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Client Spotlight: Dame

Dame Products is a women-led brand developing innovative products that support sexual health and wellness.

A Practical Framework for Using AI in Your Business

AI tools have become genuinely useful for small and mid-sized businesses. They can accelerate research, sharpen writing, surface patterns in data, and free up time for higher-value work. But the same speed that makes…

Client Spotlight: Legacy Concierge

"Webster Pacific has been an invaluable partner to Legacy Concierge as we navigate rapid growth in a high-touch, high-stakes business. Over the past year, they’ve taken meaningful pressure off ownership by leading our…

Client Spotlight: Ultimate Solutions

I want to take a moment to recognize and express our deep appreciation for the outstanding partnership we’ve had with Webster Pacific. Their team has played a critical role in helping Ultimate Solutions identify…

Client Spotlight: Biography

Webster Pacific didn’t just hand us data—they handed us a roadmap. In all areas of the business they’re shifting our perspective from ‘how much are we spending?’ to ‘how much more can you grow?’ As a startup that’s the…

Client Spotlight: andSons

andSons is a California-based chocolatier offering a fine selection of modern and classic bonbons. Webster Pacific has been helping andSons to effectively manage inventory and cash flow since 2023. And their chocolates…

Client Spotlight: Best Made Co

Peter Buchanan-Smith, the original founder of Best Made, has bought his company back from Duluth Trading Company, and the brand has been relaunched here. From the East Coast to the West, the excitement is palpable…

Bookkeeping Reimagined

Client Spotlight: PlantPaper

PlantPaper is a tree-free Brooklyn toiletries company known as “The Softest On the Planet.” CEO Lee Reitelman engaged Webster Pacific to be his operating partner as he expanded PlantPaper’s ecommerce and subscription…

Ecommerce Success Triangle

What We Do and Why We Do It

Client Spotlight: Enhance Pickleball

Enhance Pickleball is a Los Angeles pickleball equipment brand and a Webster Pacific client since 2023. Co-founders Connor Hance and Drew Baird engaged Webster Pacific to be their operating partner as they grow their…

Client Spotlight: The Phinery

The Phinery is a Seattle-based interior design studio and a Webster Pacific client since 2023. Over the past year Webster Pacific has helped Becky Ducsik, founder and creative director, model business forecasts to…

Create Balance In Your Metrics

Say you want to measure demand within a geographic area. You have data about household size, age, and wealth by ZIP code. How should you perform your analysis to better understand the market?

Client Spotlight: Hammies

Hammies is a Southern California clothing retailer and a Webster Pacific client since 2022. Over the past two years Webster Pacific has helped Hammies CEO and owner, Grant Nestor, make better decisions through robust…

Don't succumb to SELL, NOT TELL

Many commercial real estate brokers SELL, NOT TELL. They sell you what they have, instead of telling you where you should buy.

Why Black Friday Will Make A Resurgence In 2023 - by Webster Pacific

Webster Pacific's outlook for Black Friday 2023 is optimistic, projecting a 12% year-on-year rebound from 2022, approaching levels observed in 2021. This projection and others in this report are based on an analysis of…

Billionaire List 2023

Wealth, like so many other metrics, can be defined in multiple ways, including households earning more than $200k+, High Net Worth Individuals, Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, and Billionaires. After the great…

Which is more profitable: E-commerce or Wholesale?

A common misconception among expanding e-commerce businesses is, "Why would I ever focus on wholesale? I make more money on e-commerce." While there are numerous reasons to focus on channel diversification, below is an…

Navigating Business with Tom and Steve: Cash Flow Modeling - 8.23.2023

If you couldn't join us for the live session on August 23, 2023, you can now access the replay of our Cash Flow Modeling webinar by Webster Pacific Managing Partner, Tom Paper, and Partner, Steve Bazant. Gain valuable…

Client Spotlight: Caroline Z Hurley

Having accurate costs per product is crucial for businesses as it ensures accurate profitability analysis, informed pricing decisions, and improved financial management, ultimately paving the way for sustainable growth…

Cash is King

Cash flow models are essential for maintaining financial stability and answering questions about inventory, debt, equity, and more. Webster Pacific helps small and medium-sized businesses study the historical movement…

Client Spotlight: Lycée Français de New York

The Lycée Français de New York offers a bilingual French and American education of the highest standard with a mission to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators, and leaders, at home in the world.

