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BizLaunch Believes. We believe you should be your own boss. We believe entrepreneurship creates a better life for you and your family. We believe your business will generate wealth, health and happiness. We believe your business can change the world. BizLaunch believes success comes from knowledge and experience, and we want to share ours with you.

BizLaunch co-founders Andrew Patricio and Roger Pierce came together in 2003 to begin sharing their “been there, done that” knowledge and experience gleaned from launching 22 small businesses. They formed the company to pursue one simple mission: To help new entrepreneurs succeed through education and training. Now Canada’s largest small business training company, BizLaunch has advised over 20,000 new entrepreneurs worldwide, employs a growing number of head office staff and works with over 40 regional BizLaunch Small Business Trainers located in cities across the country.

With help available for anyone who is thinking about starting a business, recently launched one, or looking to grow, the company works exclusively with new small business owners in business for less than five years. Thanks to corporate partners such as STAPLES, Bell, Microsoft, Bell Aliant, Scotiabank, Visa, FedEx, Cisco, Industry Canada and others, BizLaunch advice is dispensed for free through 90-minute “how-to” seminars, webinars, educational articles, entrepreneur success stories, business tools, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, manuals, guidebooks, the website, one to one telephone coaching, media appearances, videos and podcasts.

BizLaunch Trainers

	Nadia Baboo Image and personal branding expert, seasoned coach, speaker and writer, Nadia takes her clients from invisible to outstanding by helping them to hone their communication skills, presentation and enhance their personal appearance. With over 15 years experience in the beauty industry and a strong training and public relations background, she knows the importance of your image for both your personal and professional life. Nadia has led motivating workshops for companies in the private, public & not-for-profit sectors. She has appeared on Rogers Television’s Daytime, CityTV's Breakfast Television and CBC's The Gill Deacon Show. She also runs Fairview’s Personal Style Program, exclusive to Fairview Mall in Toronto.
	Steven Beal Steve consults with business owners who want to buy, sell, value or improve their business. Steve has over 15 years of experience working in strategic management positions at RBC and being a business owner – which started as a teenager when he was running a printing and mail order business. He has been a speaker at many seminars including those for local business service centers.
	Roger Deveau Roger is an entrepreneur with a background in finance. He has spent years learning how to communicate effectively and is passionate about building relationships with people. Roger is the founder of Ethos Business Concepts, a business that teaches entrepreneurs how to comfortably and effectively network and build word of mouth advertising for their business.
	Michelle Devlin An accomplished speaker, consultant and workshop leader Michelle supports her clients as they develop effective communication skills. In turn, they become better speakers, presenters and orators. These skills lead her clients to greater success in their professional and personal lives. Fifteen years of public speaking, sales and marketing experience have helped her understand the nuances of client relationships and the role effective business communication plays in corporate success. Michelle’s enthusiasm and energy, combined with her experience and skill, lend to dynamic seminars that create a setting that is most conducive to learning. She is professionally affiliated with both Toastmasters International and the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
	Cathy Favre Cathy Favre is the Project Manager for the Newfoundland and Labrador Angel Network (NLAN). NLAN connects Newfoundland and Labrador entrepreneurs with local angel investors who provide the capital and mentorship needed for high growth companies to succeed. Equipped with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics, Cathy has built a progressive career and is extensively involved in the community on a professional and personal level. Cathy has over 15 years experience in business with extensive experience in the technology, eLearning and training sectors. Before joining NLAN, Cathy held a number of senior executive positions for a number of companies in Canada and the US providing products and services globally to clients such as Microsoft Corporation (Global Headquarters, Redmond, Washington) and the World Bank (Global Headquarters, Washington, DC).
