Business Links & Resources

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St. Louis Commercial Building for Sale or Lease

• In South St. Louis County

Small Business Links

• Small Business Loan Guidelines
• Free Trademark Search
• Service Corps of Retired Executives SCORE
• U.S. Small Business Administration SBA
• U.S. Small Business Administration's Online Women's Business Center SBA for Women
• U.S. Census Bureau to do research
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) request tax info
• Consumer Information Center Check out their booklets
• U.S. Attorney General's Office look for the one in your area
• Secretary of State and State Department of Revenue Find Yours
• Small Business Technology Development Center Find yours on Google
• Small Business Incubators Advancing Business Incubation
• Chambers of Commerce Find one in your area
• The Mom Entrepreneur

Magazines & Periodicals

• Trade Pub Find the Trade Periodical for your industry
• Inc.com Small Business Resources for the Entrepreneur
• Entrepreneur Magazine Solutions for Growing Businesses
• Fast Company How Smart People Work
• St. Louis Small Business Monthly
• Kansas City Small Business Monthly
• BizJournals - A nationwide network of business newspapers
• Business 2.0
• Business Week
• CFO
• Chief Executive
• Economist
• Forbes
• Fortune
• Newsweek
• Smart Money
• Time
• US News
• Wired

Organizations & General Business Links

• Great Game of Business
• American Society of Training and Development
• American Society of Women Accountants
• Association For Women In Computing
• Alliance of Technology and Women
• Back Office Professionals Association (BOPA)
• BroadcastNET - Broadcast Industry Homepage
• Business and Professional Women
• Institute of Management Accountants
• The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)
• Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
• Public Relations Society of America
• U.S. City Business Directory
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Professional Women's Controllers, Inc
• Society for Human Resource Management
• Society for Technical Communication
• Toastmasters International
• The Association for Women in Communications (AWC)

• Writing workshops, editing, proofreading and more Word Abilities

St. Louis Area Networking and Meeting Links

• ACT User Group
• South County Toastmasters
• St. Louis Publishers Association

Money & Wealth

• Dollar Stretcher It's not about being cheap... it's about being smart.
• Clark Howard - consumer advocate
• Women's Wall Street
• Forbes
• Yahoo Finance
• MSN Investor
• MSN Financial
• Wall Street Journal

Productivity, Organizing, & Time Management

• Open Spaces

Awards, Plaques, Engraved Business Gifts, Signage & Name Badges

• Awards & Recognition Products - Arch Engraving

Personal Safety

• Seminars, newsletters and personal safety alarms  Nancy Hightshoe, M.A. “The Lady Was a Cop!”

Business & Industry Research Links

• High Beam - OnLine Business and General Research
• Knowledgestorm - OnLine Technology Research
• BitPipe - OnLine IT Research

Statistics

• Bureau of Labor Stats
• Fedstats
• Int'l Stats
• Internet Statistics
• Population Lookup
• Best Places
• US Census Datamaps
• Regional Data

Search Engines (Some are free for submitting your site; some are not)

• Local Search:
• Yahoo Local - http://local.yahoo.com/
• Google Local - http://local.google.com/
• AOL City Guides - http://cityguide.aol.com/
• Microsoft Live Search - http://maps.live.com/
• Local.com - http://www.local.com/
• True Local - http://www.truelocal.com/
• Judy's Book - http://www.judysbook.com
• Insider Pages - http://www.insiderpages.com
• Major search engines:
• AltaVista
• AOL Search
• Google
• MSN Search
• Open Directory Project
• Excite
• Galaxy
• LookSmart
• SoftSearch
• Teoma
• Webcrawler
• WhatUseek
• Yahoo.com
• Other & Specialty search engines:
• Aeiwi
• Aesop
• AllTheWeb
• BizWeb
• BizWiz
• EntireWeb.com
• ExactSeek
• FyberSearch
• GalaxyHit
• Geona
• Gigablast
• InfoTiger
• Jayde
• Linkopedia
• ObjectSearch
• Perfext
• Pronet
• Qango
• ScrubTheWeb
• Search Queen
• SearchKing
• Super Promo Web Search
• Walhello
• WebWorld
• WhatUseek
• Zeal
• ZenSearch

Shipping/Tracking

• DHL
• US Postal Service/Express Mail
• FedEx
• UPS

Web-Based Software

And now for the important links: St. Louis Area Golf Courses (MO & IL)
(Why include this? Because we business owners still have a life.)