Building Business:

Management: Advice on all aspects of running a business

• Big Dreams -- Small Business Startup Newsletter
  Organization: Alpine Training & Development
  A Canadian motivational newsletter on personal development and business startups. A new issue appears most months, along with back issues since 1994. Use the handy Topical Index to zero in on the most appropriate article, book review, or how-to tidbit. If a book review catches your eye, you can order online.
• Business Resource Center
  Organization: Khera Communications Inc.
  Look to the top-left corner for concrete tips that apply to both early-stage and established companies. The site also includes business news and document templates.
• CanadaOne
  Organization: Biz-Zone Internet Group
  This Canadian site features articles on a number of business issues. The Technology link leads to computer and Internet related stories; other topics are grouped under Magazine. The site also houses a growing directory of Canadian companies with websites. To sign up, click on Promote.

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• Canadian Innovation Centre
  Organization: The Canadian Industrial Innovation Centre
  The CIIC is Canada's leading organization dedicated to assisting inventors, entrepreneurs and innovative companies. On its website you'll find a wealth of information and resources, on market research, training, product and process engineering, international promotion, licensing, and more. Partially funded by Industry Canada, the Innovation Centre claims to have assisted some 50,000 innovators, and formally evaluated over 11,000 of their promising ideas.
• The Small Business Advice Page
  Organization: Capstone Communications Group
  Dear Abby for entrepreneurs, this page presents a monthly column of practical advice in response to reader-submitted questions. Click on Archives at the bottom of the page for a look at other business challenges and advice. This feature is part of the website promoting a marketing consultant in Markham, Ontario. Don't miss the "Articles" page, with pieces submitted by online readers.
• Idea Site For Business
  Organization: gill INC
  Idea Site offers an impressive selection of articles, case studies and advice columns on marketing and sales. One specialty is online marketing. Keep coming back to this site: it's always adding more content. Start with the centrepiece: 206 Marketing Ideas.

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• Human Resources
  Organization: Contact – the Canadian Management Network
  Make your company the kind of place even you'd like to work for. From the Strategis group at Industry Canada comes this grab bag of over 130 articles, aimed primarily at employers. No fancy web graphics here - just text that's short and to the point. Titles include: Understanding Employee Drives and Motivations"; "Total Quality and Organizational Culture"; "How to Conduct a Meeting"; and "Establishing a Quality Training Program".
• Human Resources for Small Business Owners
  Organization: Royal Bank of Canada
  Modestly sub-titled The Online Definitive Guide to Managing Human Resources, this special section of the Royal Bank’s comprehensive small business site serves up easy-to-digest, byte-sized primers on all the H.R. fundamentals. Get the do’s and don’ts of recruiting, interviewing, hiring, firing, and more. You can also order free follow-up publications from the Royal Bank and other online sources.
• Measuring Employee Performance
  Organization: ZPG — Zigon Performance Group
  The philosophy of this performance appraisal site is "you can't manage what you can't measure". Toward that end they've assembled a com-prehensive set of tools and online resources (with free and fee access), including articles, books, how-to workshops, custom consulting, and examples of performance measurement for a wide variety of positions. There's a monthly eNewsletter free for the asking, plus a detailed list of links to related websites - all designed to help you measure, manage and improve employee performance.

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• Canadian Profession Sales Association
  Organization: The Canadian Professional Sales Association
  Detailed sales advice from a Canadian perspective. If you’re a member, you can also take advantage of the Career Mall job-find feature and a lending library of published and audio-visual materials about sales.
• Sales Doctor Magazine
  Organization: SalesDoctors Magazine
  This weekly magazine features articles written by sales professionals, sharing their advice and experience concerning all aspects of sales. The free archive holds more than 800 articles. The site also features lists of resources for salespeople, including links to companies whose products and services can help you sell better.

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