	Bryan Freeman Bryan Freeman is co-founder of HitGrab Inc. He partnered with Joel Auge, another former BizLaunch student, to bring the company to the position it is in today. HitGrab is an award winning social gaming company with around 20 full time employees. Bryan has had experience working in Churches and with Youth that presented many opportunities to speak. Kids are a tough crowd so it is important to grab their attention right away. “At some stage your dreams and aspirations for your business get tested and you lose heart. Pushing through those times and believing in myself and me team has been my biggest challenge", says Freeman. Bryan has been a BizLaunch trainer for over 2 years.
	Marvin Garellek A “Lifetime Entrepreneur”, Marvin launched and ran a marketing and communications agency for 9 years serving a range of clients in the skate, hotel, lighting and technology sectors which he went on to sell to a multinational ad agency. In 1992 Marvin founded Internet Capital Bulletin Board Inc. (ICBB), and developed Plan A™ Business PlanWorks software - A consulting system that delivers successful business, marketing and sales strategies that best fit customer profiles. The system has been rated Success Magazine’s Editors’ 7 time choice. Marvin also serves on Citibank’s Panel of Experts, as a Gerson Lehrman Group Council Member and a public speaker for Youth Employment Services (YES) in Montreal.
	Ron Gordon Ron Gordon is the owner of The Byland Group, Gemini Training Solutions and Planet K9 Academy. He is a professional speaker, educator, and writer as well as an advisor and consultant to several entrepreneurship programs. Having been an entrepreneur for over 23 years, Ron has a natural aptitude and love for learning, training and sharing knowledge. Ron has built many successful businesses and brings his many years of business experience together with his passion for helping people succeed. He has helped hundreds of businesses and entrepreneurs become more successful. As a result, he has helped his clients reach their true potential and realize their business visions and dreams.
	Nancy-Beth Guptil An experienced motivational trainer and speaker specialising in Entrepreneurship, small business and personal development, she has been an entrepreneur since she was 18. She provides business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs with the right tools, training, inspiration and professional guidance to help both launch and grow their businesses. Nancy loves helping people to reach their goals by motivating and inspiring them to become all they can be.
	Debi Hartlen-MacDonald Debi Hartlen MacDonald, founded New Life Business Solutions. She focuses on helping clients develop focused and strategic plans in the areas of sales and marketing, resulting in working smarter – not harder. Through her affiliations with other professionals she assists clients in developing traditional and non-traditional marketing tools and resources to get their product/service to market…from business cards to social media strategies. Her approach of “THINK IT-PLAN IT-DO IT” helps her clients achieve results. She shares her passion through workshops and training for small business owners and corporate sales teams. She has been presenting BizLaunch Seminars since September 2008.
	Linda Lord Linda Lord, Coach and Indepreneur, has been a successful professional practitioner for 11 years. Beginning her business as an independent contractor with SkillPath Seminars, Linda provided high quality public and on-site training across Canada and the United States. Wanting to work closer to home, Linda continued her independent contract work with St Clair College Corporate Training Department and returned to school in pursuit of her coach training. She graduated from the Coach University Coach Training Program in December 2001. Linda has provided both group and individual coaching for Career Employees, Self-Employed Professionals, and Professional Practitioners in the areas of professional performance, soft skill development and applied personality theory to advance interpersonal effectiveness. She has provided facilitation and workshops to businesses and not for profit organizations focusing on strategic direction, goal setting, and action planning. Linda is member in good standing with CoachVille and the International Coach Federation. She is a member of 24-7 Coaching, Canada Coaches, and the International Association of Coaches. Linda is also a Certified Retirement Options Coach.
	Fairlie Mc Phee Fairlie MacPhee has an MBA and a CMA and has many years of experience in business and management. She has held various positions as a Controller, an Auditor, an Accountant, and more recently as a Business Owner. She has worked in both large and small organizations where she was able to improve both processes and procedures to make organizations more effective. She has added value to by teaching employees new skills which allow them to operate more effectively within their organizations. Fairlie has a rich history of experiences which help her to solve problems and understand the needs of her clients. She draws on her experience and education when training others or working with clients.
