Umbach Consulting: Business Resources

Umbach Consulting: Business Resources

Wide-ranging information from private, state, and federal sources.

Beehive Sacramento, www.thebeehive.org/default.asp. Track through for the Sacramento page via this page.
Bplans.com, “Business Plans Made Easy,” www.bplans.com. Note especially the free sample business plans, www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm.
Business, www.business.gov, “The Business Gateway to Federal Resources.”
California Chamber of Commerce, “Business Resources,” http://www.calchamber.com/CC/BusinessResources.
California Planners Information Network, CALPIN, www.calpin.ca.gov. Lists of information on cities, counties, local agency formation commissions, and more. Regularly updated and searchable.
Community Services Planning Council, “Data and Reports,” www.communitycouncil.org/level-2/data-and-reports.html.
CCS Business Owner’s Toolkit, www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P01_0000.asp. “We'll take you through the process of starting a new business, from thinking about it to planning it to actually doing it.”
FedStats, www.fedstats.gov, “The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.”
Sacramento Metro Chamber, http://metrochamber.org/CWT/Index.aspx.
SCORE, “Learning Center,” www.score.org/learning_center.html. “SCORE's Learning Center contains hundreds of article to help you make critical decisions for business success.” Included are “60-Second Guides” on many topics, from “Collecting Payment” to “Writing a Business Plan.”
SCORE, “Template Gallery,” www.score.org/template_gallery.html. “Browse our template gallery, which contains real business plans and financial & accounting statements created by the Seattle, WA SCORE Chapter.
United States Chamber of Commerce, “Manage Your Business,” www.uschamber.com/sb/business/manage.asp.
U.S. Small Business Administration, Publications, www.sba.gov/library/pubs.html. Includes the Small Business Management Series, SBA Fact Sheets, Workbooks, Success Series, Emerging Business Series, Financial Management Series, Management and Planning Series, Marketing Series, Personnel Management Series, Crime Prevention Series, and more. This is a library for the small business, all free.
U.S. Small Business Administration, “Small Business Startup Guide,” www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.html.

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