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Start a Business in Forest City, North Carolina

Are you starting a business in Forest City, North Carolina? This article discusses the most important things to consider when opening a business in Forest City.

Is Becoming an Entrepreneur Right for You?

Before announcing to the world that you are going to start your own business, take inventory of your entrepreneurial instincts and capabilities.

While entrepreneurship has become a popular career choice, we recommend you do the following before you take the plunge:

  • Talk to other entrepreneurs in Forest City. Get their take on what it's really like to be an entrepreneur.
  • We recommend reading Should You Become an Entrepreneur?. For aspiring new entrepreneurs, it's a must read article.
  • Have a candid conversation with friends and family. That's the best way to get a truly objective assessment as to whether others think you have what it takes.

Forest City, North Carolina Demographic Information

Forest City has an active business community that includes small businesses, mid-sized businesses and large businesses.

To give you a better feel for Forest City demographics for small businesses, we have tabulated the small business sizes, based on number of employees, for business in Forest City.

Business Size
# of
Businesses
1-4 Employees
4656
5-9 Employees
2262
10-19 Employees
1314
20-49 Employees
810
50-99 Employees
342
100-249 Employees
144
250-499 Employees
54
500-999 Employees
18
1000+ Employees
0
All Forest City Businesses
9600

As a new Forest City entrepreneur, you may also be interested in the table below. It shows how many businesses there are in Forest City for each business category. By looking at this chart, you can get a general sense for how much competition there is in the business niche that you are pursuing.

Business Type
# of
Businesses
Amusement Arcades
1
Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
2
Appliance Repair and Maintenance
1
Automotive Parts and Accessories Stores
6
Automotive Transmission Repair
1
Beauty Salons
3
Boat Building
1
Boat Dealers
1
Book Stores
2
Bowling Centers
1
Cable and Other Program Distribution
1
Cafeterias
4
Car Washes
2
Carpet and Rug Mills
1
Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Services
1
Cemeteries and Crematories
2
Charter Bus Industry
1
Child Day Care Services
10
Commodity Contracts Dealing
1
Computer and Software Stores
2
Consumer Lending
2
Convenience Stores
6
Credit Unions
2
Curtain and Drapery Mills
1
Electric Power Distribution
1
Electrical Contractors
3
Emergency and Other Relief Services
1
Engineering Services
1
Exterminating and Pest Control Services
1
Family Clothing Stores
3
Fine Arts Schools
3
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers
6
Floor Covering Stores
2
Flooring Contractors
4
Florists
2
Food (Health) Supplement Stores
1
Framing Contractors
1
Full-Service Restaurants
18
Furniture Stores
8
General Automotive Repair
4
General Freight Trucking, Local
3
General Rental Centers
1
General Warehousing and Storage
1
Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Stores
3
Hardware Stores
1
Home Health Care Services
5
Homes for the Elderly
5
Industrial Mold Manufacturing
1
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
11
Interior Design Services
1
Janitorial Services
3
Jewelry Stores
3
Land Subdivision
1
Landscaping Services
6
Lessors of Other Real Estate Property
2
Limited-Service Restaurants
16
Logging
1
Mail-Order Houses
1
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Dealers
2
Mobile Food Services
1
Mortgage and Nonmortgage Loan Brokers
1
Motorcycle Dealers
1
Nail Salons
1
Natural Gas Distribution
2
New Car Dealers
6
New Housing Operative Builders
2
Nursing Care Facilities
1
Office Supplies and Stationery Stores
3
Offices of Certified Public Accountants
3
Offices of Chiropractors
3
Offices of Dentists
4
Offices of Lawyers
4
Offices of Optometrists
2
Offices of Real Estate Appraisers
1
Paint and Wallpaper Stores
1
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors
3
Passenger Car Rental
1
Pharmacies and Drug Stores
5
Photography Studios, Portrait
1
Printing Ink Manufacturing
1
Radio Stations
2
Ready-Mix Concrete Manufacturing
2
Real Estate Credit
4
Residential Remodelers
3
Roofing Contractors
1
Rooming and Boarding Houses
1
Sales Financing
1
Shoe Stores
1
Siding Contractors
1
Sign Manufacturing
1
Site Preparation Contractors
5
Sound Recording Studios
1
Sporting Goods Stores
3
Steam and Air-Conditioning Supply
1
Temporary Help Services
2
Temporary Shelters
1
Tire Dealers
6
Used Car Dealers
15
Vending Machine Operators
1
Veterinary Services
2
Video Tape and Disc Rental
3
Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters
1
Weft Knit Fabric Mills
1
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
2
Women's Clothing Stores
1

Is Buying an Existing Forest City Business a Good Strategy?

We've created a helpful website page for those who want to Buy a Business in North Carolina. Follow that link and you might discover several good businesses for sale in Forest City.

For anybody who wants to buy a business, we recommend reading this useful article: Hold Harmless Agreements When Buying Businesses.

Naming the Business

A good company name can give a big boost to a new startup. It might seem like an easy thing to do, but there are many things to consider when naming a business.

Pick a company name that isn't too generic. If you do a search engine search for your proposed name and a billion results come up, you may want to reconsider the name. It's much easier to come up in the search engines when your name is fairly unique.

For other considerations regarding naming a company, we recommend this article: Branding Advice.

There's one other important factor when naming a business. Since you are planning on starting a business in Forest City, it's very important that you make sure no other North Carolina company is using the business name you want to use.

Getting the Word Out About Your New Company

Whether your goal is to attract Forest City customers or you plan on selling elsewhere, having an excellent marketing plan is fundamental to your business achieving its goals.

You can learn quite a bit about marketing on our site. Dealing with Angry Customers is a good read to get your marketing juices flowing. There are many more articles on marketing on our site. Visit our Small Business Marketing resource section to see them all.

How to Sell

Being able to sell is essential to your business success. Whether you are focused on selling local customers in Forest City or are selling to customers throughout North Carolina, the United States or even the world, you have to be able to sell.

Why should customers buy from you instead of buying from competitors? The good news is we can help you to make selling a big competitve advantage for your new firm.

Selling on the Phone is worth reading, as it may give you some good ideas on how to sell your products or services. We have many more good articles on selling that you may enjoy reading.

Learning More About Entrepreneurship

Successful entrepreneurs recognize that they don't know everything.

Given that you are starting a business in Forest City, North Carolina, you will want to take advantage of the learning programs at local North Carolina educational institutions. It's also worthwhile to see if there are any networking groups or organizations in which Forest City entrepreneurs get together to network and trade their business experiences.

Moving Forward

You have a dream -- starting a business in Forest City. To achieve your dream, you have to persevere, even when the odds are against you.

From this point on, you control your own destiny.

This site is all about helping entrepreneurs in Forest City and elsewhere to achieve real success. We believe entrepreneurship is an amazing engine for job creation in Forest City, neighborhood development and overall economic health.

More Entrepreneurial Resources for Starting a Business in Forest City, North Carolina

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