Business Plans
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Starting Out:
Business
Plans
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Business Plans
via Gale
Virtual Reference Collection (Passwords needed - see Student
Commons)
- Search Gale
Virtual Reference Collection
for these valuable resources:
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Business Plans Handbooks
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Encyclopedia of American Industries
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Encyclopedia of Management
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Encyclopedia of Small Business
- Netlibrary Ebooks
- How to Write a Business Plan (eBook)
by McKeever,
Mike P.Berkeley, Calif.: Nolo, 2000.62921
http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=126072
- How to Prepare a Business Plan (eBook)
Sunday Times Business Enterprise Guide; Rev. 4th Ed.by Blackwell,
Edward.London, Sterling, VA Kogan Page, 2004.http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=134767
(British business plans)
- How to Write a Business Plan (eBook)
by McKeever, Mike P.Berkeley, CA Nolo, 2002.
http://www.netlibrary.com/summary.asp?id=78303
- How
to Write a .com Business Plan : The Internet Entrepreneur's Guide to
Everything You Need to Know About Business Plans and Financing Options
(eBook) by Eglash, Joanne. New York:McGraw-Hill
Professional, 2000. 54226
- Online Business Planning : How to Create a Better Business Plan Using
the Internet, Including a Complete, Up-to-date Resource Guide
(eBoook) by Gorman, Robert T. Franklin Lakes, N.J. The
Career Press, 1999.25133
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Industry Outlooks |
Product Industry and Outlook Research - Is there growth or need for products or
services
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Companies,
Products, Services & Pricing |
Locating Companies That Sell Products - how are they doing?
Doing Research On Specific Companies
- Library Databases
- Websites
Use
Google.com,
Yellow Pages,
Superpages.com
(businesses) or other preferred search engine to locate
company information:
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to find who sells products
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to look at individual companies web page
for information
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Thomas Register (company catalogs)
http://www.thomasregister.com/
Pricing
- Thomas Register (company catalogs) -
http://www.thomasregister.com/
- Existing products in stores::
- Walmart --http://www.walmart.com
- JC Penney --http://www1.jcpenney.com/jcp/default.aspx
- Claires (hair products) --http://www.claires.com/site_map.asp
- Target –
http://www.target.com
- Google or
Yellow Pages -- Company homepages or catalogs for pricing, locations,
new product development, etc.
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Marketing Research
See local area information (below) who you can
market to |
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Area
Demographics, Lifestyles, Trends & Attitudes
Operations Costs For Area Costs & Regulations for Doing
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Government Sources/ Statistics/Laws
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Systems
Analysis/ Computer Security Plan |
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Journal/Magazine
Article Databases: |
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Business Source Complete |
Excellent
coverage of business, international, IT and management. Industry
profiles, company reports, country profiles & marketing
information. |
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Lexis Nexis |
Business & legal news. |
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Computer Database |
Computers,
telecommunications, electronics, high-tech topics and
industry status reports from 150 key technology periodicals. |
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General Business File |
International
database provides 2000,000 company profiles; 50,000
full-text Investext® reports; late-breaking company news,
industries products and executives |
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Academic Search Complete |
Largest database
of articles covering all subjects. 4,000+ titles & thousands
of articles. |
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Ebooks |
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Gale Reference - Business Plans IT Section |
Over 200 online
samples of real business plans including set up and staffing
and break even costs; market analysis and plans.
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Netlibrary |
Over
50,000 online books including international, management and
business topics. 2 IT centers. Country profiles. |
http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/
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