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Do you dream of running a business?

Start a business with the Biz Class online course.

Online Business Course

For startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and sole proprietors across Canada

The Biz Class course follows the schedule of the business coaching program without weekly coaching sessions making it more affordable for entrepreneurs.

The 2024 online course begins with your application.

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Course Schedule

The course program is designed for service-based or e-commerce business owners who want help learning how to start and develop a new or existing business.

Each week content is added to the online course to teach learners how to start a business from the very beginning with a step-by-step approach.

The Biz Class is an online course to help aspiring and new entrepreneurs overcome start-up barriers (e.g., uncertainty about market demand, lack of startup capital, navigating legal regulations, and limited technology knowledge).

The Biz Class learners will work towards having a business ready to launch in 4 months.

The Curriculum

Business and Communications Strategy

First Month

The Biz Class learners will create a strategic business plan including strategic communications to strategize goals while implementing the start-up lean method to manage the costs of operating their business with the essentials (i.e., website platform, accounting software, phone app).

Learners will discover how to effectively research and plan a comprehensive digital marketing strategy to identify core audiences to align with financial goals.

Designing the Business for Sales

Second Month

The Biz Class learners will prepare to earn sales by designing documents such as presentations, slide decks, sales sheets, and webinar scripts for networking, pitches and new business meetings. Learners will discover how to use various networking strategies such as qualifying leads to work with qualified customers.

Content Creation, Digital Skills, Website and Branding

Third Month

The Biz Class learners will develop advertising content and branding to communicate with their core audience groups. Learners will learn digital skills to design and develop a website including social media messages for digital marketing campaigns.

Making Money

Fourth Month

The Biz Class learners will learn how to implement day-to-day business-related accounting and bookkeeping tasks to make money. Learners will apply legal regulations specific to their business sector to contracts, estimates, and invoices to start developing businesses to onboard their first or new clients.

Don’t forget!

If you register for The Biz Class before September 10th, 2024, you will receive an additional 20% off.

Apply today.

What’s inside the Business Coaching Program

The Biz Class is a match for anyone who wants to start a business while being taught how to launch a business from the very start.

Why you’ll get so much from the course

The Biz Class is an asynchronous online course to help learners start a business in Canada. The course is for anyone passionate about starting a business and who can dedicate time to work on the business progress weekly.

The course will help new entrepreneurs, sole proprietors, small business owners, and freelancers define their unique financial goals based on strategic market research to create strategic communications plans to connect with their core audiences.

Following the strategy, learners will create digital media content for a website and social media posts, while implementing business development, accounting and bookkeeping basics. Learners will implement essential legal elements of contracts, terms and conditions, estimates and invoices relevant to their sector.

Course content is added to the online classroom weekly. Learners can join two office hour sessions weekly to ask the coach questions and receive feedback on progress.

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Achieving your business dreams and financial goals

Make starting a business affordable with the startup lean method

What does starting lean mean?

The Biz Class teaches how to start a business without spending a small fortune on starting a business idea.

The Biz Class teaches anyone who wants to start a service business with a small budget of just $100-$200 a month how to operate from home.

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Lots of extra $$$ savings to help you afford to start

The Biz Class give you free stuff to help you afford more

Here’s what’s free when you register for The Biz Class:

  1. 20% off your first year of Squarespace

  2. An extended trial to build the website with zero website fees for 6 months! Normally Squarespace only offers a 14 14-day free trial with registration.

  3. Free custom domain registration for one year

  4. Free professional email for one year

  5. Google Workspace is also free for one year

A Business Coaching Program for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Designed for Canadian startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and sole proprietors

Invest in yourself and launch a business in January 2025!

Affordable Value

One payment of $350

The online course offers affordable value to help you start a business, build a website, design a logo, and campaigns for social media posts to help you start a service-based or e-commerce business from home.

What’s Included

  • Watch weekly recorded video lessons anytime

  • Join two Q&A drop-in Office Hour sessions every week to receive progress reviews with feedback

  • Access group chat to network and share ideas

The Biz Class Online Course

The Learning Outcomes

  • Learn how to start your own business (home-based business or e-commerce) with a small start-up investment ($100-$200 monthly for operating costs)

  • Align financial goals with a business plan

  • Build and design a website

  • Design a logo and social marketing graphics for strategic communications

  • Develop content for digital marketing campaigns to advertise to your audiences on social media

  • Learn the value of blogging

  • Learn how to use SEO to your advantage for organic website traffic

  • Learn how to use Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest to generate organic leads

  • Develop a new business with zero sales experience

  • Learn how to manage day-to-day business responsibilities like bookkeeping, creating estimates and invoices and what the business legal stuff is required

Join The Biz Class to learn how to run a business with $200 or less!

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Join The Biz Class to learn how to run a business with $200 or less! 😎

“Christine is an outstanding mentor and leader, and I am looking forward to working with her again in the future.”

Vivian Harvey, UX Designer at GoC

The Biz Class Online Course Learning Outcomes

You will learn how to run a home-based business with $200 (or less) monthly and so much more!

When the course is complete, all that is required for learners is to execute the action steps of the strategic business plan to begin operating their business.

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What You Will Learn From the Online Course

Learners will develop practical skills to operate a service-based business from home while acquiring new and higher-paid skills such as digital marketing.

The learning outcomes are

  • Create a business

  • Develop a strategic business plan

  • Create, build and design a website for the business

  • Design a wordmark logo

  • Develop a strategic communications plan to advertise to key audience(s)

  • Create and plan digital marketing campaigns to align with financial goals

  • Understand SEO, blogging and writing for websites

  • Learn networking strategies to develop new business

  • Learn how to qualify leads to become customers

  • Create a sales presentation, slide deck, and sales sheets

  • Learn basics of accounting, bookkeeping, and the legal requirements of business contracts and estimates

When the course is complete, learners will have acquired business development, networking and digital skills to begin advertising to communicate their business offerings to their core audiences.

What’s Inside the Course

Learning Outcomes

  1. Develop a strategic business plan

  2. Create, design and develop a website for a home-based service or e-commerce business

  3. Design a logo (includes colour theory and brand guidelines)

  4. Learn how to add, edit and update content on a website without hiring a web designer or web developer

  5. Create a strategic plan to communicate and connect with your key audiences

  6. Develop strategic campaigns for digital marketing with daily graphics to share on social media (e.g, Stories, Reels, and Pins)

  7. Learn how to develop new business opportunities with business development strategies

  8. Learn about the legal responsibilities of owning a business for bookkeeping and accounting, plus the essential legal requirements of contracts, estimates and invoices

  9. Learn to apply the basics of SEO to write content to generate organic website traffic

  10. Create sales presentations such as slide decks and sales sheets for pitches and networking (e.g., cold calls and emails)

Discounts

  • Squarespace discounts (20% discount off the annual subscription)

  • Extended 6-month trial to build a website

  • Free domain registration for one year

  • Free professional email for one year with your domain

Support & Feedback

  • Digital skills instruction for non-technical learners

  • Weekly mentorship and business coaching during Office Hours

  • Learn how to develop new business with networking strategies

  • Learn to qualify leads without wasting your time

  • Learn how to find quality clients or customers

  • Implement the power of word-of-mouth advertising to generate referrals

  • Start a business with a limited budget using startup lean methods

  • Learn strategies to handle rejection and stay productive

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Want a career that offers financial independence?

Then it benefits you to invest in starting a business.

The Biz Class follows the schedule of the online course but is paired with weekly coaching sessions.