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Website Creating Your First Business Website

 

Join us on Wednesday, June 5th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm for a FREE Live Webinar.  Register for free at Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2X7liOK

Are you one of the many businesses looking to get your first website up and running? Do you have some great content ready, but lack the skills to do it yourself?

Join us for an interactive step-by-step tour of WordPress and leave with a basic website of your own. Getting started is easier than you think on this user-friendly platform that will help you tell the world about your small business.

This seminar will help you:

Know what to look for when selecting a web host
Install a WordPress theme and begin to edit the content for your new site
Become comfortable navigating the WordPress Dashboard
Get started on organizing content and adding media like images, video and audio
Access the power of plugins, widgets and theme settings

Presented By: Simon Rai, Raize Digital

This seminar is hosted at Small Business BC in Vancouver and delivered to other locations via live webinar. Please note: all webinar participants will also receive access to a recording for seven days after the live session.

Website Learn how to sell to the USA

Presented by Export Navigator

In 2016, U.S. companies purchased 72.6% of Canada’s total exports, valued at $453.7 billion. B.C.’s small businesses must consider heading south when exporting their products outside of Canada. This seminar will help you learn the basics of selling your goods to U.S. importers, wholesalers and distributors and you will hear directly from a customs broker sharing insights on how to do it right.

Join us to learn what steps you can take to get your products into Canada’s largest trading partner.

This seminar will help you:

Conduct a readiness check. Which state is right for you?  Which government agencies are involved? Do I have to change my packaging?
Learn tactics to move you, your goods and your samples over the border
Gain a better understanding of the legalities, paperwork and taxes for selling into the U.S.

Presented by: Allison Boulton, Program Manager, Export Navigator, with insights offered by other international trade experts. This seminar is hosted at Small Business BC in Vancouver and delivered to other locations via live webinar. Please note: all webinar participants will also receive access to a recording for seven days after the live session.

Register for FREE on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2JYFWg9