Business Source Ultimate gives access to full-text business journals, covering current trends, historical data, and global perspectives from 1886 to present. It includes essential journals like Harvard Business Review and Forbes.
http://asbdc.org/ - Alabama Small Business Development Center
Small Business SizeUp Tool - use this source to locate number and location of existing businesses of a particular kind, for example, you can produce a map with locations of landscape contractors in a particular geographic area.
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