LibGuides: Business Management for Jewellers: Small Business Start Up and Management

Tips, Ideas and Strategies

Home Jewelry Business Success Tips by Rena Klingenberg
Over 1000 pages of tips, ideas and strategies for selling handmade jewelry, shared by hundreds of jewelry artists from around the world.

Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets can be helpful in streamlining the way you manage your business. Spreadsheets can be used to keep track of sales, expenses, production costs, inventory, etc. The most widely used spreadsheets are Excel (Microsoft) and Numbers (Apple).

YouTube Tutorials - MotionTraining
Show you how to set up a spreadsheet, enter data and perform simple calculations.
Excel 2016 Quick Start
Excel video training
Numbers basics - YouTube
Numbers rows and columns - YouTube
Numbers formulas - YouTube

Planning

Starting a Small Business (in BC, 2019)
Downloadable step-by-step guide to starting a small business in BC
Small Business BC
A non-profit resource centre for business information and services.
Government of Canada: Business and Industry
Provides links to information about running a business in Canada, including business taxes, permits and regulations, intellectual property, business support and how to sell to government.
INC Guides and Reviews
Published by the magazine of the same name, the site contains extensive articles on various aspects of starting and running a small business.
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
Key government site providing wide range of resources for SMEs including information on: start up, forms, financing, statistics, etc.
Futurpreneur Canada
Canada's only non-proﬁt organization that provides ﬁnancing, mentoring and support tools to young aspiring business owners. Their mentoring program matches young entrepreneurs with a business expert from a large network.
Canadian Bankers Association
Guide to getting started in small business.

e-Business Start Up and Management

The Content Advantage (Clout 2. 0) by Colleen Jones
Call Number: TK 5105.888 J66 2019 Downtown Library
Digital Darwinism by Tom Goodwin
Call Number: HF 5548.32 G66 2018 Downtown Library
E-Commerce 2017 by Kenneth C. Laudon; Carol Guercio Traver
Call Number: HF 5548.32 L38 2018 Downtown Library
Ecommerce and beyond : 9 steps to skyrocket your sales without a degree in rocket science by Rodolfo Melogli
Call Number: HF 5548.32 M45 2014 Downtown Library
Trends in e-Business, e-Services, and E-Commerce by In Lee (Editor)
Call Number: HF 5548.32 T74 2014 (Downtown)