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Websites

Databases

Business & Company Resource Center
Searchable database of periodical articles, some full text, from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications. Also good information source on companies and for market research.
Business Source Elite
Searchable database of periodical articles, many full text, from popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications.
Washington Post
Searchable full text database. Covers articles from 1987 to present.

Reading List

	Encyclopedia of Small Business Contains detailed articles designed to fulfill the practical information needs of small business owners. Includes financing, business plans, marketing, sales, taxes, and human resource issues.
	Grow Your Business by Mark Henricks. 2001. (658.022 HEN). This is a practical guide which thoroughly covers various factors involved in growing a small business, including the topic of marketing and management consultants.
	The Small Business Start-Up Guide: a Surefire Blueprint to Successfully Launch Your Own Business by Hal Root. 2002. (658.022 ROO 2002). A book on what to avoid and how to overcome the obstacles to building your own business.

Feature

Free Business Counseling

SCORE

Montgomery County Chamber
(301) 738-0015

Montgomery County Dept. of Economic Development
(301) 589-9442

Olney Chamber
(301) 924-3555

Rockville Chamber
(301) 424-9300

Silver Spring Chamber
(301) 565-3777

Wheaton Kensington Chamber
(301) 949-0080

SBDC

Montgomery County Chamber and Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity
(301) 403-0501

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Last edited: 2/6/2009