Short on time and money? Did you know that you can use CCPL’s Business Center resources to build your own business-to-business mailing list, spy on your competition and find customized demographic reports for your marketing needs–for free?
I will show you how to conduct this kind of valuable business research from your home or workplace at Free [...]
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Free is Fabulous! Do-It-Yourself Business Research
Posted in business plans, business resources, computers, demographics, ebooks, entrepreneurs, program, research databases on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Scheduled Downtime for ReferenceUSA
Posted in research databases on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ReferenceUSA will not be available on Saturday April 18th from noon until 8:00 p.m. [Edit - 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. central daylight time. In Charleston, that'll be 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.] Their system engineers will use this scheduled downtime to upgrade their servers, network hardware, and related software. If you need help locating company information [...]
Awesome Business Research Anytime Returns
Posted in business resources, entrepreneurs, program, research databases on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder that next Monday night, 2/23/09, I will present “Awesome Business Research Anytime!” at the Main Library. I’ll show you how you can use CCPL’s Online Business Library to answer your most pressing business questions. Want to know the most staggeringly useful thing we’ll cover? How to make your own business-to-business mailing list–for free!–from wherever you get your Internet access. The presentation starts at 6:30 and should run no [...]
PC World’s Special List Issue
Posted in business resources, computers, research databases on October 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
PC World’s November 2008 issue has an interesting article for any entrepreneur, “20 Best Business Software Tools and Web Services.” Since they haven’t posted the article on their website and it’s not indexed in our periodical databases yet, here’s some of the services they’re writing about:
Best Accounting Software – QuickbooksPro
Best Backup/Recovery – Mozy
Best Blogging Tool [...]
Westlaw Training Day
Posted in business resources, law, legal resources, research databases on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a very good experience today with Westlaw. For those of you who don’t know, Westlaw is a legal research database that the pros use every day. It’s a new purchase for the Library, and until today I haven’t had a chance to look at it much. Our Westlaw rep came [...]
2 New Databases!
Posted in demographics, entrepreneurs, research databases on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s some great news for anyone who loves to find business information online for free. Got your attention? Good! CCPL has added two new database to our Business & Financial Research Tools section.
Small Business Resource Center
First up is one of Discus’ new databases, Small Business Resource Center. Since this database comes to us courtesy of [...]
Business Plans Handbook online!
Posted in business plans, ebooks, research databases on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a good day for using library resources from home! We have added a new eBook to our Gale Virtual Reference Library content. The title is Business Plans Handbook, which is a twelve volume reference book filled with hundreds of real business plans from manufacturing, retail, and service industries as well as additional reference material [...]


