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Spectrum Analysis and Somerset Education Online Mapping for Schools

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Spectrum Analysis and Somerset Education Online Mapping for Schools By Peter Buckingham Spectrum Analysis and Somerset Education are proud of their on-going relationship to provide online mapping to schools through the Somerset Education Portal. We are pleased to announce that updated information is now available through the Somerset Education Portal and Spectrum Analysis GeoMapping and […]

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Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS 2022 Business Demographics Just Released

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Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS 2022 Business Demographics Just Released By Peter Buckingham Many of our clients are specifically B2B businesses and once a year the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases annual business statistics. This year, the 2022 data reflecting business numbers on the 30th of June 2022 was released much earlier than we

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Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS Census 2021 Statistics To Share

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Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS Census 2021 Statistics To Share By Peter Buckingham If you would like to sound like a five minute expert on demographics, here are some fun facts you may want to share with your friends and family this holiday season. However, please remember that an Expert (or X-spurt) can also be

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GeoMapping Plus including ABS Census 2021 Data with Peter Buckingham

GeoMapping Plus with ABS Census Data 2021 Update

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GeoMapping Plus with ABS Census Data 2021 Update By Peter Buckingham We are pleased to release a quick video on how our GeoMapping Plus product has been updated with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census Data from 2021. This product is available for our Spectrum Analysis Australia clients as well as for schools using

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Buying a Franchise? Here are 6 signs of a good location

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Buying a Franchise? Here are 6 signs of a good location By Peter Buckingham If you are buying a retail franchise you need to understand what makes a great location. While we can list 10 or 20 drivers or factors that lead to the success of a retail business, they have different levels of importance depending

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Leasing a Commercial Site in a Shopping Centre or Strip

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By Peter Buckingham In my view, when selecting a commercial site to operate a business from, there are four questions you need to address: What area should I be looking in? Where is my offer in terms of impulse versus destination? Should I be looking in a shopping centre or a shopping strip? Or if

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Buying a business and finding the right location

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By Peter Buckingham You have made the first step, and decided to look at buying your own business. Whether it is a franchise or an individual business, you must be asking yourself where to locate this opportunity, OR is the existing business I am looking at located well, and amongst a suitable demographic. Target Customer The

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Case Study – Precious Cargo – Strategic Network Planning

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Case Study – Precious Cargo – Strategic Network Planning Spectrum Analysis was commissioned by Cheryl Shigrov at Precious Cargo Education Childcare and Early Learning to undertake the project of Strategic Network Planning in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Historically they had looked for outer suburbs, growth areas with the view that these have a high

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Case Study – First Class Accounts – Territory Planning

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First Class Accounts, Australia’s largest bookkeeping franchise, approached Spectrum Analysis and asked us to map out their current territories which had already been done by postcodes and to then allocate any missing and additional postcodes to a territory. There were several issues with their previous territories. Besides the classics – location gaps and territories of

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Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail!

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail!

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Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail! By Peter Buckingham This article was featured in the Spectrum Analysis email newsletter sent on 23 July 2020. Peter Buckingham is the Managing Director of Spectrum Analysis Australia Pty Ltd, a demographic, mapping, franchise territory planning and statistical analysis consultancy. Peter is the Go To person as to how

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