Category Archives: Established & Growing Businesses

Top 7 Legal Concerns of a Small Business

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Regulations & Legal, Start Ups, , , ,

Find out from Denise Robertson, from Mills and Mills LLP, what the top legal concerns are and how to prioritize your legal dollars to protect yourself from the most amount of risk. Tons of details and lots to think about all wrapped up in 30 minutes.

 

What to expect?

Find out what the top 7 legal concerns are
Discover tons of little details to be aware of

 

What are the top 7 legal concerns?

#1 – Business Structures
#2 – Working with Others
#3 – Contracts and Written Agreements
#4 – Protection of Intellectual Property
#5 – Premises
#6 – General Liability
#7 – Estate Planning

 

Find out more in the video!

 

 

Contact our subject matter expert at:
Denise Robertson
denise.robertson@millsandmills.ca

Employee Engagement: The Art of Employee Retention

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Operations & Efficiency, ,

Keeping your best employees and making them even better could be the difference between a good versus great small business. Managers agree that it is their employees above all else that help differentiate their organizations from competitors.

 

Why does employee engagment result in?
– higher employee productivity
– lower costs from lower accident rates, lower absenteeism, and lower employee turnover
– happier & more satisfied customers

 

So how do you keep the best and avoid employee turnover as a small business? Find out in 30 minutes.

The subject matter expert was Lovel Dhir. She can be reached at;

Lovel.hr1@gmail.com
416-709-8055

Simple Website Best Practices

Established & Growing Businesses, Marketing & Branding, Sales & Business Development, Start Ups, Technology & Online, , , , , ,

Websites are a normal way to get visibility to your business. But there are some common pitfalls that all entrepreneurs face when trying to get their bang for their buck online.

 

The topics in this webinar include graphic design basics, website strategy, social media integration, navigation, website platforms, and SEO basics to help you get started.

 

Website best practices are constantly evolving and these are the hot tips and tricks today.

 

If you want to learn more, reach out to the subject matter expert;

Kagan Mustafa
info@xodmedia.com
www.xodmedia.com

Small Business Tax Preparation

Established & Growing Businesses, Finance & Accounting, Regulations & Legal, Start Ups, , , ,

2012 is over and now it is time to wrap up your year end.  It is better to get this done sooner rather than later, but it is always so easy to procrastinate.

Spend 40 minutes on some best practices to wrap up last year quickly, and set yourself up for success in 2013.

Presented by BDO Accounting in Barrie, Ontario (contact information below video).

 

 

Tim Taylor, CPA, CA, MBA, CFP

Partner, BDO Canada LLP

ttaylor@bdo.ca

705-726-6331

 

Marc Graham, CGA

Senior Manager, BDO Canada LLP

mgraham@bdo.ca

705-726-6331

 

How To Use Blogging To Grow Your Business

Established & Growing Businesses, Marketing & Branding, Sales & Business Development, Start Ups, Technology & Online, ,

Showing up on Google will only get you so far. What will prospective clients find once they land on your website? If you have an effective blog, they’ll find information, value and assistance. They’ll find someone they want to do business with.

You’ll learn how to:
– Create a customized blogging plan that fits your audience, your schedule and your style
– Generate content that your ideal clients are looking for
– Post new content every week without always having to write and research full-length articles
– Promote your blog and business effectively on social media

You can re-use this method again and again to consistently update your blog with valuable content. Use this Blog Planning Worksheet to guide you through this planning process.

 

Learn from blogging expert, Linda Dessau, of Content Mastery Guide. Linda Dessau is the author of Write Your Way to More Clients Online, and the founder of Content Mastery Guide. She is a business blogging expert, editor and author, and a writing coach certified by the Coaches Training Institute. She discovered content marketing when promoting her own coaching business in 2003, and launched this business in 2005 to help other companies market more effectively online.

Strategic Planning 2013

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Operations & Efficiency, Strategy, ,

This is the best time to sit down and iron out your strategic plan for 2013. But where to start?

This 20 minute video outlines how to create a vision, how to break it down into actionable tasks, and how to keep on moving forward.

Watching this video is a strategic thing to do!  Want to get started yourself, download your own Strategic Planner 2013.

 

Scaling A Small Business

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Operations & Efficiency, Start Ups, Strategy, , ,

There are 5 major phases of the enterprise lifecycle from a small business in rapid growth to a mature corporate enterprise. What is important at each stage and how to accomplish this as you grow?

 

The subject matter expert is Adrian Davis, CEO of Whetstone Inc. (www.whetstoneinc.ca) is a professional speaker and technology advisor.

 

Recruitment On A Shoestring

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Operations & Efficiency, ,

Recruitment for a small business owner is incredibly important to get it right the first time, because you cannot afford to hire someone who doesn’t fit in or who doesn’t add value relatively quickly.  A second challenge is that a small business owner doesn’t have the budget to get 100s of applicants.  Without the right recruitment strategy, they might not get any applicants or none of the right ones.

 

As recruitment is so critical for a small business, this video is important in outlining how to do it correct…on a shoe string.

4 Conversations Of A Leader

Established & Growing Businesses, Management & Human Relations, Marketing & Branding, Sales & Business Development, Strategy, ,

Building rapport and having great conversations with customers, suppliers, employees, and everyone else you do business with is critical for sustainable growth. Plus better conversations can help build your referral base and your external sales force, a great thing to have as a small business.

 

Learn how to have better conversations for small business (and big business) success.

 

The subject matter expert is Stuart Knight, of www.stuartknightproductions.com