Small Business Guide: Getting Started

Are you looking for reliable information on starting your own business?

Listed below are several online resources on how to start a small business.  Click on the links to start your research.

DATABASES

Entrepreneurship Online delivers a unique and powerful database collection - designed to arm entrepreneurs with vital resources for developing and researching their ideas while providing valuable insight to help progress and grow their product or service.   

Business and Company Resource Center brings together profiles of various types of businesses, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories and well as access to thousands of business related magazine articles.  Looking for information on a company? 

Consult Corporate Affiliations Online for detailed information on over 200,000 companies, affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions worldwide.  Coverage includes public and private companies in 189 countries. 

Plunkett Research offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, sales leads & corporate profiles in your choice of formats and access plans.

Also check out Ward's Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies.

CURRENT ARTICLES AND BOOKS ON SMALL BUSINESS

Click here for current magazines articles and books on small business.

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Small Business Guide:  How To Market Your Business With Facebook (article from the New York Times)

Small Business Guide:  How to Sell on Amazon and eBay (article from the New York Times)

The Help Is Free, and It’s a Click Away - A list of free tools to help small-business owners do their jobs better (article from the New York Times)