Are you settling for anything less than the best?

I invite you to take a moment before we begin to consider the beautiful and under-appreciated digital art on these VHS cassette boxes. How did I never notice this before? I must have been too focused back then on watching my recorded episodes of Seinfeld or ER, or perhaps something from the first season of Survivor. 

The images on these boxes brought me back, though. Remember the briefly lived triumph of VHS over Beta for video recording? Anyone who gambled on a Beta recorder shortly found themselves left with an expensive electrical brick. But the smug supremacy of VHS owners didn't last that long in the grand scheme of things. Soon there were DVDs. Then DVD-R, then Blu-ray, with various permutations along the way. It didn't take that long to get us entirely digital. The last VHS cassette was produced in 2016. 

Why this little esoteric walk through the library of obsolete technology? Glad you asked! I've been thinking lately about all we've seen in our 23 years of producing the industry's leading online corporate site selection web tool. Competitors that emerged and disappeared over those years. Features we were the first to develop that ended up being copied and becoming standard for most (though, quite frankly, no one did them as well as we did): infographics, smart bubbles, community reports, and more. We've carried that history with us over the years in our constant mission to always offer the newest version of online GIS data tools for economic development. We learned from the past and set our sights firmly on the future.

We're justifiably proud that we have always set the bar for innovation with ZoomProspector and our full suite of online data tools. There's a good reason we can easily claim that we consistently offer the most innovative and newest version of this technology - you only have to try out competing products to see the difference. It's the reason we have always and continue to serve the largest number of economic development organizations in the country, many times over. Compared head to head with anything else out there, ZoomProspector always comes out at the front of the pack.

Here's a partial list of the innovative features only ZoomProspector can offer:

• Integrated drag and drop proposal generator for RFIs - easy to build, share with a link, no need to bother with old school static PDFs
• Dynamic reports and heat maps
• 360° Virtual Tours automatically included for every single property in your system, with the ability to easily add additional Custom Tour media at no additional charge
• Regularly updated detailed business and industry data
• Fully featured mobile responsive technology
• Free draw filter tool and dragging radius
• Share all reports and analysis with hyperlinks, along with built-in social share and email options
• Mobile responsive admin
• Built-in ZoomProspector analytics and Lead Gen ID, to see what companies are visiting your website
• Patented Community Search functionality
• Integrated Community Comparison feature
• Mirrored versions of ZoomProspector and our full range of tools in Spanish and French
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance

Don't get stuck with VHS cassettes in 2021. Learn how your community or region can benefit from the newest GIS web tools on the market - schedule your demo today.