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It would be best to support three different levels of users. The first being focused on an under-educated and/or new to business visitor.

The second being, someone that has a good understanding of all business basics, but needs some fine tuning of certain business practices and/or principles.

The last being someone that owns a business, that is successful, and needs more advanced resources. Other visitors could visit this as well, but they would have a more difficult time understanding any of the information if they do not have a strong base on the first two.

Some topics of interest:

Business Plan
Legal Form of Ownership & Definition of that form.
Taxes/ Accounting
Registering in your State.
"Start a Business Cookbook" - A place that considers your state, your industry, and then takes you step by step to start your business.

IF you thing about it, you can go to 10,000 blogs on the internet to post your opinion and views.

Where can you go that has an "educationa resource center" to support opinions and views?

The SBOC website is focused on "POSTING AND RESPONDING".

A very good idea for small business.

What about making this "POSTING AND RESPONDING", stay the focus, but with "EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES" being the initial focus of the website.

There are many other resources that could be the forefront to the "POSTING AND RESPONDING" portion of the website. all that lead to the "FORUM" part of the website.

When a visitor first comes to the website, he could be overwhelmed by an user like "inTechSpecial" posting 300 comments in the last 17 minutes, and why does the visitor even care about what the heck this "inTechSpecial" has to say?

They Close The Web Broswer Never To Return.

IF..........................................they come to the SBOC website, and see a ton of resources for small businesses, not resources that "inTechSpecial" has posted, and these are valid resources at that, they would be more interested in this. "Mr_Big_Business_Advisor" claims to be a business administration advisor, but I see no proof of this outside of his 10 zillion posts in the last 2.5 seconds.

SBOC controls this part of the website, because users like "inTechSpecial" state they are Microsoft Partners. These may be true, but are they a Microsoft Employee?

So SBOC asks someone in sales from Microsoft to post some information, and asks someone from the Small Business Administration for some information.

In turn both are known to occassionally post comments on the "FORUM" portion of the site.

Visitors suddenly are overwhelmed by the amount of resources and professionlism of the SBOC website, and inTechSpecial is demoted to what he really is, just a small business owner with an opinion, not a "COMMUNITY BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL ADVISOR WITH ALL OF THE ANSWERS".

inTechSpecial still has his say and opinion, but in the "POSTING AND RESPONDING" portion of the website.

For inTechSpecial to be included the "EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE" part of the website, he must either 1. Have Proof of his ability, or 2. pay an advertising fee.

Only leaders that are reconized in their paticular industry should even have the option of posting.

Bill Gates is an example of someone that is reconized, the President of SCORE is an example, CEO of Bank of America. Need i go on?

inTechSpecial would still have his validation on the "FORUM" posting of the website. THe biggest difference is that if the user "inTEchSpecial" gets into a heated discussion with the user "Johnny AppleSeed" in regards to which is the better choice, ZUNE OR IPOD, it is seen as just a couple of oddballs spewing pointless babble, and not the forefront of the website.

Please continue the "FORUM" portion as is, but let us please raise the bar a mile or two to assist this to be the community it was originally intended to be, by integrating some professional level resources compliments of the SBOC team.

Thank you for allowing this post, and letting me babble for a second or two.

Now I am off to surf the web, as I have some market research I must do.