Spider Food

If you use the Internet to run or promote a business, nothing is more important to your success than being listed with the search engines. They are your customer’s tool of choice for locating products and services on the Internet – outranking banner advertising and all other forms of media.

Search engines are also an invaluable tool for reaching your target market. Just think about it. The customers who visit your web site as a result of a search engine query are already interested in the products or services you provide.

Moreover, studies show that consumers who find your product as a result of a search engine query are 5 times more likely to actually make a purchase than if they had found your business through some other form of advertising.

Teaching you how to gain top ranking with the major search engines and directories is what this site is all about. Spider Food covers the techniques that professional search optimization specialists use to get professional results – all ethically.

They have lots of forums to post questions and lots of material at your fingertips.

You can visit this business resource here:
http://www.spider-food.net

National Technical Information Service

The National Technical Information Service serves our nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. For more than 50 years NTIS has assured businesses, universities, and the public timely access to well over 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas. Our mission supports the nation’s economic growth by providing access to information that stimulates innovation and discovery.

* Approximately 3 million government information products
* More than 600,000 searchable on this web site

NTIS is the federal government’s central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information by or for the U.S. government and complementary materials from international sources. Three-million products are available in a variety of formats including online, electronic, multimedia, CD-ROM , paper, and microfiche.

You can access information on more than 600,000 of these products from this web site. Thousands of new products are added each week. Additionally, many records now include free links to the full-text publication on an agency’s web site, or can be downloaded directly from the NTIS archival copy for a nominal charge.

You can find more information about this business resource here:
http://www.ntis.gov

National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161
webmaster@ntis.gov

Bacons.com

Bacons is a complete solution for all of your media needs. Bacon’s Information helps corporate communications and public relations professionals improve their ability to access, understand, and use information and knowledge as key components for communicating more effectively and making informed business decisions.

The Communication Cycleâ„¢
Bacon’s developed the Communication Cycle in order to accommodate the increasing demand among PR practitioners to use integrated services to streamline both day-to-day tasks of generating press coverage and to achieve the strategic goals of influencing an audience to a preferred course of action.
The Communication Cycle model maximizes PR workflow through the four stages of the media relations communication cycle:

1. Research the media
Maximize your media placement opportunities with the most comprehensive media database in the industry. Updated daily, it sets the standard for accuracy.

2. Contact the media
Save time and money by sending your emails and faxes directly from your desktop to your target media contacts. With MediaSource, you can even send your emails for free!

3. Monitor coverage
Manage, search and distribute all of your print, broadcast and Internet exposure online. With MediaSource, it has never been easier and faster!

4. Evaluate results
Analyze the effectiveness of your PR campaigns and objectives with a range of evaluation reports sent directly to your desktop in the format you prefer.

They offer free trials, demos and resources for you. They also offer an extensive white paper section. You can visit this business resource here:
http://www.bacons.com