	Andrew Patricio 9 Upcoming Events Andrew Patricio is the owner of BizLaunch and has has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience. Andrew is the author of two books on small business and has started 7 businesses of his own and worked with thousands of entrepreneurs in Canada, Russia, Latvia, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Korea, USA, Holland, Namibia, Belgium, USA, Barbados and South Africa.
	Susan Robichaud After many years of working in the corporate world, Susan left to begin her journey of entrepreneurship and founded Axion Marketing, where she offers business consulting and delivers highly interactive presentations and workshops. In her spare time she is a facilitator for numerous community events. Susan will inform, inspire and motivate you toward planning, marketing and growing your business.
	Anne Stone After getting a degree in Animal Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters in business from St. Mary's University in Halifax, N.S. Anne Stone landed in the big city of Toronto and began working for Kodak Canada in marketing. After incubating the idea of starting her own business, Women in a home Office, Anne decided to do something about it. She placed an ad in the local paper for Women in a Home Office and the rest is history. She ran the first chapter for three years part-time before leaping to full-time in 2003. Today, Women in a Home Office has over 1000 subscribers and eight chapters across Canada. The organization consists of monthly meetings, workshops and telemeetings. Anne has been interviewed many times by the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living Magazine and TV, CBC Radio, Global's MoneyWise, Business Edge, CFRN to name just a few.
	Dianna Thorne Dianna Thorne, Targeted Accounting’s President, is a Chartered Accountant with more than 15 years of accounting, financial and business management experience. She is an expert in the areas of budgeting, business plans, process redesign, QuickBooks software, and company start-up. Dianna is also an accomplished public speaker and presents BizLaunch’ How to Pay Less Tax seminar. She is the author of several articles featured in CA Magazine, enewsletter Girlphyte, and ProConnection Newsletter. Dianna’s company provides day to day bookkeeping, business plan preparation and accounting consulting for entrepreneurial companies.
	Stephen Tobin Stephen currently works with the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education & Development, where he manages a rehabilitative and entrepreneurial development program for local youth and remains an active member of his community. Stephen serves as Chapter President for JCI Cape Breton, one of Canada’s premier business leadership organizations. Stephen is also a Council Member for the Sydney Area Chamber of Commerce a director for Whitney Pier Youth Club and a board member forNovaKnowledge, a provincial think tank organization dedicated to the development of a flourishing, sustainable knowledge based economy in Nova Scotia. Stephen is passionate about creating opportunities for youth and also actively volunteers with organizations such as the Big Brothers & Big Sistersmentoring program.
	Kevin Toney Kevin Toney has been an entrepreneur since the early 1990’s, with a B.A and certificates in Small Business Development, Small business Management he is a highly motivated speaker and trainer. He is an instructor at the YMCA and the YWCA in the Self-employment program and as a result has developed a passion for small business marketing. Kevin is a volunteer High School volleyball coach and combines his passion for coaching with his love for small business marketing, into a business that helps small business owners struggling to improve their marketing and increase their sales. Through Primetime Promotions, where he coaches small business owners and sales professionals on how to find and attract customers, using tested, proven and affordable marketing strategies.
	Penny Tremblay Penny is the president of the Tremblay Leadership Center, which offers professional development and leadership training, seminars, and coaching services to assist organizations and individuals achieve their goals. Penny educates and motivates individuals by speaking at venues locally throughout Canada and the United States. With her involvement in the North Bay and Area Toastmasters club since 2003 Penny has attained Advanced Communicator Gold and Competent Leader designations. Penny’s “Leadership Tips” are circulated electronically, and in many newspapers, magazines and journals, both locally and internationally. In 2007, Penny was published as co-author of You’re My Hero’ with Chicken Soup for the Soul pioneer, Barry Spilchuk. Through the continued sales of the book, women and children’s charities benefit.
	Jacqui Walsh As assistant Professor of Business at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Memorial University of Newfoundland Corner Brook, Jacqui has had many years experience teaching entrepreneurship to aspiring young professionals. Her focus on business has helped charter the course for many potential and new small business owners in Newfoundland.

