Resources 12/05 Websites, organizations, events and more to grow your business
By Steve Cooper
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WOMEN PRESIDENT'S ORGANIZATION 2006 ANNUALCONFERENCE This is a nonprofit membership organization ofentrepreneurial women who have guided their businesses to generateat least $2 million in gross annual sales, or $1 million forservice-based businesses. The Annual Conference, being held April27-29, 2006, at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago, offers opportunitiesto share experiences and benefit from interactive seminars andspeakers tailored to members' specific needs. Membership feesstart at $750 annually.
EDIT.COM This online service offersdo-it-yourself website editing, allowing businesses to easilyupdate sites. For advanced changes, expert developers areavailable. Edit.com works with any existing website and lets youchange text, links, images and PayPal buttons as well as add newpages. Pricing starts at $25 a month.
MINDYOUR OWN BUSINESS The SBA and Junior Achievement Worldwidehave joined to launch this site, which supports entrepreneurshipamong teens. The site serves as a small-business portal for youngentrepreneurs, with resources and information essential torealizing dreams of business ownership. It offers information everystep of the way, from deciding what business to start to handlingsuccess.
ADSLOGANS.COM This tag line database servicehelps businesses create and refine their slogans. It checks forconflicts with competitors, the use of specific terms, prior orcurrent use of proposed tag lines and more. It also compares brandpositioning, weaknesses and overlaps. Prices vary from free to afew hundred dollars, depending on the service.
DELIVERYAUDIT Audit your e-mail marketing campaign with thisservice that runs your message through every major anti-spamfilter, then attempts to retrieve your message from all major ISPs,flagging those that stick your message in bulk folders, and reportswhat happened, why, and how to fix it. Subscriptions start at$49.95 per month.
ONESOURCE EXPRESS OneSource Express providescompany and executive data for sales, marketing, finance andmanagement professionals. It delivers data on 565,000 businesses,1.2 million executives and 20,000 global company profiles. Searchresults yield a company description, sales, contact information,executive data and more. Subscriptions start at $5,500 for fivelicenses.
