Small Business Resources

AccountStreet.com
This company offers tax and accounting professionals a turnkey program to aid their clients with due diligence. Concentrating on incorporation and formation, trademark and domain name registration, patent searches and legal filings. Information can be entered and stored online, and marketing and other material is available to help sell the service to clients.Bizmanuals
Publishers of a large list of titles on a wide variety of business and management subjects, including policies & procedures, security, employee handbooks, disaster recovery, ISO standards and much more. You can order online here.

CTS Guides
CTS provides tools and information to help accountants recommend or select accounting, small business, construction, manufacturing, and other types of software. The site also has articles, user surveys, books, need assessment software, and more.

FastMaint
SMGlobal's FastMaint is software for scheduling and tracking periodic tasks such as maintenance, meetings and service calls. The site offers downloads, screen shots, product info and more.

Find Accounting Software
A service of CPA Online, this site lets you find and select accounting software that best fits your practice. Conduct software searches based on your industry, application or operating system, or browse through listings based on software developer or product name.

FindLaw
This legal site lets you search for cases and codes, and also has lots of articles and other resources on legal topics. They've got a whole area devoted to business law, including sections on starting a business, business operations, contracts, and much more.

Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton's site has a lot to offer CPAs surfing the Internet, including free downloads of authoritative articles on serving the middle-market , surveys conducted by the firm, instant business polls, 'knowledge nuggets,' and free downloadable newsletters.

Greatland Corp.
Vendor sells tax forms and envelopes, software, presentation materials and marketing tools for accountants and tax practitioners. Read more about it here.

Ibiztips.com
This site offers free business tips, information, advice, interviews, and tools. Brought to you by the Internet Business Forum, Ibiztips lets users submit tips as well as review previous tips in the tips archive.

IBM Small & Medium Business Center
There's plenty of helpful information from Big Blue here for small and midsized businesses, so check it out!

Microsoft Small Business Center
Microsoft products and services aimed at small businesses, as well as advice and technical support.

Peerspectives
Courtesy of the Edward Lowe Foundation, this site provides information and articles for small businesses looking to grow.

Small Business Administration
The site offers a wealth of information for small business owners and anyone seeking information on small business issues. An interactive resource guide also offers tax information, forms, instructions and publications.

Stamps.com
Buy postage online via an electronic funds transfer, and voila, you can print your own postage. You can also check out a demo and a risk-free trial of their flexible NetStamps service.

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