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Blog DirectoryHaving a sucessful home based business means you need to think smart, have great resources, wear every hat you can imagine and need to learn a little bit about a lot of things.

I decided to gather and post a small portion of the resources I found and use or have bookmarked for future use with my own home based business. These are tools and companies, information and nuts and bolts operations. If you have good resources you like and think would add value here please send me a message or leave a comment with the details.

Check back often as I will continue to add new tools and resources often.

Information

U.S. Federal Government www.business.gov -links to hunderds of databases

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office www.uspto.gov - search databases and statistics on registering trademarks and patents.

Working Solo www.workingsolo.com - Info for home based business owners

Nolo www.nolo.com Self help legal information for small business

MoreBusiness www.morebusiness.com - Covers starting, financing, marketing and managing a small business

Direct Market Association www.the-dma.org

Sales Leads and mailing lists www.zapdata.com

Trade shows and Associations www.tsnn.com

Association of Women’s Business Centers www.womensbusinesscenters.org

National Business Incubation Association www.nbia.org

Office of Women’s Business Ownership www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness

Online Women’s Business Center www.onlinewbc.gov

SCORE www.score.org

Small Business Development Centers www.sba.gov/sbdc

Women-21.gov www.women-21.gov

Domain Registration

Go Daddy

Joker

Email sign up and autoresponders

Constant Contact

Aweber

Low Cost Toll Free Numbers- low cost option for privacy and convenience. Both programs include toll free number, calls can be forwarded to any number even your cell phone, voicemail goes to your email and fax options are available

Kall8

TollFreeMax

Virtual Receptionist- for more options and a personal touch try one of the below

Angel

Ring Central

Companies that will take your incoming order calls via phone

Liveops

Covergys

West

Order Fulfillment Centers

Mailing Fulfillment Service Association

Motivational Fulfillment

National Fulfillment

Check competitive web sites - add the toolbar to your internet browser for a great tool while browsing the internet and can provide added benefit of increasing your own stats

Alexa

Manufacturing Information and Resources

Thomas Net

Business Operations Monitoring

Start pages are free web pages that serve as personalized home pages where you can add bookmarks to your favorite sites, blog dashboards, stat information and add a variety of widgets.

iGoogle

Page Flakes

Protopage

Netvibes

My Biz Homepage a great free tool that allows you to import your quickbooks data and gives you various reports on your business info in a glance

Printing

VistaPrint- I love the free materials they give, the quick turn around and easy to make templates

Public Relations

Kick Butt Press Release writer- quick turn around, personal touch and overall outstanding to work with at an affordable rate so you can keep up with your editorial calender

GOOGLE Tools- need I say more?

Affiliate Programs

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