General Resources

Domain Name Availability

www.networksolutions.com

Checks the availability of a domain name.

Emarketer

www.emarketer.com

This site aims to be the definitive online marketing resource. It includes news, statistics, and stepbystep guides to succeeding online. A weekly newsletter also is available.

Incorporation and Trademarks

www.corpcreations.com

Incorporation and trademark services online (for all 50 states plus offshore).

NUA Internet Surveys

www.nua.ie/surveys/moreinfo.html

NUA publishes a weekly email newsletter that summarizes all the latest Internet surveys and statistics. This newsletter is an invaluable resource if you want to know who's online and what they're buying.

Wilson Web

www.wilsonweb.com

This site contains a wealth of links to articles relating to every aspect of web commerce. Much of the information is free, although some areas are accessible by paying subscribers only.

Delphi Forums

delphiforums.com

Delphi Forums is one of the largest discussion boards on the Net and has more than 500,000 individual discussion forums to participate in.

Yahoo! Groups

groups.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Groups is a good resource for finding mailing lists that relate to your product or service. It is also one the easiest ways for companies to communicate with prospects and customers on the Internet.

Lsoft

lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

Lsoft has the CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists on the Net. CataList has tens of thousands of public discussion lists that you can subscribe to.

Blogger.com

www.blogger.com

A free blogging tool can be found at blogger.com. It is a very popular application that can get your blog up and running in minutes.

MyISPFinder

www.myispfinder.org

MyISPFinder will help you find and choose an ISP in your state.

Merchant Accounts

Here are some companies that specialize in merchant accounts for online merchants and are First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) compatible.

• 1st American Card Service: 1stamericancardservice.com

• Card Service International: cardservice.com

• Chase Merchant Services: chasemerchantservices.com

• Wells Fargo Merchant Services: wellsfargo.com

• First Bank: fbol.com

• Bank of Hawaii: boh.com

• Express Merchant Processing Solutions: empsebiz.com

• First Interstate Bank: firstinterstatebank.com

• Paymentech: paymentech.com

Nolo

www.nolo.com

The Nolo website is a great resource for information on the different forms of business entities and how to form them.

PRWeb

www.prweb.com

Online news and press release distribution service.

Webmaster World

www.webmasterworld.com

News and discussions for web professionals.