Archive for July, 2009

Google Analytics

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Google Analytics is Google’s enterprise-class web analytics solution that provides insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.

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Google Keyword Tool

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Google Keyword Tool is a keyword analysis tool that helps you to understand which terms are being used by your audience when they search for topics, goods and services online. Working these terms into your website will help make your content more relevant and your website more easily found by search engines.

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Service Canada Workshare Program

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Service Canada’s Workshare Program is an adjustment program designed to help employers and workers avoid temporary layoffs when there is a reduction in the normal level of business activity that is beyond the control of the employer. The measure provides income support to workers eligible for Employment Insurance benefits who are willing to work a temporarily [...]

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Export Development Canada

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Export Development Canada is a federal agency that provides financing, insurance and bonding solutions to Canadian companies that export goods and services, or that invest in other countries. On the financing side, it provides a number of services to support international transactions, such as paying for the up-front costs associated with the production of a large [...]

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RBC small business loans

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

RBC Royal Bank  provides a range of fixed and variable rate term loans that are ideal for funding a business’s purchases of long-term assets that support business growth.

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Ottawa Community Loan Fund

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Ottawa Community Loan Fund provides short-term loans of up to $15,000 to small business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs, talented individuals with international training and community groups. It is a private organization that works with other community-based financial organizations to qualify borrowers, who must be able to demonstrate a worthwhile business concept, practical work experience and/or training, and [...]

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Business Development Bank of Canada

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Business Development Bank Canada is a federally mandated institution dedicated to providing small- and medium-sized businesses with the financing options and consulting services they need to succeed. It offers venture capital to start-up and early-stage companies, subordinate financing for companies that are in transition, expanding or planning an acquisition, and term loans for businesses at [...]

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Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Incentive Program

by Survive and Thrive - Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program is a federal tax incentive program, administered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), that encourages Canadian businesses of all sizes, and in all sectors, to conduct research and development in Canada. It is the largest single source of federal government support for industrial R&D.
The SR&ED program gives [...]

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Government assistance programs which may assist your business

by David Logan - Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

There are various government assistance programs which exist to support businesses in Canada. Often the government support is only accessed after the expenditures are made and some are claimed upon filing your income tax return so there can be a lengthy period of time before the cash can be accessed. These programs will not create [...]

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Taxes: Making the inevitable as painless as possible

by David Logan - Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Though it is a cliché, it does bear repeating as a simple, unavoidable truth – nothing is as certain as death and taxes. And while we can always hope that the first is far off, the latter will occur with frequent and unavoidable regularity.
As a business that may be struggling, or proactively looking at ways [...]

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