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About.com – This site provides
articles and links to marketing, financing, and other
topics that concern small businesses.
Resources for Starting a Small Business
- online destination for new and existing small and
medium sized business with a particular slant towards
those that maintain a office home, and home-based businesses.
Features include a continually growing library of articles
and reference material.
The Small Business Financial
Resource Guide -- a guide to the resources
and types of financing your business will need.
America’s Business Funding Directory
– This is a free database of funding sources that searches
over 3,600 sources of capital. The site also has step-by-step
manuals that instruct you on how to prepare and present
a successful funding request.
Sample Business Plans – This site
promotes a software produce but there are free sample
business plans for all types of businesses. There is
also a question and answer section.
Business Plan Guide
– On-line Business Plan Guide from Southwestern Community
College’s Small Business Center
Job Description Writer - Use the
keyword search to identify your occupation. Enter as
much information about the job listing as you wish.
This can include the location of the job, any education,
training, or licenses required, and the wage offered.
You can include statements from lists of tasks and knowledges
from O*NET in your job description.
A final job description
containing the job title, job location information,
tasks and required or preferred knowledge is produced.
You can copy it to diskette or your hard-drive for further
development.
Sample Business Letters - This
site contains samples of 491 business letters—everything
from “Acceptance of Resignation Letter to Verification
of Employment Letter.
NC Small Business and Technology Development Center - The
North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development
Center (SBTDC) helps small business owners (and those
interested in starting a business) meet the challenges
of today's business environment, manage that ever-changing
world, and plan for the future of their business. We
do this by providing management counseling and educational
services to small and mid-sized businesses throughout
North Carolina from our 17 offices across the state — each
affiliated with a college or university. Our mission
is to help North Carolina businesses grow and create
new jobs within the state. Most of our services are
free of charge, and all SBTDC services are confidential.
EASI Demographics – provides demographic
estimates of areas surrounding a user defined address.
Access is free but you must register first.
Mountain Microenterprise Fund - provides entrepreneurs with
the skills they need to start or expand a small business.
Edward Lowe Foundation - The Edward
Lowe Foundation is an operating foundation that
assists groups of second-stage business owners and the
organizations that serve them.
Edward Lowe Foundation Entrepreneur’s Resource Center - This site is a service of the Edward Lowe
Foundation and has many articles relevant to small business.
Employment Law Guide - US Department
of Labor’s guide to Employment Laws
Business Owners Toolkit - Here
you'll find ready-to-use business tools to help you
get the job done faster and more efficiently
The Wall Street Journal’s Startup Journal
– provides a variety of articles covering a wide range
of topics including financing, hiring and retention,
tax and legal information.
Dun & Bradstreet’s ZapData – contains information to
build a prospect list, free samples from their business
directory, and national and state industry statistics.
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