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Where to find information about locations:
local contacts: Various types of local contacts are listed below ... linked to information about them. The websites of The Network each have a section to accommodate searches for location data suppliers. Suggestion: Search first the Global Registry of Contacts in Find Me Here.com first. Resource and service providers engaged in enterprise and economic development throughout the world are invited to apply for individual records in the GRC database. Records are created, updated and maintain without for qualified applicants as a free service. The Regional Site Selection Directory is maintained in the website where you are now. It too is a resource for searching for locations and contacts. Also,Area Development in Economic Development.net is a directory. Step through a series of files, beginning at the national level, to search for location and contacts, especially location data suppliers. The unique promise of The Network supports all users. Anyone can request that a place of interest, anywhere, and its location data supplier be listed in The Network for free. (Try it!) types of local contacts:
institutions of higher education and their outreach programs: Many regional colleges and universities have business outreach and community outreach programs. Public institutions of higher learning supported by taxpayers are often mandated to reach out into the areas they serve. Programs are typically given economic development responsibilities; therefore, staff and participating academicians can often be found in networks. Some institutions of higher education with outreach programs maintain public libraries which may have enterprise development and location resources. Libraries may maintain community profiles. Librarians should guide to appropriate contacts. Outreach program staff can guide prospects if not actually take on projects, for example, see business incubation in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. 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. websites and community publications: What area and local development contacts have online that has become so useful to enterprise developers and site selectors is categorized information about the places they represent. Category items are referred to at websites and in publications, such as community profiles, as location or economic development data elements. In some cases their layout may follow site selection standards and be referred to accordingly. Location data suppliers were put on the alert several years ago to prepare their websites for use by business decision makers. At least one economic development marketing advisor conducted surveys of decision makers to come up with results indicating that ... Sixty-five percent of respondents indicated a strong likelihood that they would use an economic development organization's website in their next site location search. The executives named "information on available incentives," "demographic information" and "directory of available buildings and sites" as the most useful features of an economic development organization's website. (source of quote). Business publications having economic development organizations and other location data suppliers as advertisers are listed in The Network (scroll down to business media). Publications sent to us are used to create and update records in the Global Registry of Contacts. Periodicals focused on locales and help promote their economic development through both advertising and editorial content are used to build the Regional Site Selection Directory. 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 (examples). Links to examples of .network resources for finding
business periodicals are listed below followed by suggestion for searching
the
Web. The Google search engine is available. http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/search/nw/dn011.htm#friendly information brokers ... combine as consultants/location data brokers ... commercial resource suppliers, for example, location information brokers. consultants: Various types of advisors may be involved gathering and presenting location data ... some charge for their services while others may come from the ranks of business allies and provide services for free. The most specialized consultants involved with gathering and supplying location data, also provide information analysis, such as comparative analysis. They are called site selectors or site location consultants. Various types of business consultants, including those that classify themselves as management consultants, may be experienced in site selection. One important key to the ability of consultants to deliver cost effectively is their networks. It's hard for a site selection consultant starting from scratch to build a network to compete with experience, if not in the area of cost-effectiveness, then certainly in the area of time efficiency. Accounting firms are in the management consulting business, including site selection. Construction and engineering firms run site selection consulting operations to serve their clients. For additional references to accounting firms and consulting, CLICK HERE. Consultants are resource and service providers engaged in the mission of The Network; therefore, all types qualify to have records in the Global Registry of Contacts. For example, a number of large accounting firms are know for their business consulting services. Also, engineering and construction firms are know to provide site location consulting to clients. 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—CLICK HERE for a resource with another definition of boardsmanship. A best practice summary for carrying out economic development in a location. Summary of Typical Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Board (reference) (reference)
Suggested additional resource to check: definition of best practice approach. The Google/.network search
engine can help you find consultants. Suggestion:
copy and paste the following italicized text at the top
of this page, keeping quotation marks
intact. 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
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About Site Selection introduction with links for expanding information: Site selection is a process of enterprise development. It is the site location work that involves searching for a place to startup or expand the operations of an enterprise. It involves relocation work. It's important to places seeking economic development. The Network defines locations for site selection as places of various size ranging from national to local level. Searches for real estate are typically part of the process. | ||||
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