Have a legal question? Want an answer in plain English?  Here is a website that will give you good, straight forward answers to your business and personal legal questions. Legal Answers.

Can Your Company Go from Good to Great?  Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don't, started with 1,435 good companies. Examined their performance over 40 years. Found the 11 companies that became great. Now, here's how you can do it too!  Good to Great.

Are YOUR Customers Happy? Many times businesses fail to "check in" with their customers to determine whether they are happy or not and what it will take to make or keep them happy. Here is a complete article on how to do it right.   Customer Satisfaction.

FREE Download.  You can have a one page worksheet that will tell you, in detail, how your business is performing and where the trends are heading. Analysis Download. Requires WinZip (free) software.

Want a MAP to show you where additional profits are hiding?  According to Jonathan Byrnes, it's a shrewd way to conceptualize the relationships among your customers, products, services, and transactions. There are five steps to drawing up a profit map. Profit Map.

The Right Way to Pay.  After decades of paying employees in the same old way, cutting-edge CEOs are solving their worst compensation problems by adding one critical factor: RISK.  Way to Pay.

If you want to raise the bar gradually, see this article. Raise the Bar.

PAYDAY: Best of the Net. Four sites to turn to when you want to benchmark your salary structure. Payday

Need to Jumpstart your SALES?  Here is the best information to help you cross all your selling hurdles. Cold-calling,  pricing, hiring sales reps,  overcoming objections and more!  With this comprehensive guide, you've got all you need to know to jumpstart your sales--and your business! Jumpstart Sales.

Harvard Business School's list of featured  websites.  These are excellent resources. HBS.

Yes, you can grow, prosper and get rich in a sluggish economy!  You just need to get back to the basics of good business and high profits.  Here a good short article on the things we all need to focus on right now. Back to Basics.

Email Marketing Could Be Worth MILLIONS to You.  If you do it right, this will be one of the most important marketing methods you will use.  We do NOT advocate spamming.  We do promote targeted communications with people who will likely be receptive to your offer or idea.

Click here for everything you ever wanted to know about Email Marketing. 

Recruiting Guide.  They have gathered the best inc.com resources to help you meet the challenge of hiring the best people for your company. [Click Here]

Book: Business To Business Internet Marketing.  Step-by-step, battle-proven advice on how to use the Internet to sell to business. Silverstein shows how to use Web sites and e-mail to clean up mailing lists and generate highly targeted lists of potential customers. Most importantly, he lays out the costs of such projects, their estimated responses and their return on investment (ROI), proving conclusively that the skillful use of the Internet is a real cost-saver when it comes to focusing on solid prospects. By the end of the book, you're convinced that the Internet really will revolutionize business-to-business marketing. [Click Here]

Improving Cash Flow ... Now! Money is coming into your business, and it's covering your bills, but do you really know how healthy your bottom line is? Analyzing cash flow and the financial processes that contribute to it are the keys to determining whether your business is on track or heading for a cash crisis. [Click Here]

Creating a Fun Workplace.  We've gathered some of the best formulas for fun we've come across, for your reading pleasure. Fun at Work.

Winning Big with Internet and E-Commerce!  Marketing super-star, Jay Abraham, offers expert advise on ways to make the internet payoff millions for your company.  Don't miss this article! [Click Here]

Free Business Toolkit.  Office Depot has compiled some of the most popular Business Tools.  This toolkit includes model business documents and financial spreadsheet templates, sample letters, contracts, forms, policies, checklists and a variety of information-at-a-glance tools.  These documents are free to download and customize for your own professional use. [Click Here] for listing.

Want to Be a Better Negotiator?  This article is written for the emerging group of modern negotiators who recognize the value of preparation in any negotiation. It provides you with practical guidelines for preparing for any negotiation and includes pragmatic preparation tools necessary for efficient and effective negotiations.  To download this file [Click Here].  Requires Adobe Acrobat.  Also, to get a copy of Negotiation Preparation Tool: The Seven Elements [Click Here].

25 Entrepreneurial DEATHTRAPS!   How many of these mistakes are you making, right now, in your business?  Check your business plan for these errors before you submit it to VCs, investors and bankers. Avoid these classic mistakes!

How Much Is Your Business Worth?   Learn to answer this  question and others, such as: How much did the value increase in the past 2 years?  Why did the the value change?  What could you do differently in your business to cause the value to increase faster?  Complete details on how to value your business.

Better Internal Financial Reports.  By creating internal financial reports that make sense for your business, you can get a much better handle on your company's performance. These best practices are powerful tools to help your company effectively allocate resources.

Make your business a smooth running operation - your own little money machine.  Michael Gerber shows you how to create a business that works...so you don't have to.  The E-Myth: Six Cassette Tapes.