Schools and airplanes?

We have found that schools are like airplanes. Generally speaking, schools are financially sustainable when they are filled to capacity, but not sustainable when they are under capacity. Watch us explain two use cases…

Client Spotlight: SIN

SIN, a Webster Pacific (WP) client since 2022, is a Brooklyn-based business that transforms clay into exclusive designs and decorative items.

Billionaires and GDP by country

Inspired by Gapminder, the famous Hans Rosling visualization about life expectancy and income, we decided to make an interactive visual that shows how billionaires and GDP by country have changed over time. You can…

Client Spotlight: Avenues The World School

Avenues The World School is a global school with students across six continents and a mission to redefine schooling for a fast-changing world.

October 18, 2022: A Geospatial Study of High Net Worth Individuals in Dubai

This report is compiled by strategy consultancy Webster Pacific (www.websterpacific.com) using their proprietary analytics to map High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) at the neighborhood level. Total Dubai HNWI counts…

Billionaire Map 2022

The 2022 Forbes Billionaires List was published recently and, as we did last year, we’ve mapped the information, with a focus on billionaires in the US and the change between 2021 and 2022. You can interact with the…

Client Spotlight: Endeavor Schools

Endeavor Schools is a growing family of over 70 private schools in 13 states across the United States and has been a Webster Pacific client since 2020.

Geographic Expansion 2x2 Matrix

Like Warren Buffett wouldn’t invest in just one stock, we wouldn’t tell our retail clients to invest in just one city. In fact, we believe that geographic diversification is critical to success and that geospatial…

Client Spotlight: Portfolio School

Portfolio School, a Webster Pacific (WP) client since 2021, is an independent school based in the heart of NYC offering top tier education for students in grades K-6 using a project-based learning approach.

Billionaires vs Luxury Points of Interest (POI)

"Wee Willie" Keeler, a hall of fame baseball player, once said “hit ‘em where they ain’t.” Webster Pacific takes a similar approach when helping luxury retail clients identify cities for expansion. The approach is…

Client Spotlight: River Garden Farms

River Garden Farms, a Webster Pacific (WP) client since 2012, is a 15,000 acre farm in Yolo County, California that grows a variety of crops, including: corn, rice, alfalfa, and walnuts. Over the past few years, WP has…

Michelin Restaurants vs Billionaires

Michelin’s star rating is considered one of the most prestigious awards that a restaurant can receive. We analyzed Michelin’s star ratings and billionaires, by urban area, to try to understand where the world’s…

Client Spotlight: Dovetail

Dovetail Furniture and Designs, a Webster Pacific (WP) client since 2019, is a B2B designer and reseller of lifestyle furniture based in Los Angeles. The CEO, Marco Petruzzi, is an ex-Bain partner who joined Dovetail…

Fortune 1000 Map

Fortune defines America’s largest 1000 public companies by their revenues, but companies can be defined and ranked by many other metrics, including market cap, profit, and employee count.

Marketing Performance Dashboard

Paid marketing is a powerful tool to expand your business and get new customers, but how do you evaluate which campaigns and platforms are the most effective? We created a dashboard that collects the most relevant…

Client Spotlight: Alex Crane

Alex Crane, a WP client since 2019, is a "breezy" linen clothing brand based in Brooklyn. The founder, Alex, and his COO Aaron have grown the Alex Crane brand over 300% YOY for the past 3 years straight. They’ve been…

Billionaires Map

Wealth, like so many other metrics, can be defined in multiple ways, including households earning more than $200k+, High Net Worth Individuals, Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, and Billionaires. Using the Forbes…

Predicting Fitness Studio Locations

As vaccines roll out and consumer confidence grows, we expect to see a significant return to in-person class fitness. To that end, we wanted to study which data is predictive of existing fitness studios like SoulCycle…

Tired of Using Spreadsheets?

