Many home businesses, especially art or craft related businesses, require traveling to trade shows, exhibitions, seminars, or sales calls.  This page of the Resource Links Directory gives you links to useful sites for home business owners, small online business owners, WAHMs (Work-At-Home Moms), WAHPs (Work-At-Home Parents), and other entrepreneurs.
"Come ye who are heavy laden"...and I will show you how to pack!

Success starts with ADVantage Marketing 4U.  ADvantage Marketing 4 U is committed to excellence!  Advantage Marketing 4 U offers website design, button and banners creation, logos, transcription services, ghost writer services and so much more!
If you are like me, marketing your business is one of your least favourite activities.  Besides their services, ADVantage Marketing 4U offers useful free marketing resources, including business articles and free marketing forms.

Got a website but not happy with the amount of traffic?  Got lots of hits but no sales?  Take the Ethical Search Engine Optimization Class at GNC Web Creations!  This online course is free, it lasts 3 weeks, and you won't believe how much you will learn!  A new course starts every 3 weeks.
So what is "Search Engine Optimization"?  It's a series of techniques you can use to increase the amount of TARGETED (that is to say, ready to buy YOUR stuff) traffic on your website.  Having lots of traffic on your site doesn't necessarily translate into lots of sales.  SEO shows you how to draw traffic that consists of people who are looking for what YOU have to offer!

Humble Print and Fold LLC is a family owned printing business offering their customers 100% satisfaction with each order.  [Humble Print and Fold LLC, located in Humble, Texas, is a member of the Mom Pack].

Equipment Appraisals from JR's Certified Appraisals.  There are many reasons to need an appraisal:  selling or buying a business, entering into or dissolving a partnership; selling or buying a franchise; auctioning off equipment; or insuring your assets are just a few reasons.  If you are located anywhere in Canada, JR's Certified Appraisals can fly to your location to provide you with a comprehensive on-site appraisal, including a complete and well-documented report.
Not sure if you need an appraisal?  JR's website provides information on types of appraisals, reasons to get an appraisal, and more.

Work-At-Home Moms should start here at >The Mom Pack!  Their Mission Statement: "To support our mutual goals of success through an innovative, free advertising partnership".  Built around "mompacks", which are packs of free advertising materials and handouts, the Mom Pack has evolved into a site full of great resources for work-at-home moms (and even non-moms are welcome!)  It's a great site and a great community!

Open Office:  Looking for an office suite that won't break your budget?  Open Office is a powerful Open Source office suite, free to download, use, and distribute.   OpenOffice components include Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations), Base (database) and Draw (graphics).  Translated into over 30 languages, available on all major computing platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X X11, GNU/Linux, Solaris), OpenOffice.org has millions of users worldwide.  OpenOffice version 2 is the first office suite to use the new OASIS OpenDocument format, the international standard for office software (ISO/IEC 26300).

STOCK MUSIC:  Come to RJ Woods Productions for a wide range of original production music for use in films, commercial or business videos, how-to videos, TV and cable-TV shows, ads, documentaries, theatrical performances, dance performances, audio books, and other commercial, business or private use.  Fourteen different production music CD libraries - 160 different titles (508 tracks, including full-length instrumental, 15-second, 30-second, and 60-second clips, intros, underscores, and full-length vocal versions)!

Virtual office services from Jeri-Lynn Woods will free you to concentrate on your own areas of expertise within your business.  As a Canadian business owner, author, artist, musician, or other entrepreneur, your time is precious and has many demands on it.  Virtual Assistant Jeri-Lynn Woods provides expert word processing, voice transcription, desktop publishing, and photo editing.  Jeri-Lynn is a member of the Canadian Virtual Assistant Connection (CVAC).
Note: Jeri-Lynn Woods is the webmaster for Get Packing.

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