Merchant Resources
Security Guide for Small Business
This free 62-page PDF guide developed by Microsoft and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce helps explain why security is important to your business. The guide outlines security steps to protect your PC and network, including how to secure business against viruses and hackers. The guide also includes a sample small-business security plan.
EzSupport Lite
Respond to your customers - even when you're not available - with this free, automated online customer-support solution. EzSupport Lite saves businesses time by automatically answering repetitive e-mail questions with prepared responses. This simple program can be up and running in 20 minutes and will keep your inbox clutter-free - or as close to it as you can get.
Bronto Email Marketing Toolkit
This free PDF guide developed by software provider Bronto focuses on e-mail marking. This 19-page toolkit outlines a six-step program to get your e-mail marketing program launched. Throughout each step, the toolkit provides ideas and examples to get you going and even includes worksheets.
Sharebuilder 401(K)
Created exclusively for small business, ShareBuilder 401(K) lets employers deliver retirement plans for a flat monthly fee of $15 per participant, with an annual asset fee of 0.65 percent. ShareBuilder 401(K) integrates with existing payroll and offers online payroll service, allowing employees access to check stubs and multiyear W-2's.
Instantly Create a Logo Online
Choose from more than 20,000 exclusive symbols to create your logo using an easy point-and-click process.
How to Start an eBay Business
Free step by step guide to starting an eBay business including business models
and success stories.
Looking for Business Ideas?
Take a look at the library of "Smart Ideas" listed on entrepreneur.com. You'll find dozens of stories about how smart entrepreneurs found inspiration to launch their businesses.
Looking for Website Ideas?
A great place for people with "designer's block". Has a large web design gallery, examples and templates.
INC.COM - The Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs
An invaluable source of information for business owners - start up resources, statistics, and too many articles to mention.
Resourcelinks Business Directory
Directory of business resources that may be searched by state.
osCommerce Support Forum
Official community support forums for the osCommerce project, an open source, free ecommerce solution.
e107.org
e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customizable and in constant development.
Education loans
A site offering exclusive information on various aspects of education loans & educational grants, providing details about the various types of loans and how to acquire them.
Invision Power Board Forum Directory
Directory containing hundreds of information forums
ForumBase.org - Forums Directory
Another diverse directory of informational forums
Free Patent Searching
The site allows free patent searching, free patent PDF downloading, allows
you to set up competetive intelligence alerts, and more. It's a great resource for patent searching, R&D, and market research
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