The free analytics tool includes small business insights, a high-level view of each industry, small business advising and a list of locally owned businesses.<\/p>\n
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The City recently launched SizeUp Plano<\/a>, a patented online platform that provides free access to market research for small businesses.<\/p>\n The tool includes small business insights, comparing an individual business\u2019s performance against similar businesses; a high-level view of how the business\u2019s industry is performing; business guidance; and a tool to see \u201ctruly locally owned businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n Launched on Feb. 11, the platform aims to level the playing field for businesses that might not be able to afford access to such metrics.<\/p>\n \u201cIn today\u2019s information economy, in you don\u2019t have access to market information, your business is at a significant disadvantage,\u201d said<\/a> Stephen Cottingham, economic development specialist. \u201cWith the launch of SizeUp Plano on the City\u2019s Economic Development<\/a> website, we are empowering our small businesses to make more data-driven decisions to optimize, succeed and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free analytics tool includes small business insights, a high-level view of each industry, small business advising and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-189015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}