Resources
Here are some online sites I use as Business Resource Tools:
Great Public Sector websites (Productivity and Research)
All Business site and Blog: www.allbusiness.com
Bloomberg (finance): www.bloomberg.com
Business Week: www.businessweek.com
Entrepreneur Magazine: www.entrepreneur.com
Forbes Magazine: www.forbes.com
Google Finance: www.google.com/finance
Inc Magazine: www.inc.com
International Franchise Association: www.ifa.org
Market Watch (Finance wsj): www.marketwatch.com
Microsoft Office Templates and Tools: www.office.microsoft.com
NetMBA Business Knowledge Center: www.netmba.com
Open Office (free productivity software): www.openoffice.org
Quick MBA Knowledge to Power your Business: www.quickmba.com
The Motley Fool (finance): www.fool.com
The Business Journals (Business News – has local publications in come cities): www.bizjournals.com
Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
Wikipedia (for definitions and research): www.en.wikipedia.com
Yahoo Finance: www.finance.yahoo.com
Zoho (Business, Collaboration and Productivity Applications Online): www.zoho.com
Great Social Media Sites
Classmates: www.classmates.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com
Friendster: www.friendster.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com
MeetUp: www.meetup.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com
Ning: www.ning.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com
Great Real Estate Sites (Local Research and Population Data)
Arizona Neighborhoods: www.aznb.com
Zillow: www.zillow.com
Great Government websites
Arizona Corporate Commission (Forms for Business Filings): www.cc.state.az.us
Department of Commerce (AZ here): www.azcommerce.com
Internal Revenue (tax forms and publications): www.irs.gov
Library sites (with library card, you can access great tools like ReferenceUSA) Scottsdale here: www.library.ci.scottsdale.az.us
Senior Corp of Retired Executives (SCORE): www.score.org
Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Scottsdale here: azsbdc.net
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): www.uspto.gov
Great Reference Blogs
Duct Tape Marketing: www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog
Mashable (Social Media News): www.mashable.com
Small Business Brief: www.smallbusinessbrief.com
Small Business Trends: www.smallbiztrends.com
Tech Crunch: www.techcrunch.com
