Resources for businesses can great reduce cost or increase effectiveness. For a small business with a shoe string budget these business tools, techniques and resources may be what determine survival or failure. There are many business resources available for small businesses. Many of these resources and tools are free and available online as a download. Another popular place that business will find useful (and probably some essential) tools is in the cloud. Google is one place where you can find all types of free tools and services using the cloud. Many companies offer similar or competing services as Google but of course they are not free. some of these companies may very well offer additional services that could be useful to your particular business that you will have to check on.