If you are starting or have started a small or home business, you won't want to miss the sites listed in this category. Information ranges from simple business advice to services and products, government agencies, telecommunications, and more.
Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy of origination; 5) The dignity of simplicity; 6) The success of perseverance. 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.
Marshall Field
The American Marketing Association site offers help for small marketing companies or businesses that use marketing. There is also a classified ad section for jobseekers in the marketing profession.
http://smallbusiness.apple.com/
Apple Computers answers your small business questions, provides discussion areas, and, of course, recommends genuine Apple hardware that can help you run your business better.
Sponsored by Khera Communications, this site contains some great articles about starting, marketing, financing, and managing a small business.
This is a consortium of businesses doing commerce on the Internet. You'll find some excellent resources for entrepreneurs here.
http://www.dbisna.com/dbis/sbs/hsbs.htm
This article, The Challenges of Managing a Small Business, is part of the very large Dun and Bradstreet site. It contains some excellent information about all phases of small business management.
A good place to start when considering opening a franchise operation. Includes a directory of franchise opportunities and a message board.
A wealth of information about how small businesses can bid on and win lucrative government contracts for products and services.
http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/cats/home.htm
An assortment of articles, reports, and checklists pertaining to home-based businesses.
The official Web site of the Home Office Association of America (HOAA), the national and local organization for full-time home-based professionals, telecommuters, and others who use a home office.
http://www.netime.com/infonet/
Thinking of starting your own home business or a Web site? Here you will find a home-business resource center, information on Web-site management, publishing, database design and management.
A general insurance site, but you'll find answers here to many insurance questions that small business and home office workers often have.
An advocacy group for small and independent businesses. Their site provides news items of interest to small business owners, plus forums, contacts, and membership information.
This Excite page is worth a look just for a good laugh. It points to couple of dozen sites that advertise unusual business opportunities.
This company produces software that helps you plan and start up a small business. Their site not only contains ordering information but also a lot of helpful reference materials that you can use even if you don't want the software.
http://www.ro.com/small_business/homebased.html
A lot of links! Information on franchises, business opportunities, reference material, newsgroups, searching tools, and services for small business.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
A diverse, award-winning site that offers articles, reviews, mailing lists, stock quotes, tax advice, and an assortment of other features of interest to the small business owner.
This site, sponsored by Gil Gordon Associates (a real estate company), offers some excellent information for people considering telecommuting or currently doing so.
http://www.tdbank.ca/tdbank/succeed/command.html
A great little article about the important "do's and don'ts" of working at home.
http://www.xerox.com/soho.html
They obviously want you to buy some Xerox equipment here, but this site also contains a Small Business Resources section full of useful small business information.
http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Small_Business_Information/
Tons of links to small business resources and information.
This Canadian Office Products Association site has a Consumer Connection section with a lot of product information for small and home businesses. Find out about new products, or use the Product Locator to pinpoint the exact product you're looking for. Then check out their Helpful Hints section for business advice.
http://www.rockmall.com/merchant.htm
This company will, for a fee, set your business up to make secure credit card sales over the Internet.
An online bookstore specializing in products for the small and home business owner.
http://www.expressdigitalimages.com/
A company that offers quick turnaround color printing and scanning. They do small-quantity jobs (typical of small and home business needs) and can make anything from posters to prints to 35mm slides.
http://www.homebusiness.com/bookstore/
A handy commercial site where you can browse and order a variety of books and tapes about small businesses and home businesses.
An online shopping mall catering to small businesses.
With this company's software, you can set up an entire mall of stores on the Internet. Try their online demonstration!
http://www.fema.gov/fema/index.html
Use the information at this site to develop your business's disaster plan—before a disaster actually occurs.
The IRS has a very helpful site with a lot of information about business tax filing. Includes downloadable tax forms.
You'll find a lot of information here about Social Security regulations, benefits, offices, and forms.
Everything you need to know about patenting or trademarking your ideas, logos, and products.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Henry Ward Beecher
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Postal Service and more, plus a great postage calculator and ZIP code lookup engine.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topical.html
This server integrates the Gopher and Web offerings of the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University. Read about recent Supreme Court decisions.
Legal resources for everyone! A good place for anyone with a legal question to start looking for answers.
http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/
A lot of helpful articles reprinted from the print version of this publication.
http://www.tab.com:80/Home.Business/
The Home Business Review is a monthly online newspaper designed to "educate and promote" the nation's home-based businesses by providing business building articles, information and resources. All of the articles are written at the "how-to" level instead of just theory, providing a News You Can Use approach.
A top-notch site based on the print version of Inc. Magazine. You can browse hundreds of articles, join discussion groups, check out the list of business resources, and more.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin
This Time-Warner site has links to articles from a variety of the magazines they own, including Inc., Money, Fortune, Your Company, and Time.
At this site you can review back issues of the publication before deciding to subscribe to the print version.
A Web site from the publishers of Small Business Computing and Home Office Computing magazines. Many articles from those magazines are available online, as well as subscription information and columns that cover financial, marketing, managerial, and technical concerns. Recommended!
Ziff-Davis publishes a wide assortment of computer-related magazines, including PC Magazine, PC Computing, and Computer Shopper. Browse their articles here, download shareware, and read the latest news about the PC industry.
Information about Ameritech services, including small business lines, dedicated Internet lines (ISDN, T1, and so on) and business services. There is also an online Ameritech Yellow Pages.
A search index in which you can look up the toll-free number for any company. Very useful!
http://www.bell-atl.com/html/business/
A lot of information about Bell Atlantic's offerings for businesses of all sizes, including Internet access, ISDN, cellular, and voice and data communications.
An attractive and usable site where you can learn all about BellSouth's home and business services.
The NYNEX Yellow Pages online, a searchable database. They claim to have over 16 million businesses in their directory.
http://www.pacbell.com/home.html
This site provides solutions to telecommunications problems, ideas for new connections, and occasionally special offers, all for Pacific Bell customers.
If you're a U.S. West phone customer, check out their At Work area, with separate sections for home offices, small businesses, and large businesses.
