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E-commerce Start-Up Training Resources Web Tour
Information condenses to knowledge, which condenses to wisdom,
and value is created in an information economy.
TIP: Create your own local Ecommerce and Entrepreneurship Hot list by exploring
the "other links" listings from the following best sites.
Learning To Create A Business
Enhancing rural development through electronic commerce. An easy curriculum for those new to the idea of rural ecommerce. An inexpensive booklet is available. Well done! Click on "Electronic Commerce Basics" and on the next page click on "Defining Electronic Commerce" and read that one page. Then hit the BACK button twice to return to this lesson page.
free Ecommerce courses covering the basics for planning, marketing and more.
Learn what's working. Extensive current quality resources. Highly Recommended! Free trial issues offered.
Adult and Youth Entrepreneurship Training Resources
The Kauffman Foundation has a billion dollar endowment for funding youth and entrepreneurship
programs. To review their free training resources, select Entrepreneurship, then Entrepreneurship
resources!
Women's Entrepreneurial Networks
Grameen America
Micro loans for women from the winner of the noble prize.
Women's Rural Economic Network
Collectively Making the Ordinary Extraordinary. A wonderful model!
Women's Economic Self-sufficiency Team (WESST) Artisans, Taos, NM
http://www.wesstartisans.com/ Rural women artists' web sites. Recently
featured as a case study of success.
The Women's Business Center at Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.ceimaine.org/women Betsy Tipper
Helping Maine women grow their businesses through telecommunications.
SBA's Women Business Owner's website:
www.onlinewbc.gov Serious resources.
Center for Women and Information Technology
Small Business Knowledge Base
Teach yourself how to start a business, marketing, financial management and international trade!
Too many ads, but if you keep digging you'll find serious resources.
Start-up Ecommerce Sites and Services (Free for limited time)
Tripod
Free sites that stay free!!! Tutorial at http://lone-eagles.com/tutorial.htm
Amazon.com's zshops
Free Ecommerce sites and a Merchant's Resource Center!
Youth Entrepreneurship
Hotlist of Student Entrepreneurial Resources:
http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks2.htm
Wonderful listing of dozens of important resources for student entrepreneurship, home-based businesses, community service, and more!
Youth World Trade Training
http://www.wbe.net Sponsored by the Reis Foundation
http://www.reisfoundation.org Youth entrepreneurship focus
Camden Coalition's National Listing of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs
http://www.camdenyouth.net/resources.cfm?r=5
GREAT listing of youth entrepreneurship national programs
National Youth Employment Coalition
Youth Entrepreneurship Magazine
Mini-society - Societal Simulations
The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
http://www.jumpstartcoalition.org
The Association of Marketing Students
Canadian Youth Business Foundation.
Canadian Youth Business Program
Entrepreneur Magazine's Youth Business Start-up Resources
REAL, or Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning
http://www.realenterprises.org
Provides entrepreneurship education and training curricula for youth and adults in schools, post-secondary institutions, and community-based organizations. REAL provides hands-on experience in starting a business.
Organizations with Youth Enterprise focus
http://www.entre-ed.org/_network/youth-or.htm From Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education. http://www.entre-ed.org/
Small Business Association Youth Entrepreneurship Resources and Curriculum Guides
http://www.sba.gov/young/columbiacollege/k_12.nsf/vwHTMLPages/youth.html
Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education.
http://www.entre-ed.org/ Includes national standards for entrepreneurship education.
Future Business Leaders of America
http://fbla-pbl.org
An association of students preparing for business and business-related careers.
Marketing For Kids
Young Money
Information on careers, consumer issues, entrepreneurship, investing, lifestyles, and links to student internships and student entrepreneurs.
The Enterprise Center's Listing of Youth Programs
http://www.theenterprisecenter.com/youth.php
Gaebler Ventures Entrepreneurship Resources for the Young
http://www.gaebler.com/help-for-young-entrepreneurs.htm
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Tteaches entrepreneurship to low-income young people, ages 11 through 18, so they can become economically productive members of society by improving their academic, business, technology and life skills.
Junior Achievement http://ja.org
Works with students from kindergarten to high school to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives.
EXTENSIVE Youth Career and Job Shadowing resources
http://lone-eagles.com/lksd-careers.htm
URL unknown: National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurs, NCEYE nceye.org ?
Inc provides resources such as newsletters, and online resources for young entrepreneurs, ages 13-21.
Career and Job Marketing Sites
Monster.com
A Career Center that allows you to market your skills. Free resume posting, services for researching companies, job seeker information and has a great section on community business.
Guru.com
Resources for marketing your services and finding work contracts!
E-Marketing (You built it and Nobody Came?)
The following were collected by Malcolm Dell of http://www.giftmarketing.org
We found his e-marketing workshop very useful. He's working on creating online courses, too.
Search Engine Promotion Tips
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
http://www.submit-it.com/subopt.htm
General E-marketing
http://i-m-r-c.com/resources/index.htm
http://www.jvmarketer.com/articles/tools.htm
http://internetmarketingindex.com
Free Emailed Marketing Newsletters
http://list-universe.com/authors/teresa-brusky/index4.shtml
Trading Links, Checking Links
http://www.linkpopularitycheck.com
http://www.link-popularity-guide.com
Auctions
http://pages.ebay.com/education/index.html
http://www.auctionknowhow.com/articles/
Unique Ecommerce Services
Ebay
http://www.ebay.com Lone Eagle Ebay resources: http://lone-eagles.com/auctions.htm
An auction site which has provided sustainable businesses for many home-based businesses
in very rural locations. Six billion will be exchanged this year by people simply posting
pictures of what they have to sell. Ebay is one of the shining stars of Internet Ecommerce success.
See their site map for valuable resources, and "My Ebay" for an easy way to track what you're
selling or considering buying.
Netpreneur.org
From Washington DC, the most electronically wired, educated, wealthy, and politically charged community in the world; here are sophisticated resources for learning how to grow an online business.
Telecommuting Jobs Listing and How-To-Telecommute Handbook
Interesting focus for a home business; to teach others telecommuting skills.
Mining Company Telecommuting Resources
http://telecommuting.miningco.com
Rural Telework Resources
Extensive resources from the University of Washington Telework project.
Optional Advanced Resources and Services
BizRate
Evaluations, and listings, of popular Ebusiness sites!
Centranow
http://www.centranow.com " Redefining Elearning and Collaboration"
Internet-based voice-based services, conference calls, and more! Free E-meeting Trials!
Interland
http://interland.com "We make the web work for you."
Wholetree Ecommerce Language Translation
http://wholetree.com "Engineered Multilingual Solutions"
Services for going global!
Talkcity.com
Building communities for businesses online. Tutorials and tools available!
Smartforce
A leader in the field.
Webex
Outstanding model of excellence.
Kikos
http://www.kiko2.com/html/products/content_creation.jsp
An easy-to-use set of online publishing tools that
requires no training or HTML expertise -- lets you develop interactive Web
documents that give you insight into your employees' understanding and
knowledge.
Astound
Free trials for audio-conferencing via Internet, and more!
Expert City
Connect with experts for advice.
Development Space
http://www.developmentspace.com
The application of Ebay to Internet aid. Consultants sought.
Global Development Gateway
http://www.developmentgateway.org
International consultants registery and more.
WR Hambrecht and Co. Brokers
Select "Research" and find the latest corporate Elearning Market report.
The Pacific Institute
Changing the way you think. Corporate training.
For more Entrepreneurship links see http://lone-eagles.com/entrelinks2.htm
Far more is available via Lone Eagle's online course
"A Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the Internet"
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm
See also "Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies"
http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm