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"Success is never final, but failure can be."

 - Bill Parcells

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 This month's Table of Contents: 1) Managing Change in Your Business; 2) Maximizing E-Mail Marketing; 3) The Responsive Business; 4) Managing the Growth of Your Home-Based Business; 5) Using Video to Brand Your Business

 

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Our organization is here to assist small businesses, individuals who would like to start a small business, and our communities.

 

Training Courses and Seminars

In business? Thinking of starting a business?

Community Futures White Horse Plains offers various training opportunities for you to take advantage of. From one or two day seminars to 3 hour video conferencing-based sessions to Internet-based studies you can access through a home computer, there is help available to further your business skills.

Be In the Know

Be In the Know logo"Be In the Know" is Community Futures White Horse Plains' newest, all inclusive newsletter pertaining to training, networking, and other opportunities in the Central Plains region of Manitoba. The newsletter highlights the offerings of the WHP office as well as other service providers from within and outside the region. Click here for a copy of the current issue of Be In the Know. For back issues of Be In the Know, visit our Newsletter page.

Social Media Lunch & Learn

"We do not have a choice on whether we do social media; the question is how well we do it." (Eric Qualman)

The Manitoba Marketing Network, in partnership with Community Futures White Horse Plains and Central Plains Inc., is bringing Roger Miranda and Dominic Blais of Digital Relay Inc. to the Central Plains region.

Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Registration is $20, but the first 20 people to register are free! Contact Jacki @ 856-5000 or via email .

A poster with complete information can be found here.

Canada-Manitoba Business Service Centre

Community Futures White Horse Plains is pleased to offer the following training courses in conjunction with the Canada-Manitoba Business Service Centre. Presented via video conferencing in our board room, the courses change monthly. They are offered free of charge but, due to seating limitations, pre-registration is required. Further information on the course can be found by clicking on the title of the seminar.

December

7 10:00 - 11:30 am Selling Your Product to the City of Winnipeg
7 11:45 - 12:45 pm Selling Your Product to the Province of Manitoba
7 1:00 - 2:00 pm Selling Your Product to the Government of Canada
8 10:00 - 12:00 pm Introduction to Pricing and Costing
8 1:00 - 4:00 pm CRA Year End T4 Preparation Seminar
14 10:00 - 1:00 pm CRA Small Business Tax Information Workshop

 For more information or to register, please contact our office at (204) 856-5000 (toll-free 1-888-947-2332) or emailing .

GoForth Institute

GoForth Logo Community Futures White Horse Plains is pleased to offer Canada’s leading online education for entrepreneurs in partnership with GoForth Institute. If you’re looking to bolster your understanding of how to start, run or grow a successful and profitable business, learn GoForth Institute’s 100 Essential Small Business Skills™ in only 10 hours conveniently delivered to your computer through streaming video and an option 400+ page resource curriculum book.

Each of the thirty 20 minute video lessons is delivered by an expert in their field of business – marketing, law, accounting, finance, human resources, strategy, marketing research, operations and government compliance.  Learn vital skills such as:

  • How to find new markets and more customers
  • How to run a more profitable company
  • How to develop a winning marketing and social media strategy
  • How to prepare your financial records
    +96 more skills

You’ll get all thirty 20 minute video lessons - plus downloadable lesson summaries, quizzes, PowerPoint™ slides, and e-mail your instructor function. The best part is you won’t have to leave your home or office – all you need is a computer with high speed internet access – and you’re ready to learn! 50% of small businesses fail in two years – improve your odds of small business success today!

GoForth Institute’s 10 hours of online small business training costs just $295 + taxes.

For more information, please visit the GoForth Institute.

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