The Canadian Business Journal’s Couch & Associates Funding to “Boost Business Technology”

TORONTO, Sept. 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Government of Canada is providing a total of $4 billion to help small businesses digitize their operations through the Canada Digital Adoption Program (CDAP). Their goal is to help grow local organizations by increasing their online presence and providing them with the latest technology and expert guidance.

of CDAP website We provide an overview of the program and a survey to determine if your business is eligible for a grant to either grow your online business or accelerate business technology. The latter will provide funding of up to $15,000 to partner with an approved advisor to develop a digital adoption plan.

Couch & Associates has been appointed as an approved advisor for the Boost Your Business Technology grant. This means companies can entrust the development of strategies and roadmaps to a dedicated team under this program.

Mike Couch, one of the nation’s leading digital advisors and head of Couch & Associates, said:This is a great opportunity to enhance the technology used by Canadian companies to become more competitive and operationally efficient. We all want to become more digitally mature, but sometimes we just don’t have the capacity or don’t know where to start. This program solves both of these problems.”

To maximize the value of this investment, significant amounts of money are directed towards strategy development before new technology is implemented. This helps identify areas of pain and opportunity and leverage funds to achieve specific goals.

There are four criteria an organization must meet in order to qualify.

• federally or provincially incorporated, or a sole proprietorship resident in Canada
• Be a for-profit privately owned company
• Have 1 to 499 full-time equivalent employees
• Have an annual income of at least $500,000 in any of the last three tax years

Check all those boxes?then head to Canadian Digital Adoption Program Apply.

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