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If
you are researching a prospect or looking for information about a
businesses, free resources are available.
A
great place to start looking is companysleuth.com.
Company Sleuth scours the Internet to find stock quotes, news, insider
trades, domains, trademarks, and patent registrations, and also has
message boards. The site also sends personalized daily updates via e-mail
or to a Palm Pilot. And best of all, you can track up to ten companies for
free. Of course, if you want to dig deeper, there are a lot of fee-based
services at this site as well.
Another
great solution is corporateinformation.com.
This site is helpful if you need to research a company (public or private,
foreign or domestic) and everything is available free of charge. A sample
of features offered includes: * 15,000 research reports * 20,000 hot linked profiles * 350,000 other profiles * 1,000 categorized links *
company
extensions guide If
it is not general business information that you are looking for, but
rather “credit” information, businessCreditUSA.com
is a terrific resource, and it is also free. Imagine
that you are going to submit a lease you are not sure will get approved.
This site will let you pull a credit report free of charge.
businessCreditUSA.com is a business credit portal, offering free business
credit reports, online updates, and free business credit applications. You
can find information on virtually any large or small business in the
nation. businessCreditUSA.com
reports that 55% of its database is comprised of businesses with less than
four employees, which should be helpful to ISOs. The
Web site notes that its greatest strength lies in 27 years of tracking
businesses. Every business is verified at least once per year. This site
not only provides instant online business credit reports, but also
provides a cost effective solution for low dollar credit decisions. Some
of these uses may appeal to you:
Finally,
if you want a really great online research tool, you need the tool that I
used while researching and writing this story. The product is called eGems,
and it makes gathering and organizing Web information, or for that matter
any PC-based information, very simple. eGems
lets you gather and drop data where you want it, from wherever you find
it, while keeping track of reference sources. The product, which can be
downloaded for less than $50.00 from www.egems.com,
helps easily organize, store, and access pieces of data the way you want
to see them.
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