Enterprise Saskatchewan

Basic Business Information Package | Business Planning and Start-up | Market Development | Advertising and Promotion | Product Development | Retail Management | Home-Based Business | General Management | Co-operatives

• Forms of Business Organization
• Business Plan Guide 
• Lending – The Basic Criteria
• Venture Checklists
• Points To Consider When Starting Your Own Business
• Sources of Business Information and Required Licenses
  • Estevan and Region
  • La Ronge and Region
  • Moose Jaw and Region
  • North Battleford and Region
  • Prince Albert and Region
  • Regina and Region
  • Saskatoon and Region
  • Swift Current and Region
  • Yorkton and Region

• Naming Your Business
• Registering Your Business
• Selecting Professional Services
• Buying a Business
• Checklists for Franchises
• Feasibility Checklist for Starting a Small Business
• Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease
• Investigative Checks
• Legal Issues in Starting a Business
• Dealing with your Banker & Other Lenders
• Business Plan for Small Manufacturers
• Business Plan for Retailers
• Business Plan for Small Service Firms

• Market Analysis
• Guide to Market Research and Analysis
• Marketing Plan Outline
• Guidelines for Developing a Company Brochure

• How to Have a Positive Image
• Developing New Accounts
• Signs and Your Business
• Plan Your Advertising Budget
• Do You Know the Results of Your Advertising?
• Ways To Promote Your Product or Service
• Advertising Do's and Don'ts
• Making Presentations
• Trade Shows
• Invite Your Trade Show Prospects

• Labelling Fact Sheet
• Can You Make Money With Your Idea or Invention?
• Product Licensing
• Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Industrial Design and Integrated Circuit Topographies
• Critical Assessment Factors for New Products
• Inventors – Sources of Information

• Merchandise for Profit
• Departmentalizing and Inventory Management in a Retail Store
• Store Location: “Little Things” Mean a Lot
• Marketing Checklist for Small Retailers
• Advertising Guidelines for Small Retailer Firms
• Improving Personal Selling in Small Retailer Firms
• Setting the Right Price
• Understanding and Developing Your Sales Force
• Measuring Sales Force Performance
• Selling Products on Consignment
• Profit by Your Wholesaler’s Services

• Home-Based Business in Saskatchewan
• Expansion of Your Home-Based Business

• Profit Pricing for the Costing of a Service
• Credit and Collections
• Preventing Theft
• Setting Up a Pay System
• Collecting and Remitting Provincial Sales Tax (PST)
• File and Pay PST Online -- Saskatchewan Electronic Tax Services (SETS)
• Checklist for Developing a Training Program
• Selecting Your Supplier
• Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business
• Importing – Steps to Follow
• Checklist for Profit Watching
• Attacking Business Decision Problems with Break-even Analysis
• Standard Outline for a Partnership or Shareholder Agreement
• Bad Cheque Control
• Profit Pricing for a Manufacturer
• Joint Venture Agreement Checklist
• Basic Proposal for Tender
• Bonding
• Basic Bookkeeping
• Selling a Business
• Selecting a Business Association

• International Co-operative Alliance: Statement on the Co-operative Identity
• Co-operative Glossary
• Conducting Effective Meetings
• Co-operative Business Structure
• The Co-operative Structure
• Financing and Financial Management for Saskatchewan Co-operatives
• Co-operative Governance
• Registration of a Co-operative
• Core Functions and Processes of Co-operative Governance
• Articles and Bylaws for Saskatchewan Co-operatives
• Developing and Supporting Saskatchewan Co-operatives - A Directors' Handbook 2007

• HR for Employers