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Free Publications for Small Businesses: Browse through an extensive list of free Small & Medium Business magazines, white papers, downloads and podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics include SMB technology, small business management, entrepreneurship and franchising. Simply complete the application form and submit it. Remember to fill out the forms COMPLETELY. All are absolutely free to professionals who qualify.
Small Business & Entrepreneurial Books: From Krislyn's Business Bookstore.
Advanta Net 90: A Mastercard that offers 1) *no* interest for 90 days on purchases, 2) No annual fee, 3) a business rewards program with travel, merchandise, and cash, and 4) a generous credit limit for your business expenses.
Small Business News: Get news and commentary about small business - updated frequently.

Doba.com: Product sourcing simplified. Access products to sell online and dropship. Over 100 suppliers and 250,000 products.
RingCentral: A virtual PBX system with voicemail and Internet Fax. Create a business phone system using the phone number and extensions that you get with your subscription. Connect teams across the country or create virtual departments that are meaningful to you. Many, many additional features. Try it free today.
PayCycle: Payroll service for small businesses. *Free* 30 day trial, next 2 months at $9.99 each, and 10% off the next 9 months.
ShipWire: Shipwire is a leading order fulfillment service that allows you to store merchandise in massive East and West Coast warehouses in the U.S. and Toronto, Canada. Shipwire can easily be connected to your shopping cart or payment solution. As customers order from your online store, Shipwire will pack and ship it for you. Focus on growing your business, and let Shipwire handle storage and shipping. They offer a free trial.
SaleHoo: An informative and comprehensive wholesale directory.Not only does SaleHoo have suppliers for virtually every any product or brand name you can think of, but they take particular attention to insure that their information is reliable and current.
PayPal: Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.
Center for Business Planning: Provides any business manager or entrepreneur with a set of resources to help in creating a business or managing a business. Information is provided on every area of planning a business including: acquire venture capital, define new products, market analysis, competitive analysis, production management, tax problems, legal issues, prepare financial statements, write a business plan and more.
Wall Street Journal Online: Subscribe and get 2 weeks free. Subscription gets you sophisticated research tools, exclusive content, portfolio tracking, personalized news, and more.
The Company Corporation: Since 1899, business owners have turned to them for their incorporating needs. You can trust their experience to create your corporation or LLC quickly and easily - online in 10 minutes or less. They even wrote the book, Incorporating Your Business for Dummies®.
Home Business Tax Savings: Find out why people who run a small or home-based business now qualify for a greater array of tax advantages than any other category of taxpayer.
Internet Success Blueprint: Includes a step-by-step business plan, Internet marketing tips and secrets, Quicktime movies and bonus ebooks. In fact, it includes everything you need to start an online business.
homejobstop.com: A resource for Home Employment.
Entrepreneur Magazine: Weekly topics, front page articles and various topics of interest to entrepreneurs. Subscribe to Entrepreneur Magazine

