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Kutztown SBDC: Web-Based Tools: Business Planning Resources & Links

The Kutztown SBDC consultants suggest you review the following websites to help you build marketing, strategic, and business plans. For your convenience, we organized the sites into general resources and categorized resources. The general resources contain Federal and State agencies designed to help small business people. The categorized resources include competition, distribution, labor, and legal structure information.

General Resources

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center (http://www.pasbdc.org/information/)
Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse (http://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/)
Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (http://www.dced.state.pa.us)
Pennsylvania Open for Business (http://www.paopen4business.state.pa.us/)
U.S. Small Business Administration (http://www.sba.gov/)
SBA Online Woman's Business Center (http://www.onlinewbc.gov/)
Business Journals (http://www.bizjournals.com/)
Small Business Encyclopedia (http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm/catID/19B45DBF-E85F-4A3D-950E3E07E32851A7)
eBizITPA: Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (https://www.ebizitpa.org/)
Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/) Knowledge@Wharton is a free web-based research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School. It currently has more than 1,500 articles and research papers in its database and is growing every week. With more than 450,000 registered users in 181 countries and subscriptions are growing at 6,000 to 8,000 per month. Also, Knowledge@Wharton has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Financial Times, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and several more publications.

Resources by Category

Competition

Distribution

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Guidebook (http://aol.toolkit.cch.com/)

Intellectual Property

U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/)

Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/)

Legal Structure

Marketing Research, Demographics & Statistics

@ResearchInfo.com (http://www.researchinfo.com/)
BizStats (http://www.bizstats.com) Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/)
FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)
Marketing Research Association (http://www.mra-net.org)
Pennsylvania State Data Center (http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/)
U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)

Public Relations

Sales

The Brooks Group - Free Sales Resources (http://www.brooksgroup.com/free/default.htm)

Miscellaneous

Free On-Demand Web Courses

Agribusiness

Environmental

General Business Consulting

Government Marketing

International Trade

Technology Commercialization

Business newsfeed

Business Planning Resources

Business Planning Tool

Market Monitor

Latino Business Resource Center

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