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| Web Sites Many Web sites provide business planning information. Listed below are just a few of them. Most include examples of business plans. American Express Several interactive tools are available from the small business section of the American Express Web site. The Beehive This site, maintained by the nonprofit One Economy Corporation, includes a business plan tool so you can create, revise, and store your document online. You must register to use this tool, but registration is free. Bplans.com This site has more than 60 free sample business plans as well as some business planning tools, including a cash flow calculator and a starting costs calculator. Sample advertising, marketing, and Web site development plans and mission statements also are available. Business, market, and sales planning software from Palo Alto Software is for sale at this site. BRS Center for Business Planning These plans are winners of The MOOT CORP® Competition, in which MBAs from the best business schools in the world present their business plans to panels of investors. The investors then choose the best new ventures. Business, market, and sales planning software from Business Resources Software is for sale at this site. CCH Business Owner's Toolkit From Commerce Clearinghouse, the business owner's toolkit offers "total know-how for small business." Downloadable checklists, model business plans, forms, and other documents are found under Business Tools. The Small Business Guide presents information you need to make your small business a success. HR (Human Resources) tools also are available. Learnthat This popular Web site has many free articles and online courses and tutorials in a variety of business, certification, computer, finance, house, Internet, and lifestyle topics. There are several business tutorial categories from which to choose. U.S. Small Business Administration From the SBA, this business plan tutorial also is available en Español. |
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by David H. Bangs Dearborn Trade, 2002. HD30.28 .B362 2002 |
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Gale Press, 1995 – (9 volume reference set of typical, sample plans) HD62.7 .B865 Volumes 1-9 Reference |
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by Entrepreneur Press, 2004. HD62.5 .H68517 2004 |
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edited by John S. Purtill, Jr. West Hartford, Conn.: Community Accounting Aid and Services, c2000. KF3834.Z9 S75 2004 |
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| For additional resources in Hartford Public Library, check the Hartford Public Library online catalog for books and magazines about business and marketing plans, entrepreneurship, small business in general, and specific types of small businesses. Search subjects (and their subdivisions) such as: Also check for subject headings for specific types of businesses. Some examples are: Searching the online catalog by word is another option. Please ask a staff member to assist you, if you are having difficulty finding books in the catalog or locating them on the shelves. If the Library does not have a specific title or a book on a specific topic, please let us know. We can get it for you. |
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