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The American Marketing Association

http://www.ama.org/

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.

The Apple Small Business Home Page

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.

Business Resource Center

http://www.kciLink.com/brc/

Sponsored by Khera Communications, this site contains some great articles about starting, marketing, financing, and managing a small business.

CommerceNet

http://www.commerce.net/

This is a consortium of businesses doing commerce on the Internet. You'll find some excellent resources for entrepreneurs here.

Dun and Bradstreet Small Business Services

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.

Franchise Handbook Online

http://www.franchise1.com/

A good place to start when considering opening a franchise operation. Includes a directory of franchise opportunities and a message board.

GovCon

http://www.govcon.com/

A wealth of information about how small businesses can bid on and win lucrative government contracts for products and services.

Home Based Business

http://www.smartbiz.com/sbs/cats/home.htm

An assortment of articles, reports, and checklists pertaining to home-based businesses.

Home Office Association of America

http://www.hoaa.com/

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.

Info-Net Business Directory

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.

Insurance News Network

http://www.insure.com/

A general insurance site, but you'll find answers here to many insurance questions that small business and home office workers often have.

National Federation of Independent Businesses

http://www.nfibonline.com/

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.

Offbeat Moneymaking Schemes

http://www.excite.com/Reviews/Business/Small_Business_and_Self-Employment

This Excite page is worth a look just for a good laugh. It points to couple of dozen sites that advertise unusual business opportunities.

Palo Alto Software

http://www.pasware.com/

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.

Small and Home Based Business Links

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

The Small Business Advisor

http://www.isquare.com/

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.

Telecommuting, Teleworking, and Alternative Officing

http://www.gilgordon.com/

This site, sponsored by Gil Gordon Associates (a real estate company), offers some excellent information for people considering telecommuting or currently doing so.

Ten Commandments of Running a Home Business

http://www.tdbank.ca/tdbank/succeed/command.html

A great little article about the important "do's and don'ts" of working at home.

Xerox Small office Home Page

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.

Yahoo Small Business Information

http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Small_Business_Information/

Tons of links to small business resources and information.