CVELP: Course Material: Internet Resources
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Small Business Information
General Business/Industry Sites
Company Information
Government
General Economic Data
U.S. Economic Overviews/Updates
Worldwide Interest Rates/Exchange Rates
Market Research Sites
Commercial Business Information Services
Magazines/Newspaper/Business Journal/Books
Business Reference
Search Engines
Yellow Pages/People/Company Directories
SMALL BUSINESS INFORMATION
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The Doing Business Page from the State of California - a resource for finding information on licenses, permits, business codes, taxes and more from the State of California www.ca.gov
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California Trade and Commerce Agency of Small Business - offers forums for sharing experiences and ideas on the topic of small business. (www.commerce.ca.gov/business/small link not working)
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Central California Small Business Development Center (SBDC) - details information about the Center and resources and services it offers. www.ccsbdc.org
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EntreWord - gives sample business plans, resources for purchasing office equipment, market research information, etc. www.EntreWorld.org
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bplans.com - offers a variety of business plans for all different types of small and medium-sized businesses. Has information about presenting plans, and more. www.bplans.com
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Smartbiz.com - a comprehensive source of articles, tips and benchmark information for small businesses www.smartbiz.com
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Smallbizhelp.com - links you to other helpful web sites that are listed by topic (www.smallbizhelp.net link not working)
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The Yankee Group - choose "small business" in the pop-up menu to access articles and reports about the telecommunication needs of small businesses www.yankeegroup.com
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IDC - type "small business" in the search box and access interesting reports and briefings that relate to small businesses. Complete versions of these documents are available for a fee www.IDC.com
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The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - a directory of products, services and manufacturers. Access is free, but a form must be completed before using the database. www.thomasregister.com
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The American Express Small Business Exchange - Gives tools for starting and expanding a new business. A place to find information, customers and resources. www.americanexpress.com/smallbusiness
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BRINT - presents issues of interest for Business, Technology & Information professionals. Access to many papers, magazine articles, case studies and journals. www.brint.com
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Insider Reports for Small Business - a database of free reports and other items that pertain to the topic of small businesses. www.insiderreports.com
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Microsoft Smallbiz - gives tips on how to start and maintain a small business, with emphasis on the use of technology. Also provides and advice column and more
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The Small Business Advisor - provides links to tax advice, stock quotes, etc. www.isquare.com
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The Small Business Administration - an agency of the Federal government that assists in the interest of small businesses. News on federal grants and loan, and other information. www.sbaonline.sba.gov
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Small Business Information - these links are maintained by the SEC www.sec.gov/smbus1.htm
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Small Business Solution - information about business development http://global-reach.com/
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Yahoo's Small Business Support Page - has numerous links to small business resources http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/
GENERAL BUSINESS/INDUSTRY SITES
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The All Business Network - has links to management and human resource sites, career databases, marketing, sales, publications, etc. www.all-biz.com
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Business Advisor - electronic link to government for business and gives access to federal government services, information and transactions www.business.gov
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Dow Jones Business Directory - direct links to over 400 business information sites on the internet and gives reviews of many of the sites http://www.dowjones.com/corp/index_directory.htm
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Financial Data Finder - a directory from Ohio State University http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/osudata.htm
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1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Code Information Page - explains the new North American Industry Classification System and matches the codes to the corresponding SIC code www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
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IndustryLink - gives information on 21 industry links www.industrylink.com
COMPANY INFORMATION
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Annual Report Gallery - a site for annual reports which have been published on the Internet www.reportgallery.com
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Companies Online - allows searches for information on over 75,000 public and private companies. www.companiesonline.com
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Corporate Information - provides a way to search more than 75,000 profiles of privately-held and publicly-traded domestic and foreign companies www.companiesonline.com
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Hoovers Company Profiles - gives thousands of profile reports from companies, tools to build your business and links to over 6,000 corporate Web home pages and much more www.hoovers.com
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InfoSeek's Company Profiles - gives information on thousands of leading private and public U.S. companies www.infoseek.com/Facts?pg=company.html
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Investor Relations Information Network - shareholder information, annual reports and company links from a World Wide databank http://www.irin.com
