Objective

  • To select companies from ReferenceUSA to upload into The Rocket!. (Note 1) 


Procedures

  1. Log into ReferenceUSA
  2. Select US Businesses from main page. (Note 2)

  3. Click Custom Search

  4. From the bottom up, click & pick (Note 2, again)

    Click Pick
    Ownership, Public/Private Company Only companies that are Privately Owned
     Business Size, Number Of Employees  Your preference
     Geography, City  A state, then the city
     Business Type, Major Industry Group  Your preference

  5. Clicking Update Count occasionally is useful to check that you have the Goldilocks's Amount. (Note 3)

  6. Click View Results


End State

  • A list of companies is available to be selected for download


References


Notes

  1. Typically, the companies are filtered to meet specific criteria, such as number of employees.

  2. There are many ways to query the ReferenceUSA database.  These procedures are simply one suggested way to efficiently get the data you are looking for.
  3. Not too few, not too many ... just right.