88 Online Resources found

Whether you spent all day in Excel spreadsheets or you only launch the program once a month, there’s always more to know about the software. These 50 tips cover these five topics:
* Customizing your workspace
* Editing, layout, and printing
* Entering and working with data
* Working with formulas, functions and code
* Mastering Web tricks

Learn how to do everything from changing default … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “BNET” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

Matt Evans has gathered a nice collection of free excel files to download from various sources across the web.

Editor’s Note: thanks to financeprofessor.com (via MoneyScience) for pointing out this site…

Content: Online Resource | Author: Matt H. Evans | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

Want to improve your management skills? Tap into the mother lode of coaching checklists and assessment tools at this site, where you will find more than 500 ways to organize and improve in the areas of goal planning, strategy, life focus, action plans, time management, business organization and more. You must become a member of sister site Coachville.com in order to access the forms, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “Coachville” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

You can speed up the process of having Google index your site – and help Google uncover your hidden, database-generated pages – by submitting a sitemap of your site to Google directly in the “appropriate file format”. You can figure this all out yourself, or you can take advantage of complimentary online tools that will generate the file for you in a Google-approved format. We … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “XML Sitemaps” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business

This library of business plans includes entries in the Moot Corp® Competition at the University of Texas. Each business plan was a winner or finalist in the competition. The judges (venture capitalists) selected these plans as representing the best in business strategy and presentation.

Content: Online Resource | Source: “Center for Business Planning” | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

By incorporating several of the best no-cost keyword suggestion tools into one interface, NicheBOT makes it very easy to explore and discover new, untapped keywords and topics that you can use to drive more traffic to your website. Simply enter a keyword or phrase, such as “internet marketing”, and choose your weapon.

First, get the top 15 related, active keywords from Wordtracker. Then explore the thesaurus … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “NicheBOT” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

It started decades ago as flashes of insight scribbled on loose scraps of paper. Then it morphed into a PowerPoint presentation that distilled years of business wisdom into a handful of easy-to-remember aphorisms. Last year it became a 76-page spiral-bound booklet clad in a plain gray cover. Eventually, Warren Buffett received a copy — and liked it so much that he asked for dozens more … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Bill Swanson | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Management

UrlTrends provides a visual “Trend Report” on the SEO rankings of your website, and, if you opt for no-cost registration, it will track your rankings over time and enable you to compare them to the rankings of several competitors. With registration, you will be notified by RSS or email whenever there is a search engine ranking change to any of your tracked URLs.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Joel Strellner | Source: “urltrends” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

BNET has partnered with MyWorkTools.com. MyWorkTools.com accepts submissions of work tools that cover all business areas, including customer service, human resources, sales, training, and business development. MyWorkTools.com also provides experienced professionals with a means to generate income from these tools. Once a tool is accepted, the author receives 15% of any sales of the tool.

The result of this partnership is that BNET has made 8 … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Sources: “BNET”, “MyWorkTools.com” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

An MS Excel add-in that enables data visualization by drawing boxes of various sizes based on a spreadsheet with hierarchical data (e.g., one which shows how different divisions of XYZ corp are doing at sprocket, widget, and screw sales).

Content: Online Resource | Sources: “Microsoft”, “raindrop” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

As proud as you may be of your company and your product or service, most customers only care about how well you can help them meet their wants and needs. If you want more of them to buy, your focus has to be on your customer. How do you communicate that to them? With the words you use on your site. Are you talking mostly … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “Future Now” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

If you are a calculation junkie, you will go wild at this site, which at the time of writing housed more than 19,730 calculators for tabulating every kind of data under the sun. The “Management & Business” section contains and/or points to hundreds of calculators that have been lovingly gathered by this reference site’s sole proprietor, Mr. Jim Martindale. A few of our favorites include … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Jim Martindale | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

The Harvard Business School offers up this downloadable interactive workbook, which is designed to help estimate the cost of acquiring a customer and the Net Present Value (NPV) of that customer’s business during his or her useful economic life. The simple model is programmed to evaluate a single product offering. The more complex model allows you to incorporate multiple products with distinct customer loyalty and … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Authors: Chad Ellis, Jon B. DeFriese | Source: “Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

At no cost, Onecle provides a large number of sample contracts and similar legal documents, from consulting agreements to trusts and many other forms of agreements. [Brain Food annotation]

Content: Online Resource | Source: “Oncle Inc.” | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Legal

Professor Damodaran of NYU’s Stern School of Business has put together this immensely useful site for finance students and professionals. It contains lots of material, including lecture notes, spreadsheets, datasets, books (descriptions, manuscripts, problem solutions, etc.) and webcasts for the areas of Corporate Finance, Investment, and Valuation.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools