INTERNET & SOFTWARE RESOURCES

Business Owner's Toolkit offers more than 5,000 pages of free cost-cutting tips, step-by-step checklists, real-life case studies, start-up advice and business templates to small business owners and entrepreneurs. The site also offers a monthly newsletter, up-to-date news topics and a column that closely follows industry trends and offers trusted advice.

An easy to follow, step-by-step guide with full-color illustrations and screen shots on every page. Very useful if you are browsing the Internet.

komida Wholesale Account Management Software is designed specifcally for sellers of specialty foods. komida also offers a free guide: Selling Through Distributors: Grow Your Wholesale Specialty Food Business available for free at www.komida.com/grow.

This Internet forum provides trend information, reports, and other food-industry facts plus online forums, links to other food sites, and a direct link to Food Channel staff.

The Food Channel will offer a new publication called FoodWire. It will be targeted to the general public and contain food news, trends and recipes with interactive links to www.foodchannel.com.

TrendWire is currently published every two weeks. FoodWire will be published monthly. Both will be free publications (advertising supported).
Website: foodchannel.com.

NewHope360 is the premiere digital marketplace that connects the healthy lifestyle industry from supply to shelf.

For Suppliers and Manufacturers: we connect you to your next customer, and provide you with the sourcing, market research, standards and legislative information you need to develop a trusted consumer product.

For Retailers: we provide the trends, operation tactics, products, and consumer concerns that give you the insight you need to grow your store.

For You, the Healthy Lifestyle Enthusiast: we bring you the information on healthy living - from recipes to supplements to sustainability. We support you as someone who cares about your health, the environment, and making conscious choices with your dollars.

NewHope360.com is brought to you by New Hope Natural Media, a division of Penton Media, Inc. For more than 25 years, New Hope Natural Media has been the leading media resource and information provider for the natural, organic and healthy-lifestyle products industry. Our publications, events, e-business products and services deliver industry information and provide community-building forums that connect you to your next customer. In print, we offer the best consumer and trade publications, respected for their high quality of content; in person, the largest natural, organic and healthy-lifestyle products trade shows; and online, the leading-edge consumer and trade websites in the natural products industry.

New Hope Natural Media

1401 Pearl St.
Boulder, CO 80302

303-939-8440; Fax: 303-998-9020

The NASFT produces an online specialty food catalog that helps consumers find the products they’re looking for. It does not offer the products directly, but connects the consumer with a search capability more than 200 listings of specialty food companies’ websites.

Key industry resources including certifiers, associations and support services can be found on The Organic Pages Online. To learn about acquiring an organic farm or how to start an organic business, see HowToGoOrganic.com.

This offers a combination of lifestyle network and web site committed to exploring new and different ways to view food.

Covers everything about email publishing, including the mechanics of publishing and an extensive resource directory. Top Floor Publishing. Available from Amazon.com

Deep River Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of Swardlick Marketing Group, working with companies and organizations to create new business models based on the transformative power of the Internet. They help businesses reinvent themselves using new technologies and integrated marketing solutions to achieve powerful and measurable results.

The firm offers a robust, searchable multimedia directory program. Any organization can add a DexMonkey Directory to their existing Web site. DexMonkey will categorize, and allow each member of the directory to showcase their product or service.

Members have their own control panel, allowing them to update their content 24/7. They may add a video or a flash presentation to their listing, as well as photos, a 500-character description of their product and service, a Web link, and more. In addition, the DexMonkey program is designed to be a profit center for the organization. The directory administrator may set pricing for different types of listings. The collection of funds each month from the members is automated, and funds are deposited into the Administrator’s account. Directory Administrators also have the option of putting the entire Directory presentation, complete with member profiles, onto a CD. They can then duplicate this CD and use it as a marketing tool to hand out at tradeshows, to add to the back of books or publications, etc.

An electronic magazine that provides information on creating and maintaining an online comprehensive newsletter.

Offices in Atlanta; Washington, DC; New York; Tucson; and Brussels. From conceptualization of strategies and budgets, to implementation and ongoing support, Kellen Interactive is committed to exceeding your expectations. They provide daily services as Webmasters and Internet consultants for over 200 companies and organizations. Kellen offers one-on-one customer service and project management every step of the way. They are committed to client budget, objectives, and deadlines for every project.

Build your own website using SnapMonkey’s easy-to-use “Point and Click” technology. Sign up for SnapTo It Tips in a weekly e-mail that shares with you great ideas on promoting your Web site and your business to more people on the Web!

This India based company can execute Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Webdesign and development with over 6 years of experience.

This is a free resource developed to help website owners, advertisers, and marketing professionals get the most from their marketing activities. The site includes details of the latest Web marketing techniques being used by many of the most successful sites on the Net, and features articles, reviews, and links to hundreds of the best website promotion resources available.

Go to www.commercialkitchenforrent.com to locate by state commercial kitchens that rent space and equipment.

Here is a list of resources that can help you create and implement a website marketing program.

LegalZoom.com helps you create reliable legal documents from your home or office. Simply answer a few questions online and your documents will be prepared within 48 hours.

A good source for assistance in setting up incorporations, LLC’s, trademarks and others.

An online resource center with a wide variety of resources for small businesses.

Provides a full resource center full of ideas on how to bring your small business online, and grow it to success.

Provides web analytics services and website statistics and is the leading provider of web analysis and consumer-centric marketing intelligent solutions.

A listing of over 400 subject specific directories and search engines that accept search engine submissions.

An informational site on how to create press releases, and have them distributed to your target market.

An incredible resource directory listing all kinds of advice for small businesses.

A website for anyone interested in the set-up and operation of a small business. It offers various discussions and blogs covering many topics.

This website allows you to order gourmet foods by region, imported and hard to find foods by type, brand name or region. Sales are conducted by online ordering only.

With the recent launch of buy direct, this Virtual Farmers' Market assists growers and crafts-people to sell their products far beyond their geographical confines. farmers and crafts-people with active websites are eligible to advertise their products on the Buy Direct webpage. Free and premium listings are available to promote their products when a reciprocal link to www.OnlyatFarmersMarkets.com is placed on their active website. It takes “local” to a national level.

Master baker and chef Detra Denay Davis offers online instruction and how-to establish a thriving home baking business. Cooking with Denay promotes getting back to basics, baking, cooking and sharing homemade products at local farmers markets and food cooperative. The site shows the 24 states and the local laws that allow some form of home based baking and sales either to the general public or at state sponsored farmers markets/co-ops.