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This Resource Centre provides listings of alphabetically arranged topics that will be useful to you in starting and operating a small business.

The first section contains a condensed glossary of business terms and articles on various topics created by the staff and advisors at the BDC. Please check back regularly for postings of new articles.

The second section contains listings of: a) excellent small business resources on the Web; b) online resources that provide dictionaries, detailed business glossaries, grammar and style guides and other reference materials.

The third section provides specific information for small business articles on a particular website, arranged by subject. For each article we've provided the title, the URL and the introductory paragraph.

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	BizPlanIt BizPlanIt is a professional business plan consulting firm that helps companies develop investor-grade business plans to move down the road towards a successful capital or strategic transaction. Click on this folder title to view relevant articles. View Articles
	BPlans.com Bplans.com contains the largest single collection of free sample business plans online. In addition to that, it has helpful tools and know-how for managing your business. Bplans.com includes practical advice on planning, interactive tools, and a panel of experts who have answered more than 1,400 questions from people like you. Bplans.com has also won several awards as a valuable "plain talk" resource. View Articles
	Canada Business Canada Business is a government information service for businesses and start-up entrepreneurs in Canada. Canada Business reduces the complexity and burden of dealing with various levels of government by serving as a single point of access for federal and provincial/territorial government services, programs and regulatory requirements for business. Services from Canada Business are available on the web, by telephone (toll-free) and email, and in person. View Articles
	Canada-Ontario Business Service Centre Providing accurate and timely information on programs, services and regulations to Ontario businesses in collaboration with our federal, provincial and non-governmental partners. View Articles
	Canadian Bankers Association Established in 1891, the CBA is the main representative body for banks in Canada and the country’s oldest industry association. All chartered banks are eligible for membership and currently all domestic and virtually all foreign banks doing business in Canada are members. The CBA is funded by its members and works with them to promote the strength and continued success of the industry, while building a greater understanding of the banking sector. View Articles
	Entrepreneur.com Entrepreneur.com visitors are business owners and partners who are looking for tools to help them succeed in today's competitive marketplace. They own growing businesses and look to Entrepreneur.com to provide information and perspective on industry news, business tools and services, strategies for growth, and much more. View Articles
	Inc.com Inc.com guides contain our best resources, handpicked by Inc.com editors, on specific business-management issues. Use them to discover strategies for starting, growing, and running your business more effectively and successfully. View Articles
	MasterCard Small Business MasterCard Worldwide is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, MasterCard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. View Articles
	Royal Bank We are Canada's largest bank as measured by assets and market capitalization and one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies. We provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management services, insurance, corporate and investment banking and transaction processing services on a global basis. Our corporate support team enables business growth with expert professional advice and state of the art processes and technology. View Articles
	The Entrepreneur Network The Entrepreneur Network (TEN) is a program of the Zimmer Foundation, a 501(c)3 Michigan non-profit corporation. Since 1988, we've been providing free counseling to inventors and entrepreneurs through both TEN and SCORE. Our purpose is to provide information, contacts and counsel to inventors and entrepreneurs (pre-startup through early stage). Our bias is toward grass-root, "Just do it!" strategies. View Articles
	US Small Business Administration The US SBA’s mission statement is to “maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters”. View Articles
	WorkZ.com WorkZ.com is your resource for managing and growing your business. Over 1000 articles, templates, tools, and emails are at your fingertips and updated weekly enabling you to be successful in growing beyond your imagination. Hundreds of writers who are renowned experts in their fields submit articles to the WorkZ editorial staff who then read and edit them for relevance and content. View Articles

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