need to collect, screen and analyze information about the business environment. You also need to have a clear understanding of your business - its strengths and weaknesses - and develop a clear mission, goals and objectives.
How to Write an Effective Business Plan (pdf file) A good business plan is an invaluable tool for any business owner, whether you are just starting your new enterprise, expanding or changing strategic direction. Not only does it provide potential creditors, investors and business partners with essential information about your business, but it also provides you, the entrepreneur, with a clear “roadmap” to follow and a tool to measure your performance.
Build YOUR Business Plan with Canada's IBP The Interactive Business Planner (IBP) is the first business planning software product designed specifically to operate on the World Wide Web. The IBP uses the capabilities of the Internet to assist Canadian entrepreneurs in preparing a 3 year business plan for their new or existing business.
Courses, Events and Happenings Women's Enterprise CentreStarting/Growing a Business Information Session Business Loans Info Session: Learn About
Your Financing Options Focused Marketing Langley:
A full day workshop for entrepreneurs Focused Marketing Victoria:
A full day workshop for entrepreneurs Women's Enterprise Centre courses are available on demand throughout the province. Courses are often held in partnership with community organizations such as Women's Business Groups, Chambers of Commerce and Community Futures. If you are a provider of business services in BC, we invite you to partner with us. Call 1.800.643.7014 or email info@womensenterprise.ca Small Business BC and eBC SeminarsSmall Business BC Seminars - Vancouver eBusiness BC Lunchbox Seminars - Vancouver Around the ProvinceFree Online Small Business Workshops 2010 Business Opportunities Workshop SOHO "Show & Tell" Breakfast Roundtable Event Nominations BIV Influential Women In Business Awards 2007 The Power Within: A Passion For Life with Anthony Robbins eWomenNetwork.com Accelerated Networking Event Events Calendar Online |