Become a BizLaunch Corporate Partner

BizLaunch can help connect your corporation to small business owners. Drawn to our how-to advice, entrepreneurs trust BizLaunch and are therefore more receptive to your message. If you are marketing to small business owners, we can supply:

BizLaunch Seminars. Our flagship product is our live 90-minute seminars, available in dozens of topics. We handle all aspects of a seminar program including marketing, publicity, registration, confirmation, presentation, equipment, data collection and reporting.
Webinars. Sixty-minute webinars attract small business owners and easily connect to your company.
How-to Articles. Draw entrepreneurs to your small business website, blog or newsletter with our custom-written how-to articles.
Small Business Success Stories. Let us write about your small business customers using your products or services, to post on your website or newsletter.
BizTools. We supply hundreds of useful little tools that small business owners love to download, such as a Cash Flow Forecast Template, blank Business Plan or Startup Budget Calculator.
How-to Guides. Ask us to create a how-to guide to distribute to your small business customers or prospects.
Social media marketing. We are leaders in using social media to reach small business owners. Ask what we can do for your company.
BizCoaching. Keep your customers close by offering our one-to-one mentorship service to them.
Up & Running BizLaunch Program. Over 2000 entrepreneurs worldwide have taken our comprehensive 30-hour training program, which can be offered through your company.
BizCoaching Videos. Put a BizLaunch Small Business Expert on your website or blog with a three-minute coaching video. Use one of our existing videos, or work with us to create your own.
Small Business Speakers. BizLaunch Experts are available to speak at any conference, trade show, networking session, media event or product launch.
Corporate Training. Help your team to learn how to market to small business owners in one of our customized training sessions.
And more. Ask how we can help advance your small business marketing plans!

For additional information, please contact co-founder Andrew Patricio at 1-855-483-7995 or andrew@bizlaunch.ca

BizLaunch Media Inc.

268 Adelaide St. West

Toronto, Ontario

M5H 1X6

1-855-483-7995

BizLaunch Media Room

Canada’s largest small business training company, BizLaunch has trained over 20,000 small business owners across the country and around the world.

Our two company Founders and 40 Small Business Trainers are experienced entrepreneurs who have collectively launched over 100 ventures. We live and breathe entrepreneurship. As our name implies, we know what it takes to start and run a small business and want to share that expertise with you.

If you’re a journalist, blogger or member of the media, BizLaunch can help you by quickly supplying:

Commentary as Small Business Experts or Startup Experts on any news item
Industry statistics, research, entrepreneurship trends & predictions
Prepared articles on any small business topic
Access to thousands of small business owners across three categories – thinking about starting up, recently launched or growing a small business
Insights into how entrepreneurs think, why they start-up, and the challenges they face
Access to major corporations serving small business owners
‘Top Ten’ lists, bullet points, examples, anecdotes, short tips and speaking points on anything to do with small business.

For immediate response to your media inquiry, please contact Andrew:andrew@bizlaunch.com.

If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll find advice, information and inspiration within the stories, articles, news and media releases available here.

Contact BizLaunch

Address:

BizLaunch Media Inc.

268 Adelaide St. West

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

M5H 1X6

Information:

416-581-8880 Phone

1-855-483-7995 Toll-free

416-581-0019 Fax

Need a conference or seminar room? Ask us!

Andrew Patricio | VP Training | andrew@bizlaunch.ca

Inquiries | info@bizlaunch.ca

Registrations | register@bizlaunch.ca

268 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5H 1X6

Directions by TTC:

Exit West side of St. Andrew subway station on the University Line. Walk two blocks West to John Street, one block North to Adelaide. We’re near the NE corner on Adelaide.

Directions by Car:

DVP southbound to Gardiner. Exit Spadina. North to Adelaide, East to John. Parking is available on the corner of Adelaide and John Streets.