E-commerce Start-Up Training Resources Web Tour

               Information condenses to knowledge, which condenses to wisdom,
                          and value is created in an information economy.

Learning To Create A Business

• Access Ecommerce
  http://www.access-ecom.info
  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.
   
•  U.S. Small Business Association offers many
  free online courses covering the basics for business planning, marketing and more.
  http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html
   
• Adult and Youth Entrepreneurship Training Resources
  http://www.emkf.org/  http://kauffman.org
  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! Also hosting http://www.eventuring.org , listing extensive resources for entrepreneurs.

• Business@ Home
  http://www.gohome.com
  Making a life while making a living. Resources for home-based businesses.
   
• Resources for Entrepreneurs at Gaebler Ventures
  http://www.gaebler.com/resources-for-entrepreneurs.htm
  A venture capital site with many interesting resources on creating a business.

• Ventureneer
  www.ventureneer.com  a website that provides a
  new approach to learning --- blending traditional formal instruction
  with informal, web-based learning --- to support nonprofits and small
  businesses that have a social mission.
  
  Using Web 2.0 technology -- interactive classes, peer-to-peer learning,
  coaching, web events and articles -- Ventureneer provides the resources
  leaders need to make better strategic decisions for these organizations.
   

• YoungBiz.com
  http://youngbiz.com
  Free Ebusiness sites and training for youth!
   
• 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
   
• Americans Communicating Electronically
  http://www.ace.org
  A USDA Economic and Development Systems initiative. Links to 4H and other youth
  programs and related diverse resources from USDA.
   

• Camden Coalition's National Listing of Youth Entrepreneurship Programs
  http://www.camdenyouth.net/resources.cfm?r=5
  GREAT listing of youth entrepreneurship national programs
   

• Youth Entrepreneurship Magazine
  http://ye.entreworld.org 
   

• Mini-society - Societal Simulations
  www.minisociety.org
   

• The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
  http://www.jumpstartcoalition.org
   

• The Association of Marketing Students  
  http://www.deca.org/    
   

• Canadian Youth Business Foundation.
  http://www.cybf.ca    
   
• Canadian Youth Business Program
  www.youthbusiness.com
   
• Entrepreneur Magazine's Youth Business Start-up Resources
  www.entrepreneur.com/tsu
   
• 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
  http://marketingforkids.org
   
• Young Money
   http://youngmoney.com
  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
  http://www.nfte.org
  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.
   

• Monster.com
  http://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
  http://guru.com
  Resources for marketing your services and finding work contracts!

• 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
  http://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
  http://www.tjobs.com
  Interesting focus for a home business; to teach others telecommuting skills.

• Mining Company Telecommuting Resources
  http://telecommuting.miningco.com
   
• Rural Telework Resources
  http://cbdd.wsu.edu/telework 
  Extensive resources from the University of Washington Telework project.

Optional Advanced Resources and Services

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

Alaskan 21st Century Learn, Earn, and Serve Academy
http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm

Women's Entrepreneurial Networks

• Women's Rural Economic Network
  http://www.wrencommunity.org
  http://www.shopthewrens.com
  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
  www.umbc.edu/cwit

• Small Business Knowledge Base
  http://www.bizmove.com
  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.

• Tripod
  http://tripod.com 
  Free sites that stay free!!! Tutorial at the end of http://lone-eagles.com/pcna1.htm
   
• Citymax.com
  http://citymax.com  One of the easiest places to create a web site.
   
• Amazon.com's zshops
  http://amazon.com
  Free Ecommerce sites and a Merchant's Resource Center!

• Yahoo.com
  http://yahoo.com
  Free Ecommerce sites for two weeks, fee-based after this.

• Freemerchant
  http://freemerchant.com
  Free Ecommerce merchant accounts and much more for Ebusiness startups!

• Bigstep.com
  http://bigstep.com
  Free services for creating your own E-business!

• OLB.com
  http://olb.com
  Another free service for creating your own E-business!
   
• Free Web-based Collaborative Tools
  http://www.kmunity.net/Free_Tools_/free_tools_.html
  Casey Hughes has done an outstanding job creating listings of free web tools related
  to home-based businesses; free virtual offices, software, Ecommerce web sites and
  much more. While such links come and go, this is the best single listings yet found.