I know, I know….it’s been so long since I added a post to the Essential Sources series that you forgot all about it, right? Well, here’s an excellent source to talk about to get back into the swing of things!
Business Plans Handbook is great for anyone trying to write their own business plan, marketing plan, [...]
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Essential Sources: Business Plans Handbook
Posted in business plans, essential sources on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
SCBOS Training at SCSL
Posted in SCBOS, business resources, essential sources on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in Columbia today for the South Carolina State Library’s SC Business One Stop training. (In case you haven’t heard, the SCBOS is designed to be a one stop shop for people trying to register a business in South Carolina, with more features being added all the time.) Two folks from SCBOS are [...]
Essential Sources: NAICS and SIC Manuals
Posted in NAICS, SIC, codes, essential sources, industry classification on March 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This installment of the Essential Sources series focuses on two indispensable resources for business research, the SIC and NAICS manuals. Both manuals are industrial classification systems, meaning that they attempt to organize and assign a code number to every conceivable industry that exists. Not just an exercise in cataloging, these manuals are an essential guidebook [...]
Essential Sources: Business Rankings Annual
Posted in business resources, essential sources on March 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to our third segment of the Essential Sources series, which will conclude our look at statistical sources for the time being.
Business Rankings Annual is published annually with a cumulative index. This source includes 5,000 different rankings and presents a top ten-style entry for each type of ranking. Rankings are complied from many different [...]
Essential Sources: Best Customers and American Men and Women
Posted in business plans, business resources, demographics, essential sources, statistics on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Part 2 of the Essential Sources series, and we’re back in the world of statistics for another post. Both of these titles are published by New Strategist Publications and offer easier access to BLS data.
Best Customers is another work based on the BLS’s Consumer Expenditures Survey. This book looks at spending patterns by demographic [...]
Finding Local Business News
Posted in business resources, essential sources on February 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are lucky in the Charleston area in that we are blessed with several good specialized sources for local and regional business news.
Each Monday, the Post and Courier publishes the Business Review feature. You can catch up on the week’s local business news, new staff announcements for local businesses, economic trends, and even upcoming conventions [...]
Essential Sources: Household Spending
Posted in business resources, demographics, essential sources, marketing, statistics on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here at the library, we field a lot of the same kinds of question about business. Most of our patrons are in various stages of planning a small business, so as a result, we tend to use some of the same books over and over again to solve the same problems. “Essential Sources” will be [...]
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