Discover the power of a creative partner who understands economic development

Golden Shovel Agency specializes exclusively in economic development marketing and communications. Combining industry expertise, strategic marketing, and innovative technology, we help communities attract investment, support business growth, and achieve their economic development goals. As a trusted industry partner, we share our expertise at leading economic development conferences and developed the Economic Gateway®, the first content management system designed specifically for economic development organizations.

Golden Shovel's services are centered around three areas:

Business Attraction

Attract businesses and site selectors to your community using our unique economic development marketing tools. Businesses won’t move to your community or region if they don’t know you exist. Golden Shovel Agency helps clients prepare a winning business attraction strategy through brand management, communicating that brand via our proprietary website applications, identifying key narratives that define your region and advanced marketing techniques that put you in front of the right audiences.

Workforce Attraction

Golden Shovel Agency has developed a comprehensive set of tools and strategies to help economic development organizations cultivate a healthy workforce. Attracting, training and retaining skilled workers results in an increased tax base, better housing, higher wages and overall economic growth. Region branding, quality of life initiatives and specialized online resources are just a few of the approaches that our clients have successfully used to be competitive in workforce attraction.

Regional Strategies

Increasingly, economic development organizations are recognizing that local economies are truly interconnected in a vast and complex regional web. By banding together and finding opportunities to collaborate, economic development groups can capitalize on these interdependent networks to mitigate their failures and expand their successes.

Economic development is about more than promotion—it's about building momentum for your community's future. Golden Shovel Agency creates customized marketing solutions that help economic developers attract investment and talent, engage stakeholders, and build lasting support for economic development initiatives. By combining strategy, technology, communications, and industry expertise, we help organizations reach key audiences, strengthen their brand, and turn economic development goals into measurable results. Our clients have leveraged these efforts to attract billions of dollars in capital investment, support business expansion, and community growth. 

See how leading economic development organizations are attracting investment and talent. Contact us today and one of our highly trained staff will be in touch!