We're compiling what we believe is a valuable set
of World Wide Web links for office professionals. We'll be updating the list on
a regular basis. Let us know of sites you've found that you feel should be
included.
Southern Arizona Supply
Chain Development: Provides Tucson info on increasing your company's
name recognition with potential new customers, improving your ability to secure
more business and enhancing your bottom line.
Bestjobsintucson.com:
Tucson Arizona's best place to post your resume, post a job, search for jobs and
candidates... all in the Tucson area!
Tucsonhasit.com:
Find out what Tucson has to offer in the way of more than three dozen economic
development programs to help your business.
Tucson-Pima Public
Library Small Business Information Center The Small Business
Information Center Web page provides links to recommended Internet links. This
site is specifically designed to meet the needs of Tucson businesses. The
easy to use subject arrangement highlights over 40 business categories with
links to more than 150 Internet sites specializing in business information. This
site is constantly updated to help you keep pace with the latest offerings on
the World Wide Web.
Small Biz.com: Provides
connections to services, products and information in Tucson, Arizona.
Microsoft Small Business
Site: Microsoft recently re-designed the section of their website for Small
Business. There's a section called "Smallbiz Reader Success Stories."
They say every two weeks they'll publish new stories submitted by Small
Businesses about their businesses. This URL should take you right to their
story pages. It also includes a mail link direct to their SmallBiz Editor.
The Business
Owner's Toolkit: A useful online resource for people running home-based
businesses. The Business Tools section of the site offers sample documents you
can use to help develop contracts, employee evaluations, customer service
evaluation forms, and much more. You'll also find spreadsheet templates to help
you track your finances and even checklists to help you manage complex tasks,
such as developing a franchise agreement. Other sections offer news articles
and advice columns; plus, you can access an online sourcebook for small
businesses.
Smart Business Supersite: The Smart
Business Supersite gives you the resources and tools to help you be successful
in your business or career. Instead of wasting a lot of time searching the net
for scattered resources, here's one central place that has a large collection of
"how-to" information. Whether you need a book on managing employees,
a couple of articles on finding venture capital, or a software program to handle
your accounting, it's all there on SBS.
SBA's
Women's Business Ownership: The site targets current and potential women
busines owners throughout the federal government and private sector. The office
provides a network of training, counseling and mentoring services to help women
start and/or expand businesses. It offers information about national and local
resources to meet constituent needs.
Family Business
Supersite: They bill themselves as the Internet's Only Family Business
Search Engine. Their newest offering lets you search both their server as well
as the rest of the Web for the information you need to run your family business
and plan for the future.
SCOR-NET site info for raising capital
for small business: Links to companies that have gone or are going public
utilizing the uniform Small Corporate Offering Registration (SCOR) Form U-7,
Regulation A, SB-2 or other methods. In addition, you can reach service
providers and other information providers who are knowledgeable about the
processes and structures of raising capital for small businesses.
Let's Talk Business
Network-RealAudio program about entrepreneurship: Let's Talk Business is a
nationally syndicated radio talk show focused on the issues of small business,
entrepreneurship and franchising. Currently heard in 70 markets in the U.S.,
Let's Talk Business has been on the air since September of 1994. You can hear
the show live on Audionet from anywhere in the world!
Franchise Handbook Online: A great
source for franchise information, franchise opportunities, latest franchise
industry news, articles on franchising, consulting and development services,
list of worldwide franchise Associations, and a directory of Business
Opportunities.
Information for Small Business,
Legal, Medical and Technical Professions: Provides secrets for small
businesses and entrepreneurs, finance secrets for financial professionals with
intelligence that will give them the edge over their competition, legal
professionals with the information edge they are looking for, medical or dental
professionals with up-to-the-minute news and information that affects them...and
their patients, and technology professionals with online education sites,
technical support listings, tech stock links, and hundreds of tech news sources.
BizProWeb's Business &
Professional Web SitesThis is a directory of links to web sites that can
help you to plan, set-up, operate and maintain your business. Here you'll find
liide ess.Sess Administration, S.C.O.R.E, Business Books, Publishers and
Magazines, Marketing Resources, Trade Show Listings, Financial
Software, Shipping Vendors, Employment Policy Guidelines,
and more.
SBAA: A great site for
finding accountants across the nation.
WinStruct, Inc.: A videotape based
training company founded by 2 former Microsoft Windows Product Managers. They
have trained over 100,000 people world-wide on Windows.
American Marketing Association: A great
site from the American Marketing Association, full of advice for small
businesses. Check them out.
BizWeb: Their slogan is, "We
scour the Web so you don't have to." An excellent list of companies with
a Web presence, updated frequently.
