The Bottom Line promotes job growth by helping to identify the concerns and barriers to survival and growth facing local businesses. This approach focuses on helping existing businesses in specific sectors.

As with other Business Retention and Expansion programs throughout North America, the basic premise of this successful program is … "Go out and see how businesses are doing - find out what they need, and help them get it."

Who are we?

The Bottom Line Resource Team is made up of business owners and professionals who volunteer and want to show business on the Sunshine Coast they care about your success. Visitation Teams are now conducting confidential interviews with businesses in your area, with one objective: To identify and solve concerns that will allow the business owner to maintain and expand a healthy business.

How do you connect?

Make a Call - After a call to establish a time, a 2-person Visitation Team

will meet with a business owner at their place of business anywhere in the

region, from Egmont to Port Mellon.

Discuss in Confidence - The visits and all information obtained is treated with total confidentiality. The people who visit you will not have any conflicts with your business. Information obtained from each business interview is used only by the Resource Team. All infomration collected is protected by the provincial Privacy Act.

Find Solutions - The Resource Team’s aim is to offer suggestions and find solutions to today’s business challenges.

Inform Business Trends - Information collected is also used in a generic form to produce statistical data to help determine trends and like challenges facing business owners today.

What is involved?

1.       Call The Bottom Line and ask to have a team visit you at your

          place of business. Call 604-740-2326

2.       Confidential interviews take approximately 1 hour

3.       The Resource Team meets to review interviews and brainstorms

          for suggestions to the challenges facing the business owner

4.       The Visitation Team follow-up with the business owner is made

          within 14 days of the initial interview

What is the cost?

There is no cost to business owners for this service. A Business retention and Expansion program, as identified in the 5-year Strategic Plan for Economic Development of the Sunshine Coast, is composed of experienced volunteers who want to share their expertise to improve the business climate of our community.