Complete Canadian Small Business Guide

The Definitive Guide to Owning and Running a Successful Small Business

The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide has been the go-to book for thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs ever since it was first published in 1988. Now in its fourth edition, this essential guide updates you on everything you need to know to understand, manage, and take advantage of the latest changes in technology, law, resources, and best practices of today’s small businesses.

Renowned experts in their field, Douglas Gray and Diana Gray provide a complete reference for every question you have and offer street-smart tips that will give your small business a competitive advantage.

The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide, Fourth Edition, answers all your questions about starting, operating, and expanding your business, including:

• Should I buy a business, a franchise, or start from scratch?

• Where do I get financing, how much do I need, and how do I pay it back?

• How do I get credit from my suppliers, and when should I extend it to my customers?

• How do I maximize the value of my lawyer, accountant, banker, and insurance broker?

• How do I use Internet marketing, SEO and social media to enhance my business?

• How do I hire the best employees―and keep them?

Easy-to-read and fully up-to-date, The Complete Canadian Small Business Guide provides the information you need in virtually any situation.

Douglas Gray, LLB, is Canada’s foremost authority on small business. Formerly a practicing lawyer, he is the author of 25 bestselling business and personal finance books. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. Visit www.smallbiz.ca

Diana Gray is an experienced business owner and consultant. Her company provides centralized business services to small and medium-sized companies as well as home-based businesses.

DOUGLAS GRAY, LL.B., is a Vancouver-based expert on estate and retirement planning. Formerlya practicing business and real estate lawyer, he is now a consultant, speaker, columnist and authorof 25 bestselling business and personal finance books (published primarily by McGraw-Hill andJohn Wiley & Sons), including the “Top 10 National Best-seller,” The Canadian Snowbird Guide.Many of these books have been published in other languages and adapted for foreign jurisdictions.Douglas has also designed a real estate investment software program for McGraw-HillRyerson and has been a regular expert contributor on personal finances issues for various internetsites and CD-ROM products, including Microsoft Money and QuickTax―Home and Business. Hehas also been a regular contributor to the Microsoft Canada Small Business web site and theMicrosoft Network Canadian Money Central web site.

Douglas has given seminars and presentations to over 250,000 people nationally and internationallyin his various areas of expertise.Frequently interviewed by the media as an authority on personal finance and retirementmatters, Douglas has appeared many times on various CBC, CTV and Global TV programs. Hehas given over 1,500 media interviews. He has been a regular columnist for Profit, Computer Paper,Canadian Computer Wholesaler, Canada News and Forever Young and a nationally syndicatedcolumnist for Southam Press. He has also been a periodic contributor to the Globe and Mail,Toronto Star, House and Home, Macleans, Good Times, Canadian Moneysaver, Adviser’s Edge, TheSuccessful Investor and many other publications.

His family of web sites includes estateplanning.ca, retirementplanning.ca, snowbird.ca,homebuyer.ca and smallbiz.ca.

DIANA GRAY is an experienced business owner and consultant. Her company provides centralized business services to small and medium-sized companies as well as home-based businesses. Diana lives in Vancouver, BC.