Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.
Legal GPS is an interactive platform that gives business owners step-by-step, customized directions to complete 50+ legal essentials. It saves owners $4500 in legal fees and 60+ hours. Simply answer a few questions, complete step-by-step legal directions personalized for your business, then receive a personalized Legal GPS Status Report containing a legal scorecard, a quick guide sheet to help you legally in the future, and a completion certificate.
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Mergent and Nielsen partnership provides a variety of demographics reports Prizm reports offer information on 66 demographics and behavior types or segments for every U.S. household. Nielsen Pop Fact reports allows you to track and estimate consumer demand, analyze markets for locations planning and plan for future product developments.
Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.
Do you have an idea for a product or service? Have you always wanted to start your own business? Or are you looking to make a meaningful career change?
Sign up for free Entrepreneurial Mindset Training and learn how to think (and act) like an entrepreneur. In this self-paced program, developed by the Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative and available to patrons of EBRPL, you will learn how to:
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The product's reporting capability enables users to easily and rapidly produce a variety of compiled reports—both standard and custom—to help make informed and accurate decisions.
The demographics tool leverages Census data, consumer expenditures, retail spending, and Mosaic Lifestyle market segmentation groupings to helps users "crunch" data in easy-to-use report formats providing complete demographic information for any geographic territory—from a summary report to a comparison of up to sixteen different geographies within a single report. DemographicsNow Can Help:
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