Business Planning Resources

The Kutztown SBDC consultants suggest you review the following websites to help you build marketing, strategic, and business plans. For your convenience, we organized the sites into general resources and categorized resources. The general resources contain Federal and State agencies designed to help small business people. The categorized resources include competition, distribution, labor, and legal structure information.

General Resources

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center (http://www.pasbdc.org/information/)

Small Business Development Center National Information Clearinghouse (http://sbdcnet.utsa.edu/)

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (http://www.newpa.com)

Pennsylvania Open for Business (http://www.paopen4business.state.pa.us/)

U.S. Small Business Administration (http://www.sba.gov/)

SBA Online Woman's Business Center (http://www.onlinewbc.gov/)

Business Journals (http://www.bizjournals.com/)

More Business (http://www.morebusiness.com/)

Small Business Encyclopedia
(http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm/catID/19B45DBF-E85F-4A3D-950E3E07E32851A7)

eBizITPA: Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (https://www.ebizitpa.org/)

Willitfly (http://www.willitfly.com/)

Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/)
Knowledge@Wharton is a free web-based research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School. It currently has more than 1,500 articles and research papers in its database and is growing every week. With more than 450,000 registered users in 181 countries and subscriptions are growing at 6,000 to 8,000 per month. Also, Knowledge@Wharton has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Financial Times, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and several more publications.

 
Resources by Category

Competition
Monster Research Companies (http://company.monster.com/)

Distribution
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit Guidebook (http://aol.toolkit.cch.com/)

Intellectual Property
U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.loc.gov/copyright/)

Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/)
Wage web (http://www.wageweb.com/)

Legal Structure
Legal Structure for Your Business (http://home.inreach.com/sbdc/operating/intro.html)
Small Business Law Center
(http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/index.cfm/catID/19B45DBF-E85F-4A3D-950E3E07E32851A7)

Marketing Research, Demographics & Statistics
American Demographics (http://www.inside.com/default.asp?entity=AmericanDemo)
@ResearchInfo.com (http://www.researchinfo.com/)
BizStats (http://www.bizstats.com)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/)
FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)
Marketing Research Association (http://www.mra-net.org)
Pennsylvania State Data Center (http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/)
Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html)
U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)
The Small Business Development Center of Hampton Roads(http://www.hrsbdc.org/)
Penn State Data Center(http://www.pasdc.hbg.edu/)

Public Relations
Public Relations Online (http://www.public-relations-online.net/)

Sales
The Brooks Group – Free Sales Resources (http://www.brooksgroup.com/free/default.htm)

Miscellaneous
About – Small Business (http://www.about.com/smallbusiness/)