Welcome September: Small Business Funding

The month of September is here and your small business needs funding.

You may be looking to start your small business and get the funding needed to cover the startup costs, to hire and train your staff, to pay for marketing and advertising, to purchase the tools and equipment you need, or simply to improve your cash flow. Whichever it is, your small business needs funding.

What are you going to do about it?

When it comes to small business funding, your options aren’t unlimited. However funding is available as long as you have the time, dedication and desire to look for it.

Small business funding is available from the government of Canada, through the various levels of the government and from various funding agencies. Government funding often comes in the form of government grants, low interest or no interest loans, tax breaks and other financial support. You can also turn to private investment options if the government isn’t the way to go for you.

As the month of September starts, your best odds at getting your small business funded are now!

So what are you going to do about it?

The way we see it you have a few options:

1. Figure it out on your own and find the programs that can be right for you.
2. Get professional help
3. Delay, delay and delay some more (just like you have for the past 9 months)

If you wish to go on your own and try to figure out what programs offered by the government may be available be sure to know where to look and what to look for.

If however you want to focus on your business and get expert help to help you search for available funding programs, consider our Funding Database. As of the start of September, there are over 1,500 funding sources available. These sources include the above mentioned government funding programs as well as hundreds of private investors.

Half of the headache of getting your small business funding it deserves is the headache of having to spend all that time researching to see what may be available. So we’ve taken the headache away and display all available programs. All you have to do is a quick search using our expert developed search tool to locate the programs which may be right for you.

Remember that when looking for programs, search based on these 3 main criteria: your location, your industry and your funding needs.

Because funding is offered from multiple funding agencies across the country, for various industries and for various funding needs, each program has it’s own set of criteria.

To ensure success, have a business plan ready, know the program and apply only to those programs that you clearly meet the criteria and requirements for.

Let’s make the month of September the month you get funded!