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  • We help business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors make the best decisions around:

    • Where to build, start, or expand

    • How to increase traffic, sales, and customer retention

    • How to gain new customers and convert big-box-store and national chain shoppers to local loyals.

  • Our team ensures community organizations and nonprofits are working with information, data, and analyses that are specific to their service area, target demographics, and speaks to their mission and goals.

  • Local governments work with us to get the most accurate, up-to-date insights that allow them to improve local economic development, increase employment and wages, and ensure a strong future for local residents.

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"For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town, there remain always with him nostalgic memories of those days. And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty, the neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him, in those days."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • "What I love most about living in a small town is the sense of community. I feel like I know everyone or want to get to know them.":

    -Ryan S., Tonawanda, New York

  • "Being a member of a small town, i enjoy always running in to people i know when i'm out and about."

    -Erika K., New Castle, Indiana

  • "Living in my small town keeps me closer and more connected to my family. You can't get any better than that."

    -Zac P., Centerville, Indiana

  • "My little town is full of longtime relationships, a great community, relaxed and friendlier businesses, and a slower pace of life. I love it."

    -Tammy L., East Liberty, Ohio

  • "No one tells a story like someone who had to spend a childhood of small town summers finding a way to entertain themselves. Those stories are human, captivating, and usually based in just enough myth and mystery to keep us guessing."

    -Adam Tidrow, KenTon, New York

    Founder, The American Townsman