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Biznar
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Biznar is a free business research site. Searches the most relevant 1990+ results from across the Web, including blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources to one, easily navigable page.
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Bizstats
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This site lists very helpful access to useful financial ratios, business statistics & benchmarks.
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Bplans.com
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Recommended by the Small Business Administration, Bplans.com has a variety of sample business plans to assist the entrepreneur. Click on "Sample Plans" at the top of the page to access a wide variety of examples.
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Build Your Business (Wisconsin)
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From Wisconsin.gov, this site was designed to make it easy for you to obtain the information you need to seriously plan and prepare for the start or expansion of your Wisconsin business. The Business Wizard tool identifies permit, license, tax and employment requirements specific to your business.
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Business Source Premier
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Business Source Premier is EBSCO's top of the line business database, offering full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Topics include all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Consumer Expenditure Survey
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey program provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. Find data on Milwaukee consumers in the Current Metropolitan Statistical Areas Tables.
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County Business Patterns
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County Business Patterns, from the United States Department of Commerce, covers most of the country's economic activity. Beginning in 1998, data are tabulated by industry as defined in the North American Industry Classification System: (NAICS). Data for 1997 and earlier years are based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System.
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Demographics for Wisconsin
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This Wisconsin Demographic Services Center site provides estimates of population, housing units, and households for Wisconsin (City, County, Zip Code, or entire State). The site also links to general and employment data from Federal Census 2010.
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DemographicsNow
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From Gale/Cengage Learning comes a multifunctional database that can pull all the information together which anyone would need to start a business, research a market or search out demographic data. DemographicsNOW can search a directory database of over 206 million individuals or 135 million households. For business information, 23 million companies can be targeted by name, address, telephone, line of business, size of company or financial data. All of the data sits atop a powerful mapping capability (based on the 2010 U.S. Census) and the Experian Marketing Services Mosaic(R) USA consumer lifestyle profiles, all of which provides the serious market researcher with a very powerful tool. Results can be printed as pdfs or exported to a spreadsheet program.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Entrepreneurs Help Page
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This Web site distributes basic information on legal, financial, and management issues that are of interest to entrepreneurs. Started by a group of young entrepreneurs hoping to provide others with valuable information.
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Franchise Handbook
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The Franchise Handbook is a useful site for learning about franchise opportunities.
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Gale Business Insights: Essentials
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Gale Business Insights: Essentials, formerly called Business & Company Resource Center (from Gale Cengage Learning) is a comprehensive database that meets student requirements in undergraduate and graduate work as well as the business research needs of the job seeker or casual investor. Generously sponsored in part by a grant from Rockwell Automation.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Global Sources
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Product and trade information for volume buyers. Includes the Trade Show Center, a global source for trade shows and exhibitions.
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Green Book
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The GreenBook® Worldwide Directory of Marketing Research Companies and Services cross-indexes thousands of companies from all around the world.
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Historic Annual Reports Index
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Index to the Wisconsin Business Annual Reports Collection in print. This collection spans six decades and concentrates on Wisconsin-based companies. With a few exceptions, the index lists publically traded companies that were either headquartered in Wisconsin or were subsidiaries of other out-of-state companies.
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Industry Snapshots
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Easy access to data from the U.S. Census Bureau Economic Census. Revenue, Payroll, Numbers of employees and Establishments for each industry are provided.
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Kompass
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This international Web site links to information on companies in 60 countries, Basic searching can be done by product, service, company, trade, or brand name.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Market Research, Industry Research, Business Research
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Site featues a step-by-step process to conducting research on an industry or a specific company along with links and resources. Helpful for those considering entering new industries, competitive intelligence professionals, market researchers, economic development professionals, students, investors, etc.
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Milwaukee Neighborhood Strategic Planning Statistics
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Here you will find access to a wide variety of information for each of the 18 Neighborhood Strategic Planning (NSP) in the city. By clicking on a name of the NSP, you can view a summary of housing, criminal, census data, safety and health information.
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NAICS
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The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) has replaced the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.
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NetAdvantage
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Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage puts the power of many familiar S & P publications to work for you! Included are the Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Mutual Fund Reports, Bond Reports, Corporation Records, The Outlook, and the familiar Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives. News items and market snapshots are also found on NetAdvantage. Archival data for many of the publications can also be found on the site.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Producer Price Index
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The Producer Price Index is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by
domestic producers of goods and services.
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Proposal Writer
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This meta-site from an independent grant consultant provides one of a kind coverage of small business resource sites. The directory covers government grants and loans, grantwriting, international grants and procurement, government contracting, and small and minority business.
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Purchasing Power Profiles-Milwaukee
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute developed comparison data on estimated resident expenditures for 16 categories of common consumer items for 53 residential ZIP codes in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, at the request of the Milwaukee Department of City Development. The profiles are designed to help businesses, developers, and organizations assess the advantages of urban density for underserved city neighborhoods and to spur economic development in central city Milwaukee.
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Purchasing Power Profiles-U.S.
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute provides comparison data on purchasing power, business activity, and workforce density for all census tracts, residential ZIP codes, and the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. The profiles are designed to help cities, companies, developers, small business owners, and community organizations assess the advantages of urban density for underserved city neighborhoods.
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ReferenceUSA
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The ReferenceUSA databases provide information on over 14 million U.S. businesses, 89 million U.S. residents and over 200 million consumers. Easy to use (helpful tips) for quick address checks, but ideal for creating customized and downloadable mailing lists for increasing customers, enhancing market research, and developing business to business leads. These sample searches provide guides for using the database in a variety of ways. Job seekers! Here are some ideas for using ReferenceUSA to find that new job or business lead. Try the Consumer / Lifestyle module to assist in targeting possible sales leads. Available at all Milwaukee Public Libraries.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Regional Business News
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Interested in news with a business focus? Looking for a local take on companies or business conditions around the country? Want to see newswire releases? Regional Business News from EBSCO is your source.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Salary.com
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Salary reports covering many occupations are found on this site. Find out how much you are worth, search for job opportunities, and educate yourself about how to improve your value.
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SIC (Standard Industrial Classification Search)
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This site from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA) allows the user to search the 1987 version of the SIC manual. Searchable by keyword or the 4-digit SIC code, users can research categories of industry.
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Small Business Administration
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This site features a very detailed collection of links and assistance for the small business owner/entrepreneur.
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Solusource
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This directory provides detailed product and company information from over 700,000 global industrial suppliers from 28 countries, organized within 11,000 product categories.
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ThomasNet.com
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The ThomasNet, features American manufacturing companies in 70,000 product and service categories. Search to find products, web sites, brand names, supplier catalogs and more.
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UWM - Center for Economic Development
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for Economic Development (UWMCED) provides unique statistical reports on economic issues involving the City of Milwaukee.
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VendorNet
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VendorNet is Wisconsin's electronic purchasing information system. VendorNet was created to provide easy access to a wide variety of information of interest to vendors who wish to provide goods and services to the state as well as state agencies and municipalities.
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Wisconsin Small Business Development Center
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The Wisconsin Small Business Development Center provides counseling and low cost classes to state entrepreneurs at all levels from start-up to established companies.
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Wisconsin State Incorporation Masterfile
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This file from the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions allows the user to search for
corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies registered through the State of Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC)
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The Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC) is an economic development corporation providing quality business education, technical assistance and access to capital for entrepreneurs.
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WorkNet
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This site from the Wisconsin State Department of Workforce Development provides statistical data on businesses and job opportunities in Wisconsin.
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