Additional Credit for Export Development

Export Development Canada in partnership with Mercantile Finance Services Ltd., can provide unsecured loans of up to $50,000 for a two year term to support Canadian companies with export business development goals. My clients have enjoyed these funds to assist them with increase production capacity for exporting, attending trade shows or new marketing efforts for [...]

Update Hiring Co-op Students for eBusiness Intiatives

The coop hiring program has received significant interest this year – it is called SBIP. Here is the link to my post: http://mentorworks.ca/canadian-business-coaching-blog/hiring-coop-student/. Follow the links on this and other hiring mechanisms  – but the projects that are eligible for co-op hire is geared to your website only. Getting your site rankings improved, improve conversion traffic from website, press [...]

Graduate Internship Program for Business Growth

Another hiring program,  and probably the most popular, is the Accelerate Ontario program. As Ontario’s Graduate Research Internship Program, the goal is to connect high-quality expertise from the province’s universities with Ontario businesses.  The partner company contributes $7,500 and the funds are matched by Accelerate Ontario through Government Canada. The benefits to the company are [...]

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Hiring a Coop Student with Government Funding

Recently approved and good news for the areas of Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge and Hamilton, University of Waterloo is now the delivery agency on behalf of Industry Canada. They are now accepting applications for the 2010/2011 Small Business Internship Program.

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Export Market Access – FAQ’s on Eligible Projects

Through FEDDEV Ontario, SME’s are able to improve their position in accessing new markets to China and Hong Kong, India and the US marketplace. The EMA program will provide funding up to 50% of a project’s eligible costs to a maximum of $30,000 per project. From my research, the most popular activities include:

Tags: business development, financing options, Government Funding, government grants, internet marketing, marketing plans, Small Business Financing, technical development