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Signature Partners

TD Canada Trust logo TD Canada Trust - Small Business Banking
Industry: Banking
www.tdcanadatrust.com/smallbusiness

TD Canada Trust is proud to support the 2009 SOHO SME Conference and Expo as one of the "Signature Partner" sponsors. We have been serving the needs of hard-working business owners for over 150 years, and at TD Canada Trust, we're also working hard to help you achieve your goals.

Our commitment to small business starts with diverse and innovative products, services, and advice tailored specifically to your small business needs. We offer small business owners practical credit and deposit solutions - including economical service plans, simple business banking forms, and credit applications with fast credit decisions. We provide quick and efficient service with the convenience of extended hours and business wickets at many branches, and 24-hour-a-day account access through our Green Machine ABMs, EasyLine telephone banking, and our award winning EasyWeb Internet banking. In addition, a team of dedicated business banking specialists are available to help ensure that you're banking needs are met whether you are just starting out or as your business grows and your needs become more complex.

Spend less time banking and more time building your business, contact your local TD Canada Trust branch or visit us at www.tdcanadatrust.com/smallbusiness and discover the benefits of a comfortable banking experience.
www.tdcanadatrust.com/smallbusiness

The Portables logo The Portables
Industry: Printing
www.theportables.com

The Portables combines the perfect balance of exhibit structures and custom graphics to help our clients achieve their tradeshow marketing objectives.  The Portables also provides services such as Exhibit Management, Show Selection, Staff Training and Exhibit Space Planning to cover ever aspect of a tradeshow program. Whether you are a small business or large organization, The Portables provides a total solution that will attract attention to your exhibit and allow you to "stand out from the crowd”.

CanPages Canpages
www.canpages.ca
Canpages is Canada's fastest growing local search company. Providing a multimedia platform that focuses on relevant, local results, Canpages offers many choices with online, print and mobile options.

Canpages.ca is Canada’s national online directory for local business and residential searches. In excess of 3.5 million unique visitors come to visit the site every month with their local search requests.

Rich and relevant local content sets Canpages.ca apart from other directories, including photos, videos and other immersive media. Canpages’ robust online directory combines comprehensive data and a unique user experience with maps and satellite images provided by Bing.

With 84 print publications and over 55,000 customers, Canpages reaches more than 8 million households and businesses across Canada. Canpages publishes local telephone directories across Ontario, BC, Quebec, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories.

Canpages offers advanced mobile search technologies and multiple search possibilities with free text messages to mobile phones, mobile maps, direct SMS search and advanced WAP and iPhone mobile browsing experiences.

Canpages Inc. is owned by Yellow Media Inc. , a subsidiary of Yellow Pages Income Fund. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canpages employs 700 people and has offices in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

Platnum Partners

BC Business BC Business Magazine
www.bcbusinessonline.ca

Bio Coming Soon!

National Post National Post
www.nationalpost.com

Built on the strength and tradition of The Financial Post, National Post continues to provide readers with comprehensive reporting from across the country and around the world. Each section goes in-depth to engage readers, resulting in a well-rounded product, including highly respected business reporting.
Extending its rich tradition of design leadership to the web, nationalpost.com and financialpost.com, deliver an immediate, in-depth, and customizable news experience.
National Post truly is a better read.

WorkSafeBC WorkSafeBC
Industry: Sector / Government > Crown Corporation
www.worksafebc.com

WorkSafeBC is committed to a safe and healthy workplace and to providing return-to-work rehabilitation and legislated compensation benefits to workers injured as a result of their employment.

Gold Partners

Bullfrog Power Bullfrog Power
Industry: Other > Environmental products
www.bullfrogpower.com

Bullfrog Power is Canada's leading 100 per cent green electricity provider. Founded in 2005, Bullfrog Power is the only company providing everyone in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia with a 100 per cent low-impact renewable electricity choice. Bullfrog Power's green electricity comes exclusively from wind and hydro facilities that have been certified by Environment Canada under its EcoLogo program instead of from carbon-intensive sources like coal and natural gas or higher impact hydro facilities.

BIV Business in Vancouver
www.biv.com

Each week, Business in Vancouver gives you the information you need to stay on top of your game and find that competitive edge.  BIV provides a unique combination of business news, commentary, and information covering Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.  BIV – what business in Vancouver looks like

Blink Blink Media
www.blinkmediaworks.com

Bio Coming Soon!

Symantec Symantec
Industry: Norton AntiVirus, Internet security, and anti-spyware products
www.symantec.com/en/ca/smb

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations – secure and manage their information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently. As the world’s fourth largest independent software company, our unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of device, platform, interaction or location. Our software and services protect completely, in ways that can be managed easily and with controls that can be enforced automatically – enabling confidence wherever information is used.    

Industry Partners

CanadaOne Canada One
www.canadaone.com
CPSA CPSA (Canada's Professional Sales Association)
Industry: Sales and Marketing
www.cpsa.com
BC Chamber of Commerce BC Chamber of Commerce
www.bcchamber.org
FHS Events FHS Events
Industry: Event Planning
fhsevents.com
HRMA Human Resources Management Association BC
www.bchrma.org
Jounior Achievement Junior Achievement of British Columbia
jabc.org
Power Within Power Within
Industry: Motivational leadership events
www.powerwithin.com
Success Coaching Success Coaching
Industry: Business Coaching
www.SueClement.com
Training Business Pros Training Business Pros
www.trainingbusinesspros.com
VentureOne Venture One
Industry: Shipping products and services
www.canadapost.ca/ventureone

Lunch Sponsor

Go Forth GoForth Institute
www.goforthinstitute.com

GoForth Institute was established to improve the odds of success of Canadian entrepreneurs. It delivers best-practices, instant traction online education for entrepreneurs and ongoing support for people who are thinking of starting, ready to start or wanting to grow a small business.

With help from over 200 successful Canadian entrepreneurs – GoForth Institute designed a new category of adult entrepreneurship education – comprehensive, fast, affordable and accessible business knowledge for start-up and growth businesses – satisfying a need of Canada’s over 500,000 micro-businesses.
GoForth education is real-time and convenient - delivered in 10 hours online with an innovative technology platform that delivers streaming HD video instruction right to the entrepreneur’s desktop and soon Apple iPad.

Starting and growing a small business can be challenging and GoForth Institute will be available when the going gets tough. On-going support is offered to students through GoForth’s Ask an Expert program, a convenient and free web support program monitored by a panel of experts who are there to help guide the start-up and growth path.

GoForth Institute has teamed up with Angus Reid-Vision Critical to conduct innovative new research with our nation’s entrepreneurs – every year the pulse of Canadian entrepreneurs is taken with GoForth Institute’s National Entrepreneurship Sentiment Survey™ - what they’re thinking, what’s happening in their businesses, where their challenges are – all designed to help GoForth deliver the best, most current entrepreneurship education in Canada.
The need for entrepreneurship education is clear – of the 130,000 small businesses that start in Canada every year, only 30% will see their fifth birthday. That is – until now.

Reception Sponsor

Go Forth Molson Canadian
www.molsoncanadian.ca
 

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Signature Partners

The Portables

TD Canada Trust

CanPages

Platnum Partners

Work Safe BC

National Post

BC Business

Gold Partners

Symantec

blink

BIV

Bullfrog

Luch Sponsor

Go Forth

Industry Partners

BC Chamber of Commerce

Canada One

CPSA

FHS Events

Human Resources Management Association BC

Junior Achievement of
British Columbia

Power Within

Success Coaching

Training Business Pros

Venture One