About.com - Small Business: Canada: An ever-growing library of links of interest to small businesspeople, divided currently into 17 categories, and updated weekly. Plus there's a new feature article every week on a small business-related topic, along with a 24-hour chat room and (coming soon) a bulletin board.
American Express Small Business Exchange: A community for Small Business Entrepreneurs.
BizBuySell: "The Internet's largest database of businesses for sale - including franchise & business opportunities".
BizPlanIt: Helps entrepreneurs create, evaluate and improve business plans.
Bootstrapper's Guide to Startup Entrepreneurship: Devoted to assisting entrepreneurs during the critical start-up phase of their venture.
Bottom Up: Magazine for the high tech startup. Sponsored by AT&T Small Business Services.
Business Forum Online: Resource center for owners/managers of emerging businesses and entrepreneurs.
Business Hotline - Online: Covers topics like accounting/finance, legal, direct mail, public speaking, personal finance, marketing, import/export.
Business Development Testing, Inc.: They help people who want to strat a new business but aren't sure just how by offering some free checklists to getting a business started. They also offer the official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Strong Interest Inventory tests.
Business-Idea: Forum for new business ideas and opportunities.
Business Resale Network: Free access to thousands of businesses for sale and provides you with valuable information and services.
The Business Source: Fast way to learn the ideas and strategies of leading business authorities. Summaries of top business books and speeches.
Canadian Youth Business Foundation: Non-profit organization supporting young entrepreneurs in Canada.
Cayenne Consulting: Business plans and financial forecasts for high-tech startups seeking venture capital. They've also got a directory of over 600 hand-selected resources for entrepreneurs here.
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit: Small office and Home Office information and tools.
CEO Exchange: Offering Chief Executives the necessary room to grow.
Competitive Computer Resource: Amy Kesler is a virtual office assistant specializing in database design, desktop publishing and administrative support services.
Creabiz: Buy, sell, and trade existing web sites. Bid on websites for sale by owner, online business opportunities for brokers.
Entrepreneur Weekly: Secrets of successful Internet based business.
Entrepreneur's Mind, The: Presents an array of real-life stories and advice from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts.
Entrepreneurial Edge Magazine: Supported by the Edward Lowe Foundation. Lowe is best known as the inventor and entrepreneurial force behind Kitty Litter ®.
Entreworld: From the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. Perspectives, discussions, and lots of information.
fambiz.com: Resource for Family Business Executives & Owners.
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs: Women in technology and life science startups. Offers programs and services that accelerate women entrepreneurs’ ability to launch and build world-class companies. Founded in 1993, FWE has offices in the Bay Area and Seattle.
freetimesheet.com: A hosted timesheet, expense reporting & project tracking service powered by Journyx. It is free for up to 10 users. It is ideal for small business employee management because it requires no technical maintenance. Journyx hosts the software and stores the data.
garage.com: Devoted to the startup.
GlobalBX: A free business for sale listing exchange with 1000s of businesses for sale, business brokers, and franchise opportunities. List your business for sale for free. Resources include: Buyer & Seller's Guides, Franchise Information, Message Board, Newsletter, Business Brokers and Advisors.
guru.com: A comprehensive resource for people who have the skills and determination to manage a solo career. Will include a job-matching system that will allow clients to quickly locate and hire qualified independent professionals.
hittpansophism.com: Primary purpose is to share knowledge and information with how-to business articles provided by a number of respected contributors.
Idea Cafe: "The Small Business Channel - A fun approach to serious business"
Idea site for business: Useful ideas for creative business people.
Journal of Small Business Management: Features articles on small business research around the world. The quarterly JSBM covers many topics of interest to researchers and educators, as well as practitioners, in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business.
Let's Talk Business Network: Multimedia service organization devoted to organizing and uniting the entrepreneurial marketplace.
Moneyhunter: A resource for entrepreneurs seeking capital. Includes a downloadable business plan template.
NISA Business Greeting Cards: Business greeting cards that leave a lasting and memorable impression and set you apart from the competition. Follow-up tools to cold calls, unreturned voice mail, meetings, "I'll keep you in mind", and much more. Sales tools that increase your sales.
Office of Women's Business Ownership: Created by the U.S. Small Business Administration to to help level the playing field for women entrepreneurs. Programs to help women put together successful loan packages or break into the federal procurement and export markets. Loan guaranty programs to help those who cannot get lending through conventional channels finance their businesses. Training, advice and counseling via the At the forefront of the welfare-to-work initiative.
Power HomeBiz Guides: An online magazine designed to stimulate the entrepreneurial mind. Contains articles, tools and resources to help start, manage and grow a small business. Each month, they offer 15-20 fresh articles carefully written and researched by their editorial team.
Small Business 2000: An index for the weekly half-hour television series on PBS-member stations on how to start, run and grow a business.
Small Business Administration: U.S. agency that provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run, and grow their businesses.
Small Business Advancement National Center: Located at the University of Central Arkansas. Funded by business and government agencies.
Small Business and Effective Web Marketing -- Links to Resource: Links to thousands of on-line articles about effective Web marketing and to on-line resources for business.
The Small Business Journal: Dedicated to the growth and success of small business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals. An extensive article listing for people who want to start a business or for people who own one and need help growing and running their business.
The Small Business Knowledge Base: Comprehensive free resource of small business information. Packed with hundreds of guides and worksheets.
smallbizNet: The Edward Lowe Foundation Small Business Network
Springwise: Scans more than 40 countries worldwide for new business ideas, concepts and ventures, and reports their findings in a free monthly newsletter. They provide a unique, inspirational source for entrepreneurs, marketers, consultants and business development managers.
Staffcentrix: Learn about the new field of Virtual Assistants here. Company sells training programs and consulting services.
Success.org: They offer a free 30 lesson course in starting a small business.
TechKnowledge Point: Research & Referrals for Entrepreneurs: Helping business owners succeed with small-business research and new venture expertise. Connects emerging companies to business experts and information such as business planning, raising capital, international research and import/export strategies. Make TechKnowledge Point your 24/7 conference for the new contacts and latest research that will mean your business' success.
UMass Family Business Center: Supports an ongoing dialogue among family members in business to gain perspective, develop strategies, and overcome obstacles faced in the conference room and in the dining room.
U. S. Senate Committee on Small Business: Explains the issues facing small businesses today and what the Committee is doing to promote the efficiency and productivity of the small business community.
U.S. Business Advisor: Provides business with one-stop access to U.S. federal government information, services, and transactions. Goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive
Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network: A Network of women exchanging skills, resources, products, and services.
Young Entrepreneurs Network: From the creators of the International Directory of Young Entrepreneurs.
Young Entrepreneurs Organization: Purpose: To support, educate & encourage young entrepreneurs to succeed in building companies and themselves.
Home-Based Business Home Business Online A work-from-home clearinghouse with over 500 pages of information. HOMEBusiness Journal From the printed magazine. A series of articles of interest to those with a home business. International Homeworkers Association Helping people prosper in the home workplace.
Organizations National Association for the Self-Employed A membership organization with a long list of benefits. National Business Incubation Association Provides a clearinghouse of information on the business incubation industry. National Federation of Independent Business News, views & tools on politics and business management from the number 1 small business advocate in America, representing 600,000 members from every industry. Service Corp. of Retired Executives (SCORE) More than 12,000 volunteer business counselors ready to share their expertise through free and onfidential business advice. Counseling by email, workshops, or personal meeting.

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