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There are several reasons companies are attracted to the Business-to-Government (B2G) market. First, government at all levels (federal, state, local, education) buy every type of legitimate business product or service imaginable. Second, the government pays its bills. Third, the Feds always have more money and they never spend less of your money.

It’s time to get some back!

Business-to-government spending is over 33% of the U.S. economy. The attraction of the B2G market for any company continues to grow, especially in a bad economy. While most companies testing the B2G market experience little success, some have tremendous growth, even without those hard-to-come-by big government contracts. The two keys are education and perseverance.

Actual Number of Governments

Whenever I use this statistic, the first reaction is doubt. There are over 88,000 governments in the United States, counting the Federal government as one and each state as one:

• 3,034 counties
• 19,429 municipalities
• 16,504 townships
• 35,052 special district governments
• 13,506 school districts
• 512 Native American nations
• 50 states
• District of Columbia
• 6 U.S. territories
• 1 Federal government
• Total: 88,095

Employment Statistics

According to the U.S. Bureau of Census (www.census.gov), as of the end of 2006 there were 151,000,000 full-time employed adults in the United States. Of these, over 20,000,000 were government employees, not including uniformed military personnel.

Author: Mark Amtower

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