Enhance Your Business with a Customer Contact Database in United States

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The U.S. Businesses database can be used to identify sales leads, find business opportunities, conduct patent and market research, and track down addresses and phone numbers of businesses. Accessing Reference U.S.A. is easy. Visit the Libraries' webpage at book.matc.edu and click on "Databases by Title." Scroll down the alphabetical list to find Reference U.S.A. and then click the website link to open it. To begin your search, click the "U.S. Businesses" link from the Reference U.S.A. homepage. Each database provides two search options: Quick Search and Custom Search. If you know the name and location of the business you want to find, use the Quick Search option. If you don't have a specific business in mind but are searching by business type or location, use the Custom Search option. The Custom Search option lets you create a search form based on the criteria you select and allows you to identify businesses that meet that criteria. You are given nine categories with sub-categories to choose from. Click "Expand All" to view all of the sub-categories. Notice all of the options you are given for searching you can search by company name, company executives, business type, geography, phone number, business size, business ownership, financial data, and a number of special selection options. You can combine as many of these categories into a search as you would like. For example, let's say we are interested in searching for coffee shops in Milwaukee. We will need to search by keyword and location. First we'll need to check the box next to "Keyword" under the "Business Type" category and we'll also need to select the "City" box in the "Geography" category. Notice how forms corresponding with each selection appears on the screen. In the keyword form, we're going to type our search term "coffee shops" into the box. A list of terms with corresponding NAICS codes will appear. We're going to choose the options that best fit our criteria, so I'm going to select "coffee shops" an "espresso bars" from the list. This feature is highly customizable and you can choose as many options from the list as you would like. Now we'll need to enter information into the City form. We'll start by choosing the state: "Wisconsin" and rather than scrolling through this long list of city names we can enter "Milwaukee" into this box and select it. Keep in mind that you can choose as many locations as you would like. Once all of the search forms have been completed, click the green "View Results" button on the right-hand side of the screen. This brings up a list of companies matching your search criteria. Notice that there are 82 results on the list. Click the name of a company to view more information about it. If you would like to look at multiple companies on the list, go back to the results page and check the box next to each company you would like to view then click the "Details" button. You will still only be able to view one company's record at a time, but you can scroll to the next company's record by clicking the arrow and the left-hand side of the screen. Each company's record provides detailed information about its location, business profile, industry profile, and more. Click the categories on the left side of the screening to view a certain section. If you would like to download or print to a record, options for doing so are available and the upper right-hand corner of the record page. To download a record, click the "Download" button. There are two steps to the download process. First you'll need to select the file format. secondly, you'll need to select the level of detail you want. You can then either download the record, which will open it for saving, or you can email it as an attachment. To print a record, select the print button on the record page. You will then be asked to select the level of detail you would like to print. The choice is completely up to you and your needs. Click the "Preview" button and then click open PDF to view it. Once the PDF is open, click the print icon and send it to the printer.