Business Resource Library

Aboriginal

• Aboriginal Issues Today
• ​Aboriginal Tourism Markets

Accounting

• Accounting for Dummies
• Accounting for Small Business
• ACCPAC Plus
• Basic Accounting for the Small Business
• Canadian Home Business Guide to Taxes
• Collect Those Debts
• Financial Information
• Profit Forecasting
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finance and Accounting

Advertising/Marketing

• 1001 Ways to Market Yourself & Your Small Business
• 101 Big Ideas
• 301 Do-It-Yourself Marketing Ideas
• Battles of a Marketing Warrior
• Brand Slam
• Business by Referral
• Catalogue Copy that Sizzles
• Getting Publicity
• Goods! Battles of a Marketing Warrior
• Guerrilla Marketing Attack
• Guerrilla Marketing for the Home-Based Business
• Look Before You Leap Market Research
• Market Oriented Pricing Strategies for Management
• Marketing Minds
• Marketing Myths That are Killing Business
• Marketing Your Consulting Service
• Marketing Your Product
• Marketing Your Service
• Network Marketing for Dummies
• Secrets of Power Marketing
• Seminars to Build your Business
• Small Business Marketing for Dummies
• Successful Marketing Research
• The Advertising Handbook
• The Anatomy of Buzz
• The Complete Guide to Publicity
• The Creative Edge
• Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR
• The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook
• The Marketing Planning Guide 5TH Edition
• The One-Day Marketing Plan
• The Power of Exhibit Marketing
• Understanding and Designing Marketing Research
• Why We Buy Science of Shopping
• World Wide Web Marketing

Artisans

• Art, the Art Community, and the Law

Audio

• Making Trade Shows Work
• One Minute Manager
• Power Talk
• Relationship Strategies
• Successful Essentials

Bed & Breakfast

• How to Start and Operate Your Own Bed-and-Breakfast
• Running a Bed & Breakfast for Dummies
• Start and Run a Bed & Breakfast
• Start Your Own Bed & Breakfast

Business Management Industrial

• A Passion for Excellence
• In Search of Excellence
• Success in the works - A Policy Paper
• Techno Trends

Business Plans/Proposals/Newsletters

• Business Plans for Dummies
• Developing a Personnel Manual
• Preparing a Successful Business Plan
• Proposal Writing
• Total Business Planning
• Winning Proposals
• Your Business Definition

Business Forms

• Commercial Lease & Sublease

Business Management

• 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make
• 180+ Ways to Cut Business Costs
• Assistance to Business in Canada
• BC Business Associations Directory
• BC Manufacturers Directory 2001
• BC Population Forecast 1987-2011
• Big Ideas for Growing Your Small Business
• Building abroad
• Business Associations Serving BC 2000-01
• Business Etiquette
• Business for Beginners
• Don't Get Caught in Risky Business
• Guide to Government of Canada Services & Support in BC
• Help Wanted-The Complete Guide to Human Resources
• Home Inc.
• If It Ain't Broke...BREAK IT!
• Learning & Work the Way Ahead for BC
• Low-Risk Franchising
• Mail-Order Success Stories
• Make Sure it's Deductible
• Managing for the Future
• Minding Your Own Business
• Newcomers Guide to Resources & Services in BC
• Quality is Free
• Report - BC Task Force of Bank Mergers
• Small Business Guide to Federal Incorporation
• Small Business in Canada: Competing through Growth
• Standard Legal Forms & Agreements
• Success in the Works - A Policy Paper
• Success in the Works: Profile of Canada's emerging...
• The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide
• The Entrepreneur s Guide to Growing Up
• The First Book of Common-Sense
• The Joy of NOT Knowing it All
• Tips for Tough Times
• Turnaround!
• Up Against the Wal-Marts
• What No One Tells About Starting Business
• Wired for Small Business
• Your Guide to Government of Canada Services & Support

