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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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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The Ohio Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E) Program provides the resources, training, and tools to develop the capacity of the community to better understand its economy.
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Retail market analysis is a tool for identifying retail market trends within a local community. While the analysis focuses specifically on the performance of local retail markets, information on the broader demographic and economic trends within the region is critical to understanding current and future changes in these retail markets.
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Strategic planning is a process for groups, organizations or community leaders to enable them to determine the organization’s purpose, clearly articulate goals, improve the desired outcomes for the organization or community, and to move the community or organization forward, to a collective, desired future.
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The Ohio Tourism Toolbox brings you easy access to the industry’s best resources through a public/private partnership. Thanks to the contributions of numerous industry collaborators, this toolbox continually grows to provide timely resources for pressing challenges and promising opportunities in Ohio tourism.
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The First Impressions Program provides an opportunity for you to discover a first time visitor’s image of your community.
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Extension-led economic development organizations, because they are tied to university resources grounded in research and education and without local jurisdictional bias, can build public trust and cooperative partnerships that help to broaden funding support for economic development programming.
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