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Small
Business Administration
Where do you start when beginning a business. The
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has a great website full of
FREE information. This site is a one-stop shop for just about
everything you can imagine for your small business.
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Entrepreneur.com
Here is another amazing site full of free information. Planning is the first rule to
success and should be your first priority. Never underestimate the purpose of a
good business plan. This should be a working document
that evolves as your business evolves. Whatever you do, DO NOT skip
this step. See
Sample Business Plans for help putting together your
plan.
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Action Plan Marketing Workbook
Equally important to your business plan is your marketing plan.
How are you going to marketing your product/services. In order to
be successful, you must be selling something and making a profit.
You need a step-by-step plan on how to achieve your sales
goals. Action
Plan Marketing offers a FREE WORKBOOK to help with
this process. This document should also evolve with your business
and always be a work in process.
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Tax9er
A Tax ID number is a must have. You no longer want to use your
social security number. You can obtain your IRS Tax ID Number instantly online using this exclusive wizard.
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Reading
Resources
Here are a variety of books to help you with every step of managing
a business.
www.preferredassists.com/small-business-resources-books.htm
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Small
Business Toolkit
OperateItRight
Small Business Toolkit™ Another great site for
information, tips, and resources for running your business. The
FREE toolkit is a great tool you will glad to have.
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Send
Out Cards
The NEW
innovative and cost effective way to send REAL Greeting Cards through
the mail.
This is a great marketing tool and a great way to build relationships
through relationship marketing
with your clients and therefore increasing your referrals.
This product is also great for creating excellent client retention.
www.iluvsoc.com
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Constant
Contact
Another great marketing tool to stay in front of you clients and GROW
YOUR BUSINESS. Constant Contact Email marketing
software that makes it easy to create professional email campaigns with
no tech skills. Another great way to consistently stay in front of
your clients. Don't have time to do a newsletter. Call a Virtual
Assistant for help with this.
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Vista
Print
Vista
Print has some FREE
PRODUCTS Every month six free products where customers only
pay for shipping. They also have FREE BUSINESS CARDS.
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Some FREE Things Here
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Franklin
Covey
FranklinCovey
is the global leader in productivity tools and training for individuals
and organizations. A wide variety of high-quality products to suit the
up-and-coming as well as established business professionals of today.
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Bluehost
Affordable,
Reliable Web Hosting Solutions.
You will definitely need a website. Bluehost provides a complete,
reliable, inexpensive web hosting solution. If you're looking for
someone to build your site for you, contact me.
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Site
Build It (SBI)
This is an incredible product. When it comes to a website builder, you'll want to know how
to build a website with the best web design tools. SBI
is has amazing tools. This is more than a website building tool.
It not only shows you how to build this site, but it also walks you
through how to optimize your site so t reaches the top of the Search
Engines. By far the best tool out there.
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QuickBooks
Small businesses all need an accounting solution. QuickBooks is the
most widely used accounting software. QuickBooks can be used for
most financially-related business processes, from entering sales
receipts, tracking expenses, preparing and sending invoices, sales tax
tracking and payment, preparation of basic financial statements and
reports, and inventory management.
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TurboTax
This is a great tool for tax purposes. Give it a try
online before you buy it.
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Preferred Assistants,
LLC
Need help with your administrative tasks? Preferred
Assistants are professional, skilled and cost-effective virtual administrative assistants. A virtual administrative assistant is
designed to manage administrative functions for businesses,
associations, and individuals.
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PayPal
For Business
When
you signup for PayPal, you can start accepting credit card payments
instantly. As the world's number one online payment service, PayPal is
the fastest way to open your doors to over 150 million member accounts
worldwide. Best of all, it's completely free to sign up!
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Mozy
For
your online backup needs. Protect you data without the worries of
wondering how to back it upMozy
is simple. Automatic. Secure.
Get Protected. Get
up to 2GB Online Backup absolutely FREE!
or
Unlimited Backup for $4.95/Month
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LogMeIn
FREE
This is a GREAT tool for remote access. Gives
you the flexibility to access and control your PCs or Macs from
anywhere. Log Me In easy to use and completely free.
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WebHuddle
This is a great find web conferencing tool. Designed for ease of use, WebHuddle
overcomes many of the common challenges faced by other virtual meeting
applications on the market. With the high cost of travel and shrinking
budgets, most organizations today are already meeting virtually, or are
considering it-- all it takes is a web-enabled PC and something to say.
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Free Conference Calls
The
service is so simple to use, requiring only a name and an e-mail to
receive a 120 day renewable account. This is a great tool.
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Conference Call.com |
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Microsoft
Clipart and Templates
FREE Visit
this site to help spiff up your documents with clipart and professional templates.
This is a great site by Microsoft. You'll love it.
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iCop™
Sets the industry standard for online business! For business
ethics! For consumer confidence! For home based business!
iCop™ is a professional membership site. If you are sceptical to
buy online. Check out the merchant here.
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Save
on Taxes
How
any small business owner or self-employed person can save thousands in
taxes. (Small Business & Self-Employed People Only).
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Send
This File
Allows
you to easily send and receive large files to and from anyone, anywhere.
Register
and sign in! It's easy! Send
This File
has various plans to suit ALL Budgets including a completely free
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