Factoring Blog - For Small Businesses

Docstoc.com is a site where people can upload their business forms and templates for documents.  Then people like you come along and can download and use them.  In other words, it’s a community sharing site for business, legal, tech and financial documents.

• Pros: There is a wide variety of documents. I saw anti-spam policy documents; startup expense worksheets; website design consultation agreements; employment agreements; non-disclosure agreements; disaster recovery plans. You’ll find them in many popular formats, including Excel spreadsheets; Word documents; PDFs; PowerPoints.

• Cons: The quality is all over the place — it’s only as good as the person or company uploading it. And it’s always dangerous to take someone else’s legal documents and act like your own attorney. You know what they say: someone who represents himself or herself has a fool for a client.

Still, it’s worth checking out to see if you have any documents to upload and share.  If your document is marked with your company brand and has links to your website, it could be a way to spread the word.   

Just be careful about relying on the documents for anything where a lot of money is potentially at stake or there is a chance of getting sued if something goes wrong.

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