Business Connections' Notes
I would like to thank the Warren, Ohio Business Connections group for allowing me to speak at your event this Thursday morning, February 28, 2008. I hope you walked away from this event with some useful information and new ways to use the internet as part of your business plan. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Below, you will find links to helpful web sites for your businesses:
   
Special coupons from myWebSource1 as a Thank You to "Business Connections"
   

Small Business Information

  
Small Business Association www.sba.gov
Inc.com

www.inc.com/welcome.html
Entrepreneur www.entrepreneur.com
Business Finance

www.businessfinance.com
Business Owner’s Toolkit

www.toolkit.cch.com
Business Plans & Tips

http://bplans.com/
Center of Family Business http://www.fambiz.com/home.cfm
Business Owner’s Idea Café www.businessownersideacafe.com/
All Business

www.allbusiness.com
Business Balls www.businessballs.com/
   
Email Programs  
WorldCast - Free http://www.fairlogic.com/
   
Guides and Yellow Pages  
Skaffe
http://www.skaffe.com
Yahoo!
http://dir.yahoo.com/
BigBook

http://www.bigbook.com
BizWeb
http://www.bizweb.com
Superpages.com
http://www.superpages.com
Where2Go http://www.where2go.com
Yellow Pages http://www.yellowpages.com
Anywho http://www.anywho.com
AOL Yellow Pages
http://yellowpages.aol.com
MSN Yellow Pages
http://yellowpages.msn.com
Yellow Book http://www.yellowbook.com
Ask Mr.Yellow
http://www.askmryellow.com/home.php
Escape Artists
http://www.escapeartists.com
Metroguide
http://www.metroguide.com
Starting Point
http://www.stpt.com
Nerdworld
http://www.nerdworld.com
   
Blogs  
Blogger http://www.blogger.com
Word Press http://www.wordpress.com
mySpace http://www.myspace.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com
   
Promoting Your Blog  
Technorati http://www.technorati.com
Feedburner http://www.feedburner.com
Ping Goat http://www.pinggoat.com
   
Search Engine Listings - Promote Your Web Site
Google http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo!

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
MSN

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
What-You-Seek http://www.whatuseek.com/addurl.shtml
Other Sites www.submitexpress.com/submit.html
   
Usergroups  
Google Directory http://www.google.com/dirhp
Yahoo! Directory http://groups.yahoo.com/
MSN Directory http://groups.msn.com/browse.msnw?catid=26
   
Comparison Shopping Engines  
Google Product Directory
http://www.google.com/products
Price Scan
http://pricescan.com
Yahoo! Shopping
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com
Shop.com
http://www.shop.com/market-intro-a.shtml
MSN Shopping
http://advertising.microsoft.com/home/home
Shopping.com
https://merchant.shopping.com/enroll/app?service=page/Register
Shopzilla
http://merchant.shopzilla.com/oa/shopping_search/?
Become
http://www.become.com/merchant
   
Pay-Per-Click Sites  
Google Adwords https://adwords.google.com/select/Login
Yahoo! Sponsored Search http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
MSN AdCenter http://adcenter.microsoft.com/
Thomas Directory http://www.thomasnet.com/
Looksmart http://www.looksmart.com/advertiser-overview.html
   
Auction Sites
eBay http://www.ebay.com
UBid http://www.ubid.com
Bidfind http://www.bidfind.com
   
Web Rings  
Webring Directory http://dir.webring.com/rw
World of Webrings http://www.webringworld.org/index.php?mid=13
Webring Site http://www.webringsite.com/
Webring.org http://www.ring-master.net/webring_yahoo001.htm
   
Web Browsers
Internet Explorer www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx
Mozilla Firefox www.mozilla.org/
Netscape Navigator

browser.netscape.com/
Safari www.apple.com/safari/
Opera

www.opera.com
Eudora www.eudora.com
   
Alternative "Open Source" Software
Open Office (Microsoft) www.openoffice.org/
Gimp (Graphics Software) http://www.gimp.org/
Inkscape (Vector Drawing) http://inkscape.org/download/
GNUCash (Accounting Software) http://www.gnucash.org/
Juice (Podcasting) http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
Miro (Video Casting) http://www.getmiro.com/
Clam (Anti-Virus Software) http://www.clamwin.com/
Paypal (Accept Credit Cards) http://www.paypal.com
Google Checkout (Accept Credit Cards)

https://checkout.google.com/sell/?gsessionid=Ax0sh2RqvX0