Web Picks - News

www.cdn-news.com
Are you in business to business sales? Are you looking to keep abreast on developments at a client’s company? Let your customers know that you’re on top of things – that you’re in touch and "in the loop" when it comes to knowing about their business. Impress them with your awareness of even the most recent changes at their company. Enter the Canadian Corporate News’ website, select the "News Release Search" option and execute a specific search by company name to read new and archived news releases.

www.google.com/newsalerts
Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify. Use Google News Alerts to monitor a developing news story and/or keep current on a competitor or industry.

www.homebusinessreport.com
Home Business Report (HBR) is a quarterly publication recognized as the only home-based magazine aimed squarely at the home-based business market. HBR’s editorial mandate is to provide it’s readers with in-depth articles on trends and/or regulatory issues affecting home workers, and profiles of people who are making the home-based lifestyle work for them and their families. HBR’s website provides free articles from current issues and archives, as well as links to relevant business sources.

www.cbc.ca
Get your daily news fix here! Maybe you want to know what's been said on TV about a particular company or issue - if so, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website is a great place to conduct a search. This site will surely keep you in tune and in touch to the world around you!

www.financialpost.com/product/markets.htm
Access key statistics on population for 700 municipalities and five-year population projections, income and income projections, retail sales and projections, labour force, day time population, occupations by major groups, average household expenditures, households, families, housing, businesses by type, consumer behavior of households. Also, for provinces and major metro areas, buying power indices, retail sales estimates and rankings, and shipping centre data. As well, there is a directory of regional development offices

www.exhibitornet.com/directoryshows/index.asp
Exhibitor magazine’s online resource for trade show and event-marketing professionals. Includes directory of worldwide trade shows with search capability by industry, state, country and date.

www.maxsacks.com
When entering this website, click on either "Free Sales Aids" or "Newsletter" at the bottom of the home page, for timely and informative articles to help you make more sales.

www.businessfinancemag.com
Business Finance Magazine’s website, along with posting the most recent issue of it’s magazine on its website, offers visitors free access to archived articles. If you have a business-related inquiry or are doing research for a specific topic, just enter this website and click on: "Article Archives," at which point you will be asked to enter your search term/word(s). This is a great place to start doing research or gathering background information for a broad range of purposes: from finding out what the latest expense reporting software is on the market to finding out about the company you’re trying to score a deal with.