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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship gives business owners 24-hour expertise covering a day all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. It also contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, award-winning eBooks, as well as content from over 300 business journals and magazines. Plus, the platform provides seamless user login, after authentication to Gale products, using Google Account and Microsoft Office 365 credentials, plus access to G Suite for Education and Microsoft tools including Drive, Docs, OneNote, and OneDrive.

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Gale Business: Plan Builder is a comprehensive tool that provides step-by-step guidance on planning, starting, and running a small business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks you through five areas of exploration from assessing business ideation to creating financial projections. Gale Small Business Builder offers tools that will help get a new business off the ground, or if you’re a more experienced business owner, tools that are focused on long-term success.

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Full text for articles from over 75 business journals, newspapers, and covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States, from EBSCOhost.

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.