This Resource Centre provides listings of alphabetically arranged topics that will be useful to you in starting and operating a small business.

The first section contains a condensed glossary of business terms and articles on various topics created by the staff and advisors at the BDC. Please check back regularly for postings of new articles.

The second section contains listings of: a) excellent small business resources on the Web; b) online resources that provide dictionaries, detailed business glossaries, grammar and style guides and other reference materials.

The third section provides specific information for small business articles on a particular website, arranged by subject. For each article we've provided the title, the URL and the introductory paragraph.

We are constantly updating our links and adding new resources. Visit us regularly!

 

 

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AOL small business
AOL small business features articles and resources about starting, managing and growing your business, as well as products and services for small businesses.
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Business Know-How
Business Know-How is an award-winning small business destination site for home offices and small businesses and is known for providing practical information about starting, growing and managing small and home-based businesses. The Business Know-How web site and newsletter together reach more than 100,000 individuals each month.
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BusinessWeek Online
BusinessWeek’s award-winning Web site provides users with daily perspective, unique insights, breaking news, and in-depth analysis of the latest trends in the business world, with continuous coverage of today’s business issues.
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Chic Hospitality Consulting Services - EasyTraining
Welcome to Easytraining. We are practical, down-to-earth consultants who go straight to the heart of the problem and solve it. We specialize in hospitality operations, human resources, training design and delivery, employee motivation, and customer service. We hope you will find practical value in the articles on this site, which contain useful guidelines on several aspects of people management, training, and customer service.
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Entrepreneur.com
Entrepreneur.com visitors are business owners and partners who are looking for tools to help them succeed in today's competitive marketplace. They own growing businesses and look to Entrepreneur.com to provide information and perspective on industry news, business tools and services, strategies for growth, and much more.
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eVenturing
Entrepreneur.com visitors are business owners and partners who are looking for tools to help them succeed in today's competitive marketplace. They own growing businesses and look to Entrepreneur.com to provide information and perspective on industry news, business tools and services, strategies for growth, and much more.
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Inc.com
Inc.com guides contain our best resources, handpicked by Inc.com editors, on specific business-management issues. Use them to discover strategies for starting, growing, and running your business more effectively and successfully.
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Sales Vault
With over 15 years of combined experience in the sales training industry, Slife Sales Training, Inc. founder's Eric and Daphne Slife envisioned a place where sales professionals could find everything in their "sales aresenal" - all in one place. When faced with an opportunity to purchase SalesVault and add it to their current sales training website, www.SalesTrainingCamp.com, their vision was achieved.
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Small Business Advisor
This website was developed and is maintained by Information International located in Great Falls, Virginia. Information International is dedicated to advising and assisting individuals who are considering starting a business or who are operating a small business. We also assist companies in doing business with United States Government agencies. Our assistance is in the form of books, special reports, consulting, seminars and this website!
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Soho Business Report
SOHO Business report magazine helps Small Office / Home Office Entrepreneurs succeed, with free articles, multimedia (audio, video & interactive), tools and tips. Topics for home business and small business include business planning, strategy, guerrilla marketing, Internet marketing, publicity, project management, importing, exporting, taxes, finance, trade shows, technology, negotiation, consulting, sales techniques and tactics, work life balance, growth management, profit optimization, team work, leadership, human resources and network marketing.
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Survivability
Survivability, quite simply, is the ability to survive and thrive, no matter what life throws at you. Survivability Training programs:
- Promote self-reliance and independent self-management.
- Give individuals a personal profile and an action plan for skill development.
- Lead people to a clear understanding of their expertise in ten essential skills.
A new world of work is emerging from the economic upheaval of the past few decades. In complex and constantly changing times, career self-management takes on new meaning. Strategic thinking is essential.
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The Sideroad
What is The Sideroad? We are an ever-growing website that offers practical advice, straight from the experts, in a wide variety of areas. Unlike conventional magazines, newspapers or websites, we bypass the journalist, writer, or "self-appointed guru", and connect you directly to a proven subject expert, so no information is lost in the translation.
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ZeroMillion.com
The mission of Zeromillion.com is...
1. to encourage and support entrepreneurial endeavors internationally;
2. to be a top resource for all levels of businessmen, businesswomen, entrepreneurs, and marketers and;
3. to facilitate discussion, communication, networking, and peer assistance though an online community of businessmen, businesswomen, entrepreneurs, and marketers at all levels of knowledge.
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