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about site selection
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The question for the site selector is who do you contact to gather reliable, useful information about a place of interest? It's essential to have a network of resource and service providers at the outset of a site selection project. The network should include location data suppliers. Various types of location data suppliers are listed below with comments. The next page in this series introduces the Site Selection Directory, a handy tool for gathering information from places of interest and identifying contacts to add to your network.

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Where to find information about locations:

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local contacts:

Various types of local contacts are listed below ... linked to information about them. The three websites of The Network each have a section to accommodate searches for location data suppliers. The first you should consider using is the Global Registry of Contacts in Find Me Here.com. Resource and service providers engaged in enterprise and economic development throughout the world are invited to apply for individual records in the GRC database which we will accept without cost or obligation. Records are maintained for free.

The website you are now using provides the Regional Site Selection Directory as a resource for searching for locations and contacts. Also, the Area Development in the Economic Development Network website is directory that you step into to select a country as a location of interest and make your way to files with local listings. Location listings all along the way in Area Development include links to the websites of location data suppliers wherever possible.

The unique promise of The Network supports the effective functionality of all three location search resources. Any user can request that a place of interest, anywhere, and a location data supplier be listed in The Network. There is no charge or obligation of responding and publishing listings.

types of local contacts:

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spacermarkerlocal economic development organization
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spacermarkerchambers of commerce
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spacermarkerlibraries.

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networks:

With projects at hand, one of the first things enterprise developers and site selectors should do is to organize their networks. Various types of business networks with a focus on supporting enterprise and economic development are easily found. For example, see a list of US state associations of economic developers.

The Site Selection Directory can be used to organize a network of resource and service providers for a specific project at the same time that location data is being requested from places of interest. Announcing online to location data suppliers and other contacts that you want information from them can be arranged as a free service by The Network.

Links are provided below to definitions of various types of networks of interest to users of our websites (who we are). Also, you are covered by the search promise of The Network whether you choose to look for contacts inside the websites or elsewhere on the Web in order to put together an enterprise development team of resource and service providers.
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business media:

Media are information channels. A media publication is a viewable communication issued in a medium. Business media encompasses all types of publishing for enterprise, entrepreneurial, commercial, industrial, and professional purposes. They include everything from print to electronic media, from in-house publishing to mass media.

Media searches by the target audience of The Network for location data suppliers are generally conducted through periodicals. Savvy enterprise developers and site selectors, however, do not rely solely on location advertising in periodicals to choose places for expanding, relocating or starting up new ventures. Location advertising in business publications is mainly about projecting an image of readiness for economic development. Advertising supports editorial content, especially in niche publications dedicated to site selection and economic development.

Experienced enterprise developers and site selectors know to begin their projects with selection criteria in hand. Objectivity should guide the collection of location data and its evaluation against selection criteria. Periodicals should be viewed a biased resources.

Links to examples of .network resources for finding business periodicals are listed below. Suggestions following them are for key words and phrases to use to query the Web in search of periodicals online that have locations seeking economic development as advertisers.
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markerpublications dedicated to real estate, site location work, and economic development
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markerperiodicals dedicated to regional economic development
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markerdirectories printed or updated periodically online that list location data suppliers
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The Google/.network search engine is available to help you find business publications of interest to those who join in on the mission of The Network. [More search tools] Copy and paste key words and phrases suggested below. They have proven to be useful in searching for publications that have information about locations seeking economic development. Replace the word location with the identity of a specific place of interest to you.
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Search the Web for ... location "economic development" magazine advertising
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Search the Web for ... location real estate "site selection" magazine advertising
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Search the Web for ... location "economic development" publications
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Search the Web for ... location "site location" publications
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Search the Web for ... location "site location assistance" real estate publications
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Search the Web for ... location library media resources "economic development"
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Search the Web for ... "economic development directory" site selection publications

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What is location data and how is it used? answer
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Savvy enterprise developers and site selectors know the importance of acting discreetly during the process of gathering location data and requesting introductions from new contacts when there are confidential plans and activities to protect. There's an old wartime warning that stated, loose lips sink ships. It applies when enterprise development is underway in the waters of a free market economydashsee economy defined in the .network. It's prudent to protect confidential plans and activities in any competitive situation.
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When comments about confidentiality, as addressed in the above paragraph, were first published on this page they included ... most companies seek to protect confidential development plans, trade secrets, pricing, market moves, financial data, customer records, research, and other sensitive matters that could, at worst, bring about their downfall in the wrong hands. The quote framed an explanation of the confidentiality protection services of the Site Selection Directory. The SSD serves the process of searching for a location by providing site selection resources, especially for small businesses and fast-growing companies without deep pockets to pay for expensive consultations on how to get the job of expanding, relocating or otherwise starting up new operations.
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What should a contact for location data be told when confidentiality is of concern?

