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New Website Highlights Business Opportunities in Palestine, Texas

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Palestine, TX – Palestine Economic Development Corporation (PEDC) has unveiled a redesigned online portal to showcase the many business opportunities and assets in Palestine, Texas. The website serves as an important resource for site selectors and businesses looking to locate to the area. The website is attractive, easy-to-use and comprehensive — strengthening the organization’s online presence and providing vital facts for site selectors and corporate investors. It also provides powerful GIS Planning tools that pinpoint available properties and enable community comparisons and auto- population of the area’s demographics and labor force. Additionally, prospective residents can find details about Palestine’s...

7 Steps to Digital Marketing

Monday, March 04, 2019

Understanding the daily duties of economic development professionals, it can be hard to find the time to reply to emails let alone create, implement and manage a digital marketing plan. So if you're wondering and asking yourself - where to begin and how to build and implement it, here's a set of questions we ask all the client’s we assist with their digital campaigns and content creation. Asking yourself the following 7 questions will provide you a great start to your digital marketing plan, or to identify if your current plan is effective. If you are unable to answer yourself, I...

Purpose of Communities

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

The Secret to Workforce Attraction is Purpose and Fulfillment. Earlier this year, my Uncle Tom passed away. I attended the funeral in the small Nebraska town and spent most of the time reflecting on how the town had changed and why people remained or left. I remembered family gatherings and community dinners where the fire hall was so full of people that moving around was almost impossible. The events were loud and joyous. People were held together by a sense of community and purpose. But changed? Why were towns, like this one, across the country shrinking? As I let these thoughts drift in...

Katy Area Economic Development Council Launches Website to Showcase Business Advantages

Monday, January 14, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Katy, TX – The Katy Area Economic Development Council (Katy Area EDC) has launched a new comprehensive website to bolster its online presence and highlight business opportunities and advantages in this burgeoning area of southeast Texas. Katy Area EDC is focused on business recruitment, development and expansion in and around Katy, Texas, which is just 25 miles west of Houston. The user friendly, online portal includes an array of information about the region, including its workforce, business incentives and quality of life. It features powerful Zoom Prospector and GIS Planning tools that enable auto population of area demographics...

New Website Highlights Kentucky Lake’s Business & Industry Assets

Monday, December 10, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release Benton, KY – Kentucky Lake Economic Development just launched a comprehensive website to elevate its online presence and showcase Marshall County, Kentucky’s abundant opportunities and business advantages. This will serve as an important asset for site selectors and investors. "We are extremely excited to reinvent how we do economic development in Marshall County, Kentucky, with Kentucky Lake Economic Development. We are on the verge of a more aggressive and strategic approach moving forward that is generating a level of energy in our community that we have never seen before,” said Josh Tubbs, president of Kentucky Lake Economic Development....

Website Showcases Spruce Grove’s Business Assets

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release City of Spruce Grove, AB – The City of Spruce Grove just launched a new website to promote its economic development efforts. The site will serve as a valuable resource for both existing businesses and potential investors. Spruce Grove is one of Alberta’s fastest growing cities. The website was created as part of the City’s economic development strategy and action plan with the goal to create a comprehensive online portal for existing companies and potential investors. “The new website adds an important level of functionality to our efforts. It will allow potential investors to seamlessly access relevant, concise information...

New MEDA Website a Resource for Economic Developers

Monday, November 19, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release The Montana Economic Developers Association (MEDA) has launched a comprehensive new website to promote its statewide membership and activities. The professional association for “lead” economic developers is dedicated to building Montana’s economy. “MEDA is all about local economic development professionals serving their community and impacting lives and businesses. The impacts are real and in many cases they shape the future of towns, cities and our state for the future,” noted MEDA President Steve Arveschoug of Big Sky Economic Development in Billings. The updated, user friendly website provides a solid foundation for marketing MEDA and its strong network of members....

St. Landry Economic Development Launches New Website

Monday, November 19, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release Opelousas, LA – St. Landry Economic Development (SLED) recently launched a comprehensive new website. The site is a valuable resource for citizens, businesses and site selectors that showcases SLED’s economic development activities, business assets and rich culture. SLED takes a forward-looking approach to the economic and community development of Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish. Its collaborative initiatives are designed to bring growth and prosperity to area businesses and communities. The sophisticated and interactive web platform aims to better connect St. Landry Parish to the region, nation and world. The site has details about the three St. Landry Economic Development Districts,...

New Websites Emphasize Hutchinson’s Many Assets

Monday, October 15, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release Hutchinson, Kansas and the larger Reno County area recently launched three new websites to promote the region. The sites will serve as a valuable promotional tool for businesses, economic development and tourism. An online portal combines the sites into one user-friendly and comprehensive resource with a wealth of information for businesses and site selectors as well as potential residents and visitors. The sites were developed for three different organizations with distinct, yet related, missions: the Hutchinson/Reno County Chamber of Commerce; Visit Hutch, the Greater Hutchinson Convention/Visitors Bureau; and Greater Hutch, a partnership for economic development in Reno County. The Hutch...

VR Technology Brings Economic Developers and Site Selectors Together

Monday, September 10, 2018

Economic developers face an uphill battle to get site selectors and executives to visit their community and tour available properties. With site selectors scouting locations throughout the country, and potentially the world, it can take months or years of concerted efforts to arrange for a FAM tour. VR technology is solving this problem by making it possible for site selectors and executive to visit communities in the virtual world. Minnesota-based communication firm Golden Shovel recognized the potential for virtual-reality to bridge the gap and make these connections possible. In 2017, the firm launched a new service, PlaceVR, making it possible...

With Oculus Go, VR for Economic Development is Ready for Business

Thursday, July 19, 2018

By Aaron Brossoit Golden Shovel Agency unveiled PlaceVR in Toronto at the 2017 International Economic Development Council’s Annual Conference. Our team showcased the first 360 videos of familiarization tours and site tours to the industry. For economic development professionals promoting their regions, these spherical videos are the best way to virtually bring people into a region or community. In September of 2017, however, the VR viewer options that were available for showcasing the videos were still limited. There were the top quality systems like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and the Playstation VR which presented a great VR experience, but was burdensome...

Golden Shovel Agency Presents Workforce Attraction Strategies to TELCO Executives

Monday, March 18, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release LITTLE FALLS, MN – Golden Shovel Agency COO, Ron Kresha, presented workforce attraction strategies at the NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association Telco Executive Forum in Clearwater, FL. The data-driven presentation outlined the current workforce attraction efforts for communities and how understanding the millennial workforce will improve workforce attraction. The presentation identified the changing economic landscape of rural communities and how rural communities have the opportunity to grow. Additionally, the presentation pinpointed ways the modern workforce is positioned to move into rural communities. “The modern workforce has a unique set of values and skills that will bring more innovation...

Opportunity Zone “Investment Ready” - Is Your Community Ready?

Thursday, December 27, 2018

What does it mean and what a community can do to attract investments? Save the date for January 17th, for an indepth look at becoming investment ready in your community during our expert webinar. Register here. While the idea behind Opportunity Zones has been in the works for over 10 years, it was the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that finally brought them into being. Congress’ main goal for establishing Opportunity Zones, is to support investments in low-income neighborhoods by letting individuals and corporations capture unrealized capital gains through long-term investments in designated census tracts. In return, private investors...

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