Data analysis · Raleigh, NC
Data analysis for Raleigh businesses by district
Raleigh's downtown is split into six districts, and a customer who finds you in one rarely behaves like a customer from another. We measure that difference with your records.
Raleigh data analysis for the six downtown districts
The Downtown Raleigh Alliance names the Capital District, Fayetteville Street, Glenwood South, Moore Square, the Warehouse District and Seaboard + Person Street. A bar on Glenwood South and a studio in the Warehouse District serve different crowds at different hours.
If you have more than one product or more than one storefront, we sort sales by where each customer first met you and compare the groups. The question is simple: which place sends the orders that count?
Turning First Friday into a number
First Friday Raleigh runs monthly from 6 to 9 p.m. An owner who stays open late for it may judge the night by feel. We compare orders on those nights with the other Fridays, adjusting for staff hours when you track them.
Each result has the formula beside it: orders ÷ leads, average order, and the size of the sample. If a single busy night skews the average, you see it in the weekly list before it reaches the summary.
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The city's support list includes SCORE, the SBTDC, the SBA and a student group at NC State that offers free consulting. The Wake Tech Small Business Center counsels any Wake County resident for free.
Those programs give advice. We supply a worked answer from your numbers, which is something an adviser can then review with you. We treat our result as one input, and we say where the data stops.
From answer to chart for a Raleigh team
When the district result is ready, the next stage is a chart your staff can read in a minute. A manager in the Capital District and an owner on Fayetteville Street see the same bars and argue about the same numbers, which saves a meeting that would otherwise run on opinion.
We keep the wording plain. If a district has only a few orders, the chart says so in the caption, and the staff who read it learn how much weight to put on each bar.
Questions from Raleigh owners
I only have one storefront. Does district analysis apply?
It can. We sort customers by where they live or work and compare. If all your buyers come from one place, we say so and move to another question.
Can you tell me if First Friday is worth staying open for?
We can compare those nights with other Fridays on orders and average order. The staffing cost is yours to weigh, and we show the figures you need for it.
How do you handle a business with seasonal staff?
We keep the measure the same across seasons and note where staffing changed. The comparison then reflects the shift, not only the calendar.
Sources for the facts on this page: Districts, Downtown Raleigh Alliance · About Us, Downtown Raleigh Alliance · Small Business Center, Wake Technical Community College · Entrepreneurial and Small Business Support Organizations, City of Raleigh
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