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You, women business owners and women entrepreneurs, are a vital force in New Brunswick’s economy. To help you meet your business objectives, here are some useful Websites that will provide you with information on start-ups, financing, growth and so much more...
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Professional Business Organizations for Women
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Women Entrepreneurs of Canada (WEC)
WEC is a not-for-profit organization that encourages women business owners to “Think Big!” about growth and expansion — from start-up and beyond. WEC was founded in 1992 and since then has become a hub that supports numerous initiatives to support the growth of women owned businesses on the local, national and international level — including research, trade mission, conferences, documentaries, resource manuals and events. Weblink: http://www.wec.ca/
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women Presidents' Organization
Women Presidents’ Organization Holds Atlantic Canada Reception for Multimillion Dollar Business Owners
WPO Connects Top Women Entrepreneurs The WPO is the premier peer advisory organization connecting women who own multi-million dollar companies. In monthly meetings across four continents (North America, South America, Europe, and Africa) chapters of 20 women presidents – from diverse industries– invest time and energy in themselves and their businesses to drive their corporations to the next level. Local WPO chapters are coordinated by a professional facilitator and meet monthly to share business expertise and experience in a confidential setting. For more information, call 212-688-4114 or visit www.womenpresidentsorg.com.
Ann Worth, Atlantic Chapter Chair
www.womenpresidentsorg.com
Ann Worth, C.I.T.P. President,
Worth Consulting Group
17235 Trans Canada Highway, Bonshaw
Prince Edward Island Canada C0A1C0
Tel 1-902-675-2916 Fax 1-902-675-4916 Cell 1-902-626-9666
Email ann@worthconsultinggroup.com
www.worthconsultinggroup.com
Export Trade, Research, Training, Marketing, Project Management
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linkedin: Ann Worth
Weblink: www.womenpresidentsorg.com
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Agencies and Organizations That Help Businesses
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Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is the federal government department responsible for helping to build economic capacity in the Atlantic Provinces by working with the people of the region – in their communities, through their institutions and with their local and provincial governments and businesses – to create jobs and enhance earned incomes.
ACOA provides a variety of funding opportunities for small to medium sized businesses, however, keep in mind that it is sector specific. Weblink: http://www.acoa.ca/
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Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is a financial institution wholly owned by the government of Canada. BDC plays a leadership role in delivering financial, investment and consulting services to Canadian small businesses, with a particular focus on the technology and export sectors of the economy. BDC provides small and medium-sized businesses with flexible financing, affordable consulting services and venture capital. BDC supports the needs of entrepreneurs at every stage of growth. Weblink: http://www.bdc.ca
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Business New Brunswick (BNB)
Business New Brunswick (BNB), the government's economic development department, will work with you by providing services and resources to help you expand your existing business. Whether your business is large or small, rural or urban, we can help you make smart business decisions.
To get you growing, they offer the following... • Business Consulting Services
• Business resources/tools
• Industry contacts to serve you
• Exporting assistance Weblink: http://www.gnb.ca/0398/index-e.asp
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Canada Business - New Brunswick
Canada Business Service Centre (CBSC) is a full-service business information resource accessible province-wide and free-of-charge and the staff is committed to providing a quality service to you, the clients. The CBSC provides information on federal and provincial programs, services and selected regulations pertaining to your business.
CBSC has detailed guides to popular business topics and a Reference Library equipped with information such as writing a business plan, locating manufacturers and distributors, researching foreign markets opportunities, and much more. Weblink: http://www.canadabusiness.ca/gol/cbec/site.nsf/en/index.html
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Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs)
The Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs) are a network of autonomous, not-for-profit companies working to meet the needs of small business. There are 10 CBDCs in New Brunswick, each dedicated to the development of small business and job creation in their communities. The CBDCs assist in the creation of small business and in the expansion and modernization of existing businesses by providing financial and technical services to entrepreneurs. Weblink: http://www.nbcbdc.ca
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Post Secondary Education and Training
A primary goal of Post-Secondary Education and Training is to help unemployed and underemployed New Brunswickers secure permanent places in the workforce. There are a variety of programs designed to do just that. But many of these programs also benefit employers like you-with financial incentives to increase your employee base with people who are well trained and job ready. Weblink: http://www.gnb.ca/0105/ps/index-e.asp
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The Enterprise Network
There are 15 regional Enterprise Agencies in New Brunswick. The agencies work with the community and clients to: • Offer business development assistance and counseling
• Support the development of strategic clusters
• Coordinate labour force development initiatives
• Facilitate management training for SMEs
• Support investment and export development activities If you are starting a business or expanding your business, your local Enterprise Agency can help with one-on-one counseling and financing information. Weblink: http://www.enterprise-entreprise.ca
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Starting a Business
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Canada Business - New Brunswick
Canada Business Service Centre (CBSC) is a full-service business information resource accessible province-wide and free-of-charge and the staff is committed to providing a quality service to you, the clients. The CBSC provides information on federal and provincial programs, services and selected regulations pertaining to your business. CBSC has detailed guides to popular business topics and a Reference Library equipped with information such as writing a business plan, locating manufacturers and distributors, researching foreign markets opportunities, and much more.
