Section Seven

A sampling of valuable Internet resources relating to online commerce

Resources accessible by Internet Tool:

1. Email
2. Gopher
3. World Wide Web (WWW)

Resources accessible by subject:

1. Electronic Payment Systems
2. Miscellaneous
3. Associations
4. Entrepreneur/Small Business

Introduction

The most useful kind of resources available by electronic mail are Listservs. The following is a list of Listservs of interest for business. They are listed by the descriptive name, the actual list name, and the address to which 'help' 'index' or 'subscribe' commands may be sent.

Small Investors
AFA-S-IV
Address: listserv@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu

Financial Accounting
AFinAcc-L
Addresses: listproc@scu.edu.au

Academy of Legal Studies in Business
ALSBNEWS
Address: listserv@miamiu.muohio.edu

Association of University Business and Economics
AUBER-L
Address: listserv@wvnvm.wvnet.edu

Entrepreneurs Division List
ENTREP-L
Address: listserv@ksuvm.ksu.edu

Small Business Development Centers List
ESBDC-L
Address: listserv@vm1.ferris.edu

Geographic Information Systems for Business
GISBUS-L
Address: listserv@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu

Global Marketing Consortium Discussion
GLOBALMC
Address: listserv@tamvm1.bitnet

Applied Global Marketing
GLOBMKT
Address: listserv@ukcc.uky.edu

Computer and Electronics Marketing Communicators
htmarcom
Address: listproc@usa.net

Marketing with Technology (MarTech)
HEP2-L
Address: listserv@american.edu

Marketing
HTMARCOM
Address: listserv@cscns.com

International Management Operations
IMO-L
Address: listserv@vm.bi.no

International Trade & Commerce
info
Address: info-request@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca

International Trade Network
IntlTrade
Address: majordomo@world.std.com

Association of Japanese Business Studies List
JAPAN
Address: listserv@pucc.princeton.edu

Marketing With Technology Tools
MARTECH
Address: listserv@cscns.com

Total Quality Management in Manufacturing & Service Industries
QUALITY
Address: listserv@pucc.princeton.edu

SUNY Small Business Development Center Research
SBDCRN-L
Address: listserv@snycenvm.bitnet

Stock Market Secrets
smi
Address: smi-request@world.std.com

Shared Medical Systems (SMS) National User Group (SNUG) Conference
SMS-SNUG
Addresses

Discussion of International Business
TBIRDS
Address: listserv@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu

Institute of Business and Economic Research
Gopher: uclink.berkeley.edu
Directory: /Academic and Research Information/IBER

• This site makes working papers, documents and tools for those working
  in the field.

Business Sources
Gopher: refmac.kent.edu
Directory:/Business Sources on the Net

• Business Sources makes information available under the following headings: general business Internet sources, economics, international management, corporate finance and banking, personnel management, accounting and taxation and more.

Nijenrode Business Resources
Gopher: gopher.nijenrode.nl
Directory: /Nijenrode Business Resources

• This site archives general business resources, including Business Schools and Associations Gophers, Business Journals and Magazines, Economic Data, Statistics, Trends per country, and business resources by area, including Strategic Management, Business Law and Marketing.

The selection of business resources available by World Wide Web is enormous. For example, the Yahoo index: (http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo) has a heading for 'business.' Under this heading, Internet users will find business related topics with the number of links beneath them (as of March first, 1995).

Business directories

What follows are examples of business directories which allow Internet users to find businesses according to certain categories, and which allow businesses to register and make themselves more accessible to Internet users:

Canada Net Pages
http://www.visions.com/netpages/

• Canada Net Pages states its goal:

  "to be recognized throughout the Internet community as the most comprehensive resource of Canadian business and finance data available in the WWW."

  This site contains links for the following headings:

  • Canada's Net Trade Show with more than one hundred companies showing
  • Canada Net Financial Pages with three hundred mutual funds
  • Career Opportunities
  • Canada Net Real Estate
  • Canada Net Business Directory - Search Map of Canada

  This site allows users to search Canadian business information with keywords, or to seach for particular businesses by name or location.

Open Market's Commercial Sites Index
http://www.directory.net/

• Open Market is geared towards developing products and services which facilitate commerce on the Internet. It provides a Commercial Sites Index, and Open Marketplace and an Internet Index. The Commercial Sites Index searches a large database by key words. Businesses can also register themselves with the Index.

Candian Internet Business Directory
http://inforamp.net/cibd/CIBDHome.htmll

• The Canadian Internet Business Directory can be searched by company name, province or type of business. A search of Ontario listings generated a listing with over two hundred entries on the first of March, 1995.