Many organizations struggle with gathering and reporting data. Writing information down on paper and sending excel sheets back and forth can lead to issues with data quality and privacy while making reporting almost…

Analytics for Real Estate Investors

Webster Pacific continues to expand analytical capabilities for real estate investors of all asset classes. We gather data for our clients on demographics, income, competitive supply and alternative data like proximity…

October 29, 2020: COVID-19 Impact on USA Moving

Webster Pacific and United Van Lines collaborated to better understand the impacts of Covid-19 on USA moving trends. Using United Van Lines data, Webster Pacific studied moves by zip code and metro area over a two-year…

August 5, 2020: USA Wealth Report

This report is compiled by location analytics specialists Webster Pacific (www.websterpacific.com) and wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth (www.newworldwealth.com). The wealth and HNWI figures in the report are…

E-commerce Stockouts

Because many of our clients are e-commerce companies, we were curious to know what level of stockouts are experienced by other e-commerce companies. We were quite surprised to find that 9 out of 10 companies we studied…

June 24, 2020: Luxury Retail Markets Predicted to Be Most Negatively Impacted by COVID-19

Covid-19 has dramatically impacted tourism and, in particular, international tourism. Certain luxury retail markets are more dependent upon tourism than others. Our analysis predicts that the luxury retail markets most…

Finding Opportunity for Specialty Food and Beverage

Specialty food and beverage companies (e.g. craft beer) have lost substantial revenue from COVID-related closings of restaurants. Fortunately, most stores are still open. To help find revenue opportunities, Webster…

Finding Opportunity for Ecommerce

In the current environment, retail store sales are basically nonexistent, which means that brands are being forced to rely on Ecomm. To that end, we have been helping our clients use geospatial data to find MSAs and…

March 5 2020: Mobile-Phone Data Shows Virus Crushing Some Retail Hot Spots

Mobile-phone data -- a proxy measure for crowds -- is showing just how dramatically some of the world’s retail hot spots have cleared out as coronavirus spreads.\

Fitness Competitive Landscape

Webster Pacific believes that the foundation of any analysis is strategy. In our location analytics work, we go beyond what software tools and real estate brokers provide, by thinking deeply about our clients' business…

August 16 2019: World Cities 2019 Wealth Report

Wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth and location analytics specialists Webster Pacific recently reviewed the top cities worldwide by total wealth held. See top 20 below. As part of this study, Webster Pacific…

Driving Retail Revenue Through Wholesale

We are developing a new database tool for any high-end, single-brand retailer. Most of these retailers are focused on selling their brand in department stores like Neimans, Saks, and Nordstroms. Another less-traveled…

Retail Traffic with Mobile Data

Estimating sidewalk traffic and in-store traffic is valuable for retailers when making real estate decisions. These figures help them estimate sales, choose hours of operation, and evaluate the rents they should be…

Sephora Regression Analysis

Part of serving our retail clients involves understanding their competitors’ target customer and market entry strategy. We analyzed Sephora, one of the largest companies in the personal care and beauty space, and found…

June 10, 2019: Maps of San Francisco at Covington

A Pop-Up Exhibit on the Cartographic History of San Francisco at Covington & Burling, San Francisco: 53 maps, on the 53rd floor of the Salesforce Tower, from 1507 to present, that tell the story of San Francisco…

June 7, 2019: High-Income Households Are Moving Into the South Sound. Will Good-Paying Jobs Follow?

Written by The News Tribune’s Debbie Cockrell. Published on The News Tribune on June 7, 2019.