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List of Lists - lists the top companies, richest people, top technology companies, and much more (www.hoovers.com/company/lists_best/0,2561,141,00.html%20 link not working)
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Market Guide - a financial web site where both investors and researches can access investment information, including stock screening tools, industry, detailed company reports, and more www.marketguide.com
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Public Register's Annual Report Service - get free annual reports for more than 3,500 public companies www.prars.com
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Streeteye - a search engine and directory of Internet resources that will be relevant to both investment professionals and investors. Many searchable categories, i.e. brokers, banks, etc. www.streeteye.com
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Wall Street Research Net - offers free, fee-based and in-depth company information www.wsrn.com
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Yahoo's Business Page - searchable by company name. Categories include, business news stories, newswires, IPO reports, financial company and industry information and stock quotes biz.yahoo.com
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Yahoo's Company Search Page - a search engine for company information searches, and much, much more http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/
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Free EDGAR - gives free, unlimited access to indexed SEC EDGAR filings, and downloading financial data directly into Excel spreadsheets, and much more www.freeedgar.com
GOVERNMENT SITES
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Census Department - is handy for demographic trends, market research, links to the Bureau of National Affairs and economic information www.census.gov
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EDGAR Filings - provides a direct links to the SEC's search page; locate 10Qs, etc. www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
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FedWorld - gives government documents, regulations, files and reports www.fedworld.gov
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FFDSTATS - statistics and information links on the U.S. government www.fedstats.gov/index.html
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Industries Information - offers links to web sites and studies and reports hat covers key industrial and service clusters http://www.commerce.gov/
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Securities and Exchange Commission - provides access to EDGAR database, SEC rules, and other links to Small Business info www.sec.gov
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Thomas: U.S. Congress Legislation on the Web - gives the status of legislation that is pending before Congress thomas.loc.gov
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U.S. Census Bureau 1992 Economic Census, Summary of National Statistics www.census.gov/econ/www/econ_cen.html
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Government Information Locators - These locators will organize government information on the Web and provide links by category
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Federal Web Locator: www.infoctr.edu/FWL/
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Yahoo Government locator: www.yahoo.com/Government
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State Web Locator: www.infoctr.edu/SWL/
GENERAL ECONOMIC DATA
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Cendat - gives statistical data from surveys, censuses and press releases from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Bureau of the Census.
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Economic Bulletin Board - statistics compiled by the government in many areas, including income, interest rates, employment and spending. www.stat-usa.gov
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Federal Reserve Banks - sites vary, but many contain regional economic indicators, etc. www.cpcug.org/user/invest/frbbsnos.html
U.S. ECONOMIC OVERVIEWS/UPDATES
WORLDWIDE INTEREST RATES/EXCHANGE RATES
Interest Rates
Exchange Rates
MARKET RESEARCH SITES
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Gartner Group - focuses on the information technology field and contains highlights of Gartner's research. www.gartner.com
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American Society of Association Executives - Text from business, trade journals and more. http://www.asaenet.org
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Find/SVP - data from recent research reports by Find/SVP and other companies www.findsvp.com
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Dataquest - offers data from reports, charts, outlines and graphs www.dataquest.com
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Frost & Sullivan - research, synopses and data from reports conducted by this international marketing consulting and training company. http://www.frost.com/
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Nielsen - highlights from research from Nielsen Media Research and AC Nielsen companies http://www.acnielsen.com/
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Bank of America - provides analysts who cover the debt markets, equity, derivates and foreign exchange, as well as country and global risks. http://corp.bankofamerica.com/...path=fr/fr_home/content.xml
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Greenbook: The International Directory of Marketing Research Companies and Services - a cross-referenced database of many focus group facilities and market research companies worldwide http://www.greenbook.org/
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Other Sites:
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION SERVICES
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The Dialog Corporation - links to all the services of the former Knight-Ridder Information www.dialog.com
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Disclosure Global Access - offers timely and reliable data taken from many different sources, including their own proprietary financial databases www.disclosure.com/dga
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Dow Jones Interactive Publishing - Custom Clips, Publications Library, DowVision, etc. www.djinteractive.com
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Dun and Bradstreet - with your D&B account number or credit card, you can access company and industry information www.dnb.com
