1. Introducing Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition A Business Information Resource for Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, and Others 2015 TN SDC Annual Conference Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Presented by: Andrew W. Hait U.S. Census Bureau

2. A Change in Customer Focus  Serving our customers  “Power Users” vs Others  Underserved customers  Small businesses and entrepreneurs  Chambers of Commerce  Ongoing tool changes

3. Census Business Builder Guiding Principles  Easy to use  Customer focused  Census data and more  Leverage existing Census investments and current technologies  Free

4. CBB Home Page http://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/

14. 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 3 rd party data  Functionality expansion  Compare feature, dashboard, time series  “Add your own data” and mobile support

15. 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.html User Name: census Password: c3n$us2015

21. Questions?

22. Thank You! Contact Information Andrew.W.Hait@census.gov (301)763-6747