The Entrepreneur’s Fire-Starter
Package
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The Lightning Session: Brainstorming
Your Business
Hit the ground running. Within a week
of signup, you’ll spend an intensive
hour one-on-one with an ideas specialist
exclusively focused on your unique
business and your industry. Bring
a notepad or even a tape recorder
– because the ideas will flow
thick and fast!
Support Counselling
A total of four counseling sessions
are offered over the twelve months
of your contract including the Lightening
Session. In addition a minimum of
three -mail assistance support calls
on specific issues. Live
workshops:
1. Market Research
The most important workshop you
may ever take. Learn how to test
your idea and the realities of the
needs of your intended market –
a two-hour program that answers
your questions where you’ll
also learn the questions to ask
of your target market. You’re
convinced that your idea will work.
We’ll show you how to prove
it.
2. Marketing
Learn how to brand and position
your product or service to your
target market as well as using appropriate
media to assist you in spreading
the word. This course teaches you
how to market your business step
by step.
3. Bookkeeping and taxes
Most of us hate to do it but we
have to learn how to record all
transactions in a way that tells
us where the profit and costs are
and how to use that information
to make money. We have to pay our
taxes but you can learn how to minimize
the pain and keep the taxman happy.
4. Surviving Tough Times
This highly motivational seminar
provides you with techniques to
anticipate challenges, address them
and overcome them. Learn how to
build important positive relationships
with your bank or credit union that
will bring rewards in lower interest
rates and faster approval of loans
and other assistance.
5. The Internet for Business Success
This session will dispel the myths
and open up opportunities for you
to have a first class Internet presence.
Learn about e-commerce models and
how to promote your site above the
competition.
Monthly
Small Business Newsletter
Each month all learner/clients receive
the Business Success newsletter
full of helpful information to make
your business succeed, sparking
new ideas simply by investing a
few minutes in a fast and clear
read.
Your
Venture in Victoria – Guide
Unique in Canada, over two hundred
information-crammed chapters on
running your unique business in
this unique market. Hundreds of
vital statistics and references
– specifically about Greater
Victoria.
Video-Conferencing
training
Each month, a half dozen online
interactive training sessions are
available in our state of the art
video-conferencing studio with real
time instruction on every aspect
of setting up and successfully running
your business. After each video
session, you can contact a counsellor
to clarify any issues arising out
of the session.
A
Major Training Subsidy
The true cost of the Fire-Starter
program is $2,000 annually but the
program is heavily subsidized to
ensure that more local companies
succeed. As a result you pay only
$495 for the entire package of services
and a full year of support. A second
member of your team can take part
in all sessions and services at
50% or $247.
A
Guarantee of Success
More than two thousand companies
have started and succeeded with
the help of Business Victoria. We
are confident that you too can be
successful in your venture. Business
Victoria is therefore prepared to
guarantee your success: Complete
the training package over a period
of one year or less, and produce
a business plan - and if after two
years your business cannot sustain
itself, Business Victoria will return
your entire course costs.
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