How much do you know about the impact of logistics on the corporate site selection process? Do you know how informed disc ..

Many ED pros find themselves facing a familiar quandary when it comes to marketing their location: limited budgets for pr ..

What if I told you place marketing can learn some critical lessons from brain research? Huh? I know tha ..

Looking to get some additional exposure for the sites and locations currently available in your location? Want to drive p ..

It’s a phrase that gets thrown around all the time these days, in the media, online and at conferences. But what do ..

It’s something we hear from EDOs and Chambers of Commerce all the time: local businesses complain that not enough i ..

Rebranding of communities is a popular hoax on economic development organizations (EDOs), as it is sold today by advertis ..

During this week's webinar, Practical LinkedIn Strategies for Economic Development Success, we were interested to learn t ..

New research shows that the #1 difference between the websites of effective and ineffective economic development marketer ..

LinkedIn has caused a bit of a buzz this past month with the announcement that it had surpassed 200 million members. Even ..

Before coming to work as director of marketing at GIS Planning, I worked as a communication consultant for Business-to-Bu ..

In keeping with GIS Planning’s longstanding commitment to excellent customer service, we are pleased to announce th ..

Thank you to Erika Lucas, Deputy Director of Oklahoma Department of Commerce (http://okcommerce.gov/), who became th ..

In my efforts to discover new examples of effective economic development marketing campaigns, I also find old efforts tha ..

A profile on Forbes.com of SizeUp (http://www.sizeup.com/), a service of GIS Planning, titled “Could This App Help  ..

The U.S. Commerce Department announced today that SizeUp.com (http://sizeup.com/), a service of GIS Planning, has won first p ..

The success of best places for business top ten lists is compelling. I’ll prove it to you. Have you ever read one? ..

GIS Planning’s new survey of economic development organizations over the past years shows that the only EDO marketi ..

Apps for local economic development are likely going to fail in the near future and be a waste of money for most EDOs. Think  ..

The hard working elves at GIS Planning (http://www.gisplanning.com/), ZoomProspector (http://www.zoomprospector.com/), and Si ..

The Council for Community and Economic Research (http://c2er.org/) held their annual conference in San Francisco this year, w ..

GIS Planning has created mobile versions of our ZoomProspector websites, now available due to high demand. See the Greater  ..

Linkedin is now an important Internet platform for economic developers to engage businesses, discover site selection opportun ..

Economi (http://www.facebook.com/ZoomProspector)c developers now have half a billion new "friends." The first-ever Facebook  ..

Jason Hickey, President of leading site selection firm Hickey & Associates, discusses what site selectors look for when e ..

Make it easy for businesses to find your website: Make sure all your partner/regional/state organizations with an interest i ..

Communities that sign up for a free Community Connection Page on ZoomProspector.com get 60% more web traffic than those ..

Back in February, Forbes magazine released its annual list of America's “most miserable cities”. For the seco ..

I'm looking forward to seeing fellow economic developers at CALED (http://www.caled.org/economicdevelopment/services/caleds-3 ..

Elk Grove Village has become the first Illinois community to launch a ZoomProspector tool (http://www.elkgrovesites.com/), an ..

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, when will we return to normal? Should EDOs prepare for a new (more challenging) rea ..