Who’s affiliating with BizLaunch?

• Enterprise Centres
• Economic Development Offices
• Chambers of Commerce
• Non-profit Organisations serving entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneur clubs, groups & networks

What can BizLaunch can do for my organisation?

We’re in the business of training, coaching and advising Canadian small business owners operating for less than five years. We help entrepreneurs who are thinking about starting a business, preparing to launch or looking to grow. We serve all ages of entrepreneurs and our advice helps people running any type of small business, be it trades, service, retail, manufacturing or import/export. We’re speaking to you because your organisation likely serves these entrepreneurs and we believe we can contribute to your efforts by contributing the following free resources:

• Opportunities to co-sponsor BizLaunch Seminars in your area. We’ll attach your name to our free BizLaunch Seminars, invite you to introduce your organization, distribute promotional materials and connect with event guests. There’s no cost to you. If you can’t attend, let us promote your organization for you. It’s a great way to offer quality learning events (without the work!) and build your database.
• Helpful Small Business How-to Articles and Small Business Success Profiles for your website, newsletter, blog, Facebook page or other publications. We have hundreds of professionally-written content pieces ready to share with you. It works both ways – we can give you stories, as well as write about your entrepreneurs in our articles and media releases to get them some local or national publicity.
• Media Publicity. BizLaunch actively reaches out to your local media to talk about small business issues, events, and news. As an Affiliate, we’ll involve you in our media activities so that your organization gets some press.
• Small BizTOOLS. We’ll gladly share any of our popular spreadsheets, PDFs and other documents for distribution to your entrepreneurs or to post on your website. We’ve developed hundreds of tools for small business owners, such as a Cash Flow Forecast, Startup Budget Calculator, Business Plan Template, Non-Disclosure Agreement and a Costing & Pricing Worksheet.

Tell me about BizLaunch.

BizLaunch co-founders Andrew Patricio and Roger Pierce came together six years ago to begin sharing their “been there, done that” knowledge and experience gleaned from launching 22 small businesses. They formed the company to pursue one simple mission: To help new entrepreneurs succeed through education and training. Now Canada’s largest small business training company, BizLaunch has advised over 20,000 new entrepreneurs worldwide, employs a growing number of head office staff and works with over 40 regional BizLaunch Small Business Trainers located in cities across the country. Thanks to our corporate sponsors, our advice is dispensed for free through 90-minute “how-to” seminars, webinars, educational articles, entrepreneur success stories, business tools, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, manuals, guidebooks, our website, one to one telephone coaching, media appearances, videos and podcasts. Find out more about us at www.BizLaunch.ca.

How would our relationship work?

There’s no cost to working with BizLaunch. As an affiliate, we will promote your organization in all of our local events, distribute your materials, link to you on our website, write stories about your entrepreneurs, share our small business articles, tools and other resources and include you in any publicity opportunities. In return, we hope you’ll link to us on your site, inform your entrepreneurs about our scheduled events, and generally work with us wherever appropriate.

What are the next steps?

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We help launch entrepreneurs!

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Want to register your Business Name?

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Part of the City of Toronto, Enterprise Toronto has four offices across the GTA offering free services to new and existing small business owners. Visit any location to receive fantastic small business assistance, pick up free business resource materials or even go online to register your business name. Enterprise Toronto hosts the annual Small Business Forum where thousands of entrepreneurs meet, learn and network. Attend one their free Small Business Morning Seminar Series for expert business advice! http://www.enterprisetoronto.com

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