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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.

11/21/2023

For all of this, we are thankful

GIS Planning has always felt like a family to those of us who have worked here over the past 25 years, and we've always seen our clients as part of the family. We're fortunate to ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development

09/22/2023

What EDOs and IPAs should look for in a CRM

Is it difficult for your organization to incorporate economic development and investment promotion into a conventional CRM? Are you currently organizing information, leads, and ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development CRM

08/3/2023

fDi Institute - the e-learning platform for economic development

Economic development professionals work hard to gain the skills and expertise needed to represent their regions. This means not only the foundational education on corporate ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development data

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

01/18/2023

The new ZoomTour makes using virtual tours easier than ever for EDOs

The very first challenge in place marketing is crafting compelling, effective digital content quickly and on a budget. Sounds like the impossible dream, right? Well, it's not. The ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development Place Marketing

11/30/2022

GIS Planning clients win multiple IEDC Excellence Awards for 2022

We're absolutely delighted to recognize the innovation and hard work of the many GIS Planning clients who won IEDC's Excellence in Economic Development Awards this fall. This ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development Place Marketing

12/22/2021

2021 in review: New features, new tools, new functionality

We're proud to end 2021 with another stellar year of updates, new features and new tools for GIS planning clients. This unmatched stream of innovation is the reason ZoomProspector ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

12/3/2021

Webinar: Data & diversity-Talking about numbers & economic development

Data can serve as an important starting point for conversations about an inclusive economy, a way to objectively document disparities and guide outreach, policy and action. But ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

10/13/2021

Webinar: 5 Simple Rules for Complex Collaboration in EconDev

Collaboration is a process that drives innovation. Getting key players from different organizations and backgrounds to work smoothly together for a common goal in economic ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Economic Development

10/1/2021

5 Things to know about the IEDC annual conference in Nashville

We are eagerly looking forward to the 2021 IEDC Annual Conference in Nashville and we are really hoping to see you there. Before you head out or tune in, we wanted to share the ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development IEDC

01/15/2021

Upcoming economic development webinars you won't want to miss

Mark your calendars! This first lineup of 2021 economic development webinars is well worth your time. Can't attend? No problem! Register anyway to ensure you receive a follow-up ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development webinars

09/10/2020

Can your economic development data do this?

Economic development data is critical to the practice of investment attraction, business retention and corporate site selection. GIS Planning is proud to offer a top quality range ...

Pablo Monzon
Managing Director and Co-founder

Site Selection Economic Development

07/30/2020

360° Virtual Tours & Custom Tours - what's the difference?

The addition of the 360° Virtual Tour and Custom Tour buttons to our ZoomProspector sites and buildings GIS data tool a couple of weeks ago has generated serious interest from ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Economic Development

06/23/2020

Two economic development webinars you don't want to miss

Mark your calendars! Next week's economic development webinars are well worth your time. Can't attend? No problem! Register anyway to ensure you receive a follow-up email with a ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development covid19

05/6/2020

Case study: See how Rowan EDC (NC) promotes their ZoomBusiness tool

With nearly 40 communities across North America launching their ZoomBusiness online mapping directory of businesses open during COVID-19 since the product debuted two weeks ago, ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development Business

04/30/2020

EDO Roundtable webinar series on COVID-19 Recovery - Part II

As economic development professionals everywhere grapple with the unprecedented challenge of keeping their regional economies afloat, it can be enormously helpful and instructive ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development covid19

04/15/2020

NEW: Interactive COVID-19 Data Center for US and Counties

We are proud to announce this week's release of a new COVID-19 Data Center for the United States and Counties. The interactive mapping and data visualization tool can be found at ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

04/7/2020

COVID-19 response webinars you don't want to miss

UPDATED with links: Here are some of the free webinars we hosted last week to assist economic developers everywhere as they work to meet and mitigate the challenges posed by the ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development Websites

04/1/2020

NEW: Free COVID-19 GIS mapping data tool for US economic development

GIS Planning is proud to release today a free, interactive GIS data tool to map the spread and impact of COVID-19 for US economic developers. This is a customized version of our ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

04/1/2020

NEW: COVID-19 map layers added for all U.S. ZoomProspector clients

As economic developers everywhere grapple with the new realities of the COVID-19 outbreak, many have found themselves fixated on an entirely new set of data about how the ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

03/30/2020

Covidiary: Thoughts about economic development on quarantine day 19

It's blursday the umpteenth of Marpril, what feels like the longest month in our collective history. I'm going on day 19 of self-isolation myself, including a mandatory 14-day ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Economic Development GIS data

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