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From practical news, tips, and place marketing strategies to industry news and product updates, our blog posts keep you up to date and informed about all things economic development.

09/6/2023

And now, some words from some of our oldest clients

Without question, the very best part of GIS Planning's many years in business is our relationship with our clients. We have learned so much from them, developed some of our most ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

economic development software clients

02/3/2023

Why GIS Planning Canada?

As I look forward to next week's EDCO Time for TransformatiON conference in Toronto, followed in April by the EDA Xperience in Kananaskis, Alberta and then BCEDA's BC Economic ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Canada Economic Development

12/21/2022

Happy economic development holidays and a gift for 2023

The GIS Planning team would like to thank all of our clients, colleagues, friends and acquaintances and wish you all a very happy holiday season! We'd like to welcome you back in ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Place Marketing economic development software

08/17/2022

Hyperlocal to hyper regional: Showcase your GIS site selection data

Site selection decisions depend on a wide variety of criteria unique to every project, so it can be hard to predict exactly what each new case requires. However, in our 25 years ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

GIS data economic development software

03/1/2022

State of Maine Launches Robust Location Analysis GIS Data Tool

The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has launched a new site selection search tool that offers complex data layers in association with available sites ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

06/1/2021

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 ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

GIS data economic development software

10/20/2020

Webinar: All you need to know about GIS data tools but haven't asked

Back by popular demand! Do terms like GIS and granularity cause your eyes to glaze over? Wondering about virtual tours for your sites and buildings? Want to share live links to ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

GIS data economic development software

12/10/2019

The future is now

This morning, I saw something really cool. I was leaving my local supermarket when I saw a woman having a conversation in American Sign Language (ASL) using her smartphone.

Bryan Beatty
Director of Sales

Place Marketing economic development software

10/1/2019

3 Reasons to ditch old school static PDFs

If your economic development organization is still expecting site selectors and businesses making location decisions to rely solely on your outdated static data reports, you are ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

business location search Place Marketing

08/2/2019

28 US Statewide EDOs have chosen ZoomProspector

We're proud to announce that, as of last month, an impressive 28 U.S. statewide economic development organizations have chosen GIS Planning's ZoomProspector to help attract ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

ZoomProspector economic development online

07/24/2019

6 Questions for EDOs about their online GIS data tools

If you suspect your online GIS corporate site selection data tools aren't quite up to industry standards, here are six key questions to ask about the interactive tool you are ...

Russ Riblett
Vice President of Sales

online data tools Place Marketing

06/27/2019

FPL first to launch new GIS Planning web tool with FDI data

Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) has launched the brand new Explore Florida web tool, using the completely redesigned ZoomProspector Enterprise. The GIS web tool promotes ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

product launch business attraction

03/27/2019

SC Power Team launches new ZoomProspector

We're delighted to welcome the SC Power Team to our growing family of clients, with the launch last week of their brand new ZoomProspector web tool. Our Director of Sales, Russell ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

ZoomProspector product launch

11/30/2018

ZoomProspector now offers 3D views

You can now view maps in high-density areas in beautiful 3D on Zoomprospector Enterprise applications. The image below, taken from our newly redesigned ZoomProspector Enterprise ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

ZoomProspector product launch

11/1/2018

To embed your GIS data tools or not?

One of the most common questions we get from our clients is whether to embed their online data tools or to set them up as microsites. In the 20 years since we invented online data ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

online data tools GIS data

09/30/2018

Breaking news! GIS Planning at IEDC Atlanta

GIS Planning and the fDi Intelligence team are thrilled be in Atlanta for the IEDC 2018 Annual Conference. Drop by our booth in the exhibit hall (look for the blue and white ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

economic development software IEDC

08/30/2018

20 Years of #econdev data innovation

VHS tapes. Printed catalogues. Direct mail. Telemarketing. Magazine ads. That's what place marketing looked like before 1998, the year GIS Planning was founded.

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

ZoomProspector online data tools

08/2/2018

New! Nationwide Flood and Wetlands Layers

As part of our continuing commitment to innovation, we've added new nationwide flood and wetlands data to all U.S. ZoomProspector Enterprise web pages as well as ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

GIS data economic development software

07/24/2018

Our 20-Year Anniversary Video

It's been 20 years since two UC Berkeley grad students invented the software that would go on to disrupt the practice of corporate site selection. Pablo Monzon and Anatalio Ubalde ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection ZoomProspector

03/22/2018

Why 'Open Data' is good for econdev

It's one of the great ironies of the Internet that at the moment we have the technologies to permit easy access of data to all, the prevailing tendency is instead to lock it all ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Place Marketing GIS data

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