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Sales & Marketing

These sites contain information such as industry statistics, trends, market research information that are commonly used in the Sales and Marketing section of a business plan.

Hundreds of demographic and economic reports are available at this site.  

http://www.census.gov

A gateway to over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies. Searchable by topic, by geography, by Agency.

http://www.fedstats.gov

U.S. Statistical Abstract - The online version of the U.S. Census Bureau's popular reference source. Requires Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader and is available on the site.

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

Industry Statistic (Nebraska Dept of Econ Development) - A collection of industry related web sites and industry specific studies. Business Assistance Toolkit, Nebraska Department of Economic Development. 

http://assist.neded.org/indstats.html

Sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives, this directory is searchable by category/keyword, city, or state. 

http://www.asaenet.org/cda/asae/associations_search

These sites include information on the world of electronic commerce including technology, trends, demographic information, and Internet usage.

Rutgers Cyber Library

Includes links to various areas within electronic commerce including resource guides, data sources, and e-journals.

http://business.rutgers.edu/cyber/ec.htm

CyberAtlas - A site full of hundreds of studies on the ecommerce, Internet usage, web marketing and more. 

http://www.cyberatlas.com

Miscellaneous web sites including international and general business portals are included in this section.

A Business and Technology Research Portal with hundreds of links.

http://www.brint.com

Yahoo! Canada - Search Canadian sites through this search engine.

http://www.yahoo.ca

Search sites in the UK or Ireland through this search engine.

http://www.yahoo.co.uk

These web sites provide valuable resources to small business owners at various stages of development.

Resources for building, expanding or growing a small business are included in this site. In addition, links and references to doing business with the Small Business Administration are featured at this site.

http://www.sba.gov

Resources, articles, and links on building, expanding, and growing a small business.

http://www.entreworld.org/

Edward Lowe Foundation - Hundreds of articles on small business from topics ranging from financial management to operations to marketing.

http://edwardlowe.org/index.shtml

These web sites contain company and industry related information. These web sites may be used to gather information on both the competitive overview section as well as the sales and marketing section.

Provides information on hundreds of companies. Also searchable by industry. Some information is free, other is fee or subscription based.

http://www.hoovers.com

The online version of the popular newspaper. Subscription is required. Articles are searchable by company name.

http://www.wsj.com

elibrary.com

Subscription based database of articles, newspapers, and more. Searchable by company.

http://www.elibrary.com