... a category of location
data. Use the search engine above to Google
the Web for business services provided to encourage economic
development in a place
of interest. Copy and paste from the search suggestions shown
in italics below, keeping quotation marks intact. To zero in on the place
where you want to find what business services are available and who to
contact, substitute its location
identity for the word location. CLICK
HERE for more about searching for locations.
Search
the Web for ... location "business services" government
Search the Web for ... location "business services" economic
development
Search the Web for ... location "business services" "chamber
of commerce"
Search the Web for ... location "small business services"
Search the Web for ... location "business resources" government
Search the Web for ... location "business resources" "economic
development"
Search the Web for ... location "business resources" "chamber
of commerce"
Search the Web for ... location "business incubation"
Business
incubation is defined in the Enterprise and Economic
Development Glossary.
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front office—back office:
... in a manner of speaking it can be said that the front
of the enterprise is what the public sees ... where the
process of managing and selling takes place. Front offices range from
corporate headquarters
or executive areas to where visitors, especially customers, can go and
find that decisions are made. The back office of an enterprise has operations
that the public doesn't need to see. It's where operations are serviced
and work is done without interruption, except by management. The definition
of back office has one gray area which is a telecommunications operations
such as a telemarketing or call center. Also, back office telecommunications
centers may provide customized service without being seen by the public.
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regional site selection
... http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/search/regions/glossary/region.htm#ss
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Improving business performance in order to secure economic growth ... (source). The Business
Section of the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library offers more information and resources
for improving business performance. The Network sponsor, Pinnacle
Partners Inc, is in the business of performance improvement. PPI suggested
the operative word excellence be
added to the the .network definition
of enterprise development. To paraphrase the quote ... Improving
the enterprise by
striving for excellence is a key to securing economic
development.
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small business site selection links:
A Guide for the Small Business Owner
 Yahoo
Directory : Small Business Information Services
Bankrate.com : financial
glossary / category: small business
Forbes.com : Entrepreneur
Library
Office.com : Start your business list of featured articles
SBA
/ US Small Business Administration / (What is small business? answer)
US
Map for finding SBA contacts
Business
Finance.com (source)
NWS
Small Business resources
from www.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au
feasibility  business
planning survival marketing
and sales
advertising
and promotion customer
service more
from New South Wales
Bankrate.com / financial
glossaries (category:
definitions) (category:
small business)
Business Finance.com / access sitemaps
Forbes.com / Entrepreneur /
USA Today / Money / Small Business / Strategies
(archives)
USA Today / Money / Franchise
Ownership Center
USA Today / Money / Small Business / Strategies
(archives)
USA Today / Money / Franchise
Ownership Center
USA Today / Money / Small Business / Strategies
(archives)
Yahoo Directory / Small Business Information Services
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Who is Suze Orman?
... financial advisor, author, motivational speaker,
and television host (source)
... recognized as an advocate
for women who run enterprises, especially,
those who are entrepreneurial and
run small
businesses. She once offered a free e-version of Women & Money
(2008) resulting in
the download
of more than
a million copies. Copy and paste, Who is Suze Orman, to the search
engine at the top of this page and Google the Web for more about this
resource
provider. The Enterprise
and Economic Development Libray has
more business
resources.
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Who is Don Tapscott?
...
acknowledged change agent and influential futurist for indirectly prompting us
to add Change
and Development as a page in the .network glossary. Intelligent
Enterprise Magazine referred to Don
Tapscott as a change
agent and influential
futurist. He's listed here with Alvin Toffler and others who
have made significant contributions to enterprise and economic development
as futurists.
Alvin Toffler:
Acknowledged as an influential futurist because he introduced the expression electronic
cottage in his book, The Third Wave (1980) and, by doing so, influenced
the relocation of Economic
Development Services. Specifically, the relocation was to an electronic
cottage in a mountain community with a sophisticated high tech infrastructure
away from urban sprawl.
In
search of the Electronic Cottage, addresses ... The geography
of Professionals Workers Working at Home and is one source for more
information, another is Information Society Links. The latter resource
is full of broken links.
When Toffler coined the term electronic cottage he opened the door to thinking
about work practices such as telecommuting.
He revitalized the concept of cottage
industry.
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FYI: About
Galaxy Classifieds, established online in 1994. CLICK
HERE to access its business and commerce links and information
page.
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Forbes magazinesmore about
them. Also use the following links to access various sections of Forbes.com
offering resources for enterprise
and economic development.
http://www.forbes.com/
business
http://www.forbes.com/
entrepreneur
http://www.forbes.com/
entrepreneurs tool kit
http://www.forbes.com/
small business survival guide
http://www.forbes.com/
lists
http://www.forbes.com/
Asia
http://www.forbes.com/
Europe
http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/search/cn/sppublications.htm
Forbes listing
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A Durham, NC user suggested listing http://www.businessfinance.com.
Professor John
McCann of the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University,
Durham posted pages titled Information
Society Links and Articles
About the Digital Age online that were among the
first resource listings in this archive. McCann's file were
last updated in 1996 and 1997 respectively; therefore, they
contain many
dead end links. Suggestion copy keywords or phrases surrounding
broken links and search on your own using the Google/.network search
engine. Here are a few examples (what you see in italics
are from McCann's files, except for definitions).
"Alvin Toffler is a futurist" ... [item
foundwait for the promo item to clear!]
"
information revolution" challenge Japan [item
foundSearch
PDF file for Japan]
"Cyberspace
and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age"
Search for "FEED magazine" [item
found: Wikipedia article]
Search Forbes.com for George Gilder [search
results]more
Forbes' resources
Information Highway: history, vision, issuesdefinition
of information
highway
Time
Magazine ... Cyberspacedefinition
of cyberspace
"Harvard Information Infrastructure Project" [item
found]
Fortune
Magazine "Infotech Special"more
Fortune Magazine's resources
Discovery Channel "History of the Internet" [item
found]
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There's no place like home especially
when a small-business owner is looking for support and
financing. Local economic development agencies on the municipal,
regional or state level are an often-overlooked but useful
source of financing ... comments posted September
2000 by Jenny McCune at Bankrate.com The
name of article quoted is With
local economic development agencies, home is where the
financing is.
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* Add the name of place that you are interested in, for
example, search the Web for ... small business services
Florence, AL or site selection services small business
North Alabama
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During
its nearly 50 years of existence the International
Development Research Council awarded professional designations
its members. The designation Master Professional was
awarded to active members. Others who were resource
and service providers to active members were awarded Associate
Master Professional.
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broken link:
... an insufficient address
string for making a satisfactory connection
referenced by a hyperlink. Help
is available when you seemingly run
into a dead end online.
dead end:
... a place where it appears that there is no further opportunity
for advancement ... only the choice
of turning around and going back. A dead
end as an unsatisfactory
search
result for users of The
Network is addressed by
an offer of personal assistance ... a complimentary
service to show our appreciation
(who we are).
In other words, we will respond to your request for help
for free. We will try to get you get out
of the dead end situation as well as fix
problems that you bring to our
attention along the way.
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