Your Library Card Is a Business Tool

You have been asked for your NAICS code. You have wondered how big your market actually is, or how many businesses like yours already operate within twenty miles. You may have priced a market research report and quietly closed the tab.

Here is the part nobody tells you: a lot of that data is sitting behind your library card.

Join the Entrepreneurship Collective this September for Your Library Card Is a Business Tool, a working session with Maria Burchill, Head of Adult & Teen Services at Schlow Centre Region Library. Maria will walk us through Reference Solutions, the business and consumer research database Schlow provides free to cardholders, and show us how to actually use it: sizing an industry, pulling data on competitors, building a targeted list of local businesses filtered by industry, size and revenue, and exporting that list for outreach. She will also walk through how to fin…