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The custom Google site search below selectively searches the websites of
economic development organizations for regions and local areas. It
includes links to their websites, maps, related content and local
contacts for business location decisions.
This Area Search makes it easy for professionals to research
potential business locations as they evaluate
"long list" or "short
list" alternatives for a
specific
project.
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We assist executives
through market research and personal referral
work and other services, somewhat like a global concierge service for
referrals in this niche market.
This local Area Search complements our
USA Search,
Europe Search and
CRE Search features. Our
Media Search helps to find articles about
business clusters, and our Event Search
is for major trade shows or association events relevant to this niche. |
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Contact Us if you are an
executive who might welcome independent referrals to relevant professionals
for your business location plans, or if you are an economic development
professional who would like to highlight your
area or service through our work.
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We can also perform custom marketing services on behalf of an
area or service provider, including assistance with existing event plans
(networking events, trade show preparations, etc.) or market research and
relationship development work. More>
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Try our unique new
Search: Americas
or
Search: Global CRE
tools. These make it easy to search the content of many
economic development and global commercial real estate websites at once
about potential business locations. |
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This custom Google site search tool is provided for
convenient reference by the executives, professional advisors, and economic
development organizations we serve.
If you contact them about their services, please let them
know how you found them, and
please let us know if this service was helpful. Relevant
reciprocal links are welcome.
The above are just some initial examples to demonstrate how
this custom search process will work.
The list will be reorganized by country, state, and
postal code as the list of participating areas grows.
The city, state and zip codes link to
Google Local map
searches or are useful for reference in other GIS applications.
These may be "hybrid" maps - combining satellite or
aerial photo imagery with maps and search features, with easy drag and
zoom tools..
The maps open in a new browser window for convenient
reference while referring to other information (their website,
Area Report, etc)
The GUIDE "maps" link opens maps and content which we
have prepared from other sources to help visualize these business
locations.
The organization names link to
Area Reports, Area Profiles, or
published Area Surveys as executive summaries describing such
business locations.
Personal names link to our GUIDE Biographic Profiles or e-mails
(optional) to help introduce the relevant contacts |
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A few of the above websites have been
temporarily included in this Area Search initially just to
demonstrate the process in a wider variety of areas as we launch this new service. While a
site search of this website or our main website should make it very easy through
our executive summary presentations (Profiles, Surveys, etc.) to recognize
when a participating area may be relevant to the interests of a potential
investor or advisor, this custom search feature makes it easy to "drill
down" for more details about places which may be "on
the short list".
In general, this Area Search will be limited to Tour hosts,
sponsors, and active participants in our Meeting Point or other GUIDE services to share useful
knowledge about their areas (Area Profiles, Area Reports, major property
listings, etc.).
Other websites may be added in the future according to
feedback from the corporate executives we serve and their professional
advisors about areas "on the short list" which
they would like to search this way, because this tool is designed for their
convenience.
Our
Invest USA,
Invest in Europe, and
global
Contacts directories (geographic regions and professional
specialties) already make it easy to find relevant websites and follow
whatever navigational structure and search options they may offer to present
information about their areas or services. These custom Search
features, however, make it fast and easy to use Google's intuitive process
to find whatever relevant content has been indexed.
See also : Tips about using
these custom Google site search features (below)
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The basic
premise behind our GUIDE services (Globally Uniform Investment Data &
Experience), such as Area Profiles, Area Surveys, Area Reports and other
research, is to provide executive summary information which becomes a
convenient search path to quickly discover when a potential business
location may be relevant to the needs of a project.
The ability to conveniently search the websites of
participating organizations complements this "high level" or "long list"
exploratory search work with the ability to drill down for more details
while working "on the short list" selection process.
That includes the capability to not only find basic
factual data attributes about the area, such as demographic statistics or
directories of available properties, but also to quickly search through
apparently relevant websites for information to address specific project
interests, including the recent experience of other investors in the area or
business clusters.
Incidentally, this service may also be useful as an easy
way for the participating communities to test how well Google is indexing
their websites. In short, not all content may be found easily in
searches, which may require some website design changes to help attract
relevant visitors. The list below may give a rough idea of how
comprehensively the total active pages on the website are being indexed, but
the point is to use the above search to test whether key words are yielding
the expected search results to take potential visitors to the most
appropriate pages on the website. This is, in effect, a quality
control process for website design to ensure that visitors can easily find
the most relevant content as expected.
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Contact Us
Please contact us to
discuss how our services may be of assistance.
It should now be easy to visualize that we can make it
easier for executives and their advisors to discover when a particular area
or service may be relevant to their interests.
We do this through personal referrals as well as our many specialized directories for
this niche market and related executive summary content (Area Profiles,
Service Profiles, Area Reports, Surveys, Ad Recall, Event Recall, etc.).
These can be found just by searching this site or
www.gdi-solutions.com
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This service makes it easy to find information about potentially
relevant business locations and services in a globally consistent way
through navigational links as well as the various custom
search features of this website and at
http://www.gdi-solutions.com/search.htm
We also provide independent personal referrals in response
to project enquiries, like a concierge service with a strong network of
contacts and market knowledge. We can also assist areas and service
providers with their targeted marketing efforts.
