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Entrepreneur Magazine
Want an easy-to-navigate small-business site that gathers together hundreds of key links, plus information on hot topics like firing employees, selling your business, marketing and doing taxes? Drop into BusinessTown.com (http://www.businesstown.com), a site that's doing a good job of compiling content that appeals to entrepreneurs. The original information on the site tends to be written in a short, punchy, readable style and gives the facts in a fast enough form that even a time-harried entrepreneur will read through to the end.

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Running your own business can be a great thing or it can become your biggest headache. Go in to the game prepared. Businesstown is a very comprehensive and educational site that will lead you down the right path. There are, easily, two dozen categories of topics covering a huge assortment of sub-topics concerning the many different aspects of starting and successfully running your own business. You will also find a different topic highlighted every day as well as a bookstore, business forum for sharing ideas, and lots more. If you are an entrepreneur or aspiring to become one, you owe it to yourself to check this site out now.

Success Magazine
Adams Media, a small business book publisher, surprises us with a well-put together web resource, that is BusinessTown.com. BusinessTown.com is an informational site for entrepreneurs, small business owners and operators. It provides a comprehensive guide for planning, starting, growing and managing a small business. Use the site for free to gain access to access hundreds of articles addressing dozens of business topics, participate in forums and connect to additional resources around the Web.

Small Business News
A good primer for new entrepreneurs, this site provides a guide for starting and managing a new business through informative articles and links to other sites. Massachusetts-based Adams Media launched the site in February to provide information drawing on excerpts from its books and software, which focus on small business and career topics. The site offers articles on an array of subjects, including finance, office supplies and equipment, taxes, legal issues, time management and marketing. “Ask Bob” and “Streetwise Tips” offer detailed how-tos on some topics. Try the site map for easier navigation.

About.com
BusinessTown is the newest venture for Adams Media, a publisher of many popular small business books and software titles. BusinessTown is just the latest effort by a very busy and bright fellow named Bob Adams to help small businesses in planning, starting, growing and managing a small business. BusinessTown is a Web site that gets its content from the Adams Media library of publications. It already offers hundreds of articles covering 25 separate business topics.
So, what makes BusinessTown so good? To start with, the site address a wide variety of topics, such as advertising and marketing your small business. Most of these topics are covered by a collection of links to relevant sites around the Web, some brief "streetwise" tips, and a number of well written articles from the featured book that goes along with each topic.

Jane Magazine
Finally, if you can't endure another minute working on someone else's big ideas, then start your own company! BusinessTown's Small Business Assistant will get you well on your way to putting you in the driver's seat of your life and career. Discussing everything from how to manage people, business planning, legal issues, getting started, hiring and firing, it's the perfect one-stop shopper to learning about life as an entrepreneur.

US Chamber of Commerce
BusinessTown.com provides quick access to everything you need to know to run your business efficiently.

Seattle Times
Whether you're just starting a business or trying to sell one, Businesstown.com covers the terrain of issues involved. Learn how to start and run a small business without losing your shirt, your sleep or your sanity. There's marketing information, business-expansion tips and links to companies that can help sell your business.

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Internet Brothers	Way Cool Site	Interactive Award
Golden Web Award	Excellent Choice Business Award	Certified Small Business Friendly Site
Médaille d'Or	Academic Excellence Award	Top 500 Site