The City of Toronto and its partners offer year-round learning opportunities for entrepreneurs and small business owners, from regularly scheduled seminars to large networking events.
These learning opportunities are all being offered online.
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Learn important elements of starting a business, including: business viability, writing a business plan, market research, and understanding your financials.
This webinar is aimed at entrepreneurs in the early stages of small business development who are looking at various types of business models and trying to determine where to start.
Learn from CFIB’s decades of experience with their practical list of advice to create and support the development of your small business. In addition, you will be made aware of the three biggest mistakes that small business owners and entrepreneurs make and how to avoid making them yourself. By the end of this presentation, you will have a practical list of steps to take when opening your own small business.
This webinar will show you the practical steps to take to develop your ethnic food business in the Canadian food market.
This webinar will show you the practical steps to take to develop your own grocery business. Learn the groundwork to launch your grocery business and know what to do every step of the way.
Learn about insurance and how to ensure you have the right coverage for your small business needs.
Learn about incubators, like the DMZ, and what they can do for your small business.
Learn about incubators, like Business in the Streets (BITS), and what they can do for your small business.
Wondering whether you should incorporate your business, when you should register for HST, and if contracts are really that important? These and other questions will be addressed in this webinar for entrepreneurs considering starting a business and those who’ve launched one in the last couple of years.
This presentation will help you understand the challenges and benefits of taking care of your mental health from a business perspective, and provide you with some key strategies, tools, and resources so you are equipped to better understand your own mental health, as well as the mental health of your employees and what you can do to be a leader for them.
This webinar will give you an introduction to the tips and tools you need to get your marketing started on the right foot. By the end of the presentation, you will have everything you need to establish your brand, identify and reach your target audience, get your small business found by your prospects, and drive new sales through the groundwork of establishing your small business’s marketing presence.
A comprehensive introduction to learning sales and marketing skills as a process. The skill sets gained through this program are based on proven best practices. “If you want to be successful, you have to do what successful people do.”
Learn the ropes of building an engaging and profitable social media presence for your business, from choosing the right social media platforms, to best practices for engagement, to growing your social media community using both organic and paid strategies.
Advertising in the digital space can be complicated, especially with different ad formats, multiple platforms, budgeting, and running your own business! If you are not sure where to begin, or are confused on what kind of ad to run, this session is for you! In this webinar, the Digital Service Squad from Toronto will share key insights into Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and Instagram Ads.
This webinar aims to show you what you can do as a small business owner and entrepreneur to build your cyber resilience and prepare yourself. By the end of the presentation, you will know what you can do today to mitigate your risk of an attack, as well as empowering you to know what to do if it ever happens to your small business.
More consumers than ever before are turning to online shopping for greater convenience, safety and variety. In this webinar, you will learn the basic steps to set up an online store.
Often you will hear about needing to optimize for search engines or SEO. But what is it, and how does it impact your digital presence? In this webinar, the Digital Service Squad will explain search engine optimization and the best tactics you as a business can use towards increasing your ranking in the search engine result pages.
This webinar introduces cybersecurity to small online businesses, discusses the challenges, and shares best practices for securing your business from cyber-attacks.
Your customers are on the web. Having a strategy for your online presence allows you to market your small business online so customers can easily find you. Learn how to build the foundation for your business’s web presence.
This financial literacy webinar will help you to understand the responsibilities of a non-profit board member in relation to the organizational finances. In addition, you will understand the financial statements of non-profit organizations by the end of the presentation.
This financial literacy webinar will help you understand the management of growth and expansion of your small business. By the end of the presentation, you will be able to identify the key numbers to understand and monitor, as well as learning tactics for seeking out financing. Finally, you will learn effective tax strategies for your small business.
This financial literacy webinar will help you to understand how a bank or investor will evaluate your small business. By the end of the presentation, you’ll have learned the steps necessary to get financial statements and business plans in order for presentation to lenders and investors.
This financial literacy webinar will help you determine when business expansion makes sense. It will also help you understand how to project growth and expansion for your small business. Lastly, after the presentation, you will know how to react when unexpected growth occurs.
This financial literacy webinar will help you to review and change your cash management practices. You will learn how to spend less cash to operate the business. By the end of the presentation, you will be able to project and analyze the cash needs of your small business.
Small business accounting that will help you to manage your daily operations and make tax time less stressful. Balance your accounts with confidence.
Presented by Canada Revenue Agency, this presentation is geared toward small unincorporated businesses and will help participants understand their tax obligations and provide them with the resources needed to navigate the tax system.
Presented by Canada Revenue Agency, this seminar is offered to owners of small corporations who need help in understanding their tax obligations. The presentation is geared towards incorporated businesses and will provide participants with the basic principles and resources needed to navigate the tax system.
This financial literacy session will enable you to be able to use financial management tools to evaluate business and make informed financial decisions for your small business.
Join Futurpreneur and the Business Development Bank of Canada for a presentation on financing opportunities for your small business.
The Government of Canada purchases $22 billion of goods and services each year. This webinar provides key information about how to sell to the Government of Canada. A focus of this session will be on supporting diverse and underrepresented equity deserving businesses and highlighting emerging opportunities through federal and community programs and services.
Learn how to access Service Canada to enroll in various programs, services, and the basics of Human Resources for businesses in any sizes. This presentation will also show you how to advertise for jobs via the federal government job bank.
Learn how to access Service Canada to enroll in various programs, services, and the basics of Human Resources for businesses in any sizes. This presentation will also show you how to advertise for jobs via the federal government job bank.
Learn how to access Service Canada to enroll in various programs, services, and the basics of Human Resources for businesses in any sizes.
Learn from a Workplace Safety and Insurance Board consultant about how to keep your workplace healthy and safe, and in compliance with health and safety laws.
The City of Toronto’s Main Street Innovation Fund provides grant funding for innovative and creative solutions to Toronto’s main street business challenges. The mandate is to support local business communities’ recovery and rebuild through innovative activations, creative place makings, and community capacity building initiatives. Before applying, applicants are encouraged to attend a one hour information session.
The Main Street Innovation Fund is now accepting applications until March 16.
Learn more about the Main Street Innovation Fund.