Miller Business Resource Center -BizLink

Click here to access Subscription Databases

Business News

Bloomberg
Bloomberg's founding vision in 1981 was to create an information-services, news and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data they need on a single, all-inclusive platform. Get breaking financial news and stock quotes.

Business Week Online
While some of the information on the online edition of Business Week is available only to subscribers, much of the news and information is available to all users.

CNNMoney
From the editors of CNN and Money magazine, this site brings information on markets and stocks, personal finance, mutual funds, jobs and economy and world business. It also features up-to-date business news.

Long Island Business News
The premiere source for business news on Long Island via a weekly business journal and the Flash Report, a daily e-newsletter.

Newsday Business
While covering national and international business and stock information, Newsday's business section also gives comprehensive coverage of Long Island business.
Top

Business Travel

Background Notes
Prepared by the State Department, Background Notes provides succinct demographic, cultural, historical, and political information on over 200 geographic entities and international organizations. These notes are updated periodically.

Financial Calendar
Tracks holidays worldwide that would affect financial centers including bank, stock exchange and future exchange holidays.

FlightStats
The FlightStats platform delivers real-time and historical flight information that lowers travel-related costs and improves the travel experience.

FlyerTalk
Features discussions and chat boards that cover the most up-to-date traveler information.

International Addresses and Salutations
Examples of international business address formats and personal salutations for 26 countries.

Seat Guru
Touting itself as "Your enlightened guide to airline seating," Seat Guru reveals the best and worst seats for each airline and aircraft.

Travel Health Online
Covering more than 220 countries, this site gives important health and vaccination information for your destination.

World Time Server
Provides accurate current local times worldwide. Searchable by country or city.
Top

Career Information

AARP WorkSearch Assessment System
WorkSearch is a customized online system that helps qualified individuals who are 40 and over to assess their skills, match to careers and link to training and job openings.

Best Companies to Work For
This site provides the annual ranking by Fortune magazine of companies that rate high with employees. Features include: Top 100 employers, best employers in your state, best benefits, top-paying companies, and more.
Career Guide to Industries
From the U.S. Department of Labor, the Career Guide to Industries provides information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information.

CTI CareerSearch
The CityTownInfo.com career directory presents information on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers of interest to them.

Indeed
Indeed allows you to search online job listings, newspapers, and other job boards, but it also provides salary information, forums to connect people of similar interests, and a job trends search field that offers solid insight into the state of any industry.

JobStar
This job search site provides resume guides, career guides, salary information, and national job guides.

NYS Civil Service Test Guides & Resource Booklets
Test Guides published by the New York State Department of Civil Service are usually targeted to specific, entry-level titles. They provide a description of the subject areas that will be tested and present samples of the types of test material that will appear on the test.

NYS Job Exchange (NYSJE)
Search for jobs and related labor information about your career in New York State. By signing up you can create a resume, apply for jobs in NYS, and have job listings sent to your email.

O*NET Online
The O*NET system serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.

Wall Street Journal's Career Journal
This executive career journal from WSJ includes information on salary and hiring, job-hunting advice, careers as well as numerous timely articles.
Top

Company Information

Corporate Information
Contains information on stock exchanges, industries and more in various countries.

Dun's Global Directory
D&B's Global Directory provides a free directory with basic information on over 75 million global businesses.

Infobel World Telephone Directories
Users can obtain listings from yellow and white pages and business directories from 170 countries around the world.

MissionStatements.com
Use these examples of mission statements from various companies to help inspire you to create your own.

ThomasNet
This register lists more than 155,000 U.S. and Canadian companies and the products they produce. The database is searchable by company name or brand name and includes links to more than 7,700 online catalogs.
Top

Demographics & Statistics

American FactFinder
Source for population, housing, economic and geographic data.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTS administers data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources in the U.S. Includes airline on-time performance; freight transport statistics; rail, highway and maritime data.

LIA’s Annual Business Fact Book [pdf]
This book contains detailed statistics concerning Long Island’s economic output, demography, labor force, consumer sector and real estate markets. It also presents detailed fiscal data for local governments on Long Island.

National Center for Health Statistics
As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, the National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve healthcare.

U.S. Census Bureau
Offers statistics from the 2000 Census including population projections, income levels and housing.
Top

Funding and Grants

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives access to a database of all Federal programs available to private profit and not-for-profit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

The Electronic Storefront for Federal Grants
Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies.

Foundation Center - Find Funders
Looking for information about a specific grant maker? Need to identify funders by state, city, or zip code? The Foundation Finder provides grant maker's addresses, web sites, and fiscal data. 990 Finder directs you to an organization's IRS returns. Both services are free and easy to use.

United States Department of Justice Grants
The Office of Justice Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and agencies.
Top

General Business Resources

Best Cities for Doing Business
Which metropolitan areas are really booming? At Inc. magazine you will find a searchable database, the full 2006 rankings broken down into small, medium, and large cities, and an interactive map showing where companies are flourishing today.
Business Certificate Search - Office of the Suffolk County Clerk
The website of the Suffolk County Clerk allows users to search for business certificates by business name, owner's name, or filing date. This can be a useful tool for locating new business in Suffolk County.

Empire State Development - Minority & Women Owned Businesses Database
Searchable database of New York businesses that also includes 8 metropolitan New Jersey counties. Search by region, sales, business type, or SIC code.