The Internet Business Directory
http://ibd.ar.com/

NOTE:

There is a fee for a business to register itself with the Internet Business Directory at the rate of ten ($US) per month, or one hundred ($US) per year.]

• The Internet Business Directory allows users to search Usenet News (from the prior five days), IBD listings and Resumes databases. The IBD claims that its listings are comprehensive enough to restrict searches to a maximum of two hundred and fifty hits.
  The resume service is a free service which allows Internet users to load their resumes into a directory which can be scanned or searched by companies looking for prospective employees.

Mainsail Marketing's Direct Marketing World
http://mainsail.com/dmworld.html

• Direct Marketing World has a variety of kinds of directories, including categories such as the following: ad agencies, computer services, copy writers, direct marketing consultants, list brokers and much more.

Four11 Directory Services
http://www.four11/com/

• Four11 offers a searcheable index of Internet users and their Internet email addresses. Four11 claims that the listing has more than half a million listings at present. Users can freely list themselves in the directory and search it for other users.

IndustryNet
http://www.industry.net/

• IndustryNet provides information and news for the manufacturing industry. Internet users can access a variety of products from this organization, including a tri-weekly IndustryNet Report, the IndustryNet On-Line Marketplace, and the IndustryNet Regional Buying Guide, which is a computer-based industrial buying guide.

The Institute of Management and Administration
http://ioma.com/ioma/

• The Institute of Management and Administration contains a large amount of business information under the following headings: Today's Business News, Administration, Finance, Management, Sales and Marketing, Resources by Industry, and a list of other business directories. The IOMA also has an extensive selection of newsletters, which Internet users can subscribe to at a special 'Internet discount'.

NetSearch
http://www.ais.net/netsearch/

• NetSearch is a large searchable database which allows Internet users to contact prospective clients, and allows businesses to freely register.

UNCAT
http://www.sapphire.com/UNCAT/

• UNCAT is an electronic catalog for listing businesses, nonprofit groups, trade associations, government agencies and more. Non-profit groups can register two titles for free; all other groups will be charged a fee of ninety-five ($US) per title, and fifty ($US) per link.

World Wide Yellow Pages
http://www.yellow.com

• The World Wide Yellow Pages is much like the traditional Yellow Pages, where users can look through indexed listings. Thw World Wide Yellow Pages charges a fee of one hundred ($US) per year for advertising.

World Business on the WWWeb: A Directory
http://www.cba.uh.edu/ylowpges/ylowpges.htmll

• Based at the University of Houston, this site conatins an extensive listing of known WWW business sites, organzied by category.

Note:

One of the main obstactes facing the exchange of goods and services by means of the Internet is the method of payment. There are many electronic payment systems which are currently in use over the Internet which do not require Internet users to send their credit card information over an open sytem. What follows is a sampling of information sources about elecronic payment systems. All the pages contain information about the payment method and how to obtain the electronic money.

DigiCash Home Page
http://www.digicash.com/

First Virtual Holdings Inc.
http://www.fv.com/

LETSystems
http://www.u-net.com/gmlets/

NetBill Electronic Commerce Project
http://www.ini.cmu.edu/netbill/

The NetCheque Networkd Payment System
http://nii-server.isi.edu/info/NetCheque

Open Market Web Payment System
http://www.openmarket.com/about/technical/

Economics and the Internet
http://gopher.econ.lsa.umich.edu/EconInternet.htmll

• This site contains a wide variety of documents relelant to economics and the Internet. It is administered by Hal Varian, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange
http://www.cme.com/cme/

The Electronic Commerce Association
http://www.globalx.net/eca/

• The ECA is a non-profit organization established in order to promote the use of new electronic technologies for business use in Canada. Activities of the ECA include seminars and conferences intended to bring people together to discuss current issues in business and technology.

Entrepreneurs on the Web
http://sashimi.wwa.com/~notime/eotw/EOTW.htmll

• Entrepreneurs can find a collection of business information resources here, as well as a means to offer their goods and services to other entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs' Exchange
http://www.astranet.com/eexchange/jc00indx.html

• This site was set up for small business owners to exchange information and articles about running a small business.

Your Home Business from DISCscribe Ltd.
http://www.discribe.ca/yourhbiz/yourhbiz.html

• This site will provide information about setting up a home-based business on the Internet, as well as provide reasonably priced space on a WWW server and a sample template for creating a home page in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

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