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Welcome to the new Business Subject Guide. Find the business information you need to start, grow and succeed in your small business.
Last update: Mar 16th, 2010 URL: http://guides.ccclib.org/business  Print/Mobile Guide  RSS Updates

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Wall Street Journal on Small Business

To hear 7 minute insights & tips for small business, click on the first 3 links below


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Small Business Help

  • Contra Costa Small Business Development Center  
      
    The Contra Costa Small Business Development center offers training and consulting services to small business.
  • West Contra Costa Business Development Center  
      
    Services include sales & marketing assistance, business training, business plan development, loan packaging, and start-up support.
  • Women's Initiative  
      
    Since 1988, Women's Initiative has been assisting high-potential low-income women who dream of business ownership. Through an intensive 20 session program — in English or Spanish — women are enabled to start, or expand their business.
  • Entrepreneurial Resource Center  
    This website created by Las Positaas College aims to help entrepreneurs in the Tri-Valley region successfully start, run & grow their business.
  • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center  
      
    Renaissance, located in S.F., provides programs and services that support the life cycle of a business, and provides access to the tools, information, networks and resources for every stage of business development
  • ANewAmerica  
      
    AnewAmerica offers a comprehensive three-year program of support for new American entrepreneurs including microbusiness incubation, asset building, and social responsibility.

 
 

Practical Business Management Training

2010 marks the sixth year that the Contra Costa County Library and the Contra Costa County Small Business Development Center have provided  free small business workshops for those starting a business and those in business.

In  March:
              SBA - Resources for Your Small Business  (Mon., March 29)

In April:
             Greening Your Small Business (Tues., April 6)

             Marketing and Selling Practices:
             Small Changes That Make a Big Difference   (Tues. April 13)

             Social Media Victories for the Self-Employed (Tues. April 27)                

Register for these  workshops on the  Business Program Calendar. We'd like to know you're coming.

 

Starting Your Own Business in a Recession

 A KPIX newscast , Riding Out the Recession, profiles two New Venture Training Graduates.

 

Databases

These are the most popular and frequently used databases for business. You need a library card to use these resources.  Contra Costa County residents who need a library card can apply online now and start using these resources immediately.

  • ReferenceUSA  
      
    Key executives, sales volume, number of employees, and parent and subsidiary relationships for both U.S. and Canadian businesses. Contains residential listings for U.S. and Canadian households and information on U.S. health care providers.
  • Encyclopedia of Associations  
      
    Now in the Gale Directory Library database. Search all three directories - national, international or regional or a specific directory using "Advanced Search". It includes the National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.
  • Business & Company Resource Center  
      
    Full-text articles from magazines, trade publications, and business newswires. It's searchable by company name, key word, "SIC" or "NAICS: code or name of publication
 

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Small Business Sourcebook

You may search the Small Business Sourcebook 2009 in the Small Business Resource Center database for information on starting a particular type of business. 

A "bibliography" shows a variety of resources: associations, trade publications, and magazine articles that may also be available fulltext in this or other databases.

View an Example using the Advanced Search screen where  keyword = accounting and publication title = Small Business Sourcebook

(From there, click on the Advanced Search tab to enter a different business)

 

      
     

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