Business Trends

• Boom, Bust & Echo
• Bulldog Spirit of the New Entrepreneur
• Business 2010
• Clicking
• Demography of Rural & Small Town Canada
• Post 2000, Business Wisdom for the
• Practical Intuition for Success
• Pushing the Envelope All the Way to the Top
• Shakedown How the New Economy is Changing
• The End of work
• Work Futures - BC Occupational Outlooks
• Work Futures - BC 2000 Edition

Computers/Internet

• 101 Businesses You Can Start From Home
• 1001 Ways to Promote Your Web Site
• B2B How to build a profitable E-commerce strategy
• branding@thedigitalage
• Business @ the Speed of Thought
• Canadian Internet Directory & Research Guide
• Complete Idiot's Guide for Computer Basics
• Computer Crisis 2000
• Computers Simplified
• Creating Web Pages for Dummies
• Cyber Law Canada
• Digital Capital
• Doing Big Business on the Internet
• eBay The Smart Way
• eBusiness - A Beginner's Guide
• E-Commerce For The Unfunded
• Finding the ebusiness in Your Business
• From Bricks to Clicks
• Futurize Your Enterprise
• Getting Results with Microsoft Office 97
• Getting Started in Internet Auctions
• Internet Directory for Dummies
• Internet Searching for Dummies
• Internet Skills
• Making Money in Cyberspace
• Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0
• Microsoft Outlook 97
• Microsoft Publisher 97 Companion
• Microsoft Publisher for Dummies
• Office 97
• One to One B2B
• Online Marketing
• Selling Online
• Small Business Online
• Starting an eBay Business for Dummies
• Starting an Online Business for Dummies
• The Canadian Business Guide to Using the Internet
• The Cluetrain Manifesto
• The Everything Online Business Book
• The Internet for Canadians for Dummies
• The Internet for Dummies
• The Non-Profit Guide to the Internet
• Winning Web Sites
• Word Perfect Workbook for IBM PC's
• Word 97 for the Windows for Dummies
• Writing for the Web

Consulting

• Consulting for Dummies
• Consulting for Success
• Effective Presentation Skills
• The Concise Guide to Becoming an
• Independent Consultant

Communication Skills

• Body Language in the Workplace
• Chairing a Meeting with Confidence
• How to Interview
• Negotiating for Dummies
• Why Didn't You Say That in the First Place

Contracts

• Bidding for Contractors
• Getting Started in Sales Consulting
• The Contract and Fee-Setting Guide

Copyrights/Patents/Trade-marks

• A Guide to Copyrights
• A Guide to Industrial Designs
• A Guide to Patents
• A Guide to Trademarks
• Can You Make Money with Your Idea
• Patent Your Own Invention in Canada

Customer Service

• 301 Great Customer Service Ideas
• 50 Powerful Ways to Win New Customers
• Customers for Life
• Keeping Customers Happy
• What to Say When Your Customers Won't Pay
• Environmental Careers
• Envirocareers KIT
• Exporting/Importing
• Canada's Trade offices abroad 98/ 99
• Canadian/ US Free Trade agreement: tariff US
• Canadian/ US Free Trade agreement: tariff CANADA
• Distribution Companies at your Service
• Getting Ready for Export
• The Canada/ US Free Trade Agreement

Funding & Assistance Programs

• CED & Social Development Funding Programs

Insurance

• Insuring Business Risks in Canada

Investments

• The Death of Politics

Lease Commercial

• Negotiate Your Commercial Lease

Legal

• BC Egg Marketing Board
• Canadian Copyright Law
• Canadian Legal guide for Small Business
• Incorporation and Business Guide for BC
• Standard Legal Forms & Agreements for Canadian Business
• The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law

Networking

• Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty
• Make Your Contacts Count

Personal/Professional Development

• Activation
• At the controls
• Be Your Own Home Contractor
• Canada's Best Careers Guide
• Career Intelligence
• Getting Back to Work
• How to Get a Job
• How to Make Outrageously Great Tips
• Job Hunting for Dummies
• Live the Life You Love
• Relationship Selling
• Self-Employment: Is It For Me?
• The Best Home Business for the 90's
• The Canadian Job Directory
• The New Quick Job-Hunting Map
• The Plague of the Black Debt
• The Ultimate NO B.S. Business Success Book
• The Way of the Guerrilla
• Top Employers
• What Color is Your Parachute
• Where the Jobs Are
• Working Harder Isn't Working
• The Beermat Entrepreneur

