Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE)
The mission of the Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) is to advance knowledge and foster business development, entrepreneurship education and research.

National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE)
NASE is the nation’s leading Web resource for self-employed and micro-businesses. This site provides a broad range of benefits and support.

National Business Association
The National Business Association keeps members up-to-date and informed on important issues impacting the self-employed and small business community.

National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
NFIB is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group that represents the consensus views of its 600,000 members in Washington, D.C. and all 50 state capitals.

The Retailer Owners Institute
The Retailer Owners Institute is dedicated to improving the financial professionalism of independent retailers.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Center
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Center provides small business news and practical business advice. This is the largest national membership organization of chambers in the country.

U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
National business membership organization for Hispanic entrepreneurs with a variety of how to information, national conferences and a membership spanning the nation.

Small Business Management and Planning Resources

AllBusiness
AllBusiness.com is a Web portal for small and growing businesses, with how-to articles, forms, agreements, questions-and-answers, solutions and services. 

BizStats
Business statistics such as financial ratios and operating ratios, turnover, profitability for sole proprietorships, employee productivity, industry averages, benchmarking tools and more.

BizToolkit
The BizToolkit, offered by the JJ Hill Reference Library, is a portal of tools and resources including sample business plans, financial calculators and expert live help for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

BPlans
This business planning Web site provides samples business plans and tips on writing effective business plans.

BusinessKnowHow
Business Know-How provides how-to articles, newsletters, tips, tools and resources to help small business owners and franchisees start, manage and grow their business profitably.

Center for Business Planning
This site has a collection of resources for planning your business, documenting your plan and evaluating your strategy.

E-Myth Embark Community Connection
E-Myth Worldwide’s inspirational online Community provides practical and informative business training and advice for business owners & entrepreneurs around the globe. Connect with peers to share best practices and lessons learned on launching and growing a world-class business. 

How to Start a Business
This free step-by-step guide provides the right approach to starting a business and maximizing the potential for success.  It takes you from preparing yourself, setting the right goals and evaluating the potential of ideas through to starting your business. It also provides a gateway to starting an optimized website.

The Idea Cafe
This site was created to help small business owners solve their problems, while having fun too.

MyNewCompany
MyNewCompany.com provides small business start-up information and resources.

My Own Business
My Own Business provides an online, 11-session course that teaches the basic do's and don’ts for entrepreneurs.

MyStrategicPlan
MyStrategicPlan.com helps entrepreneurs build and execute their business strategies and provides free resources to help create business and strategic plans, mission statements and more.

PlanWare                                                                   
Features business management software and templates related to financial projection, cashflow forecasting, marketing, strategic planning and more. 

Small Business Dictionary
The Small Business Dictionary gives definitions to 2,500 of the most commonly used small business terms.

StartupGarden
This Web site features information on how to start a business.

SME Toolkit   
IBM and IFC created a free, small business toolkit specifically for women and minority entrepreneurs to provide business information, tools and training services usually reserved for Fortune 1000 companies.

The Veterans Corporation
The Veterans Corporation hosts a business portal for current and prospective Veteran business owners and for companies working with Veteran-owned businesses.

Welcome Business USA
This site gives resources and information to help you start, run and grow your small business.

Work.com
This site helps business owners solve management problems with a wide variety of helpful guides on every aspect of business maintenance.

Working Solo
Working Solo helps individuals develop a sense of personal discovery and achievement that comes from mastering self-employment and related business practices.

Accounts World Directory of Accounting Professionals
This database contains more than 35,000 tax and accounting professionals from across the United States.

Axiom Valuation Solutions
Axiom Valuation Solutions provides independent, reliable information on what a business is worth. This site offers as a free resource IRS business activity search engine and valuation library for business owners.

Business Credit Services
This site provides a free, clickable online seminar and downloadable booklet on the importance of business credit.

BusinessFinance
Offers free business funding resources and has a database of over 4,000 sources of business capital.

CardFellow.com
CardFellow.com is a free service that helps business owners navigate the confusing subject of credit card processing. They offer the chance to select the best card processing account from mulitple credit card processing quotes under the guidance of neutral industry professionals.

Corporate Turnaround
Corporate Turnaround, formally Commercial Credit Counseling (CCC), restructures debt in order to save companies from bankruptcy.

Inc. Gauge
Business owners and non-profit administrators can quickly evaluate their Key Performance Indicators and discover how they compare to up to 80,000 other companies using this free, confidential analysis tool.

Strong Business Credit
Strong Business Credit provides information for business owners on how to build their business credit.

Business.gov
The official resource to help businesses quickly find compliance information, forms and contacts from multiple U.S. government Web sites.

FedStats
This site lists statistics from more than 100 government agencies, useful when conducting market research.

Fedmarket.com                                                         
Fedmarket.com offers free content including a “how-to” guide to small businesses interested in entering the federal marketplace. Fedmarket.com also provides products, services and federal sales training to small businesses.

GiveMe5.com
American Express and WIPP.org come together to help women small business owners by educating them and offering tools to help to secure government contracts.

USA.gov
FirstGov is online collection of federal, local and tribal governments, information, services and resources.

