The FSB Browser The best sites for business--and a dog named Skip.
By Maggie Overfelt

(FORTUNE Small Business) – Cvent.com When your company's gatherings have moved beyond the monthly potluck dinner to something more complex, you might want a solution besides bulk e-mail to handle the planning. Cvent.com offers online registration, event payment, and auto- reminders. Create a Website just for an event, or upload contacts from your address book into Cvent's database to send custom invites. Cvent can also be a marketing hub: It lets you send out direct mailings or a post-event survey, so that you can analyze the responses from your invitees.

InsuranceNoodle.com Worried about having to pay your employees workers' compensation but don't know how to protect yourself? Try InsuranceNoodle.com, an online e-broker of property and liability insurance. Gather info and advice for free on the site, via live chats, or by a toll-free phone number. If you want to buy, locate what's available in your area by entering your zip code and filling out an application, and insurers will e-mail proposals to your in-box. Just watch out for Webster, the site's mascot, which follows you around wherever you go, trying to help--at least he's easier to get rid of than the salesman on your front porch.

Mangosoft.com Your ace assistant works from home; your sales force is always on the road--and y'all trade documents back and forth. Try downloading Mangomind Drive from Mangosoft, a file-sharing technology that makes viewing and modifying work--Word documents, in-progress Web pages--easy. Once you've registered for the service ($15/month), the hardest part is making sure your colleagues download the slow-loading Web-based software too. Then create (or import) a task, and it's stored on your desktop as a separate drive, updated every time you connect to the Internet.

TeckChek.com Want to find out if a potential IT hire has the skills? Be absolutely sure--test them. TeckChek.com, a subsidiary of e-learning company Knowledge Universe, allows employers to administer online skill-gauging tests at the convenience of the test taker. TeckChek will automatically tabulate and analyze the results, and spit back an alert and report when the test is finished. Prices vary; 20 tests of the most basic type cost $1,000.

VirtualAccountant.com If you've outgrown Quickbooks but lack the need for a full-time CFO, try outsourcing! Virtual Growth Inc. will host all your bookkeeping and accounting needs with its service duo: your own team of CPAs to juggle the numbers, and its Web-based software, Virtual Accountant, through which you provide all your info. Once you've sat down for an assessment and training, your company can use it to do everything online, from the easy (time sheets) to the complicated (P&L projections). Calculations are tabulated instantly with a click of the mouse. Total cost comes out to less than hiring a standard CPA.

LiveManuals.com Your HP scanner isn't working; you can't find the manual. So you check out LiveManuals.com, expecting to be able to download it--but wait! The site offers only a link and basic company info for the vendor--no mention of the specific product at hand. And forget trying out the streaming-video "how-tos" that the site boasts. We found that feature for only a handful of consumer products.