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Small Business Center

The Small Business Center, located on the 2nd floor of the Clark Family Branch, offers a variety of resources for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. The Center has a variety of seating along with moveable walls to create collaborative spaces including access to private use rooms. Additional amenities include Wi-Fi, computers, and a copy center.

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Our databases can help you:

Search Gale Legal Forms for the legal forms you’ll need to start and run a business.

Learn about your competitors’ locations, executives, sales volume and expenses using Reference Solutions and Mergent Intellect.

Reference Solutions and Mergent Intellect allow you to create free mailing lists containing names and addresses of potential residential and business clients.

First Research provides industry reports, risk assessments, forecasts for growth, opportunities, trends, challenges, critical issues, executive insights and more to help you decide if a business is worth starting.

DemographicsNow and Reference Solutions will help you determine the market demand and size for your product or service.

Find current statistics and five year forecasts to support a grant application using DemographicsNow. Discover grant funding opportunities, 990s and the efforts a foundation has previously funded using Foundations Directory Online.

Find businesses or people most likely to purchase your product or service using Reference Solutions, DemographicsNow and Mergent Intellect. Discover people and businesses new to your area using Reference Solutions. Learn about a company’s executives, locations, sales volume and more using Reference Solutions and Mergent Intellect.

Take free courses to learn how to start and run a business through LinkedIn Learning and Udemy.

Use DemographicsNow to discover competitor locations, population forecasts, highest traffic areas and the vicinities where a product or service is in highest demand. Search for companies like yours that have gone out of business in a particular area using Reference Solutions and Mergent Intellect.

Access over 600 sample business plans in Small Business Source. Find statistical information needed for your business plan in First Research, DemographicsNow, Reference Solutions and Mergent Intellect.