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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.
Where to find information about locations:
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: 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. 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. What is location data and how is it used? answer 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. 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. 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. 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 boardsmanship A best practice summary for carrying out economic development in a location. Summary of Typical Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Board
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.
Risk plays a significant role in enterprise development. Savvy enterprise
developers take risk
management seriously. Google at the top of this
page to learn more
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