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BizMiner
BizMiner offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Their market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code. Bizminer is a great resource to use when developing business plans, or for any sort of entrepreneurship initiatives where you need to measure peer performance in an industry. Types of reports:

Industry Financial Profiles
U.S. & Local Market Research Reports (includes business failure rates)
Area Demographic Profiles
Sole Proprietor/Startup Profit & Loss
Local Market Vitality Profiles

Business Analyst Online

Business FAQs

Business Plans Handbook

Google Scholar

IBIS World Industry Reports

Industry Essays from Gale

Industry Overviews from Gale

Jim Vileta's Business Research Launch Pad

LSBE Essentials

Marketing Books

Merchandising Books

Minnesota Tourism

Mintel Reports

Research Guides

Statista

NBER Working Papers
Contains the full-text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economics Research. The NBER covers four areas of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Many of its publications, including its working papers, NBER reporter, and NBER digest, are available for download. NBER is updated frequently.

Also see these three other sources of working papers:

Northland Connection

Plunkett Reports

RKMA Marketing Research Handbooks

Reference USA
Directory of U.S. business. Lists size of company, year established, type of business, credit rating, top personnel, yearly sales and more. Data can be searched by name of company, name of officers, geographic area, SIC, size, revenue or any combination.

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