• For-Fee Online Expert Advice
  • Exp.com - A large directory of experts who will provide answers to your questions for a fee. Business and Technology are two of their predominant subject areas. Fees vary from expert to expert.
  • Keen - Another for fee expert directory. The have a Dedicated Business Section and also a related business expert site.
  • Google
    • See Amateurs Section below for the Google Answers Service
    • Google Directory of Experts
• Miscellaneous Experts
  • RefDesk.com's List of Online Experts (a pretty darn complete and far ranging list)
  • The Yearbook of Experts (searchable database of experts and spokespersons);
  • Pitsco's Ask an Expert Page - (mostly for Children... but where else can you find a zookeeper if you need one)
  • Captive.com's Ask the Expert Page - A site with experts on insurance and risk management
  • Advice Line - Legal Advice Line, Tax Advice Line, Investment Advice Line,
• Traditional Consultants
  • Guru.com - An online community of top notch hands-on experienced consultants (freelancers looking for projects). Guru.com specializes in business. Their site functions as a hiring hall where you can find the consultant you want. They have a nice collection of high quality consultants... probably the best you will find on the web.
  • eLance; - Post a business related project (including IT) and let consultants bid on it.
  • Independent Computer Consultants Association - An association of over 1500 small computer consultants (most have 1 to 10 employees).
  • Ernst & Young;
• Free Online Expert Advice
  • Askme.com - An online community of experts and pundits provide free answers to your questions. They cover many subject areas and have a special AskMe Business Section (support@askme.com)
  • Expertcentral.com - free emailed advice from a community of experts. They have a Computing/Technology Section, a Business Section, and a Small Business Section. (actually a combination of two sites ExpertCentral.com and AllExperts.com)
  • Webhelp.com (an online robot expert / search engine)
• Trade Associations (what better place to get referrals to the top consultants in a field)
  • American Society of Association Executives - links to over 1,200 association sites
  • Greater Washington Society of Association Executives - perfect for locating politically connected consultants
  • Association Forum of Chicago - includes a membership director
• Accountants
  • CPAdirectory.com; - A Directory of CPAs
  • TaxSites.com - A directory of tax and accounting sites.
  • Arthur Andersen; Deloitte & Touche Online; Ernst & Young;
• Lawyers
  • Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
  • West's Legal Directory
  • Partnering Agreements.com - Lawyers who review and draft business agreements for fixed fees List of Agreements (letters of intent, confidentiality, employment, joint venture, buy/sell and acquisition agreements)

• Stock Photos - low cost stock images from amateur photographers
  • iStockphoto.com (one of our favorites)
  • indexstock.com (one of our favorites)
  • ShutterStock (a bit more expensive than the others, but also a favorite)
  • Canstockphoto.com
  • DreamsTime.com
  • ShutterStock.com
  • morguefile.com
  • dreamstime.com
  • Stock.xchng
• Videos
  • YouTube.com
• Technological Inventions and Innovation (outsourced R&D)
  • InnoCentive - A network of over 90,000 amateur inventors and technologies who will solve your problems for anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000 per solution. Founded by Eli Lilly and used by companies such as Boeing, DuPont and Proctor & Gamble.
  • YourEncore - Helps companies find retired scientists for one-off projects.
• Miscelaneous
  • Yahoo Answers - Ask a question and get an answer from a community of online experts.
  • Amazon's Mechanical Turk Service - Enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs; Providers can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the requester.
  • Google Answers - Ask a question. Set your price. Get your answer. More than 500 carefully screened Researchers are ready to answer your question for as little as $2.50. Your satisfaction is completely guaranteed.

• Accepting Private Investment - What you need to know About Accepting Private Investment... and no one will tell you!
• Raising Private Capital: Vcapital.com; MeVcFund; Garage.com; Startup.com; WhoDoWeKnow.com; InternetVCwatch; CapitalKey.com; NVST.com; Venture-Capitalist.com; CapitalistDirect; Capital.com; SeekingCapital; vFinance (Venture Capital Resource Library with links to VC firms, law firms, etc VCSearch , Venture Capital Resource Library, Angel Search, Post Your Business Plan, National Venture Funding Reports); Accel; OffRoadCapital; atWebo (a great collection of financing links); Soundview;
• Angel Financing: Ron May's List of Chicago Angels; AllianceofAngels (Seattle); Atlanta Technology Angels; Silicon Alley Venture Partners; ChicagoAngels.org; PrairieAngels (Chicago); InternetAngels (New York); Fastangels (silicon valley); NorthernIllinoisAngels;
• Women Angel Networks: Renaissance Ventures; Seraph Capital Forum; WomenAngels.net; AngelTips.com; IsabellaCapital;
• Business Plans: Bplans.com; Center for Business Planning; BusinessTown; BizPlanIt.com;

Marketing Consultants

• General Marketing
  • Trade Shows: TradeShowCentral (the largest directory of all types of trade shows); Tradeshows.com; Internet Trade Show List; eMarketWorld Trade show;
  • General Resources: Internet Marketing Channel; AllNetResearch; Yankee Group; Ad Age's B2B Mktng; Internet Statistics; Demographics.com; Online Community Report; WilsonWeb; I-Sales; clickz; LitLamp; MarketingCentral; MarketResearch;
• Specialty Marketing
  • Publicity: Eric Ward (netpost, urlwire, wardgroup) Don't launch your site without him!; EdCals.com, (editorial calendars); Public Relations Online Resources and Organizations; ThePRnetwork;
  • Running Contests: Fair Contest; Flyingaces; Promotions.com; ePrize.net; iDialog.com; Webstakes.com;
  • Contest Related Advertising: Uproar.com; LuckySurf; FreeLotto; Iwin; Iwon;
  • Search Engine Info: Search Engine Watch - news; SearchTools; Top Search Phrases; WebPosition-Gold (search engine position tuning); linkpopularity (who is linking to your site);
  • Community Building: Participate.com; CommunityArchitect; PeopleLink; OnlineCommunityReport.com;
    
  • Email List Info: eZineSeek; eZineTips; List-Tips; ListPartners;
    
  • News Feeds: NewsBytes; NewsIndex; iSyndicate Newsfeeds;
  • Affiliate and Banner Programs: Afffiliateadvisor.com; Associate-it; AssociatePrograms.com; BeFree; ClickBank; ClickTrade; Clickxchange; CommissionJunction; Flycast; LinkExchange; LinkShare;
  • Name Generation: NameLab; Name Stormers; Catch-Word; Lexicon-Branding; Naming.com; MetaphoreName; NameTrade.com; Macroworks; NameBoy (also has domain name monitoring robot); NameBase (naming consultants); Dotster.com (bulk name checks); domainsurfer (do wild card searches);

Information Technology Consultants

• Information Technology Consultants:
  • eConstructors.com (find out who built the site you like, then post an RFP to thousands of contractors)
  • Asynchrony.com (open source developers)
  • ExpertsExchange.com
  • VertiCity.com (emphasis on finding low cost overseas talent)