Business tools...

BizMiner                                                                                        
BizMiner provides business planning and research services and includes a section on free resources to help understand industry trends.

BizStats
Business statistics such as financial ratios and operating ratios, turnover, profitability for sole proprietorships, employee productivity, industry averages, benchmarking tools and more.

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.

PlanWare                                                                   
Features business management software and templates related to financial projection, cashflow forecasting, marketing, strategic planning and more.  

CardFellow.com
CardFellow.com is a free service that helps business owners navigate the confusing subject of credit card processing. They offer the chance to select the best card processing account from mulitple credit card processing quotes under the guidance of neutral industry professionals.

Inc. Gauge
Business owners and non-profit administrators can quickly evaluate their Key Performance Indicators and discover how they compare to up to 80,000 other companies using this free, confidential analysis tool.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
This site contains everything you need to know about patents and trademarks.

Society for Human Resource Management 
SHRM provides practical, time-saving resources and tools on HR topics. SHRM members can access sample forms, policies, mission statements, job descriptions, RFPs and more than 30 HR toolkits.

ActiveFilings
This site provides free, downloadable templates related to documents relevant to corporations.

Nolo 
Nolo offers self-help legal information for small businesses. Browse their free Small Business Law Center.

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. 

Colloquy
This Web site features information on the frequency-marketing industry. Registration is free and provides access to articles and book reviews on frequency and loyalty programs.

KnowThis.com
KnowThis.com is an advertising and marketing virtual library that offers resource materials and useful links.

Marketing Experiments
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.

NewspaperAdvertising.com
Learn to advertise effectively in newpapers and magazines. Free, practical articles, resources and message boards.

Trade-Show-Advisor.com
Trade-Show-Advisor.com offers free information and encouragement for people whose businesses might gain exposure and attention from participation in trade shows.

 

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