Pages-in-series:

It's easy to know when you are on a page in a series published by The Network (example). Go to the top-right corner and look for page-in-series buttons ( this page you are on is not in series).

When you access the main directories of Site Location Assistance.com (access), the website you are using, or the Economic Development Network website (access), you will see links to pages that are in a series. For example, the main directory of the SLA website has a link to information about site location work (site selection). Look over the directory for the series of pages that introduce The Network. You can browse the Enterprise and Economic Development Library using page-in-series buttons if you would rather do that than use its directory.

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location, location, location:

See the definition in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. All three websites of The Network lists locations. Information from the Global Registry of Contacts is listed by location (example). Information about locations in Site Location Assistance.com is listed regionally (example). The Economic Development Network website lists countries as locations. You choose a country as a place of interest in Economic Development.net in order to move into a section of the website in search of location data suppliers.

If you think of a location as just real estate click on the italicized link in the above paragraph for an expanded definition of the term. Real estate consultants as well as owners and their representatives have the opportunity to list in the Global Registry of Contacts for free along with other resource and service providers engaged in enterprise and economic development.

CLICK HERE if your interest is in location, location, location as it relates to site selection and you want to start with searching the Web now. Better yet, make an internal search of Find Me Here.com (search tools) and Site Location Assistance.com (search tools) or browse through the Area Development section of the Economic Development Network website, keeping in mind that whatever your choice you are covered by a search promise. To move directly from here to request delivery on the search promise for a location, CLICK HERE.

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real estate geography:

... In his book, Business Geography and New Real Estate Market Analysis (2002, Oxford University Press), Grant Thrall, PhD provides a definition of business geography. We referred to it when asked what a former corporate real estate executive meant by referring to it in a speech and using the expression location, location, location. This information is also published here because of its relationship to the .network definition of the term geography of locations.

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standard economic development profile:

... a community profile using guidelines such as the Site Selection Data Standards available at the website of the International Economic Development Council. Attempts to standardize accommodates prospects seeking location data so that they can make comparative analyses. In spite of the effort, the competitiveness of area and local development representatives often means that considerations for promotional advantages overrides standardization; therefore, The Network limits its location data categories list to approximately 30 items. The list is a guide for members of a target audience. It reflects what can be seen in review of the variety of community profiles published online by locations seeking economic development.

The over 1,200 elements of data standards organized into 25 spreadsheets freely available online from the IEDC website provide a checklist that enterprise developers and site selectors may find useful as they prepare to get in touch with location suppliers. The best way to get the attention of a location data supplier is to provide site selection criteria. Even if you have only preliminary needs in mind to satisfy an expansion, relocation or new venture startup project, it generally works well to announce some wants and needs through a project profile. As a rule, there are four or five criteria areas where wants and needs can be set forth to match with information categories that location data suppliers recognize. They are demographics, transportation, communications infrastructure, real estate and characteristics of the location itself.

See Enterprise Development: Ten Steps for Site Selectors

CLICK HERE for items of location data AKA economic development data standards.

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open site selection directory project:

The Network offers the Site Selection Directory as such a project. It's free to site selectors and enterprise developers for publishing, for example project profiles and location data requests online. In order to provide access to additional information that may help you zero in on a meaning of the expression for your purposes, we Google the following keywords: site selection "open directory"

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directory of development organizations at www.devdir.org:

A global directory of over 50,000 associations which is for the most part focused on ... governments, private sector and key development organizations in civil society, including NGOs, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, foundations and research centres (source of quote). The website provides access to directories of development organizations by global regions.

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countries as locations:

... an expression used by The Network to bring together two definitions from its enterprise and economic development glossarythe definition of country and the definition of location. The latter sets countries in an order for site selection on the international level.

Generally the site selection process on the international level begins by identifying contacts and gathering information about a target country. From that point the process proceeds to investigating regions and locales at the local level. The Network provides input to the global site selection process with three websites, two of which are designed for search tool use .

The Economic Development Network website is designed for .network users to move into its Area Development section by first selecting a national level file ... a nation as a place of interest. After that its a step-through process ... one of moving toward the local level and doing what is called comparative analysis.

A project begins with a plan is an additional resource to refer to for adding more information to the definition of a country as a location and comments about the site selection process.

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