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BBB Online
BBBonline is a subsidiary of the Council of
Better Business Bureaus. Their mission is to promote trust
and confidence on the Internet. This site helps business
owners with Web sites to establish an online privacy policy
program.
CAGIS
Maps, city permits
City of Cincinnati
Municipal Code, departments
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber is the nation's fifth
largest Chamber, representing the interests of nearly 6,000
member businesses. The Chamber provides numerous
services, including business retention and attraction,
programs and events.
Hamilton County Auditor
property ownership
LinkedIn:
North Avondale Business Association Group
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 30 million
experienced professionals from around the world,
representing 150 industries.
North Avondale Neighborhood
Association
Official site for the North Avondale Neighborhood
Association (NANA). NANA is composed of a group of
committed citizens dedicated to preserving and improving the
quality of life in the neighborhood and it's residents.
Ohio Business Gateway
State of Ohio tools
Ohio Department of Taxation
forms
Ohio Secretary of State
names and forms
SCORE
Service Core Of Retired Executives. SCORE
"Counselors to America's Small Business" is a nonprofit
association dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and the
formation, growth and success of small business nationwide
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ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES:
Advocacy
The Office of Advocacy conducts economic
research, policy analyses and small business outreach help
to identify issues of concern.
Business & Community
Initiatives
The Office of Business and Community Initiatives
administers programs and activities designed to provide
information, education and training to prospective and
existing small business owners.
Disaster Assistance
SBA's disaster assistance program helps entrepreneurs
develop security strategies and offers loan assistance
to businesses impacted by a disaster.
AllBusiness
AllBusiness.com is a Web portal for small and growing
businesses, with how-to articles, forms, agreements,
questions-and-answers, solutions and services.
American Management Association
The American Management Association provides information,
seminars and e-learning courses on business management
topics. At the top of the home page, AMA features an article
or series focusing on a current business issue or topic.
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Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
The mission of the Association for Small
Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is to advance knowledge
and foster business development, entrepreneurship education
and research.
Bizben Blog
This business selling and buying blog gives tips on
how to buy and sell a business and lists popular types of
opportunities.
BizMiner
BizMiner provides business planning and research services
and includes a section on free resources to help understand
industry trends.
BizPlanit
BizPlanit is a professional business
plan consulting firm. The site provides an extensive
collection of free business plan resources for entrepreneurs
interested in preparing business plans.
BizStats
Business statistics such as financial ratios and
operating ratios, turnover, profitability for sole
proprietorships, employee productivity, industry averages,
benchmarking tools and more.
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BizToolkit
The BizToolkit, offered by the
JJ Hill Reference Library, is a portal of tools and
resources including sample business plans, financial
calculators and expert live help for entrepreneurs and small
businesses.
BPlans
This business planning Web site provides
samples business plans and tips on writing effective
business plans.
Business Owner's Toolkit
Business Filings provides free information and financial
calculators for small business owners.
Law & Policy Institutions Guide
The Law & Policy Institutions is a repository of legal
articles, law related resources and more.
Nolo
Nolo offers self-help legal information for small
businesses. Browse their free Small Business Law Center.
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Payroll-Taxes.com
Payroll-Taxes.com is a useful site for
conducting payroll research. Users can search the payroll
database to find information on both state and federal
forms, rates, publications, unemployment rates, labor laws,
local taxes and important dates to know for filing forms.
Business.com
Business.com is a business-focused search engine and
directory.
How-To Network
How-To Network has a comprehensive library of
small business how-to articles and guides.
Just Sell
This site is dedicated to helping business owners and
entrepreneurs sell better. Find industry-specific sales
news, how-to articles, sales ideas and discussions.
KnowThis.com
KnowThis.com is an advertising and marketing virtual
library that offers resource materials and useful links.
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BusinessKnowHow
Business Know-How provides how-to articles,
newsletters, tips, tools and resources to help small
business owners and franchisees start, manage and grow their
business profitably.
BUZGate
BUZGate helps individuals to start, grow and succeed in
business by connecting them to free and low-cost resources
in areas such as business planning, funding, marketing,
technology and counseling.
CCH Business Owner’s Toolkit &
CCH Financial Planning Toolkit
CCH provides a business owner toolkit to answer business,
tax and legal questions.
Careerbuilder.com
Job listings and career advice
Center for Business Planning
This site has a collection of resources for planning your
business, documenting your plan and evaluating your
strategy.
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Center for Rural
Entrepreneurship
The goal of the Center is to stimulate and support
private and public entrepreneurship development in
communities throughout rural America.
Edward Lowe Foundation
The Edward Lowe Foundation helps emerging growth
businesses and second-stage business owners.
eVenturing
eVenturing, run by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,
delivers useful information, guidance and contacts to
entrepreneurs.
E-Myth Embark Community
Connection
E-Myth Worldwide’s inspirational online
Community provides practical and informative business
training and advice for business owners & entrepreneurs
around the globe. Connect with peers to share best practices
and lessons learned on launching and growing a world-class
business.
Entrepreneurial Development
SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development
helps small businesses start, grow and be competitive by
providing training, counseling and other forms of management
and technical assistance.
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Government Contracting &
Business Development
The Government Contracting & Business Development
Office is charged with making sure that small businesses get
a fair share of the approximately $46 billion annual federal
procurement market.
