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Are you starting up and need to research your business plan?
Are you a growing business and need up-to-date market and company data?
Online Resources for Business is a FREE, comprehensive service that provides information on all aspects of business.
Business issues and Croydon-specific business news are continually researched to ensure that all information held is up to date and relevant to users.
The following software is available through Croydon Libraries:
- Cobra – Complete Business Reference Adviser (24/7)
- BOPs – Business Opportunity Profiles (24/7)
- British Standards – Best practice solutions
- FAME – Company financials
- Key Note – Marketing intelligence
- Kompass – Business listings (24/7)
- NewsUK – Media database (24/7)
The software highlighted by (24/7) have remote access and can used anytime, anywhere; simply visit the website and log-on using your 14-digit library ID, located above the barcode on your card.
Don’t forget - There is no charge for membership and you do not have to live in Croydon.
Croydon Libraries
Reference Services
Information sessions on how to use these resources will be held at Central Library at the following times:
- Online Resources for Business - 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month
Please call the Croydon Enterprise Business Hotline on 020 8680 6161 to register your interest.
Croydon Enterprise Business Support has provided business books for the following libraries
Central Croydon
Thornton Heath
New Addington
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Ashburton
Norbury |
Broad Green
South Norwood |
The books which feature a Croydon Enterprise sticker cover different aspects of business and a good source of information.
- 100 Ways to make your business a success (Bromage)
- Bare Knuckle selling (Hazeldine)
- Best laid business plans (Barrow)
- Bookkeeping for Dummies (Barrow and Epstein)
- Do something different: proven marketing techniques to transform your business (Wolff)
- Forming a limited company (Clayton)
- Get noticed how to boost your small business profile in 30 days or less (Gardner)
- Guide to Bookkeeping and accounts the easy way (Bannister)
- How to grow your small business rapidly online (Green)
- How to write a marketing plan (Westwood)
- How to write reports and proposals (Forsyth)
- Law for the Small Business: An essential guide to all the legal and financial requirements. (Clayton)
- Making the business case (Cannon)
- Marketing plans for service businesses (Mc Donald and Payne)
- Mastering book keeping (Marshall)
- Raising finance for your business (Blayney)
- Setting up a small business (Hughes and Weller)
- Start up and Run your own business: first steps funding and growth (Reuvid)
- The definitive Business Plan (Stutely)
- Tortoise Walking for Beginners (Scott) *NEW*
- Working for yourself (Reuvid)
- Working for yourself (Robertson)
- Writing for Business – Business Letters made easy (Shevlin)
These are short concise documents providing an overview on particular businesses issues
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