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SUMMARY:Creating Time for What Matters: Time Management for Small Business
DESCRIPTION:A practical time management workshop for small business owners on how to focus on high-value work that actually matters.\n\n\nWhat this workshop covers\nRunning a business often means wearing too many hats and feeling like there’s never enough time in the day. This practical and engaging workshop is designed to help small business owners shift from being constantly “busy” to working with greater intention\, focus\, and impact. \nIn this 75?minute session\, you’ll explore how to better manage your time by understanding the difference between survival tasks and high?value activities—and how to prioritize the work that truly moves your business and life forward. \nYou’ll learn practical strategies to: \n\nIdentify where your time is really going\nFocus on high?value tasks that deliver the greatest return\nReduce procrastination and perfectionism\nSet clear\, realistic goals and create momentum toward them\nReplace time?wasting habits with meaningful\, results?driven actions\n\nThis workshop includes guided reflection\, interactive discussion\, and simple tools you can apply immediately—without adding more to your already full to?do list. \n \nFacilitated by David Cohen\, Your Big Venture\nThis session is led by David Cohen\, an author\, business coach\, and seasoned facilitator with decades of experience supporting entrepreneurs and small business owners. David has taught and coached thousands of individuals across both the nonprofit and for?profit sectors\, helping them gain clarity\, build confidence\, and take focused action. \n \nWho should attend\n\nSmall business owners and entrepreneurs\nSolopreneurs and early?stage founders\nAnyone feeling overwhelmed\, stuck in “busy mode\,” or struggling to prioritize\n\nYou’ll leave with greater clarity\, renewed motivation\, and a clear sense of what to focus on next—so you can start creating time for what truly matters.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/creating-time-for-what-matters-time-management-for-small-business/
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SUMMARY:Hands-On with QuickBooks™: Learn the Essentials
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to make QuickBooks™ work for your business with step-by-step guidance to set up and manage your books with a hands-on session.\n\n\n\nThis is a hands-on\, in-person session to walk you through the process getting QuickBooks™ working for your business. Michele Craig from BookSmarts will offer practical tips that you can implement right away and get you saving time. \nThis workshop will use sample company data to walk you through a variety of bookkeeping scenarios so you are ready to tackle them on your own. \nYou will learn how to: \n\nPut together an effective bookkeeping plan\nUse time-saving features like bank connections and receipt scanning\nGenerate helpful and reliable reports\nManage QuickBooks™ settings to enable the features you need and disable the ones you don’t\nPrepare for your HST return\nAvoid common bookkeeping errors\n\nThis session is limited to 20 people to ensure everyone gets the support needed to set up this program. \nImportant Information: \nYou will need to bring your own Windows\, Mac\, or Chromebook laptop to this session as you will be working through the process with Michele. Tablets and smartphones will not work well for QuickBooks Online™. \nAbout Michele: \nMichele Craig CPA is an Elite-level QuickBooks™ ProAdvisor. She is the founder of BookSmarts\, an independent training and consulting firm based in Barrie and serving businesses across Ontario.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/hands-on-with-quickbooks-learn-the-essentials/
LOCATION:Sydenham Campus\, 1130 8th Street East\, Owen Sound\, ON\, N4K 1M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Marketing Your Business for Beginners and Solopreneurs
DESCRIPTION:Learn the quick and simple marketing hacks that can keep your business visible without sucking up all your time.\n\n\n30 Minutes or Less (a Week): A Roadmap to Marketing Your Business for Beginners and Solopreneurs \nDo you have time for marketing? Or is marketing the to-do that gets bumped\, pushed off\, or hidden away until you realize you’re not generating enough business? What if it only took 30 minutes a week? In this talk\, we’ll look at how to do just that\, sharing actionable to-dos you can complete on your own in as little as 30 minutes (or less) per week. You’ll leave with a marketing toolkit (e.g.\, resources and strategies) plus a four-week plan to get started that includes building (or improving) a website\, creating a Google Business Profile\, social media marketing\, and Google Ads. \n \nThe 4-Week Plan You’ll Leave With: \n\nBeginner Toolkit: marketing (and other) tools that will save you time and help you get started.\nWeek 1: Building (or improving) your website—how to create a website that works\, quickly.\nWeek 2: Google Business Profiles 101—why they’re important\, how they work\, and how to create yours.\nWeek 3: Social media marketing—what really works\, how to get started\, and how to keep going.\nWeek 4: Paid ads and measuring success—how to start a Google Ads campaign; how to measure the success of all you’ve done so far.\nQuestions\n\n \nThis workshop is facilited by Marco Muzzi of Wallace & Moody. As both a small business owner and a marketer\, Marco knows the challenges and the tricks of marketing businesses with limited time and resources. This brother and sister duo have been working with businessess across Ontario. Based in Owen Sound\, Marco is uniquely positioned to help rural small business with all their marketing needs.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/marketing-your-business-for-beginners-and-solopreneurs/
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CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Session 1: Planning Your Next - Starting the Succession Journey
DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the steps involved in succession planning\, what you need to consider today\, and the options you have when selling\n\n\nUp to 80% of small businesses wind down when the owner decides to retire\, leaving money on the table for owners and holes in our downtowns. Your business has value and the ability to live on once you decide to step back. You just need a succession plan. Join us to learn what is involved in succession planning\, how to determine if you and the busy are ready\, and what supports are available to guide you through this transition. This is the first of four succession planning session and will cover the key things to start thinking about as you consider what the future of your business may be. \n \nTopics:\n\nTimeline – Succession is a journey\, not a transaction.\nPersonal Readiness – Your considerations as you look at your life outside of the business.\nOrganizational Readiness – How to know if your business is fit to be sold.\nSale Options – The options available to sell your business\nOur Support – How the BEC can guide you through this journey.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/session-1-planning-your-next-starting-the-succession-journey/
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CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Managing Financials for Product-Based Businesses
DESCRIPTION:Struggling with cash flow? Trying to balance costs\, pricing\, and profitability? Need help tracking performance? Learn how to manage it all.\n\n\nFinancials for Small Business is a practical 3-hour session designed for small business owners\, entrepreneurs\, start-ups\, and self-employed professionals who want to better understand their finances and make smarter business decisions. \nParticipants will learn how to read key financial statements\, manage cash flow\, track performance\, and identify opportunities to improve profitability through real-world examples and hands-on learning. They will leave with practical tools\, greater confidence\, and strategies to support the long-term success of their businesses. \nThis in-person workshop is facilitated by Don Bourne\, Mentor from Georgian College’s Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/managing-financials-for-product-based-businesses/
LOCATION:Sydenham Campus\, 1130 8th Street East\, Owen Sound\, ON\, N4K 1M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Session 2: Name Your Price - What is Your Business Worth?
