SMALL BUSINESS: CANADA    Home Sweet Home?
Volume 1, Issue 10    October 26, 2000
http://sbinfocanada.about.com

IN THIS ISSUE:

1. Save Your .CA!
2. New Small Business Canada Forum
3. Staying on Schedule Working at Home
4. Home-Based Business Resources
5. Work from Home Horror Stories
6. Canadian Link of The Week
7. Visio 2000 Review

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SAVE YOUR .CA!

There are only a few days left to re-register your
existing .CA domain name with CIRA. If you don’t
re-register by November 1^st, your domain will go back
on the open market. Find out about the new Canadian
domain registration process and what you have to do
to keep your domain at:

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/weekly/aa091300a.htm

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NEW SMALL BUSINESS CANADA FORUM

Finally! The Small Business: Canada Forum is up and
running! Now you can network with other Canadian
small businesspeople, ask business-related questions,
and comment on business issues online! Enter the
discussions at

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/mpboards.htm

STAYING ON SCHEDULE WORKING AT HOME

Domestic emergencies eating into your working hours?
Tired of wandering around your house looking for files
you just set down for a minute? Here are my seven
rules for making your home working life enjoyable and
productive:

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/weekly/aa102800a.htm

HOME-BASED BUSINESS RESOURCES

Feeling out of the loop? Isolated? Or need to know
about a specific aspect of running your small business
out of your home? Find the information, motivation,
and support you need in my new collection of links
for home-based businesses:

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/homebusiness/index.htm

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SMALL BUSINESS CANADA FORUM

David writes: “I now recommend that a spare keyboard
be an essential item. A poorly-placed glass of water
knocked out the top row of letters on my keyboard. By
the time I gave up trying to clean it up and make it
work, everything had closed.”

Do you have a working from home “Horror Story” to
share?

http://forums.about.com/ab-sbinfocanada/messages?lgnF=y&msg=10.1

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HomeBasedWork.com

In keeping with this week’s theme, this site offers
a cornucopia of resources for anyone who’s interested
in working from home, whether you’re operating your own
business or just looking for home-based work.

http://www.homebasedwork.com/index.html

FYI: The Canadian sites of the week aren’t
advertisements; they’re just sites that I’ve encountered
on my endless net search that I think are well-
constructed and present information of interest to
Canadian small business owners. If you have a site
or know of a site that you’d like to nominate as a
Canadian Site of The Week, email me at:
sbinfocanada.guide@about.com, and I’ll take a look.

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VISIO 2000 FOR SMALL BUSINESS

As Small Business Information Guide Ed Martin points
out, Visio lets you make professional looking visuals
for presentations easily and quickly. I’m a Visio fan!
Find out more about this useful software in Ed’s review:

http://sbinformation.about.com/smallbusiness/sbinformation/library/tips/bltip118.htm

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Your feedback is always welcome. I look forward to
hearing from you in the Small Business Canada forum about
the information in this newsletter or on the site, your
experiences with your small business or Canadian small
business in general:
http://sbinfocanada.about.com/mpboards.htm

If you enjoy this newsletter, feel free to share it
with a friend. If there are things I could do to make it
better, feel free to let me know. Thanks for being a part
of the community that subscribes to Small Business Canada.

Susan Ward
About Guide to Small Business: Canada
http://sbinfocanada.about.com
email: sbinfocanada.guide@about.com

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http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/weekly/aa091300a.htm ”>Save Your .CA</a>

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/mpboards.htm”>New Small Business Canada Forum</a>

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/weekly/aa102800a.htm ”>Staying on Schedule Working At Home</a>

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/homebusiness/index.htm ”>Home-Based Business Resources</a>

http://forums.about.com/ab-sbinfocanada/messages?lgnF=y&msg=10.1 ”>Home Horror Stories</a>

http://www.homebasedwork.com/index.html ”>HomeBasedWork.com</a>

http://sbinformation.about.com/smallbusiness/sbinformation/library/tips/bltip118.htm”>Visio 2000</a>

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