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Start a Business in Fort Morgan, Colorado

Are you starting a business in Fort Morgan, Colorado? This article discusses the most important things to consider when opening a business in Fort Morgan.

Fort Morgan, Colorado Demographic Information

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

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

Business Size
# of
Businesses
1-4 Employees
729
5-9 Employees
315
10-19 Employees
162
20-49 Employees
102
50-99 Employees
21
100-249 Employees
18
250-499 Employees
6
500-999 Employees
0
1000+ Employees
3
All Fort Morgan Businesses
1356

As a new Fort Morgan entrepreneur, you may also be interested in the table below. It shows how many businesses there are in Fort Morgan 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
Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering
2
Automotive Parts and Accessories Stores
4
Automotive Transmission Repair
1
Baked Goods Stores
1
Beauty Salons
4
Beer, Wine, and Liquor Stores
2
Beet Sugar Manufacturing
1
Bowling Centers
1
Business Associations
2
Cable and Other Program Distribution
1
Car Washes
2
Cheese Manufacturing
2
Civic and Social Organizations
2
Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners
1
Collection Agencies
1
Commercial Lithographic Printing
3
Commercial Screen Printing
1
Commodity Contracts Brokerage
1
Community Food Services
1
Convenience Stores
1
Credit Unions
2
Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine
1
Direct Title Insurance Carriers
1
Discount Department Stores
1
Drilling Oil and Gas Wells
3
Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
1
Electrical Contractors
4
Engineering Services
2
Family Clothing Stores
1
Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
5
Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers
3
Florists
3
Food Service Contractors
1
Furniture Stores
3
General Automotive Repair
9
General Freight Trucking, Local
3
General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
1
General Rental Centers
3
Glass and Glazing Contractors
1
Grantmaking Foundations
1
Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
1
Home Health Equipment Rental
1
Household Appliance Stores
3
Hunting and Trapping
1
Industrial Building Construction
2
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
12
Janitorial Services
5
Lessors of Other Real Estate Property
1
Limited-Service Restaurants
10
Manufactured (Mobile) Home Dealers
1
Masonry Contractors
3
Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing
1
Natural Gas Distribution
1
New Car Dealers
2
Nursing Care Facilities
1
Office Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
1
Office Supplies and Stationery Stores
1
Offices of Certified Public Accountants
4
Offices of Dentists
8
Offices of Lawyers
9
Offices of Optometrists
2
Offices of Real Estate Appraisers
1
Paint and Wallpaper Stores
2
Passenger Car Rental
1
Payroll Services
1
Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals
2
Pharmacies and Drug Stores
3
Photography Studios, Portrait
1
Professional Organizations
1
Radio Networks
1
Radio Stations
1
Ready-Mix Concrete Manufacturing
2
Residential Property Managers
1
Residential Remodelers
1
Reupholstery and Furniture Repair
1
Savings Institutions
2
Securities Brokerage
2
Shoe Stores
2
Siding Contractors
2
Sign Manufacturing
1
Site Preparation Contractors
5
Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars
2
Sugarcane Mills
1
Tax Preparation Services
1
Temporary Help Services
2
Temporary Shelters
1
Testing Laboratories
1
Tire Dealers
3
Tobacco Stores
1
Used Car Dealers
2
Used Merchandise Stores
1
Veterinary Services
2
Video Tape and Disc Rental
4
Warehouse Clubs and Supercenters
1
Water Supply and Irrigation Systems
3
Wired Telecommunications Carriers
3

The Role of the Business Plan

A business plan is critical to the health of your new business. Indeed, your business plan is your game plan for how you hope to grow your business. Starting a business without a business plan is a recipe for disaster.

To learn more about business plans, read Business Plan Contests. A great resource for business planning assistance is the free counseling sessions provided by your local SCORE chapter in Colorado.

Where to Get Money to Start a Company

Getting your Fort Morgan business the capital it needs to succeed requires strong organization skills and perseverance. If you don't have a rich uncle to fund you, you'll need to be creative in how you approach your fundraising efforts.

Take advantage of our many articles on securing funding, such as 504 Loans.

For Fort Morgan entrepreneurs in need of startup financing, you'll want to take a look at our List of Colorado Angel Investors and our List of Colorado Venture Capital Firms.

Getting the Word Out About Your New Company

To rise above the crowd in Fort Morgan and accelerate your business, having an excellent marketing plan is fundamental to your succeeding.

There are myriad resources on this site to help you with your marketing plan. Avoiding Bad Product Launches discusses marketing strategy and tactical marketing in a way that should get you thinking about how to creatively promote your business. There are many more articles on marketing on our site. Visit our Small Business Marketing resource section to see them all.

How to Sell

Mastering the art of selling is priority one if you want your new Fort Morgan business to do well.

So what does it take to bring in more prospects and close more business? The good news is we can help you to make selling a big competitve advantage for your new firm.

Sales Prospecting is a good article to read, one of dozens in the Selling for Entrepreneurs section of our site.

Learning More About Entrepreneurship

Successful entrepreneurs recognize that they don't know everything.

With your business being located in Fort Morgan, Colorado, you will want to take advantage of the learning programs at local Colorado educational institutions. It's also worthwhile to see if there are any Fort Morgan networking organizations.

Moving Forward

Most new Fort Morgan businesses underestimate the number of challenges they will face.

Owning your own business will be a daunting task, but you can do it.

This site is all about helping entrepreneurs in Fort Morgan and elsewhere to achieve real success. We have a wealth of experience in business start-ups, financing, marketing, sales and more...and we've made all of our knowledge available to you.

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