Events & Seminars

Succession Planning Seminar

Thursday February 25th
8:00 am—10:30 am
Stone Tree Golf & Fitness
Hwy 6 & 10, Owen Sound
Cost is $25 per person (includes full breakfast, GST and handouts)

Presented by Jeff Noble, creator of NOBLE Advice. Jeff has a specialist practice consulting to entrepreneurs and advising business families.

Topics include:

• Communication
• Professionalizing your business
• Dealing with family members who are in the business and those who are outside the business and how to separate the roles of family, management and ownership
• Creating a common vision or set of goals and objectives for the business and your self
• Understanding succession is a process, not an event
• Questions and answers and more
  
  
  Download Flyer (pdf) 62 kb

To register for this session: Call 519.371.3232
Or email: businesshelp@owensound.ca

The Transition to the Harmonized Sales Tax Seminars

 A representative from Canada Revenue Agency will be presenting these FREE workshops to small and medium sized businesses.  The focus of these workshops will be the Transition to the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST).  Business owners will learn how the harmonization of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) with the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) would be implemented on July 1, 2010. Also covered will be critical dates and transactions occurring before and after these critical dates.  Most of the small and medium business sectors will be covered and examples will be provided of when HST applies and when it doesn't.  Please see flyer for workshop dates and locations throughout the area.

Wednesday March 10th, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm and
Thursday March 11th, 8:00 am – 10:30 am
Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound

Download Flyer (pdf)

Fore more information: Call 519.371.3232
Or email: businesshelp@owensound.ca

“Get Back to Basics”

with our Basics of Bookkeeping Workshop

This three part Bookkeeping Workshop will allow you to use the tools and information to understand your financial statements and your own books confidently.

• Wednesday March 24th, 31st and April 7th
• 6:30pm-9:30pm at the
  The Business Enterprise Centre, Owen Sound & Area
  
  $80 per person for all three workshops including handouts and GST.
  
  Limited to 8 people only! Register early!!

E-Business Workshops

Thursday April 29th, Thursday May 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th

8:00 am – 10:30 am, being held at Stone Tree Golf and Fitness Club.
Wworkshops are $25 each or all 5 for $100, includes full breakfast and handouts.

We are planning to once again offer our very popular E-Business Workshop series. This series of E-Business Workshops will provide participants with the information and tools necessary to help them get started or be more effective in the world of e-business. The five part workshop series will include the following topics: Intro to E-Business, Getting Started, Marketing Part 1, Marketing Part 2, Building Web Sites that Work. Watch for more information to follow!

To register for this session: Call 519.371.3232
Space is limited-Please register early
Or email: businesshelp@owensound.ca

BizPal Launched In Owen Sound

Starting and running a business in the City of Owen Sound just became easier thanks to BizPal, a new online business permit and licensing service that saves time spent on paperwork and helps entrepreneurs start up faster.  Cutting the ribbon for the Official Launch of BizPal are: (left to right) Steve Furness, Manager of Economic Development and Tourism, City of Owen Sound, Bill Murdoch, M.P.P. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners, Larry Miller, M.P. Grey-Bruce, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Manager E-Business Branch, ServiceOntario, Jane Phillips, Manager The Business Enterprise Centre – Owen Sound and Area.

The Seventh Annual Bridges to Better Business was a huge success!

With over 75 participants, the luncheon, panel discussion, tradeshow and networking reception showed what an inspirational group of new and existing business people the community has to offer. While the panel discussed issues such as changing times to turning around a business from enormous debts the participants took everything in, afterwards discussing their own obstacles they have overcome, or expect to. Learning and sharing was what it was all about, and the buzz during the reception proved that that was just what the participants got out of it. And this day wasn’t only for rookies; experienced existing business people make Bridges an annual event on their calendar, with many of them having attended every year since 2003.

Watch for news for next year’s event, always in the fall; and always a great business choice!

Participants at the 2009 Bridges to Better Business event look on as the expert panel discuss various business related questions and concerns