This month marked the beginning of a new program launched by the Ministry of Immigration and Multiculturalism to help the nation recruit innovative immigrant entrepreneurs who will hopefully create new jobs and spur economic growth. The new “Start-Up Visa” has been designed to help make Canada the destination of choice for the world’s brightest innovators.  [...]

The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) is taking applications for their government funding for research and development program:  Emerging Technology Program (ETP).   Key focuses and stipulations of this grant funding program include: Job creation in Northern Ontario Economic development potential in Northern Ontario Not negatively impact existing businesses in Northern Ontario Small Business Grants [...]

Marketing has shifted from a one-way communication effort from marketing firms, towards a seamless conversation between the company and its target market. Social media has made marketing a fluid, transparent public relations effort that should not be ignored. However, there are many social media platforms available and businesses find it difficult to stay active on [...]

Many online marketing, Search Engine Optimizers (SEO), and web developers have relied on Google Toolbar to assess a website’s credibility. Through Google’s helpful browser bar, users received a quick glance at the Google PageRank of a site. For those of you unfamiliar with PageRank, it is one of the key components to assessing how a [...]

Many of Mentor Works services are based on helping SMEs grow international sales, and part of those development strategies includes Accounts Receivable Insurance. Regardless of your annual revenue sales, if you have customers that can’t – or won’t – pay, then securing credit insurance may prove to be the smartest option to free up working [...]

Your company’s website may look fully functional on your computer, but how does it perform on a BlackBerry, iPad, or Android Phone? It is expected that by 2013, mobile searches will outpace searches done on conventional computers. Smartphones and tablets are flooding the market and it seems like even traditional products, such as alarm clocks, [...]

These days, it seems that even a lemonade stand needs to create a website to effectively enter the market. If you’re not online, you’re not in the game. Even more, your website that was last updated in 1999 is not doing you much good today either. Companies need to constantly incorporate new technologies and functionality [...]