That depends type of location data supplier. The rule of thumb should be to explain why you are requesting the information without divulging any confidential plans or activities. If there is a project profile and/or set of selection criteria, provided it. If you need to discreetly collect information, contact us (who we are) about the service that we can provide through the Site Selection Directory. See the definition of blind address in the .network glossary.

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What does it mean to say that a site location project didn't get off the ground?

The idiom get off the ground means that something flies in metaphorical terms. Take the reverse of the idiom for example, saying that a tentative site selection project didn't get off the ground, meaning that it was intended to be worked to its end point as originally planned but, like an airplane too heavy to take off from the runway, it didn't fly; i.e., the top decision maker, likely the enterprise developer, chose to end it before it went any further.

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US Bureau of Labor Statistics

... BLS is the principal agency for the United States Government (US Department of Labor) for finding and maintaining labor statistics and other information relative to the social and economic conditions in the country.

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resources for organizations that operate as non profits (not-for-profit organizations)

A membership organization named BoardSource offers workshops, training, and a database of information for leaders of not-for-profits. Not-for-profit and nonprofit are generally considered to be interchangeable terms. This service provider is classified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under rules of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), US Department of the Treasury.

A summary of typical responsibilities for a board of directors of a nonprofit organization.

The ability to work with a board of directors as as administrator of the organization with which it is concerned or with individual members in matters of politics, understanding, and agenda in order to stay on task, carry out the mission and work a strategic plan is referred to as boardsmanshipdashCLICK HERE for a resource with another definition of boardsmanship.

A best practice summary for carrying out economic development in a location.

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Summary of Typical Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Board

dotspacedefine the purpose of the organization and set forth its mission.
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dotspacetitle, define duties, select, assess, and guide the organization's top administrator.
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dotspacedevelop and oversee a long-term plan within the context of the established purpose.
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dotspacesee to it that adequate resources are available in a timely manner to carry out the mission
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dotspacesupport the controls and strengthening of the organization's strategic plan
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dotspacebe aware of and project the desired image of the organization as a group and individually
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dotspaceoversee the legal and ethical integrity of the organization
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dotspacemaintain a position to assess and act on questions of accountability
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dotspacetake responsibility for and control the conduct of the board within its established purview

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The site selection resource on this page is a list of categories of information that you are most likely to see when accessing the websites of locations seeking economic development. Knowing about the categories is important for understanding communications between the locations and their prospects. In addition to the location data elements listed on this page, you can use the link below to access over a thousand site selection standards which the International Economic Development Council offers as a free download. Page 1 in this series has more information about the resource IEDC offers.
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http://www.iedconline.org/?p=Data_Standards

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Risk plays a significant role in enterprise development. Savvy enterprise developers take risk management seriously. Google at the top of this page to learn moredashcopy and paste from the following italicized list of keyword combinations. Keep quotation marks intact. CLICK HERE to learn more about keyword searches suggested by The Network.
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Search the Web for ... enterprise development risk
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Search the Web for ... enterprise development risk management services
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Search the Web for ... enterprise development risk management resources
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Search the Web for ... risk management guide business decision makers
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Search the Web for ... business decisions risk management tools
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Search the Web for ... small business risk management guide
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Search the Web for ... entrepreneurs "at risk"
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Search the Web for ... entrepreneurship risk management
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Search the Web for ... risk management fast-growing companies
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Search the Web for ... rural development economic risk
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Search the Web for ... "commercial real estate development" risk
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Search the Web for ... "industrial real estate development" risk
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Search the Web for ... "location selection" risk
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Search the Web for ... location "site selection" risk factors
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Search the Web for ... "enterprise development" financial risk
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Search the Web for ... "enterprise and economic development" project risk

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