Weblink: http://www.canadabusiness.ca/gol/cbec/site.nsf/en/index.html
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Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs)
The Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs) are a network of autonomous, not-for-profit companies working to meet the needs of small business. There are 10 CBDCs in New Brunswick, each dedicated to the development of small business and job creation in their communities. The CBDCs assist in the creation of small business and in the expansion and modernization of existing businesses by providing financial and technical services to entrepreneurs.
Weblink: http://www.nbcbdc.ca
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The Enterprise Network
There are 15 regional Enterprise Agencies in New Brunswick. The agencies work with the community and clients to: • Offer business development assistance and counseling
• Support the development of strategic clusters
• Coordinate labour force development initiatives
• Facilitate management training for SMEs
• Support investment and export development activities If you are starting a business or expanding your business, your local Enterprise Agency can help with one-on-one counseling and financing information. Weblink: http://www.enterprise-entreprise.ca
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Growing Your Business
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Helping businesses sell to the Government of Canada – SELECT & MERX
SELECT is an electronic database of approved suppliers providing construction, architectural and engineering services, as well as related maintenance and consulting services. Any size business, from sole proprietor/practitioner to large corporation, is encouraged to register with the SELECT database. SELECT will be used to source the goods and services needed for many new government projects announced in the coming months. To register with SELECT, go to: select.pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca.
MERX™ is the on-line tendering service used by the federal government to post opportunities above the SELECT thresholds. MERX™ has a variety of tenders posted for which smaller businesses can compete either on their own or through partnerships with other firms. To register, go to: www.merx.com.Weblink: http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/acquisitions/text/sme/osme-e.html
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Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs)
The Community Business Development Corporations (CBDCs) are a network of autonomous, not-for-profit companies working to meet the needs of small business. There are 10 CBDCs in New Brunswick, each dedicated to the development of small business and job creation in their communities. The CBDCs assist in the creation of small business and in the expansion and modernization of existing businesses by providing financial and technical services to entrepreneurs.
Weblink: http://www.nbcbdc.ca
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The Enterprise Network
There are 15 regional Enterprise Agencies in New Brunswick. The agencies work with the community and clients to: • Offer business development assistance and counseling
• Support the development of strategic clusters
• Coordinate labour force development initiatives
• Facilitate management training for SMEs
• Support investment and export development activities If you are starting a business or expanding your business, your local Enterprise Agency can help with one-on-one counseling and financing information. Weblink: http://www.enterprise-entreprise.ca
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Celebrating Achievers: A Quiz on New Brunswick Women’s History
A Quiz on New Brunswick Women’s History published by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Behind every successful woman are all the women who came before her. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF NEW BRUNSWICK WOMEN’S HISTORY AND STATUS
Answers are provided at the end. 1) Name the activist writer who wrote on the lives and aspirations of Acadian women and used
the pseudonym “Marichette”, c. 1895.
2) Grace Annie Lockhart was the first woman in the British Commonwealth to graduate from a
university. Name the year and the university.
3) The Women’s Enfranchisement Association was one of the first feminist groups in New
Brunswick and the only group to work solely on what issue?
4) Name the first Canadian-born novelist whose work was published in Canada.
 Celebrating Achievers Quiz-En.pdf
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Get Real Export Advice – For FREE: Pernille Fischer Boulter
Are you considering exporting your service or product? Are you currently Exporting? Do you want to learn from other successful Exporters? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you can learn more about enhancing your OWN export success. We have provided you with some of the most frequent Export Tips used by successful exporters. These are free top tips for you, and your business. Get started today, learn from other exporters, minimize your risk and enhance the chances of success and increased profits!
Export Tips March 07 (8).pdf
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Ask The Experts
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BDC Ask A Professional
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is a financial institution wholly owned by the government of Canada. BDC plays a leadership role in delivering financial, investment and consulting services to Canadian small businesses, with a particular focus on the technology and export sectors of the economy.