MouseTracks: MouseTracks
presents and offers commentary on some of the marketing and shopping mall
activities and resources on the Internet.
Business Resource Center:
Formerly "The Small Business Help Center," this site from Khera
Communications, a marketing firm, contains real practical advice on marketing,
PR and other vital business topics.
CommerceNet: This is a consortium
of businesses doing commerce on the Internet. Some excellent resources for
entrepreneurs can be found here.
Dun & Bradstreet: They're
promoting their company, but they've got a lot of practical advice on starting
a business, writing a business plan, etc.
Gil Gordon Associates: This real
estate firm in New Jersey has built an excellent site geared toward
telecommuters.
Insurance News Network: If you've got
an insurance question, chances are they've got the answer.
Idealist - a project of the Contact
Center Network: Idealist is a fully interactive clearinghouse that enables
any nonprofit or community organization to enter and update detailed information
about its services, volunteer opportunities, internships, job openings, upcoming
events, and any material or publication is has produced.
Internet Nonprofit Center: A
repository for publications and data about nonprofit organizations and the
nonprofit sector, generally by sources other than nonprofits themselves.
SRI International:
Stanford Research, one of the country's premier research firms, lets you
discover your VALS (Values and Lifestyles) Type, and learn a lot about market
research.
Your Home Office Resource Site on the World
Wide Web: "SoHo" is an acronym which stands for Small
Office/HomeOffice, and SOHO Central is the official World Wide Web address of
the Home Office Association of America (HOAA), the national and local
organization for full-time home-based professionals, telecommuters, and the
millions who use a home office so they can spend more time with their families.
Working at home represents one of the fastest-growing business trends of the
90s.
Senate Committee
on Small Business: The site explains the issues facing small businesses
today and what the U. S. Senate Committee is doing to promote the efficiency and
productivity of the small business community. It addresses all relevant
legislation currently being considered. It also should be a helpful source for
information on upcoming hearings and other official activities of the Committee.
1990 Census Lookup:
Demographics is a powerful marketing tool. This interactive online search of
census data can get you the information you need quickly -- and free.
Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA): Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes--they don't just happen to
other people. Learn how to prepare, and how to get government help if disaster
strikes.
Treasury Department:
Provides access to various agencies (IRS, US Customs, Alcohol, Tobacco &
Firearms, etc.)
Internal Revenue
Service Newsletter: This newsletter is updated daily and is a good source of
information on proposed regulations, forms, business tax info and news releases.
Government:
Congressional Legislation in Progress. White House. Small Business
Administration. State Department Travel Warnings. Internal Revenue Service.
Department of Education.
Minority Business
Development Agency: Part of the Department of Commerce, the MBDA is
designed to help the growth of minority-owned businesses in the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office:
Everything you need to know about trademarks and service marks, with links to
the Copyright Office as well. Also, an invaluable resource for inventors.
THOMAS: The legislative database of
the Library of Congress.
The USA CityLink Project: A
collection of home pages constructed by cities across the country. Some are more
useful than others, but most provide a good starting point for research.
U.S. Postal Service: More information
than you ever wanted on the Post Office, but you'll get good use out of the
online zip code lookup.
The Globewide
Network Academy: A non-profit consortium of educational institutions.
Participants offer course in all disciplines, all around the country.
Professional educators are also invite d to submit course proposals.
Mind Extension University
(ME/U): A pioneer in learn-at-home, ME/U offers accredited degree programs
via cable, videotape and online.
Net-Temps:
Net-Temps is an employment portal targeted specifically to the contract and
temporary employment markets. Net-Temps boasts a cross posting distribution of
over 500 Internet search engines, portals, directories, on-line services and
newsgroups as classified employment ads. These include Excite, Yahoo, Alta
Vista, and Lycos.
HeadHunter.net:
One of the premier Internet community sites for job seekers, employers and
recruiters. You can search for jobs or résumés, or post jobs or résumés
for free! Listings on HeadHunter.NET represent the original content of their
users. The database is constantly cleaned: jobs are never over 45 days old, and
résumés are never over 90 days old.
Dice High Tech Jobs
Online: Search through thousands of high tech jobs by keyword, job type,
state, and area code. Use their Job Tools: Let DICE do the work for you. Job
seeker sends you the jobs you want. Resume Online stores your resume on the web.
Announce your availability: Enter your skills profile and be ready for calls!
What's Hot at DICE: Information on the conventions, conferences, and changes to
this site.
JobEngine: Now
Ziff-Davis and I-Search, the leading provider of Internet recruitment
databases, have set up a high tech job search Web site on ZDNet called
jobEngine. Post your resume online. Powerful, proprietary software will scan and
mine it for key information and ask you a few questions. Within moments,
employers worldwide looking to fill a position you fit are able to spot you.
