General Business Information Links

General Business Information

by Stephen T. Maher

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Business and Industry Associations They're here. Associations are following their members online.
Businesses by Name and Product Yellow pages without the yellow paper.
Company Information Find detailed information about companies even after the libraries close.
Convention and Trade Show Information A new way to find out where you should be.
Data Useful in Business Find demographic information that will help you learn about potential customers.
Financial Markets Financial market data and commentary is a big focus of today's World Wide Web.
Government Resources Your tax dollars at work in cyberspace.
Internet Resources Places to look to find more places to look.
Sales and Marketing Use the Internet to promote your business.

Business and Industry Associations

The International Chamber of Commerce Directory provides e-mail addresses and links to chambers of commerce around the world.

This List of Associations provides the names ans e-mail addresses of a variety of associations.

Rotary International, an association of more than 27,500 Rotary clubs in 154 countries around the world, includes a membership of nearly 1.2 million business and professional men and women. This site provides information about the history and mission of the organization and about its activities.

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Businesses by Name and Product

BigBook, a free service that calls itself "a whole new kind of yellow pages," allows you to locate businesses throughout the United States by searching by business name or category and by local area.

Switchboard provides nationwide business directory that you may search at no charge for addresses and telephone numbers, but e-mail addresses are not available.

A Handy Guide is an alphabetical lisitng of Internet directories and guides that contains many interesting links. "The most unique feature of A Handy Guide is the a incorportation of American Sign Language throughout our index directory tree."

BizWeb provides free access to links to more than 4,000 business web pages. Links are organized by product category and a search engine is also provided.

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Convention and Trade Show Information

Expo Guide provides information on conferences, trade shows and exhibitions, searchable by date, location, date and keyword.

The Computer Events Directory bills itself as "the leading source of information on technology conferences, exhibitions, seminars and tradeshows."

COMDEX On-line provides details on COMDEX events worldwide, a very influential series of computer industry trade shows.

The Guerrilla Guide to High Tech Trade Shows provides survival tips and links to sites maintained by promoters.

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Data Useful in Business

Ceisin's U.S. - Demography HomePage "is part of an initiative to identify, document, and provide simple access to demographic information concerning The United States of America." The data accessable through this site includes Public Use Microdata Samples, Current Population Survey, Economic Census Data, County Business Patterns, County City Data Book, Statistical Abstract Supplement, National, Econmoic, Social, and Environmental Databank, Regional Economic Information Sysytem, Enhanced County To County Migration 1985-1990, TIGER 1992 Boundaries and STF3A Standard Extracts.

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Financial Markets

CNNfn, a leading online financial network, provides free access to stories and features on breaking financial developments. "[M]any CNNfn stories will now link directly to Hoover's Online, giving users of the CNNfn web site the ability to use Hoover's in-depth profiles of companies in the news."

The Reuters' Money Network provides stock market and business information. The site features the Protfolio Tracker, from Quick & Reilly, a presently free service that lets you set up and track up to 19 portfolios with up to 30 quotes in each.

Wall Street Directory, Inc. "contains over 3000 pages of information for computerized traders and investors, with more than 2500 products and services from companies & institutions - located both on and off the Internet."

If you are using a frames enabled browser and you are in search of financial links, visit the RMB News (South Africa) site. It provides financial news from South Africa, and includes a side frame that contains an impressive set of links to financial news all over the world, stock exchanges, brokerage companies, and many other sources of financial information.

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Government Resources

The FinanceNet "is the Internet's home for public financial management worldwide. It was established by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review in Washington, D.C. in 1994 and is operated by the National Science Foundation (a Federal agency) under sponsorship of the U.S. Chief Financial Officers Council." The site is designed "to share information and ideas for improving the stewardship and accountability of taxpayer resources at all levels of government" and has links to many related resources.

The U.S. Business Advisor "exists to provide business with one-stop access to federal government information, services, and transactions. Our goal is to make the relationship between business and government more productive." This service answers common questions on exports, OSHA, small business, taxes and Social Security. It also contains guides on things like how to get a passport, how to do business with the General Services Administration, and how to obtain disaster relief. The site also allows you to search government information, including regulations in development and FinanceNet, the Internet's central clearinghouse for "all electronic information from federal, state and local governments on the sale of all manner of property and surplus, from planes and boats to loans and homes." The site also contains information browsable by category, and provides news of interest to business.

The Department of Commerce Home Page provides information about agency activites and links to other government resources.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office site allows you to search the US Patent Database, to order copies of patents and trademarks and to find out information about intellectual property, including links to intellectual property offices in governments around the world.

The U.S. Census Bureau Official Statistics Page has a wealth of statistical information concerning the people of the United States as well as a section on current economic indicators.

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Internet Resources

The Worldclass Supersite provides a "free daily updated guide to the Web's best global business sites, with step-by-step commentary and instant access to 500 top sites from 70 countries." An excellent place to look for business resources on the Internet.

iWorld's Guide to Electronic Commerce contains an imprssive arrary of resources including "an entire section to information resources on the internet for electronic commerce, including print sources, conferences, user groups, teaching resources, jumpstations, mailing lists, research groups, and news sources."

The Baker Library (Harvard Business School) contains electronic resources and links to Internet Resources. Some material is available only to students of the school.

Cyberpreneurs Guide to the Internet provides information about selected resources for the entrepreneur on Internet, including Listservs, newsgroups and gopher addresses. While the presentation at this gopher site lacks the glamour of the many Web sites, the information provided here is important if you hope to take fuller advantage of non-Web Internet business resources, such as newsletters and newsgroups.

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Sales and Marketing

Advertising Age has gone online, and focuses on online marketing, with articles, features, and Internet reviews.

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