Useful Links
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Alerts/Newsclipper/Monitoring Services
Ad Facts; Bizstats; Dow Jones;InfoBeat; NewsAlert; NewsEdge;Tracerlock; The Smoking Gun;Watchlist/Edgar Online;WebWhacker
Associations: VCA Association Directory, AIPAGIA, PIMA
Annual Reports
Free Annual Reports;
Balanced Scorecard – Kaplan and Norton’s Site:
Benchmarking Resources
APQC Best Practices;Benchmarking Sources; Best Manufacturing Practices;. The Benchmarking Exchange
- Better Business Bureau online business practices
- U.S. Commerce e-commerce policy
- Benchmarking
- Customer Satisfaction
- Net Promotor Score
Browser Assistants /Language Translation
Babelfish; Gurunet
Business
BIZlink; BRINT Research Institute; Business Directory from Texas A&M; CEO Express;Country Studies and Area Handbooks; Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR); Galaxy Directory: Business and Commerce; Information Please Almanac; KnowX; McKinsey Quarterly; Mintel; National Trade Data Bank; Rice University; U.S. Business Statistics; University of Michigan; Wall Street Research Net; Webliography; .xls ;Strategy + Business
Careers
Indeed: RiteSite; Resume Reach;The Vault Career Research;America’s Job Bank Info;BrassRing; Career Web;Careerbuilder; Careers.wsj.com;Headhunter; High Tech Job Search; The Ladders; LinkedIn Jobs; Los Angeles Times; Monster Board; Philadelphia Online; The Ripley Guide; Yahoo! CareersNow (Hot Jobs); InsuranceJobs;Job-Applications.com.
Company Information
Business.com; Company Finder;Corporate Information; Hemscott UK; Hoover Company Listings;Individual; InterNet Bankruptcy Library; IRIN; Morningstar; Public Register’s Annual Report Service;SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval); Starting Point;Thomas Register; U.S. Federal Subcontractor Directory; Wall Street Research Net
Competitive Intelligence Sites
Mintel; SpyFu; Manning & Napier Information Services; Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals; CI Seek; Strategis;Wall Street Transcript, Promere.
Conference Call Schedules
Bestcalls.com; CBS Marketwatch
Copywriter’s Roundtable
Corporate Filings
Free Public Records; InvestQuest;SEC; SEC Info; US private Company Public Records;Watchlist/Edgar Online; 10K Wizard
Credit Report Resources
Info USA; Dun & Bradstreet;Experian; Transunion
Decision Effectiveness – See Bain & Company –
Direct Mail Tracking/Intelligence: Comperemedia
Economic Trends – Global: World Economic Forum
Executive Compensation: Executive Compensation
AFL-CIO; ROB Magazine
Facebook News: All Facebook
General Business:
Knowledge Management Resources Brint;CIO Magazine KM Research Center; KMWorld; Hoovers.com
General Reference
AllWords.com; How Much is That Worth Today?; Library Spot;TechEncyclopedia; Time and date.com; Travel Health Online
Government Agencies
CBDNet; Congress and Government Resources;Environmental Protection Agency;; FirstGov; Infomine;National Insititute Of Standards and Technology; National Science Foundation; Occupational Safety and Health Administration;Securities and Exchange Commission; U.S. Bureau of the Census; U.S. Business Advisor;U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics;U.S. Government Online Gateway; U.S. National Technology Transfer Center
Government Issues / Contract Awards
Loren Data Corp.’s Commerce Business Daily
Healthcare – Helpful Sites: See Facts About Personal Health Records; Helpful Information Sites/Services (AHA Site/Chartbook)
Interactive Marketing
PEW Mashable; UCLA Internet Law list of links; New Media;eCRM Guide; Internet PR Guide;ClickZGuide; ECommerce Guide;Internet Mail Consortium;Marketing Terms; HUBSPOT; Ed Osworth’s Internet Marketing Index
IPOs
IPO Express; IPO Monitor; ROB Magazine
IT and Technology News
CRM: Best Practices from the field; Dialog; Dow Jones Interactive; Dun and Bradstreet;FT Profile; Ingenta; Knowledge Express; Knowx.com; Lexis-Nexis Universe; Market Research;McKinsey; Multex; Northern Light;PR and Marketing Network;Society for CI Professionals;Spacy Proxy; Tech Republic;Tracerlock
Ovitz Taylor Gates - Management resources for enterprise projects, offering how-to workbooks, project plans and planning guides, tools, templates and checklists. A valuable Management resource.
