The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary

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location profile:

... a brief that summarizes information about a location; a media presentation depicting characteristics, facts, features and other information of interest to a targeted or broad audience about a place; a promotional or informational resource at a website or included in a location package of a place seeking economic development.

Location profiles may be printed on individual sheets or as brochures or other types of folders and published at websites to provide information to, for example, members of the the .network user group. Those who provide such profiles are known as location data suppliers.

Profiles are typically organized using fairly standard location data elements. The following types of profiles are essentially the same as what is defined here. They are all of interest to members of the target audience of The Network.

Types of location profiles: area profiles; community profiles; country profiles; economic development profiles; regional profiles; and, site selection profiles.

Note: The Network maintains a global directory of contacts. It is organized for searches. It lists thousands of contacts, including location data suppliers. Its pages show locations listed in alphabetical order (example). Location listings are more useful when linked to location profiles. Take a look at the suggested example page:

Access the page and scroll down to Billings, MT / Yellowstone Economic Development. Select the linked location listing: Billings, MT. The link is to a brief location profile titled About Our Region published by the Billings area economic development agency. For an additional profile example, one provided online by the real estate developer of a planned community, select Big Canoe, GA at the top of the suggested GRC directory page.

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See The Global Registry of Contacts is a Springboard/Location Profile Links

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