HR PowerTools--Improve productivity and manage your human capital with more than 200 free tools and forms to use everyday including People Strategy Toolkits, Free Forms, Coaching "To Do" List, Business Support Resources, Legal Updates, HR Strategy Builder and Building Competitive Advantage. HR PowerTools.

"Systems" may sound like a dirty word to entrepreneurs, who typically thrive on chaos and seat-of-the-pants decisions. But your company can only survive so long that way. To continue growing, you need an internal infrastructure of formal processes and procedures. The System is the Solution. Acrobat File.

What DO Customers Want? Forget focus groups and mail surveys; with constantly changing markets and ever-increasing competition, companies are finding new ways to determine what customers really want. Research.

Want More Sales Leads?  Lead generation is arguably the simplest of direct marketing tasks. Yet most businesses can't get the results they want because instead of simply generating leads — which is little more than getting people to identify themselves as interested in something-- they get caught up in too many other priorities that make the job more difficult than it has to be. Sales Leads.

If you liked the article above, here are more by Dean Rieck.

More on Sales Lead Generation. An innovative approach to finding quality sales leads is to anticipate a prospect's need. More Sales Leads.

Questions Business Winners Must Answer
Our tendency is to spend most of our time meeting day-to-day challenges rather than focusing on the "Big Picture". The irony is that our ultimate success is determined by how often we pause, reflect, adjust and solidify our strategic positioning for competing on this "fast track". [Click Here]

Recommended Resources for Publicity & Marketing.  See Marketing Make-Over Specialist, Marcia Yudkin's recommended resources for publicity and Marketing.  Great resource!

How to Fire Employees.  Firing employees is never easy, but this Quick-Read will help you set up systems to make the termination process smoother for both you and the employee. Firing Employees.

Compensation Guide.  Compensation is more complex and strategically important than it once was. They have gathered the best inc.com checklists, benchmarks, and advice to help you get a handle on it. [Click Here]

Double Sales In A Short Time.  I utilize host/beneficiary relationships in every business turnaround in which I am involved. It IS POSSIBLE to double sales very quickly for very little cost using this method ... sound too good to be true? It works! This can be the best, cheapest and fastest way to build a business. Here is information from my friend Jay Abraham, the world's most expensive marketing consultant. Several years ago I spent $5,000 for a weekend seminar held by Jay ... I thought that was a lot. Today, Jay is charging over $5,000 per hour for consulting ... and there is a waiting list. [Click Here]

Board of Directors-Are You Ready?  Unlike an advisory board, which will only offer advice, a board of directors is supposed to hold management accountable.  How do you recruit board members, and whom should you consider? Once you have your board in place, what should you do to maximize its impact? Here are Inc.com's best boardroom resources, assembled to help you build and use your board.

405 (or is it 406?) Marketing Ideas that Work to Build Sales and Profits TODAY!  Build sales without spending a lot of money!  Sometimes you need a new idea. Sometimes you need a helpful reminder of the many different and diverse ways you could be marketing. Here's an ever-growing collection of ideas for you to read and use. 405 Marketing Ideas!  These ideas could make you rich.

Need to have a Difficult Conversation with an employee, vendor, spouse or anyone?  You can do it with less anxiety and better results!  This article outlines a proven, concrete, step-by-step approach for understanding and conducting difficult conversations, an approach developed through 15 years of work at the Harvard Negotiation Project and consultations with thousands of people. It explains how to prepare for the conversation, how to begin without evoking defensiveness, and how to remain constructive regardless of the other person's reaction. To download this file [Click Here].  Requires Adobe Acrobat.

Compensating Employees -- When Money Is Not Enough.  Learn the new methods now being used by the top companies to compensate and retain employees. 

  Getting Out of Your Business.  The time will come when you consider selling your business. This comprehensive article, which includes hyper-linked pages on specific related topics, provides up-to-date advice on how to pass your business on to heirs or handle a sale to outsiders, including how to get a proper valuation, look for prospective buyers, structure the deal, arrange financing and handle the taxes after the sale is completed. Check this complete TOOLKIT by CCH.

How to Multiply Your Business Results While Reducing Your Time, Risk and Effort.  Nationally known marketing consultant Jay Abraham (charges $5,000 per hour), prepared a special report of some of his best marketing methods and ideas.

Fast Impact Cost Savings.  Highly focused cost reduction ideas are often much more effective in improving a company's profitability than just pumping up sales.  This is specific, nuts and bolts, advice you can put into practice in your business today!

Need to Raise Capital?  Discover your best financing options available. [Click Here]

Trade Show Secrets.  Thinking about promoting your company's product or service at trade shows? Check out this information-packed Website.  There are 13 separate categories including photography, graphics, show budgeting, lead tracking, and hospitality.

Hiring good people.  Developing a well-planned hiring strategy can avoid costly mistakes by making a smart staffing decision the first time around. How to … Recruit and Hire for Better Results!