Ken Radio – for the latest technology news
Job Applications – hundreds of Job applications available at:
Libraries
Marketing Virtual Library;Harvard Libraries; Internet Library Catalog; MIT Libraries; National Library of Medicine; The Library of Congress Catalog; The WWW Virtual Library
Market News
Motley Fool; CBS Marketwatch;Bloomberg; Wall Street City;CNBC
Marketing: Marketing Terms; International marketing; Marketing online;AMA site; WilsonWeb;
See Interactive Marketing
Management
Management Issues
Market Research
Ads of the World; Bizstats; Red Herring; Fast Company; Company Sleuth; Companies Online;Compere Media; Redbook;Trendwatching; Conference Board Stats; Open Secrets
Merger/Acquisition Information
Mergerstat.com;MergerNetwork.com;
Modeling Tools
Jim Novo’s Web Site
Miscellaneous Reports
10K Wizard; Edgar Online
New Economy Sources
Industry Standard; Fast Company; Business 2.0; Red Herring; ZD Net; Wired News
Newsgroups / Message Boards
Raging Bull; Motley Fool;
Newspaper & Magazine Databases
AJR NewsLink; Newspapers.com;Yahoo; Bizjournals; The Internet Public Library
Organizational Effectiveness Simulator
Patent and Copyright Information The Copyright Website; Espacenet;MicroPatent; Official Gazette;Patent Explorer; Patent Search System;The Intellectual Property Network; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Phone Directories Reference USA; Big Yellow; Canada 411;Yahoo; Info Space: The Ultimate Guide; Switchboard; Telephone Directories on the Web; Yahoo Telephone Directories
Private Equity
A List of Heavy Hitters at PEGC.org; Bain (See 2012 Global PE Report)
Research Competitor’s Products
US Patents and Trademark Office;Delphion Intellectual Property Network
Research Complaints
Better Business Bureau; US Securities and Exchange Commission
Research Consumers’ Reviews
U.S. Census;Consumerreview.com; Pew Internet Stats; U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Research Job Databases
Monsterboard; Career Path
Research Legal Cases
The Federal Judiciary; AllLaw.com
Researching Private Companies
Forbes; Red Herring
Research Public Information
Search Systems
Risk Management for the Enterprise:
Ernst & Young report;Coso.org;
Search Engines & Directories
FINDSPOT; Google; HotBot;Internet Resource Guide Directory; Lycos; Metacrawler;Newest Internet Resources;Northern Light; Search Engine Showdown; Yahoo
SEC Filings
US SEC – Edgar Database
Spam/eMail Checking Software
Speeches
Riveting talks by remarkable people at TED
Statistics FedStats; Stat-USA;Statistics.com
Stock Quotes
E-trade; Netscape; CNNfn; Red Herring; NasdaqWall Street Journal
Trade Associations and Organizations
ASAE; Internet Public Library;Yahoo
Trade Shows/Conferences
Expodatabase; TSNN.com;Tscentral.com
Web Site Development
Useit; Web Pages That Suck;Microsoft Office Live; All Who Is;DNS Stuff; 1 and 1; Sedo, Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Summit
Word of Mouth Marketing
Some Interesting News Sites:
Today’s Front Pages – Newseum.org – PDF files from front pages of newspapers across the world.
The Paperboy - searchable directory of newspapers from around the world.
Listing of 25,000 newspapers from around the world - searchable by country and then by publication.
Clickable Map of the USA. All Newspapers within a State and a listing of newspapers.
