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INDEX:
- Central Coast Resources
- Consumer Affairs
- Employer/Employee Relations
- Government Resources
- Group activities: Trade shows, seminars, events
- International Trade
- Internet Business Tools
- Job Training and Search
- Legal Assistance
- Marketing and Finance
- Minority/Women-owned Businesses
- Reference Sources
- Statistics
CENTRAL COAST RESOURCES
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- Santa Cruz Small Business Monthly online publication.
CONSUMER AFFAIRS
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- Better Business Bureau offers consumer tips.
- Consumer World has gathered useful consumer resources on the Internet.
- National Fraud Information Center alerts users to scams being perpetrated on the Net.
EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
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- Employment Procedures from SmartBiz.
- Employment Law and Workplace Issues
- Performance from Smartbiz includes motivation, gainsharing, productivity, learning, mentoring, groups, teams, leaders, teleworking, performance, etc.
- Relocation Salary Calculator provides an easy way to determine your approximate salary when you move to a new city.
- California Employer Advisory Council - specifically geared to helping employers.
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Federal Resources
State Resources
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Business and Industry Information
- Federal Acquisition Institute
- Federal Business Council
- Federal Goverment FirstGov
- Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
- Small Business Administration
- U.S. Business Advisor Search
- U.S. Census Bureau Website
- U.S. General Services Administration
- The United States International Trade Commission
- U. S. Trade Statistics
Local Resources
- California Legislative Information
- California Trade and Commerce
- CEDAR the California Economic Diversification and Revitalization.
- California Environmental Quality Act
- Doing Business in California from the California Economic Diversification and Revitalization.
- CalGOLD: Permit Assistance Centers
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- Capitola City Government
- Santa Cruz County Government
- Search all City of Santa Cruz licensed businesses through the Business License Database.
- Santa Cruz City Government
- Watsonville City Government
- Workforce Santa Cruz is a site developed to bring together many agencies in Santa Cruz County.
- California Employer Advisory Council - specifically geared to helping employers.
GROUP ACTIVITIES: TRADE SHOWS, SEMINARS, EVENTS
- Group Activities/Events
- Yahoo Tradehow Links
- Search for trade shows through SmartBiz.
- Seminar Finder
- Training and Seminar Locator
- Trade Show Central- a searchable trade show directory.
- Travel and Entertainment from Smartbiz includes travel costs, coping with travel problems, airline clubs, international issues, etc.
INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES
International TradeChecking the Creditworthiness of Buyers Financing Exports and Receivables
- Trade India will help you in establishing business contacts with Indian Manufacturers, Exporters, Importers, etc.
- Countries and International Services from University of California, Irvine includes almost anything you'd need for international travel, including foreign law, dictionaries, weather, and currency exchange rates.
- Assist International
- The Enterprise Development Website - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development in developed and developing countries
- International Trade from California Trade and Commerce Agency.
- California Trade Port
- CIBS Canadian foreign affairs and international trade.
- globalEDGE: Regional or country specific information from the International Business Resources offered by Michigan State University.
- International Business links from Smartbiz
- Tradezone
- International Trade resources from Michigan State University.
- MBITA Monterey Bay International Trade Association.
- National Trade Database
- North American Free Trade Agreement Net
- Small Business Exporters Association
- Trade Research and Data Exchange
- U.S. Business Advisor Search of GovBot Database (106,151 web pages from government sites around the country).
- WorldWide Government Information Sources
International Trade Issue Support Potential International Buyers The International Trade list was created by KRAMER KONEXIONS INTERNATIONAL, LLC and is maintained and updated by the Central Coast Small Business Development Center
- AFEX
- Financing Your Business from the Small Business Administration.
- Tradematch Export and Trade Services
- Commerce Finance Online
- Actrade International
- Wells Fargo
- Bank of America
- Citibank
- ATA Carnet
- Chase Manhattan
- Export Hotline and Tradebank Online
INTERNET BUSINESS TOOLS
Find anyone!
Online yellow pages:
- BigBook a whole new kind of Yellow Pages.
- Worldwide Yellow Pages
- GTE SuperPages
- WWW Business Yellow Pages
- YelloWWWeb Pages
Money Tools:
Internet Search Engines:
Software online:
- Shareware Small Business Administration shareware library contains over 500 shareware, freeware or public domain software for businesses, including a search vehicle.
