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Guides to Sunbiz records and bulk data, new business filings, county statistics, NAICS codes, license lookups and the rules for cold outreach in Florida.
Half of Florida's employer establishments sit in 6 of its 67 counties. The largest and smallest counties, the leading sectors and how to read the Census figures.
Read more →Searching Sunbiz is free, and so are the bulk data downloads. What costs money, what the daily and quarterly files contain, and what you will not find in them.
Read more →Florida publishes new corporation and LLC filings each work day, at no charge. Where to find the daily files, how to read them and what a new filing does not tell you.
Read more →Email works on an opt-out basis, calls and texts are regulated far more strictly, and Florida adds its own statutes and its own do-not-call list. An overview with links to every primary source.
Read more →Seven steps from a vague “businesses in Florida” to a list you can actually work with: target definition, NAICS codes, counties, sources, fields, cleaning and the outreach rules.
Read more →A corporate record says a business exists; a license record says what it is allowed to do. Which Florida agency keeps which license, with the statute behind each.
Read more →Two to six digits and a revision every five years: how to read NAICS codes, what the 2022 edition changed and where codes in business lists come from.
Read more →Sunbiz is Florida’s public registry of corporations, LLCs and partnerships. What a record contains by law, how to read its status, and where the registry stops.
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