Business.com Offers Industry Profiles

Business.com has added a few upgrades to its business information site, including an industry profile center at http://www.business.com/ind ustry_profiles/ . The page is a list of industries (from Accounting & Auditing to Wireless) with a link to the industry's main page and smaller links to news, profile, and events (not every industry has an events link.)

Click on an item and you'll get a variety of information, including a searchable subject index of relevant Web sites, news updates, and industry resources. Clicking on news gives you a separate page with more news links. Profile is just what it sounds like -- an industry profile -- and events gives an event listing that doesn't in and of itself say enough and needs some cleaning up (online events include the phrase "Not Applicable - Online, NOT APPLICABLE" -- nice for the database, a little silly looking to me.)

This is a good way to organize information and an exciting beginning. However, there are many things that could make this even better. First, expand the industries here. I'd like to see more specialty retail sectors, more service-related sectors, and more energy sectors. Second, make easily- available search within the sectors. For example, I want to be able to access the Insurance industry listings and easily search within the for viatical. Third, update the online events listing so that it provides more information on its front page.

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