Guide to How the Work.com Site Is Organized
Finding information, answering questions, and accomplishing essential business tasks has never been so easy

Work.com allows you to learn about a variety of topics, actively accomplish essential business tasks, discover useful resources, and connect with other small business owners and entrepreneurs. The best part is that the information has already been collected and organized for you!

Easy access to Work.com resources and information starts here:
  1. Browse Work.com Topics
  2. Discover How-to Guides for your business type or region of interest
  3. Search for How-to Guides
  4. Follow links to Related Guides or Topics

Action Steps
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Browse Work.com Topics
If you're not sure what you're looking for or you just want to see what Work.com has to offer, the best way to discover that information is to Browse Work.com Topics. Browsing topics allows you to window-shop for guides. Guides are categorized to relevant topics in an intuitive, easy-access fashion for the small business executive. A guide that you need to read is never more than three clicks away from the Home Page.
I recommend:  Start on the Work.com homepage and choose the channel for the business problem you want to tackle. Is it a Legal dilemma you're facing or perhaps you need Sales and Marketing pointers? Clicking on one of those channel links will take you to a page containing information about that business channel as well as a list of topics in that area. For example, clicking on Legal will show you a page containing topics on Business Contracts, Incorporation and Legal Structures, Intellectual Property, and more. To see all the business channels and topics, go to the Browse All page.

Discover How-to Guides for your business type or region of interest
If you want to discover all the guides for your business type or region of interest, browse the easy way. Guides by Region organizes guides geographically. Guides by Business Type organizes guides according to industry or specialty interest.
I recommend:  f you have a restaurant or want to open one, go to the Restaurant Business topic to see a list of guides that every restaurateur should read. Other business types include Retail Business, Minority Owned Business, Family Business, and Home Business, among others. Work.com also covers business interests worldwide. If your business interests extend to Canada or Mexico, make sure to visit the North America page and read the Guide to NAFTA for Small Business. Other regions include Asia, South America, and the Middle East, among others. To see all the business channels and topics, go to the Browse All page.

Search for How-to Guides
If you have a pretty good idea of what you're looking for and you want to get right to a guide, use the search box to find it. The search box is located at the top of every work.com page. Type words or phrases in the search box, and a search results page will display guides relevant to your query.
I recommend:  Typing "free" into the search box from any Work.com page. You'll get guides for free services and products such as Finding Free Trade Publications, Free Small Business Counseling, and Finding Free Business Cards.

Follow links to Related Guides and Topics
If the guide you just read has you hungering for more, use the Related Guides and Related Topics links on the page. Related Guides links will take you to guides that are relevant to the guide you just read. They can give you more detailed information or even take a step back to give you a better overview of the issue. In most cases just looking at the titles of these related guides will give you an "a-ha" moment. Related Topics will take you to pages that list all the guides relevant to the topic you clicked on. Use Related Topics to see other guides you may want to read before diving right in.
I recommend:  Read the Guide to Getting Great Business Cards. Did you know you should have a logo to print on your business cards? Follow the Related Guide link to Business Logo Design. From there discover Developing a Business Brand. Next stop might be Building Customer Loyalty. And so on... Work.com is full of really useful information for building and maintaining your business. Just keep following links and reading guides for what interests you.

Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

  • Every business channel has a "Basics" topic (such as "Legal Basics" or "Technology Basics"). If you're not sure what guides might be useful to you, start there.
  • Guides are categorized underneath relevant topics and sorted by rating. Highest rated guides will appear near the top on topic pages.
  • Typing words in the search box will show a list of guides whose titles contain those words before you even click on the search button.
  • Besides relevant guides, search results pages will also show relevant business channels and topics near the bottom of the page that allow you to browse the site.
  • Use the breadcrumb at the top of the page to browse to a broader category. A sample breadcrumb for the Guide to Web Conferencing Solutions looks like this: Home > Technology > Conferencing > Web Conferencing Solutions. Using the links in the breadcrumb, you can browse all the guides for the Conferencing topic, all the topics under the Technology channel, or jump to the homepage.





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