We can also help executives with custom research needs in
particular regions of interest, whether or not a new investment project is
being planned at the time. Our colleague in Europe
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The Locations directory includes
executive summary Area Profiles which are used for pre-visit briefings and
for quick reference at any time. It may also include links to
the personal Biographic Profiles of the key
contacts in such areas. After a Tour event, it will also include links
to the Area Report or other relevant content. |
As this website develops, it will be easy for visitors to
search this website for content relevant to their interests, which will then
link out to other websites for more details. In effect, the executive
summary presentations create a search path to find the details, but we have
also made it easy to search the relevant websites directly for anything. |
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Similarly, the Sponsors directory
highlights the host organization and well as other sponsors which may
participate in support of Tour events. This may include links to Area
Profiles, Service Profiles, Biographic Profiles, Area Reports or other
relevant content. This makes it easy to find such
contacts quickly again at any time - both for the Tour participants and
others who may not yet have met them, but are interested in the area. |
Similar search
features by Global Direct Investment Solutions
We have similarly
made it easy to search economic development magazine websites, such as to
find articles on topics of interest in a globally consistent and easy way.
This will be adapted into a new Media Search
feature on this website.
http://www.gdi-solutions.com/research/devmags.htm
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The Area Reports directory will
make it easy to find any available reports from prior events. This
shares useful market knowledge beyond the few participants involved in the
event. This template
example shows the basic structure of such Area Reports. The content of
such reports provides many relevant search paths for any of the consultants
or other visitors to this website to find out about the area whenever it may
be relevant to their interests. Area Reports will also be featured on
our main website
www.gdi-solutions.com |
We have also made it easy to search some of the available
corporate real estate (CRE) property listing services through the very fast
and flexible Google site search feature rather than through standard forms
for database queries by common attributes such as the building size,
location, eave height, etc. This makes it possibly to quickly search
for anything relevant which might be contained in the property listing.
This will be adapted into a new CRE Search
feature on this website, along with other new research features.
http://www.gdi-solutions.com/research/cre_listings.htm
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This is a new feature, and will be updated as we confirm who
participates to support our work in 2006, including the new Tour events
for Area Reports with site consultants or
Meeting Point services to pre-schedule
introductory meetings at other events. The Meeting
Point service may be helpful to economic development organizations and
professional service providers (not just location consultants) which sponsor
or have exhibits or hospitality events at trade shows, professional
association meetings, or other events.
Meeting Point provides an efficient process to promote and
pre-schedule introductory B2B meetings as a shared service at such events.
Instead of trying to arrange meetings exclusively on behalf of one
organization, which can be quite costly, this can make it easier to develop
introductory meetings for a selective group of participants at such events. |
Tips about using these custom site search features
Not all pages on a website may be indexed. This depends
on a variety of website design factors and search engine processes.
The site search tools provided by the respective websites may
be more comprehensive if they provide access to content which Google does
not index, or very recent content which Google may not have crawled yet.
Since these Google results are the same as those which are
available in a general Google Search of the World Wide Web - but limited to
the content of a specific site - this can also be helpful for the
participating areas to test how Google is finding results on their website,
and how the results of interest would appear to Google Search users.
This can make it easier for relevant visitors to find what they are seeking
in that area. |
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Google may not index all website pages of such organizations
because of their design, but our market research work in this niche makes
many relevant pages available for quick reference in
a globally consistent way. |
We also maintain an
Invest USA
directory for regional, city, county and local economic development
contacts by state, and a similar
NAFTA and
Invest in
Europe directory . See also :
Global contacts
for other business locations and services worldwide. |
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Area Search (this page) highlights Tour host areas and sponsor
organizations.
Additional
websites to search may be added selectively.
Suggestions for improvement are welcome. Relevant
reciprocal links are also welcome.
Our main SEARCH feature (button above) focuses on the websites of the
professionals so that it is easier to learn about their capabilities and
specialization in more detail than the executive summaries we provide in our
Service Profiles and
Biographic Profiles. Area Profiles and Area Reports can do
the same thing for business locations.
USA Search is
for state economic development websites.
Europe Search is for
national or regional investment promotion agency websites.
CRE Search is for
corporate real estate listings and service providers.
Media Search is for economic development and other business news.
Event Search
is for major trade shows or association events relevant to this niche
Local Search opens a Google Local map search
browser window for convenience |
The SEARCH button (in the
header, or UP on other custom search pages) makes it easy to find most of the content and 20,000+ links to
relevant resources worldwide through the hundreds of pages which
Google has indexed on
www.gdi-solutions.com
That reference website now attracts visitors at a pace of
500,000 per year, which is a 150% increase from 2004 when we launched it.
Daily
visits graph.
It also makes it easy to selectively search the websites of
professional service providers relevant to our work.
The same tool can search this website for any content in our
directories of business location Professionals, Locations (pre-visit
and updated Area Profile briefings about host areas),
Sponsors (such as host organizations and those
who sponsor Tour events or our other services), and the
Area Reports (post-Tour visit reports) and
Biographic Profiles (individual professional
experience). |
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May 10, 2007 - The White House has issued a new "Open
Economies" policy statement and press release which includes the new
Invest in America initiative at the US Department of Commerce within the
International Trade Administration (ITA). In the
past, Commerce Department officials in the International Trade
Administration, including Foreign Commercial Service officers and other
staff at US embassies, have been tasked primarily with US export promotion
and trade policy tasks. Now they will also focus on the attraction of
foreign direct investment projects to the USA.
White House press release and policy statement about Open Economies
See also further
background at
www.ShortListNews.com |
March 7, 2007 - A new "Invest in America"
initiative has been announced by the US Department of Commerce.
This is a major change in US policy. Other countries
proactively seek to attract and retain foreign direct investment projects.
The US has left that almost entirely up to US states and
local areas until now as a very fragmented approach with limited resources.
It will take time for this new policy to have a
significant impact, but it seems to be a major change in policy which may
attract both bi-partisan support and criticism.
www.investamerica.gov |
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