SCORE Presents

How to Grow Your Business Using Reference USA and Other Research Tools

Join us for this free webinar!

Whether expanding a new line starting a business or expanding a new line, market research for your small business is a necessary component for success. Employing market research helps you sort out opportunities and create a successful marketing plan.

This webinar will discuss a variety of library research tools but will focus heavily on ReferenceUSA, a powerful online reference and research tool providing real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on U.S. businesses and U.S. residents. In this session, you will learn how to use Reference USA to:

· identify new sales, & prospects,

· create customized business & consumer marketing lists,

· identify key business contacts,

· locate home-based businesses,

· find businesses with web addresses,

· define delivery routes,

· gather competitive business intelligence,

· identify major industry groups,

· and much, much more!

Our speaker will be Sandra Courtney, who is Information Services/Outreach Librarian at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. She works primarily with small businesses and has been a frequent speaker at SCORE’s Starting and Managing Your Own Business Workshop as well as other informational events in Western New York.

About SCORE 

SCORE’s more than 10,000 volunteer business experts provide you with free, confidential, ongoing mentoring, counsel, advice and business guidance by sharing real-world advice and know-how. Our mentors come from every business sector and have substantial skills. The 60+ business volunteers in the Buffalo Niagara chapter live and work in the 8 Western New York counties that we serve. We have many decades of real business experience to share with you. FREE, Confidential and Netural small business advice.

Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.