May 7, 2019: Finding the Top 50 Opportunity Zones for Real Estate Investment - Report

To better understand an investment strategy in Opportunity Zones, Webster Pacific examined various data related to each zone in the United States and Puerto Rico. Our objective was to identify which Opportunity Zones…

April 18, 2019: Pop-up Exhibit: 45 Maps of San Francisco

45 maps, from 1507 to present, that tell the story of San Francisco. Highlights include: first map of America, California as an island, the 1906 Earthquake, and the "fill" of San Francisco Bay.

Getting to Know Dubai

We've worked on over 40 markets around the world, helping companies use data to develop an expansion strategy and evaluate new locations. One of the first things we do when working on a new market is to study the POI…

February 18, 2019: Where Is Chicagoland's Biggest Growth in High-Earning Households?

Written by Chicago Agent Magazine's Scott Klocksin. Published on Chicago Agent Mag on February 18, 2019.

December 18, 2018: Americans Earning Over $200,000 Are Flocking to These Neighborhoods

Written by Bloomberg's Reade Pickert, Jonathan Levin, and Hannah Recht. Published on Bloomberg on December 18th, 2018.

December 15, 2018: Where do the richest people in Dubai live?

Written by Khaleej Times' Waheed Abbas. Published on Khaleej Times on December 15th, 2018.

Equinox fitness clubs in Los Angeles

We've created a growth map for Equinox fitness clubs in Los Angeles, showing locations each year from 2002 to 2018. You can view the GIF (movie) below.

November 16, 2018: Here are the priciest real estate markets in the world

Written by Inman News' Gabriela Barkho. Published on Inman on November 16th, 2018.

October 31, 2019: NW GIS Conference - Combining Disparate Datasets to Get the Data You Need

Steve presented at the NorthWest GIS User Conference on the topic of combining disparate datasets in Bremerton, WA on October 31, 2018.

HNWI Wealth Maps - Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest places in the world. As part of our new High Net Worth Individual (HNWI) data product, we've built a GIF (movie) which shows the levels of wealth concentration in Hong Kong.

Site Strategy - Soul Cycle Manhattan

As a follow-up to our Whole Foods Manhattan study, we've created a growth map for SoulCycle in Manhattan. To visualize this, we created a GIF (movie) of SoulCycle locations each year from 2005 to 2018, which you can…

Site Strategy - Whole Foods in Manhattan

Webster Pacific tracks Whole Foods store locations in markets around the world to better understand retail site selection and in-market wealth. Between 2001 and 2017, Whole Foods has gone from 0 to 10 stores in…

Property Price Prediction Maps

Webster Pacific has been working on Property Price Prediction Maps in markets across the United States. These maps provide our prediction, based upon geospatial wealth-change calculations, of where property prices will…

April 18, 2018: So You Want To Be A Data Analyst?

Written by Webster Pacific Managing Partner Tom Paper. Published on Medium on April 18th, 2018.

March 19, 2018: US Data is Easy. International Data is Hard.

Written by Webster Pacific Managing Partner Tom Paper. Published on Medium on March 19th, 2018.

March 7-9, 2018: NAIS Conference, Mission-driven data visualization- Compelling dashboards that transform student learning in real time

Many schools possess extensive data, but struggle to produce insights that fuel student success. At Avenues: The World School, we have codified our goals by defining the essential skills of a graduate, and use a wide…

Webster Pacific Speaking at Conference - Assessment Dashboards

Since 2015, Webster Pacific has developed a series of Assessment Dashboards for a private school client. These dashboards identify students’ progress to be used by teachers as well as classroom and school-wide progress…

October 23, 2017: Market Selection Analytics – Choosing a National Strategy

Written by Webster Pacific Consultant Steve Bazant. Published by Propmodo on October 23rd, 2017.

May 23, 2017: Using Data-Driven Location Analytics to Guide Commercial Real Estate Investments

Written by Webster Pacific Consultant Steve Bazant. Published by Propmodo on May 23rd, 2017.

October 13, 2016: Cost and Value in K-12 Education

David has over 20 years of experience in finance, and 2 in education. He earned an MBA in Finance from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an MA in Education from the University of Leeds, and a M.Sc in…