Small Business Resources

Edited by Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com

Dot Com Directory:
Find a Business, Business Type, Location of a Business.
Browse through a list of categories to find a business.
Get information on a web business. Check out the competition.

Online Business Resources:
Business Resource Center— http://www.morebusiness.com (ideas on running your business)
Better Business Bureau— http://www.bbb.org (alerts & news; publications for business)
CyberPreneur— http://www.cyberpreneur.com (source for entreprenurial needs)
Entrepreneur's Reference Guide to Small Business Information— http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/business/guide2.html (Library of Congress)
Guerilla Marketing Online— http://gmarketing.com/ (lots of tips & techniques for entrepreneurs)
Guide to Small Business— http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/2172 (Starting & Operating a Small Business)
Idea Cafe: The Small Business Channel— http://www.ideacafe.com (a fun approach to serious business)
Inc. Online: Guide to Doing Business Online— http://www.inc.com/internet/articles/tutorials/ (articles & tutorials for online business)
Infoseek: Business Channel— http://www.infoseek.com/Topic?tid=484 (Start a Business, Develop a Web Presence)
Lycos Small Business Guide— http://www.lycos.com/smallbiz (19 topics including advertising, competition, marketing, trade)
NetMarketing— http://netb2b.com (Online version of Net Marketing with strategies & techniques for web marketers;
web sites pricing; net marketing articles; online forum & bulletin board)
Poor Richard's Web Site— http://www.poorrichard.com/ (Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site)
SFSU Business Research: Electronic Databases— http://www.library.sfsu.edu/Instruction/guides/BusResElec.html (32 Electronic Databases relating to business)
Starting & Running a Business Idea Page— http://superpages.com/ideas/business.html (Your business, Franchises, Business plan, Financing, Equipment, Hiring & Outsourcing, Buying supplies, Marketing, Insurance)
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (free access after registration)— http://www.thomasregister.com/
(156,914 companies; 133,415 brand names; 7,782 online supplier catalogs & web links)
Women & Business Web Sites— http://www.businessweek.com/bwplus/womweb.htm (7 links from Business Week)
Yahoo: Business & Economy: Small Business— http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Small_Business_Information
(12 sub-categories & 150 small business links)
Domain Name & Trademark Registration:
Domain Name Search & Registration— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Names/DomainName.html
(36 articles on domain names & Domain name registration with Network Solutions)
Network Solutions Registration Services— http://www.networksolutions.com/
(Domain name registration with Network Solutions @ $70/2 years)
Whois— http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois (Check to see if a domain name is registered)
Internet Domain Names, Inc.— http://www.business.com/dn_application.html
(registration of 37 types of domain names on the Internet & trademark research)
Trademark Basics: A Guide for Business— http://www.inta.org/tmbasics.htm (Selecting & registering a trademark)
Internet Research Resources:
Forrester Research— http://www.forrester.com (Corporate Overview, Strategy Services, Research Reports)
Jupiter Communications— http://www.jup.com
(Market Research on Consumer Online Industry: Commerce, Content, Advertising, Technology)
American Demographics Marketing Tools— http://www.demographics.com
(for business people who need to find, reach, and keep customers)
Business Magazines & Newspapers:
Advertising Age— http://www.adage.com (advertising & marketing news stories)
Business 2.0 (New Economy, New Rules, New Leaders)— http://www.business2.com/ (Online archive March-September 1999)
BusinessLink Magazine— http://www.medill.nwu.edu/businesslink (guide to business on the Internet)
Business Week— http://www.businessweek.com (world's best-selling business magazine)
eCommerce Weekly— http://www.eweekly.com (latest online sales, marketing, and eCommerce strategies)
The Economist— http://www.economist.com (Current Issue, MarketPlace, Classifieds, Help A-Z, Archive)
Entrepreneurial Edge Online— http://www.edgeonline.com (Quarterly e-zine for entrepreneurs with links to business resources)
Entrepreneur's Wave— http://www.en-wave.com (Start-Up Wisdom, Business Planning, and much more)
Financial Times— http://www.ft.com (free articles past 30 days; archive @ $15/5 articles)
Forbes— http://www.forbes.com (Personal Finance, Startups, Companies, E-Business)
Fortune— http://pathfinder.com/fortune/index.html (Smart Managing, Techno file, Small Business, Marketplace)
Idea Digest Online— http://www.ideas.wis.net (guide to developing creative ideas for market)
Inc.— http://www.inc.com (ideas for small-to-midsize growing companies)
Kiplinger Personal Finance— http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/maghome.html (Business Forecast, Stock Quotes, Top Funds)
Wall Street Journal http://info.wsj.com (annual access: $29 to subscribers; $49 to non-subscribers of WSJ)
Web Week— http://www.webweek.com (Web Technology & Business Strategy; Back issues to May 1995)

© Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com
P.O. Box 390707, Mountain View, CA 94039
email address: peter@wisdomportal.com (1-29-98, updated, 2-29-2000)