HUBZone
The HUBZone program stimulates economic development and
creates jobs in urban and rural communities by providing
federal contracting preferences to small businesses.
Loan Programs
The SBA offers numerous loan programs to assist small
businesses.
HRTools.com
HRTools.com is designed to bring relevant,
practical information to small business owners to help
them deal with day-to-day human resources responsibilities.
PAQ Services, Inc.
PAQ offers a free dictionary of occupational titles that
includes information for more than 12,000 job descriptions.
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Local Marketing Guide
Learn how to do internet marketing for your business.
Local Marketing Guide also provides a forum where you can
receive personalized advice.
Marketing
Experiments.com
Marketing Experiments.com performs large-scale online
marketing experiments and publishes results in its free
biweekly e-newsletter. Researchers test Internet marketing
methods and offer data on Web site marketing techniques that
work and don't work.
NetPost Mailing Online
With the U.S. Postal Service's NetPost Mailing Online,
all you need is a document, a list of addresses and an
Internet connection to send direct mail. NetPost does the
rest—printing, addressing, collating, folding, stuffing and
sorting.
Monster.com
Job listings and career advice
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MyNewCompany
MyNewCompany.com provides small business start-up
information and resources.
My Own Business
My Own Business provides an online, 11-session
course that teaches the basic do's and don’ts for
entrepreneurs.
MyStrategicPlan
MyStrategicPlan.com helps entrepreneurs build and execute
their business strategies and provides free resources to
help create business and strategic plans, mission statements
and more.
National Dialogue on
Entrepreneurship
National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship (NDE) helps
improve awareness of the value of entrepreneurship through
informing and engaging national, regional and local
policymakers. NDE produces a weekly newsletter that provides
short summaries and analyses of various trends driving the
innovation economy.
PlanWare
Features business management software and templates
related to financial projection, cash flow forecasting,
marketing, strategic planning and more.
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Small Business
Dictionary
The Small Business Dictionary gives definitions to 2,500
of the most commonly used small business terms.
StartupGarden
This Web site features information on
how to start a business.
Startup Venture Toolbox
This site provides a toolbox to
entrepreneurs with the tools and assistance necessary to
help organized their ventures from idea to IPO.
Sample Business Plans
Strategy Business Plans offers business plan
solutions that result in funding and growth for businesses.
National Association for the
Self-Employed (NASE)
NASE is the nation’s leading Web resource for
self-employed and micro-businesses. This site provides a
broad range of benefits and support.
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National Business
Association
The National Business Association keeps members
up-to-date and informed on important issues impacting the
self-employed and small business community.
National Federation of
Independent Business (NFIB)
NFIB is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group that
represents the consensus views of its 600,000 members in
Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals.
Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI)
PERI is a nonprofit that offers risk-management
resources and training to small businesses. Look for their
Risk Management for Small
Business publication and their
Workplace Safety Kit.
The Retailer Owners Institute
The Retailer Owners Institute is dedicated to improving
the financial professionalism of independent retailers.
National Small Business Week
National Small Business Week is an annual event that
recognizes the important role of America’s business
community. Visit the Web site to find out more.
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Small Business Development
Centers (SBDC)
SBDCs assist individuals and small
businesses by providing a wide variety of information and
guidance through 58 branch locations.
Small Business Training Network
The Small Business Training Network is a virtual campus
housing free training courses, workshops and knowledge
resources designed to assist entrepreneurs and other
students of enterprise.
Salary.com
Salary.com provides online compensation
information and data for most industries. The site also
lists thousands of job titles gathered via proprietary
research and published reports. See special section for
small business.
SME Toolkit
IBM and IFC created a free, small business toolkit
specifically for women and minority entrepreneurs to provide
business information, tools and training services usually
reserved for Fortune 1000 companies.
The Veterans Corporation
The Veterans Corporation hosts a business portal for
current and prospective Veteran business owners and for
companies working with Veteran-owned businesses.
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Technology (SBIR/STTR)
SBIR is a highly competitive program that encourages
small business to explore their technological potential and
provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization.
The Idea Cafe
This site was created to help small business owners solve
their problems, while having fun too.
MergerPlace
MergerPlace.com connects business sellers with business
buyers.
Microenterprise Success
This site for microenterprises features microenterprise
programs, technical assistance and grant and loan
information.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Small Business Center
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Center
provides small business news and practical business advice.
This is the largest national membership organization of
chambers in the country.
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U.S. Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce
National business membership organization for
Hispanic entrepreneurs with a variety of how to information,
national conferences and a membership spanning the nation.
Winning Workplaces
Winning Workplaces is a nonprofit that provides small and
midsize employers with proven, practical and affordable
people practices, tools and articles to help entrepreneurs
improve their workplace practices.
VendorSeek
VendorSeek.com connects business consumers with
pre-qualified vendors based upon the dynamics of the
purchaser’s needs and the specific nature of the services
that the seller provides. This process enables business
consumers to locate the right vendor to fill their needs and
allows vendors to identify customers who are seeking the
very services they provide.
Welcome Business USA
This site gives resources and information to help you
start, run and grow your small business.
Work.com
This site helps business owners solve management
problems with a wide variety of helpful guides on every
aspect of business maintenance.
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Working Solo
Working Solo helps individuals develop a sense of
personal discovery and achievement that comes from mastering
self-employment and related business practices.
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