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Business News & Updates
Digital Service Squad Update: The Digital Service Squad members will provide one-on-one assistance with trained specialists who meet with small businesses, at no cost, to help them improve their online presence. The Squad members can assist with a number of activities, including: Support in applying for a Digital Transformation Grant A digital assessment of your business’ digital literacy Access to a free online video-based digital transformation training program Website – review, updating, creation, best practices Social Media – support, best practices, advertising, and more Technology – support and guidance for the best options of technology tools to implement for your business Miscellaneous Digital Transformation Support: loyalty programs, point of sale systems,…
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Get the Help of the Huron County DIGITAL SERVICE SQUAD!
FROM HURON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — DIGITAL SERVICE SQUAD LAUNCH In partnership with Digital Main Street Ontario, Huron County Economic Development and our community partners are excited to launch our new Digital Service Squad (DSS) program and introduce our DSS team members! The Digital Service Squad will help you build your online presence and promote and sell successfully online. There is no fee for this service. Our DSS members will provide one-on-one support to small businesses in Huron County and can assist with a number of activities, including: A digital assessment of your business’ digital literacy Access to a free online video-based digital transformation training program Developing a basic web presence…
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Small Business: Too Big to Ignore
Breaking the Skills and Digital Divide FROM THE DIVERSITY INSTITUTE, OCT. 1, 2020 – The COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating impact on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), charities, and not-for-profit organizations in Ontario. SMEs are the backbone of the Canadian economy, accounting for more than 90% of jobs in the private sector. Yet they face critical labour shortages, skill gaps and challenges related to access to broadband that threaten their competitiveness. Join us on October 15 for the launch of our latest report in the Skills Next series, Small and Medium Size Employers (SMEs): Skills Gaps and Future Skills, a collaboration between the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, Diversity Institute,…
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Embrace the Waves: How to Get More Customers to Test the Waters
Entrepreneurs and small business owners, YOU are invited to join us for our next FREE webinar! Part 3 in our 6-part series, on Oct. 5: Embrace the Waves- How to Get More Customers to Test the Waters. This webinar focuses on developing a marketing plan to keep you organized and motivated. Getting onlookers off the beach and into the water with you can be challenging. Join us as we discuss how to bring more life and action into your business waters! In this session we will discuss the types of customers (some eagerly join you in the water, some are in the water but need to be enticed to come to swim with you, others are on the beach…
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Economic Equality in a changing world – Removing barriers to employment for women
From RYERSON’S DIVERSITY INSTITUTE — Join Canada’s leading female experts on career advancement and diversity for women in corporate, public service and academia for a panel discussion on bottlenecks and barriers to women’s career advancement. All allies and champions for women’s career advancement and diversity, including men, are welcome and encouraged to join this important discussion. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 12 – 1:30 PM Virtual Event Register here! SPEAKERS Rachel Wernick, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Skills and Employment Branch, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) Dr. Julie Cafley, Executive Vice-President, Public Policy Forum Dr. Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director, Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute & a research lead with Future Skills Centre…
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Embrace the Waves webinar #2
Entrepreneurs and small business owners, you are invited to join us for our next FREE webinar, part 2 in a 6-part series, on Sept. 21: Embrace the Waves – How to Use Floating Devices to Manage Your Business. This webinar focuses on operations and support people. Do you use external devices to help your business stay afloat or do you tread water solo? By reviewing your daily operations, you can create a strategy to help you become a more effective business owner, instead of getting caught in the undertow. In this session, we’ll discuss when to use mentors/coaches, when to learn from other successful people, when to hire, and knowing…
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Embrace the Waves & join us for new webinar series
Join us for a new webinar series! Embrace the Waves is a new 6-part webinar series presented by Huron County Economic Development in partnership with Community Futures Huron. Webinar Dates September 9, 2020 | Learning to Swim: Back to Basics September 21, 2020 | How to Use Floating Devices to Manage Your Business Effectively October 5, 2020 | How to Get More Customers to Test the Waters October 21, 2020 | How to Swim with Your Customers November 4, 2020 | Watching for the Wave: Understanding When it’s Coming & How to Make the Best of It November 16, 2020 | Sink or Swim: Help Your Business Survive the Next Wave ‘EMBRACE THE WAVES’ SERIES DETAILS …
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11 Canadian inventions to celebrate
Canadian entrepreneurs are responsible for more inventions than you realize! Insulin, paint rollers, and Blackberries are all thanks to Canadians. Find out what other inventions are Canadian. Insulin Have you said thank you to your pancreas lately? The pancreas is an organ behind your stomach. It makes insulin to help you use and store the sugar from your food. Diabetes is a disease that is caused by problems with insulin. For thousands of years, there was no successful treatment for this disease — people with diabetes eventually fell into a coma and died. In 1921, Dr. Frederick Banting of Alliston, Ontario, and Charles Best from West Pembroke, Maine, began working…
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Grant opportunities available to help small business in Huron County
With the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of having an online presence to sell goods and services has never been more important. There are a number of COVID-19 relief and recovery grant opportunities available for small business owners and startup entrepreneurs within Huron County. To find out more about each grant program, please click on the links below: Huron Recovery Grant Program: a funding program available to small businesses who may be required to continue to make significant changes while adapting to the realities of COVID-19. In partnership with Community Futures Huron, Huron County Economic Development will be awarding grants of up to $2,500! Applications opened August 10. Application Deadline: August 31, 2020. To learn more about…
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Business News: arts and tourism sector gets boost
A series of grants supporting the arts and tourism sectors in Huron-Bruce was announced Aug. 12 as the province seeks to boost local tourism in small-town Ontario while re-imagining a post-COVID life. MPP Lisa MacLeod, who is also Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture, announced over $550,000 in funding to help propel the local arts and tourism sectors in her Huron-Bruce riding. “We know that in order to sustain small-town Ontario we need to continue keeping the lights on and flowing the dollars to make sure that coming out of the pandemic people when people are confident to be out and about again, have those amazing local festivals and…
