Get To Know Your Customers Better
Demographics sounds expensive and frightening, but it's a useful tool even for small companies. Read story
U.S. Census Bureau
Census Data
The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 2) mandates that a census ("enumeration") of the population be conducted at 10-year intervals. The first census ... Read story
Discretionary Income
Discretionary income is a widely used but imprecise definition of that portion of personal income not spent on actual or perceived necessities. Thus discr... Read story
Mail-Order Business
A mail-order business is one that receives and fulfills orders for merchandise through the mail. The terms "mail-order," "direct mail," and "direct market... Read story
Minority-Owned Businesses
Minority-owned businesses are on the rise. Over the past twenty years the United States has seen steady growth in the number of businesses owned by minori... Read story
Service Businesses
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION Industries are broadly classified as goods-producing and services-producing, but in the gradual evolution of industrial... Read story
Women-owned Companies
Jan 1, 1987
A new report from the U.S. Bureau of the Census makes official that more and more American businesses are owned by women. Based on 1982 federal tax retur... Read story
Entrepreneurial Ventures Surge, Says Census Data
By Matt Quinn
June 21, 2004 -- During the economic boom of the late 1990s and even through the ensuing bust, millions of Americans formed their own bus... Read story
Census Bureau Introduces New Economic Indicator
Sept. 14, 2004 --A new economic indicator released Monday showed that overall services revenue in the U.S. increased 5.4% in the second qu... Read story
Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses Skyrocket
By Peter Hoy | May 1, 2006
New Census data shows significantly higher startup rates among such groups. Read story
Most Small Businesses Start Without Outside Capital
By Peter Hoy | Oct 3, 2006
New Census reports reveal how the nation's businesses are funded, where they are based, and other demographics. Read story
Census Bureau to Update Employment Data
Nov 8, 2006
Nov. 8, 2006 -- The Census Bureau will interview some 70,000 households across the nation during the week of Nov. 12 for the Current Popu... Read story
The Soloists
By John Case | May 15, 2001
How many one-person businesses are there -- and what do they actually do? Read story
Planning for Customers by the Numbers
By Tim Berry | Jan 14, 2000
As an essential first step to writing a business plan, you should have a good idea of how many potential customers there are. Most business plans c... Read story
Hispanic Businesses on Growth Path
By Matt Quinn
June 7, 2004 -- Six years from now, Hispanic-owned businesses will earn an estimated $465 billion and number 3.2 million, according to a n... Read story
Counting Companies
By John Case | May 15, 2001
How many small businesses are there? Just a few more than there are ways to count them. Read story
Employee Retention
Employees leave a company to get a better job—and for other reasons. It has cost the business money to hire and to train them; over time they have becom... Read story
Entrepreneurial Couples
If farming is considered a business, and all farms have a definite business aspect, then the reality of couples working together in a business goes back t... Read story
Multicultural Work Force
A multicultural work force is one made up of men and women from a variety of different cultural and racial backgrounds. The labor force of any country is ... Read story
Where To Start
Jan 1, 1982
Access to computerized information doesn't have to cost a lot. Government agencies, trade associations, and even your own suppliers can be inexpensive so... Read story
The Silent Majority
By JAY FINEGAN | Oct 1, 1988
Statistics show a low turnout of business workers at the polls. Read story
Number of Small Businesses Reaches All-Time High
By Leslie Taylor | Dec 22, 2006
A new SBA report counts six million small firms with employees and close to 20 million sole proprietorships. Read story
Make Your Business Count
By Rhonda Abrams | Feb 20, 2003
Make your business count! And have your business be counted. It's time for the Economic Census of the United States. Every five years, the US Censu... Read story
Uncle Sam Doesn't Know Much About You
By Robert E. Berney | Dec 1, 1981
Unless small businesspeople demand that the U.S. collect better information, nobody will know how important they are. Read story
Small Business
Most people get their definition of "small business" from personal experience in dealing with small retail stores and service organizations. Most people a... Read story
Free Software
By Robert A. Mamis | Mar 1, 1993
Company sells list of software programs available free from the government. Read story
Resources: Click Here for Business Help
By Phaedra Hise | Nov 1, 1995
The URLs for three data-packed Web sites. Read story
Getting the Dirt on Your Market
By Rhonda Abrams | Feb 20, 2002
New location? Get market information, including population density, demographics, and the number and type of local businesses. Read story
How to Profit from Market Research
By Inc. Staff | Jan 26, 2006
Knowing what your customers want and how they want it is essential to any business. Here's how to gather information through market research. Read story
Resources
By Inc Staff | May 15, 1997
A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997. Read story
Manufacturers Go Online to Boost Business
By Allen Roberts | Jan 28, 2005
Jan. 31, 2005 --After wrapping up a healthy year, America's manufacturing sector is looking toward the Internet to keep the party going in... Read story
The Entrepreneurial Numbers Game
By JAY FINEGAN | May 1, 1986
Q: How many researchers does it take to calculate the number of new businesses in the United States? A: It doesn't matter. Read story
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