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Sales Resources

• Selling to Big Companies blog Jill Konrath shares fresh ideas, insights & info
• Sales Shebang Professional development for women in sales
• Great Sales Give Free sales resources & drawings each month
  

• Sharpenz Quick & easy 30-minute sales training programs for your team; saves you hours plus excellent sales advice
  
  

Sales 2.0 Tools

Online services with accurate corporate contact info & lists

• Jigsaw
• ZoomInfo
• Hoovers
• Netprospex

Alert services & connections

• InsideView
• Dow Jones Companies & Executives
• Sales Fuel

In-depth Targeted Sales Research

• SalesQuest
• Industry Gems
• Boardoom Insider
  
  

Marketing Resources

• Marketing Interactions Transforms prospects into sales-ready buyers
• Action Plan Marketing Marketing resource for independent professionals
• InTouch, Inc. B2B lead generation for the complex sale
• Writing White Papers Excellent advice on creating effective white papers
  
  

Business Research

• Google News - Sign up for alerts about breaking news with your clients or prospects
• Yahoo News - Another resource you can use to alert you to what's happening
• Business Journals - Keep up to date on announcements with targeted accounts, locations
• News Link - Info re: local newspapers, non-dailies that cover local firms in greater depth than national sites
• Technorati - Conduct searches on blogs re: what's being said about your prospects & clients
• Wayback Machine - Check out the web archives of your hot prospect; see the changes & evolution of firm
• CEO Express - Business portal that's the home page for lots of corporate executives
• Corporate Information - Full of detailed information on public companies; registration required, but free
• Edgar Scan - Info on public companies, benchmarking capabilities and great graphical displays
• Thomas Register - Focused on manufacturers; find other firms just like your best manufacturing customers
• Brint - Business technology and knowledge management portal; very deep site
• Company Financials - Connect to the best financial resources on the web
• Hill Search - Business reference library providing small firms access to rich databases at low monthly rates
• CEO/CFO Interviews - Find out what these top executives say about their firm, industry, direction & more
• Big Charts - Stock charts, interactive charting & research tools
• Biz Stats - Instant access to useful business statistics, benchmarks and more