Small business advice - Hamilton, ON

Resources for Registering a Small Business In Ontario

Sole Propietorship or General Partnership:

Cost $60.00 Registration + $8.00 per Name Search
On-line at Ontario Business Connects
In person at - Small Business Enterprise Centre in Jackson Square OR
Ellen Fairclough Builiding 119 King St. W. 1st or 15th Floor
For any questions with regard to registering a Sole Proprietorship of Partnership you can contact: Ontario Business Connects at 1 800 565-1921.

* Enhanced Business Name Search
* Business Name Registrations/Renewal

Corporation Registration:

Provincial Incorporation
Ontario Land Registry Office
119 King St. W. 4th Floor Hamilton (905) 521-756
Fee of $360. (Minister of Finance)
For more information please visit: www.cbs.gov.on.ca

Federal Incorporation
Industry Canada Corporations Directorate
(613) 941-9042
$200 when submitted on-line or $250 for all other means.
NUANS Report is $20 +gst. at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca
For more information please visit: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html/

Business Plan Resources:
Interactive Business Planner
B-Plan Section Help: BizPlanIt’s
Examples of Business Plans

Sources of Funding/Grants
Financing Info Guide - Financing Info-Guide
Funding:
Business Development Bank of Canada
Royal Bank
Grants/Government Programs:
Strategis -

To learn more about Muncipal Licensing Requirements for specific business types in Hamilton.
Visit the Building & Licensing Department for more information.

The Hamilton Public Libaray “Find-it Guides” for business startup for more information has: books, magazines or other resources for starting your business.

Search Engine Market Share for February 2006
This article shows data from the United States ( Year over Year )

NEW YORK - Google’s market share has risen 6 percentage points in the U.S. search market based on total queries. It is pulling ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft’s MSN, according to data released Tuesday March 28 2006 according to Reuters.

United States Search Engine market share summary for February 2006
Google = 42.3 percent
Yahoo = 27.6 percent
MSN = 13.5 percent

Google’s market share went from 36.3 up to 42.3 percent in February a year earlier, according to data provided by ComScore.

Yahoo’s market share went from 31.1 down to 27.6 percent from a year erlier.

MSN’s market share went fell from 16.3 down to 13.5 percent from last year.

Ask.com was the only other search engine to gain market share - from 5.3 up to 6 percent from a year earlier.

Google, had an 11 percent increase in total search queries for the month and this shows a healthy sector.

“We expect Google’s increased market share in search queries, and better monetization of queries to lead to increased share of ad dollars relative to its competitors” in the first half of 2006, Merrill Lynch analysts Justin Post and Lauren Rich Fine wrote Tuesday.

Merrill Lynch said Google also stood to gain in the coming months as its main competitors “struggle” to improve the technology and experience surrounding their search engines.

Google revenue rose 20 % in the third quarter of 2005, even though the number of searches on it’s site were down during that quarter.

March 24 Hamilton Chamber BUDGET BREAKFAST

brought to you by..

The Business Executives Organization
And
The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce

Guest Speaker: Minister Marie Bountrogianni

With

M.P.P.’s Judy Marsales, Ted McMeekin and Jennifer Mossop

Friday, March 24, 2006

7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

$25.00 per person (gst included)

To Register: p.dieryck@hamiltonchamber.on.ca

Annual market share gains by the big 3 in the Search Engine Wars

Searches made via search engines in the U.S. topped 5 billion in December and the share of search by Google continues to grow according to research released this week by Nielsen//NetRatings.

Nielsen mentioned that just over 5 billion online searches were conducted across approximately 60 search engines in the U.S. in Dec. compared to 3.3 billion in Dec. 2004 - a 55 % year-over-year increase.
The big-three search engines: Google, Yahoo! and MSN performed 81.1% of all searches in December 2005, up slightly from 78.8% in December 2004.

In absolute terms, all of the big three experienced double-digit growth year-over-year in December 2005, however in terms of market share Google was the big winner.

Google Search grew 75 % to nearly 2.5 billion searches.
Yahoo! Search rose 53 % to nearly 1.1 billion searches.
MSN Search increased 20 % to 553 million searches

Google has pulled significantly away from its competitors. The market leader in online search posted a 48.8% share in December 2005 up from a 43.1% share in December 2004. Yahoo! place second with a 21.4% market share down from 21.7% the previous year while MSN dropped to 10.9% down from 14.0% the previous year.

Despite more searches, Nielsen-NetRatings found that the number of people connecting to the Internet in the U.S. rose just three percent to 207 million people. This meant that the average online American performed approximately 25 searches in December 2005 versus about 16 searches in December 2004.

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