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Small Business Week Oct 15-19th, 2007 

Small Business BC and the Small Biz Education Centre celebrated Small Business Week with two new “Pitch Your Plan” events for business start-ups and growing businesses.

Participants of the business startup and growing business workshops gained valuable feedback from fellow entrepreneurs, financial advisors and business development experts during the Pitch Your Plan session.  Other workshops included finance options, tax tips, branding, marketing, sales and more. Download the PDFs for more information  Oct 15th Small Business Startup - Everything You Need to Know to Get Started  and speaker BIOs for this event. PDF for the  Oct 17 Growing Your Small Business - Next Steps in Your Business Growth  and speaker BIOs.

Pitch Your Plan Community Business Panel  and workshop leaders

Small Business Participants

Bill Erichson, Pacific Training Innovations Lise Charriere, Business Coach
Mark Eversfield, Market Research
Small Business BC
Cedric Grasby, Dance Studio
Gaving Manning, Trademark Agent
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutalla LLP
Farah Haq, Psychotherapist
Danette Harkness, CoastCapital Savings Salim Jamal, Tourism
Victor Chew Wong, Make It Business Publisher Perry Moore, Educational Resources
Cathy Delaney, CYBF Jesse Nagy, Dance Studio
Ricardo Saenz-Saldana, Vancity Account Mgr
Non Profit Business
Daniel Ortegon, Inventor
Erin Robinson, Program Mgr Micro Business Lending Nikodemus Soedirgo, Print Company
Darryl Gant, Mgr Branch Business Specialist Janna Vallee,
Derek Gent, Investment Mgr Vancity
Capital Corporation
Jody Freedman, Work Based Medical Care
Gabrielle Loren CGA, Loren and Company Dounia Whitehouse, Promotions Company
Kevin Poole, Community Economic Development
Director Mission
Jack Lee, Software Developer
Robin de Pelham, The Karmichael Group
Recruitement and HR Consulting
Steve, Aboriginal Art Gallery
Rob Ciccone, Success Unlimited Sales
& Marketing Group
Werner de Schaetzen, Ph.D., P.Eng. 
Internet Entrepreneur
www.quenchmark.com
  Alyssa Hall, Landscaping
Don Jacques, Electrical Contracting
Heike Stippler, Landscaping
Norm Chamberlain, Treasures Unlimited

 Testimonials include:

  • "Saved alot of potential money on wrong advertising practices."
  • "I learned more from the panel in 20 minutes than in months of my research, this is very beneficial."
  • "Today has helped me focus my niche market. I feel ready to build my business."

For details on all our seminars visit our seminar listing