General Business

Get inspired with our gallery of over 500 example business plans. Choose the category that is closest to your own business or industry, and view a plan you like.

This guide to writing a business plan will outline the most important parts and what should be included in an effective plan.

No matter what business topic you're interested in, you'll find our category list is an easy way to navigate our small-business encyclopedia. From Accounting and Advertising to Location and Operations, every topic offers information on the terms that matter most. This page contains the definition of small business from the Encyclopedia.

The following pages will describe in detail the seven essential sections of a business plan: what you should include, what you shouldn't include, how to work the numbers and additional resources you can turn to for help.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses. This page helps you to write your business plan.

The BizHwy business directory has been offering free business listings since 2003. Every business listed in our directory has been added by the business owner or an employee within the company. This free business directory is updated and maintained by its visitors.

Business Network is a multifunctional system that gives you a fast and free way to create your Company's virtual business card. By including detailed information about your Company, products and services, you’ll start attracting new customers in no time! You can search 49,907 Companies, 1,779
Products and Services, 356 Articles and publications, and 53 Tenders & Vacancies.

Business directory listing websites allow businesses to reach potential prospects into local areas. This page lists the Top 100 free business listing sites USA for you.

CityOf.com has made it possible for the local business owner to establish an online presence and provide consumers with easy access to their products and services.

The Chamber is the premier business association in Tarrant County and one of the largest in North Texas. This directory of business contains almost 2000 businesses.

YP℠ is a media company dedicated to connecting local businesses with a ready-to-buy audience. With more than 60 million visitors each month in the U.S.1, YP is the original source people use to find and connect with local businesses, from the popular YP℠ app, to yellowpages.com and The Real Yellow Pages®.

Use Switchboard to search for businesses by keyword, anywhere in the United States.

U.S. Business directory provides business listings for over 20 Million companies in the United States and helps customers easily find business services while at the same time helping local businesses grow and expand.

The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) is a best practice community of organizations that are committed to creating and sustaining high quality ethics & compliance programs. With a history dating back to 1922, ECI brings together ethics and compliance professionals and academics from all over the world to share techniques, research and, most of all, exciting new ideas.

At the Institute for Global Ethics, we provide a wide range of services and tools to foster informed ethical decision-making for corporations, government agencies, schools, and not for profit organizations. Our purpose is to encourage ethical action and help improve the ethical climate of all groups we work with.

Welcome to the International Business Ethics Institute, the first organization dedicated to transnationalism in the field of applied business ethics, and specializing in global ethics training

The Online Ethics Center (OEC) is a resource maintained by the Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES) at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The OEC mission is to provide engineers, scientists, faculty, and students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant issues that arise in scientific and engineering practice and from the developments of science and engineering; and serve those who promote learning and advance understanding of responsible research and practice in engineering and science.

The National Business Ethics Survey® (NBES®) generates the U.S. benchmark on ethical behavior in corporations. Findings represent the views of the American workforce in the private sector.

Our annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

The IndustryWeek 1000 is IW's exclusive annual ranking of the world’s largest public manufacturers, by revenue.