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Growing a Business A KEY ROLE IN HELPING FAMILIES BUY THEIR FIRST HOME-AFFORDABLY. THANK YOU! OUR PARTNERS: Karen Mills ALBINA CONSTRUCTION REMODELING BY WESLEY NAYA CONSTRUCTION SERVICES rectly to business owners to help them make better business deci sions based on competitive research analysis. The SizeUp tool provides data analysis in three key ways: Benchmarking an existing busi ness to see how it sizes up by com paring performance to all other com petitors in the same industry; A mapping feature to see where customers and suppliers are lo cated; and Finding the best places to adver tise by choosing from pre-set reports to find areas with the highest indus try revenue and the most underserved markets. Custom demographic re ports can also be created. GIS Planning, Inc., the company that created SizeUp, has licensed the tool to SBA for one year. SBA’s acceptance of this product is not an endorsement of the opinions, prod ucts or services of GIS Planning, Inc. ■ M B N W M n saS S N M aN N 0W aB nH M M aaM H M S B M H aM H M B B S aiM S B eB aaS H N B S aH M M M IS iaM aiM B Minority Contracting Goals are Increased: For Oregon transportation department jobs OUR MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS PARTNERS PLAY Website tool helps with market research Small business owners and start ups across the country can now take advantage of a new business tool to help them compete and grow. The free tool, called SizeUp, helps businesses identify new customers and compare their performance against other businesses in their industry with data collected from hundreds of private and public sources. The toll can be found on the Small Business Administration website at sba.gov/sizeup. “Market research and analysis is critical for the success of any small business owner or entrepreneur. Tools like SizeUp deliver data right to the fingertips of business owners to help make smart decisions and have the greatest opportunity to start, grow, compete and succeed,” said SB A Administrator Karen Mills. “In today’s challenging economic environm ent where small busi nesses create nearly all net new jobs in the U.S., help for small businesses is more important than ever before.” SizeUp works by analyzing a business in comparison to other similar businesses in the same trade and provides geographic informa tion on the marketplace, areas rec ommended for advertising, and pro spective customers. This useful tech tool delivers market data di- q Page 1$ Minority & Small Business Week Septem ber 26, 2012 peals case law, departments of trans portation are allowed to set goals on contracts only for groups where disparity has been proven. Studies conducted in 2007 and 2011 on ODOT contracting activities found The Federal Highway Adminis disparities in certain areas, such as tration has approved a goal to award in awarding construction contracts more contracts to minority and to African-American owned busi women-owned businesses through nesses in the Portland area. the O regon D e p artm en t o f The studies also found that set T ransportation's D isadvantaged ting goals helped reduce those dis Business Enterprises Program. parities. The approved overall goal is 16.95 Specifically, disparities were percent of the contracts for federal found with A frican A m erican- fiscal year 2013 are made with DBE owned and Subcontinent Asian- firms, of which 5.45 percent is ex owned DBEs in the area of con pected to be attained through race- struction contracts, and in all and gender-conscious means. This DBEs (except those owned by is an increase over the previous Asian Pacific A m ericans) in the goal, which was 11.5 percent with a area of architectural and engineer 3 percent race- and gender-con ing contracts. scious breakout. A DBE includes small businesses To meet the race- and gender that are at least 51 percent owned by conscious portion of the overall goal, minorities: Black Americans, His ODOT will set DBE goals on select panic Americans, Native Ameri contracts in the areas of construc cans, Asian-Pacific Americans, Sub- tion and architectural and engineer c o n tin e n t A sian A m erican s, ing services. women, and other individuals on a . . V.nder ^ ^ i f ^ q i ^ fopV of Ap- . ? ^ e ;b j.-^ s e .b ^ s js .......................... ■ KING boliBVBd In a draam. AtPCC Cascade Cam pus wo stand behind that draam. s .oraWinter Term 2 0 4 3 > -— R egistration for^Wihtèr s ta rts on Nov. 6; Classes ^egi ih<jSW^7- To learn more, call o w log on to www.pcc.edu> 705 N. Killingsworth Street. Portland Community Commui Collego Cascade Campus
