IntroducingCensus Business Builder: Small

Business EditionA Business Information Resource for

Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Others2015 TN SDC Annual Conference

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Presented by:Andrew W. Hait

U.S. Census Bureau

A Change in Customer Focus Serving our customers

“Power Users” vs Others Underserved customers

Small businesses and entrepreneurs

Chambers of Commerce Ongoing tool changes

Census Business Builder Guiding Principles

Easy to use Customer focused Census data and more Leverage existing Census investments and

current technologies Free

CBB Home Pagehttp://www.census.gov/data/data-tools/cbb.html

Key Features: Tool Link Promo Video Flyers, Fact Sheets,

FAQs and Help Tutorial Videos

https:/cbb.census.gov/sbe/

Next Steps - Quarterly Updates

Audience expansion More B-to-C businesses, then B-to-B’s

Content expansion Additional demo and econ characteristics

(from Census) Additional 3rd party data

Functionality expansion Compare feature, dashboard, time series “Add your own data” and mobile support

Leveraging CBB: Introducing the Chamber of Commerce Edition

Same demographic and economic data as SBE Differences:

Economic data by sector Chamber boundary selection & data aggregation

View data on the map for chamber components Chamber of Commerce Profile reports (summary and

components) Prototype : August 12, 2015 (Beta: December 2015) Name?

http://dcdev.esri.com/census/coce-1.0-3.2/index.htmlUser Name: census Password: c3n$us2015

Questions?

Thank You!

Contact Information

Andrew.W.Hait@census.gov(301)763-6747