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Data Gem: How to Build Customized Industry Groups and Geographic Areas to Conduct Business Research
Data Gem: How to Build Customized Industry Groups and Geographic Areas to Conduct Business Research
Learn to use Census Business Builder to create and analyze groups of industries and custom geographic regions.
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Census Business Builder is a leading source of free and reliable data that can help inform decision-making for opening a new business, creating a business plan, expanding your business, or researching competition. In this short Data Gem video, learn how to find the demographic, economic, social, and business data you'll need so you can take a statistical approach to your business research process. Using a food industry example, we show you how to select one or more industries and geographies for your specific business analysis needs. Finally, we make it easy to generate a tailored business report that you can download.
Watch the first Data Gem in this series: Locate and Analyze your Customers and Market, with Census Business Builder.
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