Byrnes-Quanbeck Library: Business Library Resources: Marketing Resources

Marketing Books

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Search for statistics regarding labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Includes access to the Consumer Price Indexes, reports and other publications, unemployment data, inflation and much more.
Small Business Development Center Network's National Information Clearinghouse
Find market research reports covering industry trends, market statistics, customer demographics, related articles, and links to industry trade associations.
Small Business Section of USA.gov
The official web port of the United States created to better link United States agencies with citizens. It includes information on starting your own business, state business resources, and a keyword search linking specific government agency pages to small business owners.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Discover the cost of manufacturing a particular product by searching suppliers, manufacturers, and products nation-wide.
U.S. Small Business Administration
A government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small business.
US Patent and Trademark Office
Offers statistics regarding patents and trademarks by technology class, county and/or by metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area. (nearest MSAs are Grand Forks and Fargo)
Go to Electronic Data Products within Products and Services and click on PTMP - Patent Statistics Reports / Data Products. Also search for potentially-competing trademarks by keyword.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
The industry's most widely used research database featuring full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.
America's News This link opens in a new window
News of local interest happens everywhere, from small towns to big cities across the United States. America's News provides access to information on people, issues and events in the local area and around the country. This comprehensive resource offers hundreds of millions of current and archived full-text articles from news sources nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the electronic editions of more than 3,000 U.S. news sources with more than 79% of these sources not available in any other library database.