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Browse our FREE collection of Canadian small business articles, with funding tips, business plan outlines, common pitfalls, advice from previous grant recipients and many more topics sure to prove invaluable on your journey to secure funding.

If you would like to speak to one of the Small Business Funding Centre experts about how you can avoid novice mistakes and apply for your government grant or loan, email us or call 1-800-658-9792

Business Plan & Proposal Tips

Tips for getting funding

Grant Writing: Increase Your Chances of Government Funding
Five Tips to Get Your Grant Application to the Top of the Pile
Grant Writing: Winning Grants Tell a Good Story
Grant Writing: Make Your Budget Believable
How to Establish a Good Credit for Your Business
Three Tips to Impress Loan Officers and Government Grantors
Three Grant-Winning Tips from the Pros
Three Tips to Get the Grant
Get Money for Your Business Plan Through Business Plan Competitions
How to Avoid Funding Pain
Two Little-Known Secrets to Help You Get the Grant
Build a Track Record from Nothing
Three Surefire Tips to Funding Success
Small Business Financing Secrets: Tips to Grow Your Small Business
Five Tips to Make Sure Your Business Plan Attracts Funding
Want to Get a Grant? Think Outside the Box!
Why it Pays to Look for Financing Close to Home
Top Five Tips for Getting Government Cash for Your Small Business
Get a Grant: Learn from the Non-Profits
Sample Grant Proposals, Sample Business Plans & Other Business Documents
3 Ways to Get Cash or Financing Faster
How to Turn Your Customers into Investors
Grant-Writing: How to Find a Good Grant Writer
How to Help Your Suppliers to Help Grow Your Business
Key Ingredients to a Successful Government Grant Application
7 Steps to Grant-Getting Success
GRANT FILE: Get Real � Three Secrets that will Take You from Dreaming to Doing
Know Your Worth
Five Steps to a Winning Financing Presentation
GRANT FILE: Your Financing Cheat Sheet
GRANT FILE: After the Application
What Can the Government Do for YOU???
GRANT FILE: How to Improve Your Funding Fortunes
GRANT FILE: How to Use Government Funding to Get the Banks on Your Side
GRANT FILE: Inside the Funding Meeting
GRANT FILE: How to Understand � and Woo � Angel Investors

Advice from Recipients

Free Money, Business Plans and Grant Program Officers
How to Turn $10,000 in Government Funding into $70,000
Government Funding Leads to Major Expansion for Small Business
Government Funding Helps Create New Marketing Division
Business Sets Sail With Government and Bank Financing
Case History: The Secret Route to Government Funding
Entrepreneur's Advice: Focus on Your Business Plan

Existing business tips

Get government Money for Hiring
Sell on Direct Channels to Increase Profits
BDC�s Subordinate Financing Program Takes You to the Next Level
How to Get Paid Immediately
Why Use a Buyer Advocate?
How to Find the Perfect Buyer
How to Reduce Financial Risk
The Online Mompreneur
Why You Need an Employee Handbook
BUSINESS TOOLKIT: 10 Ways to Effectively Market Your Business on the Cheap
What Can the Government Do For YOU???
TOOLKIT: 10 Ways to be There When They Want to Buy
The Importance of Image
BUSINESS TOOLKIT: How to Teach Your Customers to Buy
Tips to Help You Hire, Teach and Keep Top Employees

Common mistakes

5 Major Management Mistakes
How to Get a Grant? Avoid These 5 Fund-Killing Mistakes
Business Plan Writing: 4 Mistakes that Will Kill Your Financial Chances
Buying a Business? 14 Common Mistakes to Avoid
The Typical Selling Experience is Not a Pretty Picture
GRANT FILE: A Key Source of Income for Your Business

Types of Funding

Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital Program
Government Money for Rural Businesses in Ontario
BDC Program Helps Start-Up Your New E-Business
Join a Barter Network
How to Find the Cash Hiding in Your Business (Part 1)
How to Find the Cash Hiding in Your Business (Part 2)
Private Placement Securities
How to Find an Angel Investor

Starting a business tips

How to Increase Your Profits and Get Rich
Three Websites that Help You Start Your Own Business
A Tax-Saving Tip for Canadian Small Businesses
Unemployed? How to become SELF-employed
Out of Work? Start Your Own Business!
Your Business Success Toolkit
Test Your Mettle
BUSINESS TOOLKIT: The Magic of Mentoring
How the Government Can Help You Hire Staff
How to Develop a Marketing Strategy

Purchasing a business tips

How to Buy a Business: Tips on Buying a Business
First Steps to Buying a Business

You can call us directly at 1-800-658-9792, or e-mail us for information on Canadian government grants and loans for your new or existing small business.
You can also write us at: Small Business Funding Centre, 1500 Bank Street, Room 425, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 1B8.

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