IRS Small Business/Self-Employed Web Site
The IRS Web site offers a broad range of products, services and resources to educate and assist small business owners and self-employed professionals.

Social Security Online
This site allows employers to process their W-2s for their employees. The process requires no special software.

U.S. Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce offers information on foreign markets and international trade. Commerce also monitors and enforces compliance with U.S. trade laws and agreements.

U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)        
BLS is an agency for the Federal Government that produces labor economic data and statistics.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
This site contains everything you need to know about patents and trademarks.

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
The SBA provides financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans start, run and grow their businesses.

Bizjournals
Bizjournals is an online local news resource for small business owners. The site contains information from 55 local business journals.

BusinessWeek Online
BusinessWeek's how-to articles, interactive tools and Small Biz Resource Center give entrepreneurs information on how to start and grow a business.

Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur.com is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs to start and grow successful companies.

FastCompany
FastCompany is a magazine about innovative people and ideas. Look for the Fast Companies Database, a helpful resource to find articles, information and ways to connect with other companies.

Inc.com
Use Inc. to discover strategies for starting, growing and running your business.  They also offer resources on business-management issues and free How-To Guides on a variety of business matters.

SBTV.com
SBTV, Small Business Television Network, provides technical information on how to run your business, success stories from entrepreneurs across the country, information about small business conferences and associations and other resources.

SmallBizResource.com
SmallBizResource.com is an online paper with a mission to be the go-to repository of easy-to-find, no-nonsense advice for small businesses.

The Small Business Advocate
The Small Business Advocate is a nationally syndicated weekday radio/Internet talk show.

Smart Business Ideas
Smart Business Ideas™ magazine articles go right to the heart of business issues by highlighting what’s essential to business executives. Their website has an article archive, searchable B2B Directory, and well organized links focused on the needs of small business.  

StartupJournal.com
The Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs features articles on business planning and small business management. This site includes a list of franchises.

TradePub.com
On this site, order free subscriptions to leading trade magazines.

Womensbiz.us
Womensbiz.us is a free online magazine for women in all types and stages of business.

Your Business
MSNBC's online version of the television news magazine, which focuses exclusively on America's small business entrepreneurs. The program offers news, information, advice and guidance for people who own businesses. MSNBC's "Your Business" is a weekly half-hour television program that airs Sundays at 7:30 a.m. EST.

How-To Network
How-To Network has a comprehensive library of small business how-to articles and guides.

Just Sell
This site is dedicated to helping business owners and entrepreneurs sell better. Find industry-specific sales news, how-to articles, sales ideas and discussions.

KnowThis.com
KnowThis.com is an advertising and marketing virtual library that offers resource materials and useful links.

PR Newswire's PR Toolkit
PR Newswire provides a PR Toolkit with everything necessary for getting the word out about your products and services.

SellingSelling.com
SellingSelling.com provides free articles to advise small businesses on selling strategies and tactics.

Trade-Show-Advisor.com
Trade-Show-Advisor.com offers free information and encouragement for people whose businesses might gain exposure and attention from participation in trade shows.

BBB Online
BBBonline is a subsidiary of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Their mission is to promote trust and confidence on the Internet. This site helps business owners with Web sites to establish an online privacy policy program.

Microsoft Office Tools on the Web
Microsoft's small business Web site offers "tools of the Web," including SCORE business plan templates, downloads, support articles and clip art.

Open Office
Open Office offers free, open-source, MS Office-compatible software that runs on a variety of platforms.

Tech-Net
Produced by the U.S. Small Business Administration, this site contains tech information and resources for and about small businesses.

Advocacy
The Office of Advocacy conducts economic research, policy analyses and small business outreach help to identify issues of concern.

Business & Community Initiatives
The Office of Business and Community Initiatives administers programs and activities designed to provide information, education and training to prospective and existing small business owners.

Disaster Assistance
SBA's disaster assistance program helps entrepreneurs develop security strategies and offers loan assistance to businesses impacted by a disaster.

Entrepreneurial Development
SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development helps small businesses start, grow and be competitive by providing training, counseling and other forms of management and technical assistance.

Government Contracting & Business Development
The Government Contracting & Business Development Office is charged with making sure that small businesses get a fair share of the approximately $46 billion annual federal procurement market.

HUBZone
The HUBZone program stimulates economic development and creates jobs in urban and rural communities by providing federal contracting preferences to small businesses.

Loan Programs
The SBA offers numerous loan programs to assist small businesses. 

National Small Business Week
National Small Business Week is an annual event that recognizes the important role of America’s business community. Visit the Web site to find out more.

Publications
The SBA has more than 200 free e-books and publications online. 

Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)
SBDCs assist individuals and small businesses by providing a wide variety of information and guidance through 58 branch locations.

Small Business Training Network
The Small Business Training Network is a virtual campus housing free training courses, workshops and knowledge resources designed to assist entrepreneurs and other students of enterprise.

Technology (SBIR/STTR)
SBIR is a highly competitive program that encourages small business to explore their technological potential and provides the incentive to profit from its commercialization.