Women-Owned Business Economic Research
Compilation of research studies on women-owned businesses, covering topics such as business ownership rates, women-owned sole proprietorships, venture capital in women-led firms, and more. Includes documents back to 1995. From the United States Small Business Association (SBA) Office of Advocacy.

Your Money New York
This web site is designed to give New Yorkers the information and tools they need to face the broad variety of money-related issues that may arise over the course of their lives -- whether it is getting out of debt, looking for a job, saving for college or retirement, or buying a car or home. The goal of Your Money New York is to serve as a centralized, coordinated access point for this information, and to connect you with programs and resources to meet whatever financial challenges you may be facing.

Top

International Business

Corporate Information
Contains information on stock exchanges, industries, and more in various countries.

Dun's Global Directory
Dun's Global Directory provides a free directory with basic information on over 75 million global businesses.

The Electronic Embassy
The Electronic Embassy provides information on each of the foreign embassies in Washington D.C. with links to web-based resources when available.

Eurochambres
This site lists information on 2000 regional and local chambers in Europe.

globalEDGE
Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.

Kompass
Directory of 1.5 million companies, 19 million key product references, 2.5 million executive names, and 370,000 trade and brand names in over 60 countries.

Thomas Global Register
Allows users to search for over 500,000 industrial suppliers, organized by 10,500 industrial product classifications, from 26 countries.

Thomas Register of Indian Manufacturers (TRIM)
Allows users to search for over 42,000 industrial suppliers, organized by 10,000 industrial product classifications, in 6 languages, and from all regions in India.

World Chambers Network
Dun's Global Directory provides a free directory with basic information on over 75 million global businesses.
Top

Industry Information

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
This site lists the 2002 NAICS codes along with their definitions, the 1997 NAICS codes, and the correspondence between NAICS 1997 and SIC codes.

Standard Industry Classification
This website allows the user to search the 1987 SIC manual by keyword. It also includes descriptive information for specific 4-digit SIC codes.
Top

Investment Research

Certified Financial Planner Search
By looking up CFP® professionals, you will find individuals that are currently authorized by CFP Board to use the CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP certification marks. Planners who have been publicly disciplined by CFP Board will also be listed with an indicator of disciplinary action in the "CFP Board Public Disciplinary History" column.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Learn about investing and how to build your financial knowledge. FINRA offers articles, interactive tools, alerts and other resources that help you protect yourself.

WiserAdvisor
This site is designed to help you find a financial advisor suited to your needs. WiserAdvisor has developed several articles that will aide you in your search for an advisor.

Top

Law

LawHelp NY
Low-income New Yorkers and their advocates can find referrals to free legal service programs; information about your legal rights education; links to social services and government agencies; information about the court system; and much more.

Lawyers.com
This free service from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is designed specifically for individuals and small businesses and provides: Accurate and reliable profiles of 1 million lawyers and firms worldwide; Consumer friendly explanations of major areas of law, articles on current legal topics, links to legal resources on the web, a glossary of 10,000 legal terms, and more.

Top

Marketing and Market Research

American Marketing Association
The AMA website, MarketingPower.com, offers a wide array of newly expanded information including research, case studies and best practices in marketing.

KnowThis
Also known as the Internet's Marketing Virtual Library, this is one of the most comprehensive sources of marketing information on the Internet for those involved in marketing, advertising, selling, promotion and e-commerce.

Marketing Charts
Free downloadable media marketing charts and Excel spreadsheets updated daily. Categories include Television, Print, Radio, Direct, Interactive and Outdoor media.

SBA Online Library
The SBA Online Library provides access to the SBA's excellent publications including an extensive section on Marketing.
Top

Not-for-Profit

The Electronic Storefront for Federal Grants
Allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies.

FirstGov for Nonprofits
This directory lists government agencies useful to not-for-profits.

GuideStar
Provides access to information about operations and finances of not-for-profit organizations.

Grant Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations
Non-profit guides are free web-based grant writing resources for non-profit, charitable, educational and public organizations, as well as other community-minded groups.

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
This website gives help in writing a funding proposal.

United States Department of Justice Grants
The Office of Justice Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars, practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and agencies.
Top

Small Business Resources

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives access to a database of all Federal programs available to private profit and not-for-profit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

Entrepreneur Magazine
This website includes many resources for the small business owner or anyone interested in starting a small business. Features include start-up resources, franchise opportunities, free email newsletters, marketing tips, and much more.

Long Island Development Corporation
Long Island Development Corporation is a regional economic development, not-for profit corporation that makes long term, affordable loans to small businesses.
MY BIZ for Women
An online resource for women entrepreneurs, this site provides comprehensive business assistance and information. The site is maintained by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Manta
Covering over 20 million small and mid-size U.S. companies, many privately- owned, Manta provides information including location, estimated sales and number of employees.

The New York State Small Business Development Center
Sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the State of New York, the NYSSBDC offers many resources for small businesses including free, confidential counseling, seminars and information.

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
This not-for-profit association is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free face-to-face or email business counseling. Their website includes advice, a learning center, and many success stories.

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA)
This government site provides information on how to start, finance, manage and expand your business. The SBA Online Library provides access to the SBA's excellent publications on small business management.