Competitive Intelligence – helps businesses understand the competitive landscape, based on location intelligence from the InfoUSA business database. The information can include physical and mailing address, company name, contact name, phone number, company URL, credit ratings, estimated annual sales, and the number of employees.
Over the past six years of supporting small business entrepreneurs with GIS , I have found that most entrepreneurs really have no clue about the power of GIS for small business success. No wonder! for years, GIS has been the secret weapon of big business. Although we can try to educate each small business owner,…
Here is a reprint of site location considerations from www.toolkit.com/small_business_guide. Some of these factors need to be assessed during an on-site visit, but a majority of them can only be discovered using geospatial information analysis. An important factor in selecting a location is that you keep a long-term perspective. Site selection can be a big…