SANTA MONICA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/06/07 -- Work.com, the leading business expert community, announced today the 20 most viewed business how-to guides for March. The top guide of the month is "Creating a Great Business Plan" (www.work.com/creating-a-great-business-plan-11/) from Work.com expert Frances Sharpe.

This guide moved up from number four in February and has been viewed by nearly 4,400 site visitors. Work.com visitors rated the usefulness of this guide an average of 9.4 out of a possible 10 because of its practical, action-oriented steps to create an effective business plan. It includes links to recommended business solution providers, the best Web sites to learn more about the process, and a list of blogs and forums with advice about writing a business plan.

Work.com provides actionable answers to business questions. The site has nearly 1,600 how-to guides written by business experts covering common and unique business topics.

Work.com's top 20 most popular guides for March are:

March   February
Rank    Rank      Work.com Guide Title
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1       4         Creating a Great Business Plan
2       New       Getting the Most Out of LinkedIn
3       2         Doing Business in Second Life
4       1         Low-Cost Businesses You Can Start
5       19        Resources for Starting a Business
6       3         Learning Search Engine Optimization
7       New       The 2007 Postage Rate Changes
8       5         Making Money on CafePress
9       6         Business Logo Design
10      9         Creating an Employee Manual
11      10        Starting a Pool Hall
12      New       Sample Business Plans
13      12        Building an Online Community
14      11        Resume Search
15      New       MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching)
16      13        Point-of-Sale (POS) Solutions
17      New       Finding Free Business Cards
18      New       Finding New Business Opportunities
19      14        Small Business Blogs
20      New       Finding Home Business Opportunities

The complete list, with links to each guide and February's Top 20 list, is available at (http://blogs.work.com/community/2007/04/what_entreprene.html).

Guides on the February Top 20 list which did not make the March list include Remote Check Deposit, Naming a New Business or Startup, Hiring Temporary Executive Help, Marketing Your Business on Craigslist, Employee Evaluation, Online Maps for Small Business and Opening a Restaurant.

Anyone who wants to share his or her expertise on a given topic can create and publish a Work.com guide. Once published on Work.com, site visitors can search for, view and rate guides based on the guide's usefulness for addressing a business question. Work.com publishes the Top 20 most viewed guides every month on the Work.com Community Blog. Site visitors can also view the top rated, most popular and newest guides at any time on the Work.com home page.

Business experts publish guides on Work.com to demonstrate their expertise and enhance their online reputations, attract new customer referrals, and to share what they know and feel passionate about in their business lives. For more information about writing a Work.com guide, visit (http://www.work.com/increasing-your-online-visibility-using-workcom-1554/).

About Work.com

Work.com (http://www.work.com) is a business-to-business community publishing platform that helps business people share and promote their expertise online while enabling users to find everything they need to know about starting and running a business. Work.com currently has nearly 1,600 business how-to guides on topics ranging from creating a business plan to search engine optimization, to more unique topics such as starting a pool hall or doing business in Second Life. Work.com launched in October 2006 and is a sister site to Business.com (http://www.business.com), the leading business search engine and pay-per-click advertising network, which serves more than 30 million business users and thousands of advertisers every month. Business.com was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. Its investment partners include Benchmark Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Reed Business Information and McGraw-Hill.

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