{"id":208,"date":"2015-04-03T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/04\/03\/the-business-plans-handbook-is-the-library-ebook-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:37:11","slug":"the-business-plans-handbook-is-the-library-ebook-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/04\/03\/the-business-plans-handbook-is-the-library-ebook-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business Plans Handbook is the library ebook of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an idea for a business? &nbsp;Maybe you want to develop a business plan? &nbsp;If so, Langsdale Library has a number of resources that could help. &nbsp;For example, we have information on industry trends, outlooks and barriers to entry in databases like <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/clients1.ibisworld.com\" target=\"_blank\">IBISWorld<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/academic.mintel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mintel<\/a>&nbsp;Market Research Reports. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.referenceusa.com\/bd\" target=\"_blank\">Reference USA<\/a> allows you to find potential customers or competition by letting you search for businesses of a certain type with a state, city, zip code or even a 50 mile radius. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/ubalt.policymap.com\/maps\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyMap <\/a>will let you visualize a variety of demographic information on a map. &nbsp;If you are looking at Baltimore, you might find articles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/secure.bizjournals.com\/orgAccess\/ub128910-cja79318s\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Business Journal<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/baltimoresunspecial\/advanced?accountid=28969\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Sun<\/a> to be of use.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plus, if you want to write an actual business plan, this month&#8217;s featured ebook, The <a href=\"http:\/\/proxy-ub.researchport.umd.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/go.galegroup.com\/ps\/aboutSeries.do?inPS=true&amp;prodId=GVRL&amp;userGroupName=umd_ub&amp;seriesId=0PHU\" target=\"_blank\">Business Plans Handbook<\/a> provides examples of business plans for a variety of industries. &nbsp;The video below gives a few more details.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have an idea for a business? &nbsp;Maybe you want to develop a business plan? &nbsp;If so, Langsdale Library has a number of resources that could help. &nbsp;For example, we have information on industry trends, outlooks and barriers to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/04\/03\/the-business-plans-handbook-is-the-library-ebook-of-the-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Business Plans Handbook is the library ebook of the month<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}