50 Ways To Find New Business The Library

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50 Ways To Find New Business _at_ The Library

• Rhonda K. Kitchens
• Librarian
• John F. Germany Public Library,
  Tampa-Hillsborough County Library System

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Information Gateway

• ReferenceUSA Business
• Standard Poors Netadvantage
• Business Company Resources
• Gales Ready Reference Shelf

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Directories

• Paper Chase -- DB Regional Directory,
  Hillsborough/Pinellas County Directory, Directory
  of Florida Industries to specialized directories
  including Thomas Food Register to Directories in
  Print.
• See also Information Gateway -- Gales Ready
  Reference Shelf

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Periodicals

• The Business Journal Serving the Tampa Bay Area
  see also Book of Lists
• Tampa Bay Review ( formerly Pinellas Review)
• Maddox Report
• Survey of Buying Power and Media Markets
• Florida Trend
• Find specialized periodicals through Ulrichs
  Periodical Directory, Standard Periodical
  Directory, Gale Directory of Publications and
  Broadcast Media, Oxbridge Directory of
  Newsletters and others. And again Information
  Gateway -- Gales Ready Reference Shelf

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Defining Customers

• SRDS The Lifestyle Market Analyst Find market,
  lifestyle and demographic profiles.
• Sourcebook of Zipcode Demographics
• See also The Official Guide to Generations Who
  They Are. How They Live. What They Think. and
  Best Customers Demographics of Consumer Demand.
• American FactFinderhttp//factfinder.census.gov/s
  ervlet/BasicFactsServlet American FactFinder is
  produced by the U.S. Census Bureau and provides
  an efficient interface to much of the available
  census data for housing, population, economic and
  geographic data.
• Census 2000 Home Pagehttp//www.census.gov/main/w
  ww/cen2000.html Gateway to official Census 2000
  information.
• U.S. Census Bureau of Population Topics and
  Household Economic Topics http//www.census.gov/po
  pulation/www/Search for household
  characteristics and spending patterns.
• U.S. Gazetteerhttp//www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazet
  teer Search
  for demographics using zip code.