Small Business Resources

  • A to Z Databases - Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more. Provides essential information for small businesses and entrepreneurs seeking to grow their businesses, researchers looking for statistics of all kinds, plus information on careers and fundraising.
  • Gale Business: Plan Builder - Grow, plan, and optimize a business/nonprofit. Utilize development tools and a step-by-step process to build a business plan.
  • Gale Business Plans Handbook Series - Search hundreds of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America.
  • Gale Business Insights Essentials - Easily research your business community for information on companies, industries and more with timely news, statistical data and reports.
  • Gale OneFile: Business - Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
  • Gale Demographics Now - Find demographic information regarding population, income, housing, race, age, education, retail spending, customer expenditures, business and more.
  • Gale Entrepreneurship - Learn how to plan, fund, start or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how-to guides, articles and websites.
  • Gale Insurance and Liability - Addresses concerns over the protection of assets (physical or intellectual) ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations.
  • Gale LegalForms - Florida-specific small business form templates, including business plans, contracts, financial statements, waivers, proposals and balance sheets.
  • Knowledge City - Over 13,000 online professional development courses in business, technology, safety, compliance and finance.
  • Florida Small Business Development Center Network - Delivers consulting, training and information to help businesses succeed.