Categories:Manuals

Smallbusiness.com Manuals are reference articles that provide an overview of topics related to starting or operating a small business. These are all collaborative projects that are produced by users of Smallbusiness.com.

1 Current Manuals
2 SmallBusiness.com Glossary
3 SmallBusiness.com Local
4 Special Manuals
5 Manuals being developed (please help)

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Current Manuals

Manual: Starting a Business
Manual: Buying a Franchise
Manual: Creating and Maintaining a Business Website Basics for Small Business
Manual: Emergency Planning Basics for Small Business
Manual: Avoiding Business Opportunities Fraud
Manual: Copyrights and Trademarks Basics for a Small Business
Manual: Marketing Basics for Small Business
Manual: Market Research Basics for Small Business
Manual: Human Resources Basics for Small Business
Manual: Special Business Programs for U.S. Military Veterans
Manual: New Employee Orientation Basics
Manual: Advertising Basics for Small Business
Manual: Creating and Maintaining a Business Weblog Basics for Small Business
Manual: Sales Basics for Small Business
Manual: Exporting Basics for Small Business
Manual: Notification of ID Theft

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SmallBusiness.com Glossary

The SmallBusiness.com Glossary: A user-shared free dictionary of business terms and phrases.

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SmallBusiness.com Local

SmallBusiness.com Local: A growing list of references about small business resources, information and news in specific towns and cities.

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Special Manuals

Can you share with others a pearl of wisdom from your personal small business experience? Help us create the new "Things We've Learned" manuals:

Manual: Things We've Learned: Share your lessons, tips. hints and advice

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Manuals being developed (please help)

The creation of the following reference articles depends on your help and the help of other volunteer(s). This part of Smallbusiness.com uses a wiki-model collaborative approach. Any registered user can join in the creation of and the development of any of these manuals. (For some tips on how to add information to the user-contributed resources on Smallbusiness.com, visit our General help page). To help develop this manual, you must register (it's free and simple) and click on the edit button of the manual's page. We've added some possible headings on the manual pages, but feel free to add or change them. One thing to remember, however: On these reference pages, do not attempt to use them to promote yourself or your business or for other commercial purposes. While we encourage you to use your "user" page to link to your website or weblog or to products and services you may represent, the manuals are not for that purpose.