JOB TRAINING AND SEARCH
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- ASBDC.Net Learning Center Courses available on management skills, computer skills, accounting courses and marketing and sales courses. There is also an area of free, "demo" courses.
- Workforce Santa Cruz is a site developed to bring together many agencies in Santa Cruz County. Find links to job training and search and links to local agencies.
- Northern California Workforce Development Net offers links and information in and out of California.
- CONNECTtoCAREERS
- CONNECTtoJOBS
- The Online Career Center for finding jobs around the country.
- California State Civil Service offers online exams for civil service employment.
- CircuitOnline/Techjobbank focuses on listing job openings on the computer/IT/electronics and semiconductor industries.
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
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- Findlaw Silicon Valley Center The Silicon Valley Center contains information on everything you need to run a start-up company: from obtaining venture capital to preparing for a company's initial public offering.
- Advertising Law Resource Center.
- ADA InfoNet Aimed at Assisting those in small business to understand the rights, responsibilites and benefits inherent in the Americans With Disabilities Act.
- California Environmental Quality Act
- California Legislative Information
- Connect to GPO Access Databases Grants online search capabilities for a variety of Government Printing Office documents, including the U.S. Code, selected years of the Federal Register and the Congressional Record, and more.
- FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
- Legal Issues.
- Legal Information Institute Here is a comprehensive guide to legal sources available on the Internet, maintained by the Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute. Contains excellent protocols for searching the U.S. Code.
MARKETING AND FINANCE
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- Business Management Resources
- Computing in Business Resources
- Direct Marketing Resources
- Doing Business on the Internet
- The Enterprise Development Website - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development in developed and developing countries
- Electronic Commerce- learn about doing business on the Internet.
- Electronic Commerce Internet Resources from Premenos.
- Finance Net is the Internet's home for public financial management worldwide to link financial management administrators, educators and taxpayers worldwide.
- Financial Categories
- Financial News Center Online financial, commodity and economic news services and forecasts.
- Internet business mailing lists
- Investors Edge:Empowering the Online Investor.
- Marketing Resources
- Marketing Support Services for New Businesses
- Quicken Financial Network
- Sales Resources
- Saving Money
MINORITY AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS
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- DIV2000.COM is the official site of Diversity 2000, the online hub for supplier diversity. The heart of this website is its informative database of Minority and Women Business Enterprises (M/WBE's) and contacts within Fortune 1000 companies. DIV2000 also facilitates your ability to remain abreast of activities and news that affect M/WBE's and Blue Chip Companies.
- Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) is a service organization for women building and leading high-growth technology and life science companies. FWE’s mission is to accelerate women's opportunities to start, manage and invest in market-leading companies.
- SBA's Online Women's Business Center - information specific to women in business.
REFERENCE SOURCES
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- Online demographics
- A Business Researcher's Interest
- Business Resource Center
- BusinessWire
- Domestic news sources and periodicals, Journals and research papers and International news sources and periodicals from the International Business Resources on the WWW offered by Michigan State University.
- Dow Jones Business Directory
- Insurance News Network Research Online
- The Enterprise Development Website - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development in developed and developing countries
- Research & Reference - a collection of resources, material, and information from Inc. Online.
- Statistical and Information Resources from Michigan State University.
- TaxWeb is the Internet's first consumer-oriented source for federal, state and local tax-related developments.
- Telephone Directories on the Webcontains links to online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world.
- U.S. Business Advisor a one-stop electronic link to government for business.
- Search for a company anywhere using this Worldwide Yellow pages.
- Open Market's Commerical Sites Index -- contains links to almost 2,000 companies, as well as non-profits and government sites. All searched by name -- so of you are looking for a certain company, say AT&T, just enter the name and it will come back with the info.
- Business: Hoover's Directory Online The Hoover's Online database on the MONEY Personal Finance Center provides profiles of about 400 of the America's best-known companies. Company profiles are updated annually and revised when major events affect their content.
- Yahoo's list of Companies links to thousands of corporate home pages, not necessarily the biggest companies, but all sorted by business type, from advertising to weather.
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers lists most major U.S. manufactures.
- Fortune 500 ranks by revenue America's largest corporations- manufacturers, retailers, financial services companies, or software vendors.
STATISTICS
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- Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS), http://www.mids.org/ids3/index.html
- GVU's WWW User Survey, http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/
- NUA, http://www.nua.ie/surveys/
- Neilsen Media, http://www.nielsenmedia.com/
- For an up-to-date statistics summary, visit BusinessOnline's statistics page.
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