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SizeUp - Big Data for Arizona Businesses
According to a blog post by Dex Media, “big data is not just for the big guys anymore. In fact, affordable and user-friendly applications and analytics tools make data available to businesses of all sizes.” They suggest several tools that small business owners can use to be more successful, including Google Analytics and SizeUp.
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Forbes released Small Steps: Big Leaps, its 10-week series on how to launch a successful startup. Step 3 talks about how to conduct market research, both formally and informally. Among the resources suggested for conducting market research, Forbes says “One invaluable tool that was made available last September by the SBA is SizeUp. With SizeUp, you can input your business’s industry and city and it maps out your competition, highlighting areas with abundant competition in orange and areas with a lot of potential customers but few competitors in green.
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Noted blogger Frank J. Kenny, a social media and technology consultant for economic development organizations, conducted a video interview with SizeUp’s cofounder for Frank’s blog “Grow Your Chamber”. In the interview, they discuss the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce’s adoption of an innovative new service, SizeUp for Local Business Intelligence (SizeUp LBI). SizeUp LBI helps economic development organizations deliver value to their local businesses by showing them how they can grow locally and stay competitive. SizeUp LBI is powered by SizeUp’s groundbreaking and award winning technology, is customized to the local service area of an organization, and includes advanced demographic capabilities not available on SizeUp.com.
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Intuit covered the Small Business Administration’s use of SizeUp’s technology in its Small Business Blog. The SBA, according to Intuit, “has taken a big step toward leveling the playing field on which small businesses compete with large ones. It’s now providing a new online information service called SizeUp that gives small-business owners free access to data on some 14 million companies in virtually every industry and geographic region in the country.” Intuit goes on to produce a long list of reasons why SizeUp is “invaluable” for small business owners.
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Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a public policy organization representing women in business and women business owners nationwide, encouraged the readers of its blog to SizeUp their businesses. WIPP remarked on the significance of the access that SizeUp is providing to small business owners: “In today’s global marketplace, the field of data analytics has become a standard market resource – bringing this power to the small business community is an important step.”
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