DESCRIPTION:Discover how businesses are valuated and how to improve the value of yours with the guidance of Yohaan Thommy of MNP.\n\n\nDoes your business have value? Do you have a number in mind? Valuating a business can be a complex process and is usually done by a business valuator\, but before you begin the sale process\, it is helpful to have an idea of your business’s worth. Join Yohaan Thommy from MNP as he walks you through the process of determining what your business may be worth and how to maximize its value. \n \nThis workshop is most useful if you have your financial statements available to reference throughout the session so you can work through the exercise with your own numbers. Time will be allocated for you to run your own calculations. You will not be sharing this information with the facilitator or other participants. If you would like to calculate an estimation of your businesses’ value\, be sure to bring along three to five years of financial statements. It will be important to know your annual profit\, earnings before interest\, tax\, depreciation\, and amortization\, and your salary. \n \nContent:\n\nValuation Methods – How the numbers are crunched\nValuation Exercise – A guided exercise in calculating your own business’s worth.\nBuilding Value – What you can do to improve your valuation.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/session-2-name-your-price-what-is-your-business-worth/
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CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Managing Financials for Service-Based Businesses
DESCRIPTION:Struggling with cash flow? Trying to balance costs\, pricing\, and profitability? Need help tracking performance? Learn how to manage it all.\n\n\nFinancials for Small Business is a practical 3-hour session designed for small business owners\, entrepreneurs\, start-ups\, and self-employed professionals who want to better understand their finances and make smarter business decisions. \nParticipants will learn how to read key financial statements\, manage cash flow\, track performance\, and identify opportunities to improve profitability through real-world examples and hands-on learning. They will leave with practical tools\, greater confidence\, and strategies to support the long-term success of their businesses. \nThis in-person workshop is facilitated by Don Bourne\, Mentor from Georgian College’s Henry Bernick Entrepreneurship Centre.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/managing-financials-for-service-based-businesses/
LOCATION:Sydenham Campus\, 1130 8th Street East\, Owen Sound\, ON\, N4K 1M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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SUMMARY:Session 3: Ready. Set. Sell. - Preparing Your Business for Sale
DESCRIPTION:You may be ready to sell\, but is your business? In this workshop\, join Alison Minato of Ownership Design Group as she discusses what buyers\n\n\nSelling a business is more than a transaction\, it is a journey. Like all successful journeys\, it takes time and planning to make sure the bumps in the road don’t take you off course. A business that is ready to sell is one that allows the owner to fully step away from the operations and receive the maximum value of it’s worth. To get there\, planning and preparation now will make a future sale much easier. In our next succession workshop\, Alison Minato of Ownership Design Group will discuss the steps to take to make sure your business is ready to sell and the common pitfalls to avoid. \n \nContent:\n\nWhat Buyers Want – A summary of the features that make a business attractive to buy.\nPreparing the Business – What needs to be done to sell:\n\na. Owner Dependency – Making your business self-sustaining \nb. Financial Readiness – Profitability\, taxes\, and financial statements \nc. Operational Readiness – SOPs\, organizational knowledge\, and tangible processes \nd. Customer and Supplier Readiness – Contacts are in order and not dependent on the owner \ne. Technology Readiness – CRM\, POS\, ERP\, and online accounts are organized\, accessible\, and useful \n\nAssemble Your Team – Who needs to be part of your support team and where to find them.
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/session-3-ready-set-sell-preparing-your-business-for-sale/
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CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261027T190000
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UID:21629-1793127600-1793131200@enterprisecentre.ca
SUMMARY:Session 4: Choosing an Exit Ramp - Selling Options for Your Small Business
DESCRIPTION:Think there are no buyers for your business? Learn about the common and uncommon ways to sell a business with Ownership Design Group.\n\n\nThere is more than one way to sell a small business\, but which option is best for yours? Join Jennifer from Ownership Design Group to learn about the most common sale options and what makes sense for you and your business. \n \nContent:\n\nSales to third parties\n\n\nSales to employees\n\n\nSales to Family
URL:https://enterprisecentre.ca/events/session-4-choosing-an-exit-ramp-selling-options-for-your-small-business/
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CATEGORIES:Business Enterprise Centre- Grey County
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