First, I must confess the Business Databases were not my favorite because I felt very ignorant when doing the exercises. Good thing - exercises opened my eyes to the fact I need to expand and improve my knowledge of these business-related databases. Plan to check into EBSCO for some on-line tutorials.

I need to learn so much more, so I can share these resources with our small business owners, etc. So thank you for these exercises, even though my experiences was a challenge!

Now to the exercises:

Searching for "FM radio" within Business Source Complete resulted in 844 possible sources ranging from academic journals, periodicals, reports, product reviews, trade publications - quite a selection. I found it interesting that if I searched without the two words in " " I got the following message: Note: Your initial search query did not yield any results. However, using SmartText Searching, results were found based on your keywords.
I looked at the visual search option and found it more challenging - wonder if it would really appeal to our patrons. You have to go through "layers" to get to say an article you'd like to read. Why is this option offered I wonder?

Within EconLit I searched for small business loans - interested to see only 4 results that could possibly be helpful but dated 2011, not as current as I thought they should be. Searching for EPA and small business seemed a little more challenging. I tried searching small business and EPA (spelled out) with no results, but if I used the abbreviation EPA got 1 result - "Land Recycling, Community Revitalization, and Distributive Politics: An Analysis of EPA Brownfields Program Support". In general, it's challenging to know how to enter the search words, their form, etc. patrons could become very frustrated.

I decided to search Best Buy in the Regional Business News - with 2938 results, would definitely need to narrow down the search. So I tried "Best Buy" & Maine narrowing to years 2011-2012 and full text which resulted in 79 resources many from By: CashStar, Inc.. Business Wire (English).  For a Maine company, I searched Tom's of Maine with 28 results all coming from newspapers, covering such things as their new recycling iniative, new toothpaste.

Value Line Investment Survey for Public Libraries- oh my goodness! most of the information looks like Greek to me. I can see where this would be a valuable resource for business-minded people who are into stocks - unfortunately that's not me. 
Need to stop for a few, will be back shortly to continue my "adventure" in the land of business....
Cheryl
          So many "resources", so little time