Retaining and expanding existing businesses is a surer economic development bet than recruiting new ones from other towns. Extension helps communities understand local business needs and respond – so that businesses stay, grow, and become more committed to the community. Our BR&E Strategies program gets the broader community involved in comprehensive business retention and expansion planning.
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SBDCs help entrepreneurs realize the dream of business ownership and help existing businesses remain competitive in a complex, ever-changing global marketplace. They are generally affiliated with a University outreach or Extension service.
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We designed Community Tourism Development to provide organizations and individuals with a development process and materials to help communities plan, initiate, and expand tourism as a means of long-term economic development.
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The market analysis toolbox helps you study downtown business and real estate development opportunities in an era of large format stores and online shopping.
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Localized retail and service taxable sales report that shows the sales in the 3-digit NAICS categories. Data can be used to measure performance of an individual business compared to the city trend, category trend, or regional trend.
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University of Minnesota Extension offers a variety of eMarketing workshops and seminars to teach managers, owners, and staff of small businesses and organizations about using online tools strategically and enhance their online presence.
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A Market Area Profile (MAP) organizes data from multiple sources into a comprehensive description of those who shop in and visit your community — their demographics, purchasing power, lifestyles, information sources and values.
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A tool for analyzing market opportunities in downtown business districts.
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The program establishes an economic development plan for the community through a broad-based community coalition to sustain long term business retention and expansion efforts.
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A program that helps communities and businesses build customer service skills and knowledge to create positive experiences and build customer loyalty.
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