Stats Link Canada - More Help

Business Research Seminars

Click here for Seminar Schedule

Top Resources

Source Lists
Find the latest Canadian polls, surveys and reports related to your market or industry

Financial Ratios
Benchmark your business' financial performance against the best and worst in your industry.

Small Business education is the key reason Stats Link Canada exists. Our primary service is to teach Canadian entrepreneurs how to research their own business themselves.

John White, the principal and founder of GDSourcing / Stats Link Canada, regularly presents seminars on Researching a Small Business in Canada.

He is currently involved in one seminar series in the Toronto Area. It is presented in conjunction with the Self-Employment Benefits program at the Toronto Business Development Centre.

In the past he has presented at a number of other business development centres including the Richmond Hill Business Centre and the Gezhtoojig Employment & Training (Sudbury, Ontario)

John has also been a guest speaker at the Bridges to Better Business Conference (London, Ontario 2007), the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, the University of Western Ontario and the Small Business Expo (2001).

John also participated in a pilot long distance learning project with the Community Futures Development Corporation of Alberni-Clayoquot. Through a series of on-line workshops John helped entrepreneurs with disabilities on Vancouver Island research their business ventures.

John has appeared twice on the television program CareersTV as a expert guest and has been published and quoted in a number of entrepreneurial publications including Small Business Canada Magazine and the Globe & Mail.

He stresses a practical approach to researching a new business that is geared towards a small or non-existent research budget.

His newsletter, The Business Researcher, contains tips & techniques for successful do-it-yourself research as well as information on small business and entrepreneurship in Canada. It can also be found in business development centres and in libraries across Canada. You can also subscribe and access the archives online.

Seminar Schedule

John's next scheduled seminars are:

MILTON, ONTARIO

Market Research - Finding Gold
Thursday May 29, 2008 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Milton Public Library
45 Bruce Street, Milton, Ontario

OPEN to general public: $20.00

To register:

Phone Access Halton at 905-825-6000
or toll free at 1-866-4HALTON (1-866-442-5866)

Visit the Halton Region's Business Development Centre
at 1151 Bronte Road in Oakville to register in person with your credit card, cheque or cash.

Presented by:
Halton Region's Business Development Centre
in partnership with the Milton Public Library

TORONTO, ONTARIO

A Practical Approach to Business Research
Monday April 7, 2008 9:00am - 12:00pm & 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Toronto Business Development Centre,
1071 King St West, Toronto, Ontario

Presented by Toronto Business Development Centre.

OPEN to current SEB participants at this location only.

A Practical Approach to Business Research
Monday July 22, 2008 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Toronto Business Development Centre (Toronto West location),
105 Judge Rd, Etobicoke, Ontario

Presented by Toronto Business Development Centre.

OPEN to current SEB participants at this location only.

If you would like John to speak to your organization, please contact him at contact@gdsourcing.com for availability and rates.