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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.

04/19/2023

North Delta RPDD (LA) launches website to attract investment

Investors, community stakeholders, site selectors, realtors, and businesses searching for key site selection data in Northeast Louisiana can now turn to the powerful, interactive ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

09/13/2022

We've walked in your shoes

They say that one should be flattered when others copy your work. We get it... and truly, we are flattered! That's to be expected when you are the consistent leader in innovation ...

Stevie Field-Chavez
Vice President of Regional Sales

Site Selection GIS data

04/28/2022

Milestone: 2,000+ proposals generated by our clients since 2021

Since we launched the super convenient drag & drop proposal generator feature in ZoomProspector, our clients have consistently told us how much they love the ability to ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Place Marketing

03/17/2022

Creating killer content: Webinars you don't want to miss

There's no excuse for boring! We're offering two free professional development webinars in the next couple of weeks to showcase practical ways to make your economic development ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

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

02/10/2022

3D renderings with GIS for economic development offers real innovation

The beauty and advantage of having a 3D rendering tool truly integrated into your online GIS data tool means that you and your website visitors can create as many 3D models as you ...

Pablo Monzon
Managing Director and Co-founder

Site Selection Innovative marketing

01/24/2022

EDO lessons from kindergarten: The critical importance of sharing

Play fair. Clean up your mess. Don't hit people. When you go out in traffic, hold hands and stick together. Robert Fulgham's oft-quoted book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Place Marketing

01/14/2022

NEW! 3D rendering feature helps prospects picture their investments

The digitization of the site selection process - already well underway in years past - has unquestionably been greatly accelerated by the pandemic. From online proposals and ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection economic development websites

11/16/2021

Bilbao Region (Spain) Launches Data Microsite to Attract Investment

Invest in Bilbao, the local foreign investment office of the Bilbao City Council, has just launched Bilbao Business Explorer, a tool that seeks to promote foreign investment and ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

11/15/2021

What is the real ROI on a site selection web tool?

It’s hardly surprising that one question we get asked a lot is: “What are the website traffic metrics of ZoomProspector client websites? What’s the ROI?”

Bryan Beatty
Director of Sales

Site Selection online data tools

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

09/16/2021

NEW! Property images now automatically supplemented from Google

Economic developers everywhere know the struggle of trying to get photos and images into property listings. The truth is that it can be tricky to draw attention to a fantastic ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Innovative marketing

07/8/2021

GIS Planning by the numbers

For the past 23 years, our clients have ensured we've always remained the industry's leading GIS data tool for corporate site selection and economic development. We've earned that ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

05/14/2021

Savvy link placement strategies drive more qualified web traffic

Sure, it's the industry's leading corporate site selection data tool but ZoomProspector is also so much more. Did you know it's also a compelling open access community data tool? ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Websites

10/14/2020

NEW! How does your community compare?

This car model or that one? These sneakers or those? If you're like most people, you spend a fair bit of time comparing and contrasting when you make a purchasing decision, ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

10/6/2020

Grapevine (TX) launches new website with GIS Planning data tools

The City of Grapevine (TX) has launched online data tools on their website, ChooseGrapevineTX.com, to promote the region for business relocation and expansion. The online data ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection GIS data

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

07/15/2020

New! 360 Virtual tours, flyovers & street views free on ZoomProspector

Before the coronavirus pandemic, site selections and businesses seeking a location would typically visit a short list of properties in person. They would walk around the building, ...

Pablo Monzon
Managing Director and Co-founder

Site Selection GIS data

03/24/2020

White Paper: 10 Impacts of the Coronavirus on Economic Development

While public health, public policy, and businesses are working to respond to the impact of this novel coronavirus, so too must the profession of economic development. There are ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Site Selection Economic Development

11/20/2019

Whose branding is on your data reports?

Put on your site selector hat for a moment. Or your "business looking for a location" hat. Now imagine you're visiting your own economic development website for the very first ...

Alissa Sklar
Vice President of Marketing

Corporate Real Estate Site Selection

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