BDC Ask A Professional is a free online question and answer forum with a monthly theme and featured professional from the BDC Consulting Group.
http://www.bdc.ca/en/business_tools/ask_professionnal/archives/default.htm?cookie%5Ftest=1
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The Impact of Follow Up: Kelley Robertson
It never ceases to amaze me how few sales people make the time to follow-up after they have made initial contact with a prospect or customer. In the last few months, I can think of at least eight different situations in my own life (business & personal) when a salesperson did not bother taking this initiative.
The Impact of Follow Up.pdf
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Book Summaries
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How To Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie
Chosen as the #1 business book of the century (by British Life magazine), How to Win Friends is written in a highly personalized, colloquial style that is reminiscent of a lecture. The book was designed with professionals in mind, and designed to help professional people do better in business by helping them make social contacts and improve their speaking skills. It was also written with certain earnestness in mind. Carnegie was a big believer in sincerity when it came to dealing with other people.
How To Win Friends and Influence People.pdf
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Jump Start Your Business Brain: Doug Hall
Jump Start Your Business Brain is must have business information for business people everywhere, especially small business owners. Doug Hall, -who runs the Eureka Ranch, a work-hard, play-hard haven which helps companies create breakthrough ideas for new products and services- translates the wisdom he’s discovered researching top corporations into no-fail, practical tactics for small and medium sized businesses.
Jump Start Your Business Brain.pdf
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Kotler on Marketing: Phillip Kotler
Philip Kotler's name is synonymous with marketing. His textbooks have sold more than 3 million copies in 20 languages and are read as the marketing gospel in 58 countries. Now Kotler on Marketing offers his long-awaited, essential guide to marketing for managers, freshly written based on his phenomenally successful worldwide lectures on marketing for the new millennium.
Philip Kotler.pdf
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Must Thinking: S. Paul Kearly
You CAN do it. It’s not really that hard. You can achieve anything you want to, you simply need a better process to follow.
Many people do it as easy as breathing. When you can clearly see what it is that you want to do, when you do it for the right reasons, when you have a clear detailed strategy and when you have a certain level of determination and drive to follow through, you can achieve most things that you set out to do.
To create an attitude of “MUST” for changing our patterns and achieving our goals, I discovered a simple 4 step process called MUST Thinking. This process has come out of many of the challenges that I have faced, and it can help you overcome yours too!
Must Thinking.pdf
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One Phone Call Away: Jeffrey W. Meshel
The maxim “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know” goes a long way toward explaining why some people are more successful in their careers than others. But it’s not only who you know. More important, it’s what you know about who you know. Just collecting business cards is pointless.
One_Phone_Call_Away-eng (2).pdf
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The E-Myth Revisited: Michael Gerber
The E-Myth is hailed as without a doubt one of the most influential business books any aspiring entrepreneur should read. In this best-selling business classic, Michael Gerber gives you a formula for building not just your business successfully, but ANY business successfully.
The E-Myth.pdf
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Thinking For a Change: John C. Maxwell
At the heart of John C. Maxwell's brilliant and inspiring book is a simple premise: To do well in life, we must first think well. But can we actually learn new mental habits? Thinking for a Change answers that with a resounding "yes"—and shows how changing your thinking can indeed change your life. Drawing on the words and deeds of many of the world's greatest leaders and using interactive quizzes, this empowering book helps you assess your thinking style, guides you to new ones, and step by step teaches you the secrets of:
Big-Picture Thinking-seeing the world beyond your own needs and how that leads to great ideas
Focused Thinking-removing mental clutter and distractions to realize your full potential
Creative Thinking-stepping out of the "box" and making breakthroughs
Shared Thinking-working with others to compound results
Reflective Thinking-looking at the past to gain a better understanding of the future ...and much more.
Thinking For A Change_en.pdf
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“The Wealthy Barber”: David Chilton
David Chilton's popular The Wealthy Barber is a good starting point for anyone who wants to construct a personal financial plan. Many people are so scared of dealing with their money that they don't do anything at all--only to suffer for it over the long haul. "When I finally learned the basics of financial planning, I couldn't believe how straightforward they were. It's just common sense," is the overarching message.
The Wealthy Barber_ENG.pdf
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“It's very uplifting for women entrepreneurs to hear of someone's road to success. Everyone has their share of ups and downs in business, but evenings like this one keeps us focused on the positive,”
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