CareerPath: A
collaboration between six major newspapers, CareerPath lets you search over
20,000 employment ads.
For home businesses, your phone can be your most important tool. These
links can keep you apprised of all the services available from your phone
providers.
Home Office Computing: Anchored
by editorial from the leading publications for technology-reliant small
businesses -- Home Office Computing and Small Business Computing
www.smalloffice.com brings you "how-to" and technology advice on a
broad range of business issues.
Mobile Office Magazine: If you
do business via cellular phone, pager or laptop PC, check out this site for
product updates and info.
Pathfinder: Time Inc.'s popular
website, with articles from Time, SI, Fortune and Money.
TechWeb: CMP Publishing, publishers
of NetGuide, Interactive Age and Windows Magazine, offer product reviews and
Internet information.
ZD net: Ziff-Davis publishes PC
Magazine, Computer Life, and many other titles. A wide selection of articles
is available online.
The Brady Home Office Factory
assembled, delivered in one piece, installed in a day.
ALIS
Online - Arizona Legislative Information System which
enables public access and awareness of the legislative process in Arizona.
Arizona
Daily Star - Online version of Tucson's highest circulation
daily newspaper.
Arizona
Guide - Official site of the Arizona Office of Tourism
containing a wide-range of information about accomodations, attractions, events,
weather and much more.
Austin
City Connection - Very comprehensive site providing indepth
information about business, city services, education, government, health,
leadership, libraries, public safety and much more.
Book Mark, The -
The largest "Independent" book store in the Southwest
with over 200,000 new books.
C/net
- Excellent source of daily news about online information
technology and related topics.
E-mail
- Local directory of several hundred email addresses for
southern Arizona....new entries & changes to existing entries should be
submitted via email to admin@itucson.com.
Greater
Tucson Economic Council - Serves as the primary economic
development organization in greater Tucson with responsibility for the
recruitment and/or relocation of new businesses.
Hotwired -
Electronic counterpart of popular Wired hardcopy magazine
offering coverage on subjects not found elsewhere.
Internet
Air Fares - Good service for finding least expensive air
fares, making reservations & requesting tickets to 40 cities in US &
Canada on 10 airlines.
Internet/WWW
Expo - Provides the Tucson business community with periodic
updates on new Internet products and services.
KUAT
TV/Radio - Educational boradcast and production resource of
the U of A consisting of KUAT-TV, Classical KUAT-FM, KUAT-AM/KUAZ-FM and video
services.
KUAT
TV/Radio - Educational boradcast and production resource of
the U of A consisting of KUAT-TV, Classical KUAT-FM, KUAT-AM/KUAZ-FM and video
services.
KVOA TV 4
- Station providing news, weather, sports and entertainment
programming for NBC.
Metacrawler
- National search engine of other search engines (Alta Vista,
Galaxy, Infoseek, Lycos, Open Text, Webcrawler & Yahoo) offered as a service
from the University of Washington.
New
York Times on the Web - First-class electronic
implementation of one of the world's finest newspapers.
Online
Tucson - Site contains just about everything you ever wanted
to know about Tucson.
Pima
Community College - Fifth largest community college in
nation offering more than 2000 active & pilot courses in more than 200
different programs.
Pima County
- Information and communication with Board of Supervisors,
Justice Courts, Development Services, Sheriff's Department, and County Assessor.
Top 10 Web Sites
in Tucson, AZ - US Web Sites listing of the "Top 10"
Web sites for City of Tucson...the 25th most wired community in America.
TUCOWS -
Site containing a wide-selection of free software for
facilitating access to the Internet by Windows users.
Tucson
Computer Society - Organization of 900 business people,
executives, entrepreneurs and home users who are interested in sharing ideas and
information about PCs.
Tucson
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce - Largest Chamber of
Commerce in Arizona providing a wide-range of useful information about the
business scene in Tucson, Arizona.
U.S.
House and Senate Bills - Information on current and
historical activities of Congress, U.S. Government Internet resources and
special documents.
University
of Arizona - Nationally recognized institution of higher
learning with more than 35,000 students and top 20 research university.
US
Web Sites - National directory of the "Top 10" Web
sites in the "Top 100" most wired cities in America...great place to
see the favorite sites of other communities, including Tucson.
USA Today -
Electronic implementation of the fine hardcopy daily newspaper.
Welcome
Tucson - Site contains a wide-range of information about
Tucson as a community.
White
House, The - News and information on the President, VP,
White House and Federal government services.