General Sources for Doing Business on the Internet

• CommerceNet
  A not-for-profit 501c(6) mutual benefit corporation which is conducting the first large-scale market trial of technologies and business processes to support interoperable electronic commerce via the Internet.
• Free Pint
  Written by information professionals in the UK, this free e-mail newsletter gives "tips, tricks and articles on how and where to find reliable Web sites and search more effectively."
• Global Internet Statistics (By Language) (GlobalReach)
  Provides the latest estimated figures of the number of native speakers online worldwide by language. Includes links to more detailed language information by country, as well as a chart showing the evolution & projections of online linguistic populations, beginning with 1996. Also includes a section on projected e-commerce by country. Sources for the data are included.
• Internet Fraud Watch (National Consumer League)
  Part of the National Fraud Information Center, the Internet Fraud Watch assists consumers to "distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent promotions in cyberspace and route reports of suspected fraud to the appropriate law enforcement agencies."
• PeerSpectives (Edward Lowe Foundation)
  Designed for the business owner, the site emphasizes peer-networking and "next-level" thinking, encouraging business owners to anticipate issues the company is likely to encounter at the next level of growth and to understand the organizational changes required to move the company to that level. Includes numerous short articles on such topics as building an organization, acquiring and managing finances, human resources, legal issues, taxes, operations and technology. Some articles include citations to additional sources of information, including books, articles, research centers, professional associations, and web sites.
• Market Segmentation: A Guide to Sources of Information
  This Business Reference Service guide includes books and other resources that discuss marketing to particular segments of the population along with other sources that are important in determining the size and power of a particular market segment. Also included are statistical books and other sources whose main focus is on a specific generational, ethnic or other group.

"Netiquette" for Doing Business on the Internet

• Learn the Net
  Covers a wide range of Internet basics, including a brief history or the Internet, netiquette, email, web browsers, newsgroups, web publishing, multimedia, conferencing, security, and privacy. Presents a guide and tutorial for learning to use the Internet, describes publishing, researching, and doing business on the Internet. Contains a glossary, a FAQ section, and a site search form. Provides access to French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions of site information.
• Netiquette Home Page (Seth T. Ross )
  Provides information on the responsible use of the Internet. As described on the home page, "'Netiquette' is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of online communication. Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal 'rules of the road' of cyberspace."

Internet Business Directories

• BizWeb: Business Guide to the Web
  Internet resources of businesses, arranged by the companies' products and services. Uses broad subject categories.
• AllBusiness (AllBusiness)
  Claims to be "the largest and most comprehensive business catalog in the world.".
• SuperPages.com
  Maintained by Verizon Information Services, the site allows users to search yellow and white pages nationwide. Also includes other features such as product reviews and an interactive MerchantMatch page.

Internet Services and Consultants for Businesses

• BtoB: Advertising Age's Newspaper of the Marketing Revolution (Crain Communications)
  Site includes the Web Price Index, a monthly study of the cost of web services; NetMarketing 200, a ranking of two hundred business-to-business sites, searchable by name, rank, or industry; and the BtoB 100, a listing of top advertisers by spending or by medium.
• eBizSearch/SMEALSearch
  "eBizSearch is an experimental niche search engine that searches the web and catalogs academic articles as well as commercially produced articles and reports that address various business and technology aspects of e-Business. The search engine crawls websites of universities, commercial organizations, research institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles, working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles, and published statistics and facts." From the eBizSearch Web Site, February 6, 2003. Launched by the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State Smeal College of Business.
• eCommerce-guide.com
  This portal to information on electronic commerce offers daily news, feature articles, product reviews, case studies, and an e-commerce events calendar, as well as an e-commerce-focused discussion forum.
• Internet Access Providers (Yahoo)
• Internet Business Consultants (Yahoo)