Predicting the Future

By Sailesh Dhungana Imagine having knowledge about the future. Let’s say that you know which team will win a baseball game that has not been played yet. You can place high-stake bets on it and get handsome rewards when the team wins. Knowledge about the future is a...

Marketing Notes…

By Jim Bruckbauer For most communities, your best prospects are different than they were 2 years ago, and most companies are thinking differently than they were 2 years ago.  So if you’re implementing your marketing strategies the same way you were 2 years ago, you...

Prospecting by Appointment

By Patrick McConahy If you were to put together a list of the most underpaid and underappreciated job positions out there, I think you’d find economic development professionals a very close second behind public school teachers. The amount of time, effort, and energy...

2003 Headquarter Activity

by Pete Julius Targeting company headquarters has been a popular strategy within economic development. As a result, we recently conducted a quick analysis of headquarter relocation and expansion activity across the country last year. The information was derived from...

Understanding Value-Added Manufacturing

By Jeff Vedders We’ve had many clients request that we target value-added manufacturing companies recently. What is value-added? “Value-added is an economic term to express the difference between the value of goods and the cost of materials or supplies...