Small Business Resources

http://www.adrich.com/ENT/Ent.htm
"Suggestions for business plans and entrepreneurship by Fred F. Richards, Jr., President and CEO of Adrich Corporation."

http://www.allbusiness.com
"All-Biz.com is a comprehensive online resource center for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to provide useful topical and industry information, management tools, promotional programs, business related products and services and extensive Internet related functions tailored to help business owners and entrepreneurs expand and manage their companies more efficiently and profitably. All-Biz.com accomplishes this by providing small businesses with a greater ability to promote and to expand their companies via the Internet and other media. Provides articles pertinent to marketing and small business."

http://www.bplans.com/
Offers articles, tools, and resources are designed to walk you through the process of writing a business plan as quickly and easily as possible. Free sample business and marketing plans are available.

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp
"People with similar lifestyles tend to live near one another. PRIZM describes every U.S. neighborhood in terms of 62 distinct lifestyle types, called clusters; while MicroVision defines 48 lifestyle types, called segments. Enter your 5-digit ZIP Code to find your neighborhood's top five PRIZM or MicroVision lifestyle groups!"

http://www.esri.com/data/community_data/index.html
"You can see 2000 demographic data for a ZIP Code of your choice. We've also provided the national averages for the same statistics, as well as information about the dominant ACORN cluster in your region."

http://www.inc.com
Inc. Magazine web site offers advice and resources on getting started and growing your business.

http://www.inc.com/guides/start_biz/20660.html
How to build a business plan.

http://www.inventpa.com/default.asp?path=...
"The Entrepreneur's Guide: Starting and Growing a Business in Pennsylvania."

http://www.managementhelp.org/fp_progs/np_mod/orgs_crs.htm
"Online Organization Development Program Module #2: 'Starting and Understanding Your Organization', written by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD for Free Management Library(SM), a complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits."

http://www.paopen4business.state.pa.us/
"PA Open for Business" is the result of the Commonwealth's goal to make Pennsylvania the easiest place in the world to start, sustain and expand a business.'

http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/pasdc/census_2000/index.html
The Pennsylvania State Data Center is the Commonwealth’s Official Source of population and demographic information.
The following information from the Demographic Profiles is available from the Pennsylvania State Data Center:
County Demographic Profiles; Municipal Demographic Profiles; Population by Age and the Median Age, County Level;
Percentage Change in Population, 1990-2000 for Aged 65 and Over, Housing Units, Total, Occupied, Vacant and Seasonal;
Race Breakdown of Hispanic/Latino; Housing Unit Percent Change; Pennsylvania Counties, 1990-2000.

http://www.sba.gov/starting/
U.S. Small Business Administration - America's Small Business Resource

http://www.score.org
"The SCORE Association is a national, nonprofit association with 11,500 volunteer members and 389 chapters throughout the United States and its territories. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration. "