RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
TIME
MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS
An online tutorial by Barbara Florio Graham, customized to your
specific needs
CREATING YOUR OWN WEBSITE
www.mvd.com/webexpress/ Web Express allows you to create a website without learning HTML. This program is inexpensive, easy to learn, and was used to create this site. MultiVision provides excellent support, and also sells inexpensive CDs with graphics and additional fonts.
http://www.cira.ca/
the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which approves
registrars that can
sell the .ca domain name.
http://domain.morochove.com is a reseller for a major domain registrar and offers dot-com domain registration for $12.95 (U.S.)/year. This fee includes domain parking, domain forwarding, e-mail forwarding for up to 100 e-mail accounts and several other services.
GENERAL TECHNICAL ADVICE & INFORMATION:
www.paulchinonline.com Check Paul's portfolio for articles on many technical subjects, along with his links to helpful resources.
www.smartypants.com - Helping people get the best from computers and the Internet.
MY RECOMMENDATION FOR E-MAIL AND WEBHOSTING:
Storm's service is primarily in the Ottawa area,
but they do host some sites for businesses across Canada. There are
no local numbers in other cities, but there is
a toll free number: 1-866-257-8676. Go to: www.storm.ca.
THE BEST WEB DIRECTORIES:
ww.aigam.com (a web directory arranged by topic)
www.zepti.org (a comprehensive web directory)
www.DirPedia.com - (combining a dictionary, an encyclopedia and a web directory)
www.TheCelebrityCafe.com (find book and movie reviews, authors, celebrities)
www.business-inc.net (directory of business websites)
www.OyMap.com (a comprehensive worldwide directory)
www.onelook.com/ (more than 900 online dictionaries with a search engine)
http://catalog.loc.gov/ (Library of Congress searchable online catalog)
Newspaper archives: www.archive.org
www.biblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.htm
www.journalismnet.com
You can find what sites link to any other site by searching the following search engines:
Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com — Enter the website URL into their search form as follows: link:http://www.thesite.com. The form will return the names of the sites where links to the site were found.
Ask Jeeves: http://web.ask.com — Enter links to thesite.com into their search form.
Google: http://www.google.com — Enter link:thesite.com into their standard search box.
MSN Search: http://search.msn.com — Enter link:thesite.com into their search box.
Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com — Enter link:http://www.thesite.com into their search box.
QUOTATIONS:
TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS MORE EFFICIENT:
CLIPMATE, the popular clipboard extender holds
hundreds of clips, across reboots, with powerful editing,
re-formatting, combining, change case, drag and drop, etc. It
has many Internet features - save and revisit web pages, launch URLs
, even view HTML tags as actual HTML, and even includes a spell
checker! Order from: http://www.thornsoft.com/index.htm?referrer=SimonTeakettleInk
(Please note that this is not an advertisement, but
an honest endorsement of a product that has been making my life
easier for many years.)
http://www.alphasmart.com/Retail/ The Alphasmart is a simple, light-weight and reliable word-processor, ideal for taking outdoors, to a venue where you need to take notes, or when you're traveling. No Internet, no e-mail, no CD or other add-ons. Long battery life, good memory capacity in several different files, easy to download to any computer program (including into e-mail, any document, a database, or spreadsheet).
INTERVIEW
TIPS & A SHORTHAND METHOD FOR WRITERS
Capture all the details and every quote by taking
notes with a type of shorthand that's easy to decipher later.
This 9-page handout contains a shorthand method based on
Speedwriting, adapted by Barbara Florio Graham over many years as a
professional journalist. Tips on how and when to use a tape recorder
are also included. $10. postpaid.
SPECIAL LINKS:
http://www.sources.com/
Canadian sources, including corporations, organizations, agencies,
for information and interview subjects. Also see: www.medialink.ca
and
http://www.nserc.ca/partners/chairs_e.asp
http://www.forcopywritersonly.com/ information for those writing advertising copy
http://www.office.xerox.com/small-business/resources/ templates and designs for stationery and business cards using Word
For information about business permits and licenses in Canada: www.ottawa.ca/bizpal
OBTAINING PUBLICITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Five Fast Steps to Low-Cost Publicity
www.thepublicityhound.com Joan Stewart publishes a terrific free newsletter and offers many free booklets and resources on her website. Some of the key resources for book publishers that follow have been gleaned from her tips. All of her paid materials are well worth the cost.
Free All-in-One Media Directory with TV and weekly newspaper databases, 5,000 links to print and electronic media on the Internet, 1,600 e-mail addresses for radio and TV stations, and 200 links to Internet/computer related magazines: http://www.gebbieinc.com
Raleigh Pinskey, author of 101 Ways to Promote Yourself: www.promoteyourself.com
"How to Get Booked on NPR" (local
and national shows on National Public Radio:
www.publicityhound.com/publicity-products/marketing-tapes/NPR.htm
www.afcp.org/design/general/freepapers.asp The Association of Free Community Papers
www.SpeakerMatch.com - a paid service matching speakers with event bookers
If you produce a gift product, consider purchasing The Gift List for Holidays, which includes national and regional magazines, the top 250 newspapers, major wire and news services, and national television. $349. from http://www.giftlistmedia.com
BOOKS
How Women Make Money, by Julie V. Watson (Dundurn, 2004) www.gotocreativeconnections.com
Unclutter Your Life, Transforming Your Physical,
Mental and Emotional Space,
by Katherine Gibson, (Beyond Words
Publishing, Inc., 2004)
www.clutterbook.com)
www.balancedspaces.com (organizing tips)
Are You Ready to be Your Own Boss? www.plainandsimplebooks.com
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