SOCIAL ENTERPRISE etc.

Entrepreneurship, ecopreneurship and social entrepreneurship can be employed to help communities:
(1) create jobs
(2) build a green sustainability community with pride
(3) create tax revenues to improve community services
(4) create social enterprises to train unemployed and underemployed and support those who want to be self-employed.
We would like input and suggestions and commentary to develop chapter projects to establish this model.

BUSINESS PLANNING

Business planning is a challenging and time consuming effort by small, medium and large businesses. One of the most important benefits is getting ideas down on paper. Research and review of competing organizations around the world can provide good information. Some people use R&D (research & development) while others use rob and duplicate best ideas.

One recommended one page business plan has the following sections:
Vision-where do we want to be in five years
Mission-1 line description of the purpose of the business
5 Objectives-1 line measureable objectives such as revenue, profit, # of customers; for the first 2 years
5 Strategies-how will the objectives be achieved i.e. what 1 line description of methods
5 Plans-tasks to be performed to exectue strategies to include a completion date

Such an approach could be used ina simulated business such as available in www.sim-u.com

INTERESTING FACTS

A TD Small Business Index
-62% of Canadian small business owners describe themselves as very happy
-1% very unhappy
-why happy-97% owning gives a sense of pride & accomplishment
-where happiest-Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver
Restaurants in Canada
-36,390 full service restaurants with 64% independent brands; over 1 million employees plus 210,000 as product and service providers

Learn Business Incorporated Blog: VOLUNTEER BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD

Learn Business Incorporated Blog: VOLUNTEER BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD: "ALL micro and small businesses and social enterprises must establish a BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD. Benefits to business owner-free advice, sale..."

Past and current users of our simulations...

Been very busy helping to improve all of Learn Business Inc's products, as well as improving the Sim-U website.

We will be having some exciting new things happening for Sim-U as we completely finalize how we want it to look for you!

Just attended the SOHO SME conference in the Toronto area this week, met some great contacts there. We will also be attending the SOHO SME conference in Ottawa next week (OCT 29), so hopefully we will see you there.


We would like to thank all of the past and current users of our simulations...

University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Niagara College
Seneca College
University of Delhi
Jindal School of Hotel Management
Centennial College
Don Cherry's Sports Grill
Humber College
George Brown College
Mohawk College

And more!

For a complete list click here

Sim-U is now open to the public.....

The day is finally here.

Sim-U - the business simulation website for Learn Business INC. is up and running.

When you are free, feel free to look over the site. www.sim-u.com

If you have any questions, would like a demo, or a webinar, feel free to send us an email to andy@sim-u.com.