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FIS Online - access to this Financial Information Services company www.fisonline.com
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IAC InSite - user-friendly, fixed-price, Market InSite, Newsletter InSite, Computer InSite, Business InSite and Company InSite www.iac-insite.com
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Investext - direct from over 500 investment firms, market research organizations, brokerage houses, this site offeres 1,000,000 research reports www.investext.com
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KnowX - inexpensive access to public record data, i.e. adverse filings, background data, assets, etc. from corporate, state and limited partnership records, etc. www.knowx.com
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Lexis-Nexis - contains more than 13, 500 sources www.lexis-nexis.com • OneSource - fixed-price family of business information suites that are Web-based www.onesource.com
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Profound - part of the Dialog Corp, which specializes in full-text, searchable market research www.profound.com
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Thomason Intelligence's Intelliscope site - hundreds of thousands of investment research reports on industries, product information, companies and geographic regions www.intelliscope.com
MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS/BUSINESS JOURNAL/BOOKS
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CEO Express - a site designed for busy executives by a busy executive www.ceoexpress.com
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Newspaper Links - a link to national newspapers www.newspaperlinks.com
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The Ultimate Collection of Newslinks - more than 5,200 links to news sources (pppp.net/links/new link not working)
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Amazon Books - a virtual bookstore that helps you find books on whatever subjects you are searching for and delivers them to you. www.amazon.com
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The Electronic Newsstand - links to more than 2,000 magazines www.enews.com
Newswire Services:
Magazines:
BUSINESS REFERENCE
SEARCH ENGINES
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Northern Lights - creates automatically-generated "custom folders" of grouped, similar sites of information (www.northernlight.com/power.html not currently working)
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Infoseek UltraSeek - allows title searches (click on "title search"). You can also do a site search within a web site. www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=ultra-home.html
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Google - includes a button that connects you with the site that it feels best matches your inquiry www.google.com
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HotBot - allows title and phrase searches utilizing a pull-down menu www.hotbot.com
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Yahoo's Advanced Search screen - allows phrase searching by specifying the phrase in quotation marks or selecting the option, "find an exact phrase match." http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced
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Excite - one of the largest search engines, accessing more than 54 million pages. (Use quote marks to specify a phrase sesarch) www.excite.com
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Webcrawler - allows you to require words to be near each other within a specific range in your search. Use quotes to specify phrases www.webcrawler.com
Metasearch Engines/Specialized Search Engines:
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Ask Jeeves - retrieves answers to your questions and related links from its own database as well as some of the more popular search engines www.askjeeves.com
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DejaNews and Reference.com - provides information from Internet discussion groups and mailing lists www.dejanews.com www.reference.com
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Dogpile - ability to query 23 different search engines at one time www.dogpile.com o The Internet Sleuth - one-stop search site, allowing access to search 2,000 free databases www.isleuth.com
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MetaCrawler - searches several search engines and can sort the results for you www.metacrawler.com o Profusion - lets you select the search engines you use and deletes duplicates www.profusion.com
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Worldsearch - a directory that has links to worldwide search engines that will let you find country-specific web sites. www.vvm.com/~john/world.html#h
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About.com www.about.com
News Search Sites - specify how far back you wish to see news updates from hours to days to whenever.
YELLOW PAGES/PEOPLE/COMPANY DIRECTORIES
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Big Yellow - 16 million businesses with maps and links to the Web www.bigyellow.com
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Switchboard - searches for people or business, including email addresses www.switchboard.com
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InfoSpace - a directory for companies and people www.infospace.com
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AT&T Tollfree Directory - the company's directory of 1-800 numbers. www.tollfree.dir.att.net
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World Pages - includes white and yellow pages for the U.S. and Canada, plus autoguides and email www.worldpages.com
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555-1212.com - links the U.S. and global telephone/e-mail/business directories www.555-1212.com
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The Ultimates - a metasearch site for phone directories. You can search at 6 different phone directory sites at the same time. www.ultimates.com
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Mapquest - assist in planning a trip, planning your move, getting driving directions www.mapquest.com
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Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokepersons - a searchable database of interview sources, contacts and experts in virtually any topic area. www.yearbooknews.com
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Bigbook - a directory of 20 million business, including maps www.bigbook.com
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Mapblast www.mapblast.com
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Amazing Map Collection www.maps.com |
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