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Alliance of Area Business Publications
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I found this today
The Alliance of Area Business Publications, an organization of over 70 publications dedicated to delivering customized regional business news to over 1.2 million business professionals in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Australia, provides links to various small business publications all over the country. I found several business publications, with archives, that I hadn’t known existed.
Enjoy!
Bizstats.com Sold!
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007UPDATE–I WAS WRONG. Things are very hard to find with the new interface, but the Benmarking tool is still available at
http://bizstats.com/industry-financial-benchmark.asp
which has been an extremely useful tool for estimating small business net income to owner, has been sold to Bizminer.com. The company has changed the interface, and I previously reported that many of the previously useful tools were gone, but I was wrong and benchmarking is still available. Thank you Biztstats
Robert L. Weiner Consulting Resources
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Robert L. Weiner, a consultant who focuses on software and technology solutions for non-profits, shared his resources page on Prospect-l today. The page collects articles and information on donor databases, email marketing and online fund raising. I’m looking forward to diving into this and to sharing it with my clients. Thanks Robert!
Gale’s Access My Library
Friday, November 30th, 2007I found
while I was looking for an obituary from a New Mexico Newspaper that wasn’t available either through my usual sources or the Multnomah County website.
As the service, which is a part of the Gale Group,
I did need to use my library card to access the article, but there were a lot of library choices, even in Portland. What I found most interesting was that I hadn’t been able to find the obituary I was looking for using the Gale Group search through my library’s website, but was able to find the obituary through Google and then access it using my library card. This could be very useful.
The Free Library
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007has recently added periodicals. I found it has a great number of business magazines, including the LA Business Journal from at least 1991 to the present. A wonderful and FREE! resource.
Is a list of the publications available.
Millionaires who don’t feel rich
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007An interesting article about Silicon Valley Millionaires can be found here
“When chief executives are routinely paid tens of millions of dollars a year and a hedge fund manager can collect $1 billion annually, those with a few million dollars often see their accumulated wealth as puny, a reflection of their modest status in the new Gilded Age, when hundreds of thousands of people have accumulated much vaster fortunes.”
AllBusiness.com Update
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007I received an very odd call yesterday about Allbusiness.com from a woman who identified herself as a journalist and researcher.
The person I spoke to appeared to believe that Allbusiness.com was somehow breaking copyright law. I’m still not entirely clear who this person was or why they were calling me.
However, a quick look at Allbusiness shows it has a business relationship with Reed Elsevier and Proquest, both major information providers and repackagers who aggregate thousands of journals and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal. Proquest is responsible for ABI-Inform as well as numerous specialty databases. Major companies like Proquest are usually very very careful about copyright infringement.
In addition, I would like to clarify that I received no compensation for reviewing Allbusiness.com on this blog. I put together this blog because it is more expedient than posting resources on the Prospect-L, the researchers’ listserv, and I hope that it will be helpful to people, especially people in the non-profit arena.
The following is a reprint of part of my review.
AllBusiness.com is an online media and e-commerce company that operates one of the premier business sites on the Web. Founded in 1999, the site has received critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business 2.0, Fortune, and other publications. AllBusiness.com helps entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, consultants and business professionals save time and money by addressing real-world business questions and presenting practical solutions. The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a small business association and more.
Allbusiness.com is particularly useful for prospect researchers as it provides a great range of full-text searchable free business periodicals. I found an excellent biography of a potential donor from the October 2001 edition of Inside Business.
You do have to sign up, and make sure you don’t accidently deluge yourself with newsletters, but I think this is a wonderful resource.
Periodicals by title can be found here
http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/
And appear to go back quite a bit (for example the ABA Journal goes back to 1989). The search interface isn’t the best, but is adequate.
Enjoy!
APRA Connections
Thursday, July 26th, 2007The newest issue of APRA Connections is available to non-members for 30 days here
There is some great information and articles on data mining, and campaign screening!
Enjoy.
Stanford Development Research Blog
Thursday, July 12th, 2007I just added the Stanford Development Research Blog to my sidebar. It looks highly informative for both beginners and for more advanced researchers.
Manta Business Profiles
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Manta is a business database that offers free and pay-as-you-go business information.
According to the marketing materials, Manta gives Web users access to data and analysis from the most trusted business publishers in the world, including D&B, Newstex, Snapdata, Datamonitor, and ICON.
I’ve registered for Manta, and I’ve found the free information very useful. The sales numbers for privately held companies appear to come from Dun and Bradstreet, and I’ve found company information I haven’t been able to find using other free resources. It even appears that the slice of D & B that Manta is using is fresher than some other fee-based sources.