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Business Town: Point of Purchase Displays Will Dramatically Improve Your Sales
A common price-off promotional technique is point-of-purchase promotions. This site tells you all about this type of marketing. Includes a video and an accompanying article. [4:36]
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Quick Pick Chart for Financing Sources
Business financing options are displayed in chart format based on the age of a business and length of a loan. Loan types are linked to provide additional information about each loan.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Getting Financing for Your Business
This site discusses the financial stage your business is at since a start-up business will require different financing needs than an aging business. Many helpful links to different types of financing are provided.
Wolters Kluwer
Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Plan Components, Sample Plans
This resource provides examples of business plans for a manufacturing, service, and retail business. Business plan financials for each of these business types are linked.
Wolters Kluwer
Small Business Guide: Government Financing Programs
Government loans are described with links to more detailed information on different types of loans.
History Link
History Link: World War Ii Home Front of Puget Sound
Fascinating article recounts the vast contributions of the Puget Sound area to the war effort of World War II. Though this area was small and relatively underdeveloped, the natural resources and established businesses allowed many...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Economic Drivers of Texas [Ppt]
This PowerPoint presentation explores the different tools that are used by economists to analyze the Texas economy. Through their analysis, you are able to see which industries and business ventures are having the most impact on the...
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Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Service: Sole Proprietorships
A definition of a sole proprietorship, along with links to the relevant forms that must be filed with the IRS.
Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Should You Buy a Small Business Franchise?
Learn about types of franchises, some advantages and disadvantages of franchises, and other important information about them.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Limited Partnership
A description of a limited partnership and what makes it different from a general partnership.
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Quick Mba: Limited Partnership
A description of the characteristics of a limited partnership. Limited partnerships are contrasted against a general partnership, and a scenario is given of a limited partnership turning into a general partnership.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Corporation
A description of a corporation, along with its ownership and control, formation, naming, tax status, and history are described.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Right Job for the Tortoise and the Hare
This entertaining lesson teaches your primary learners about the value of specialized labor within a community, via The Tortoise and The Hare. This classic story also reinforces character education values of respect and friendship....
Wolters Kluwer
Biz Filings: Due Dates for Returns and Payments Depend Upon Business Form
Explains what various types of businesses, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, or limited liability companies (LLC), C corporations or S corporations must do when filing their taxes.
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Career One Stop: Career and Cluster Videos
Resource offers online career videos in 16 industry areas to learn about the type of work performed in a variety of jobs in each industry area.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
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Gunston Hall Plantation: "The Great Business Now Before Us"
In 1787, America was having big problems. There was no single type of money, or currency, in the new nation. States were arguing over trade issues and local boundaries. Each state seemed to see itself as independent and self-governing...
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Appalachian State University: Business Letter Format
A site that lists the most important parts of a business letter. Very detailed. Also includes labeled samples of how an appropriate business letter should look.
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Business Insider: How a Top Houseware Brand Reinvents Kitchen Gadgets
Founded in 1990, Oxo is beloved by design nerds for the way that the company takes everyday objects (like the salad spinner) and finds sometimes subtle, but always clever, ways to reinvent them. The designs are based on the principle of...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: What Is an Entrepreneur?
Introduces students to the motivations and decision making of entrepreneurs and discusses their economic impact.
BBC
Bbc: Resource Depletion: Opportunity or Looming Catastrophe?
The depletion of the world's natural resources threatens the very survival of humans. This article discusses the causes and consequences of our overuse of natural resources, projections for our future, and what types of solutions are...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Ideology
From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes the role of townsite agents who, in addition to helping plan a town, acted as 'information brokers' to advise would-be merchants of the...