Project Analysis

• There Are No Mysteries in Project Analysis

Retailer

• Cut Your Losses

Sales

• 1999 BC Tradeshow & Exhibition Directory
• BC Marketing Board
• Closing Techniques
• Double Your Profits
• Guerrilla Trade Show Selling
• How You Too Can Make At Least 1 Million
• New Sales Speak
• Pure Selling - the Basics
• Selling for Dummies
• Selling the Wheel
• Succeed & Grow rich Through Persuasion
• Visual Merchandising
• Start Up
• Building a Dream
• Business for Beginners
• Getting into Business Guides
• Growing a Business
• Guerrilla Financing
• How to Research Almost Anything.
• Incorporation & Business Guide for BC
• Kick Start your Dream Business
• Smart Guide to Starting a Small Business
• Starting a Successful Business
• Steps to Starting & Running a Successful Business
• Where to Go When the Bank Says No
• The E Myth

Start & Run a ...

• 2nd Hand Store
• Child Care Facility
• Coffee Bar
• Consulting Business
• Desktop Publishing business
• Gift Basket Business
• Home Based Business
• Home Cleaning Business
• Home Day Care
• Office Service
• Restaurant
• Retail Business
• Start and Run a Profitable Retail
• Business
• Student Run Business
• Tour Guiding Business

Time Management

• Time Management for Dummies
• Managing Workplace Chaos
• Order from Chaos

Tourism

• Certified Tour Professional Workbook
• Conducting Tours
• Destination North America
• Eco-Tourism Tour Operator
• Packaging BC's Tourism Industry (a manual)
• Dynamics of Tour Guiding
• Planning Canadian Campgrounds
• Tourism B.C. Program Guide
• Tourism Directory Education programs
• Tourism the Professional Challenge

Women

• Beneath the Veneer (Volumes 1,2,3 & 4)
• Health Strategies for Working Women
• Leadership Skills for Women
• Mompreneurs Step-by-Step Guide for Working at Home
• Wear Clean Underwear

Writing

• Business Letters Made Simple
• Writing Magazines & Newspaper Articles

Youth

• 50 Great Businesses for Teens
• A guide for the Young Entrepreneur
• Generation Inc.
• Hire Power Job guide for Young Canadians
• The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting and Running a Business
• Work scene BC Work Futures for Youth
• Youth Link

Miscellaneous

• Assistance to Business in Canada ABC 1987
• Guide to Integrated CircuitTopographies
• Guide to Patents
• Co-Operatives by Design

Video Library (Must be Viewed in the Office)

• Building Your Business with 800
• Do-It Yourself Marketing
• E-Business
• Employment and Immigration Canada
• Finance
• Focus on the Future
• Fulla Video Creations
• How to Deliver Superior Customer Service
• Inc. Magazine
  • Tape 1 Successful Sales Relationships
  • Tape 2 Making Effective Sales Calls
  • Tape 3 How to Deal with Objections
  • Tape 4 Closing the Deal
  • Tape 5 Effective Follow-up
• Inc. Magazine How to Run a successful Family Business
• Interactive Business Training Systems Inc.
• Marketing
• Marketing the Home-Based Business
• Maximize Cash Flow
• Science Council of BC
  • Tape 1 The Future is Here
  • Tape 2 Frontiers of Discovery 1993-94
  • Tape 3 Frontiers of Discovery 1994-95
  • Starting a Business
  • Tape 1 Personal Considerations
  • Tape 2 Assessing Opportunities
  • Tape 3 Financial Considerations
• The Entrepreneurship Institute of Canada
• Tourism An Industry Perspective
• Tourism is Your business
• Workers Compensation Board Odyssey of Challenge