On The Short List

The Professional Site Selection Tool

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This efficiently shares more direct knowledge of such areas with our executive contacts and other professionals who were unable to participate in our research trips.  Sponsors are also given private feedback and suggestions as part of the Tour report work.

Area Search - sponsor and host websites  or Search the professional websites

Getting "On The Short List"    To Sponsor / Host a "Tour"

The Reports page is also similar, and organized by location, but it focuses on summaries of the linked post-visit Reports.  This Locations page summarizes the host Area Profiles before and after the events.

Refer also to www.gdi-solutions.com for information about other locations worldwide, such as through the Invest USA or global and regional or professional directories

This section will highlight upcoming Tour events, as in the Schedule.

Area Profiles here will reflect pre-Tour research to brief visitors about the host areas.

The Area Reports below will summarize key points from Tour visits, and the Area Profiles will also be updated as appropriate to reflect the research work during such visits.

This is a new list, and will be updated as we confirm who will sponsor the Tour in 2006.

Area Profiles reflect pre-Tour research to prepare for visits to sponsor areas.

The Area Reports will summarize key points from the visits to the sponsor areas..

Host area sponsors may sometimes choose to invite professional service providers to their Tour events who do not specialize in business location consulting services, but whose client work with investment projects in their region is relevant to this specialty.

Examples may include logistics consultants, corporate real estate brokers, architects, engineers, industrial and office park developers or construction firms, lawyers, incentives consultants, tax advisors and other specialists.  We can therefore highlight the experience of these participants as appropriate according to their primary specialty, but distinguish their work from our focus on location consultants as listed above.

We also receive feedback from consultants about "familiarization tours" to which they have been invited in the past, or in which they have participated.  We take their views into consideration and consult them about their interests when planning future Tour events.

Host sponsors should recognize that some of these consultants frequently compete for the same clients.  Many have also worked together in the past.  Some get along well with their peers, and others do not.  Small events - or even individualized visits - can therefore sometimes be more productive for everyone involved than large events.

It generally should not be in the interest of Sponsors to have individuals visit unless there is some good reason which makes it worth their mutual time, effort, and cost to organize and actively participate in a useful program.  For example, a disinterested or irrelevant visitor on a traditional familiarization tour or at a hospitality event may not make a good impression on the local supporters of the Sponsor organization.  Large events also may not be as productive for relationship development as smaller, more selective ones.

The mix of participants in each Tour event will be more selective than the full list of all professionals who might be invited to traditional familiarization tour or hospitality events.

Sponsor areas can choose to invite whoever they please, but our goal is to help attract very relevant professionals who will take a a serious interest in their presentations, as they would be expected to do if visiting with a client when the area is "on the short list".

Participation in the Professional Site Selection Tour does not involve any express or implied warranty by such participants about our services, nor by us about theirs.  This is an independent service to help organize useful visits by professional business advisors to the sponsor areas.  If we have any working relationship such as to perform marketing work directly on behalf of the professional participants or Sponsor areas, these are openly disclosed in the Service Profiles or Area Profiles which summarize their capabilities.

If you know professional business advisors who you think should be invited to participate in the Tour, or have comments about the participants from experience working with them, please contact Bruce Donnelly at 847-304-4655 to discuss your suggestions.