GIS Planning

Website: SiskiyouProspector.com

According to Siskiyou County Economic Development Corporation:

"Since SiskiyouProspector.com was launched we have seen dramatic benefits to the community as well as our organization.  The website has seen a substantial increase in traffic from across the country as well as around the world.  The site has become the premier site for the county and had in many ways is the “face” of the county.  It is regularly accessed locally by government agencies, businesses, visitors as well as county citizens who utilize the sites content and resources.

Realtors especially find the site very important to their efforts.  The lands inventory database has been a strong tool for realtors in this slow real estate economy, the exposure that the site gives them in showcasing their properties has been essential to their marketing efforts.

Additionally, prior to launching the site our staff spent a great deal of time creating printed packets of information and doing manual searches for properties for potential clients.  Staff time in research, photocopying, postage and print costs were a substantial portion of our budget.  Since the inception of the new website we have seen substantial savings in staff time along with savings in resources and postage costs.   “Funding is scarce in economic development, the efficiencies that we have gained since the site launched have allowed us to re-focus our small staff on other crucial economic development goals that we previously had little time to address,” noted Tonya Dowse, executive director of the Siskiyou County Economic Development Corporation.  

“We now have the time to proactively attract and retain business to our county and we have seen a consistent stream of leads generated by the site,” added Dowse of the Siskiyou County Economic Development Corporation.  Clients who have found our county via our website have provided us with the following comments as to the effectiveness and usefulness of the site:

“When doing a regional multi-state search for potential sites to expand our company we found the Siskiyou County Prospector an invaluable tool in finding sites and properties that met our criteria.”

“The community demographics pages were especially helpful to our company and having zoning maps downloadable on-line saved us a great deal of time.”

“Incentives were a very important piece in our location search, the incentives section of your website was very thorough and gave us detailed information about what we would get as incentives for locating in your community.”

“Your site is a very visually appealing and we especially liked the Why Siskiyou section as well as the photos and downloadable PDF’s.”

Awards: International Economic Development Council 2008 General Purpose Website Award