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Please Contact Us if we may be of assistance with market research or investment project plans, or tell us more about your current or future interests for opt-in research work (scroll down).

Beyond the content which we share openly through this website and www.gdi-solutions.com, we have extensive experience and networks of contacts in this market to help find what you need or to offer helpful suggestions, as in the analogy of a global concierge service for this market.

We also welcome suggestions and feedback about our services or any business locations or services which are relevant to this niche market.  In particular, we welcome your insights into "lessons learned" and "proven solutions" which your peers might find to be helpful knowledge, whether we can quote you directly (with permission) or simply help others privately to find such resources and apply your experience to avoid costly project delays or unexpected pitfalls.

Please contact us if we may be of assistance.

Our new www.ShortListNews.com website may be of special interest.  Try the new Search: Americas tools.

Please help us to shape our market research priorities according to your interests.

Call Bruce Donnelly at 847-304-4655 (Chicago) or send an e-mail to suggest any business locations, services, or other topics which you would like us to research.  We can then inform you as you choose (mail, fax, e-mail, or phone) whenever we have significant new information to share on the topics of specific interest to you.

We can also perform private market research work as a special project, but if you just inform us about your expected interests, we can use that knowledge to guide our own research work and encourage relevant areas and services to share even more information through this channel than is possible with our own research resources.

There is deliberately no registration process for access to the information which we share openly through our websites with anyone who might find such information to be helpful for their interests or project plans.  There is no process to track who uses the website, or why.  Similarly, as we respond to enquiries, we do so privately in confidence.  We don't distribute enquiries or registration information to all of our contacts like "bingo cards" for magazine advertisers or sale of subscriber lists.  We offer relevant introductory referrals and private research work on request.

We analyze our website visit statistics, online advertising results, and page statistics as basic indicators of whether we seem to be reaching our intended audience and providing what they want.  For example, as interest in a particular region or type of service increases, we try to focus more research work on that area so that the available information is more timely and complete.  To better address your interests, however, we need to know more about them at your discretion.

A simple phone call or e-mail is sufficient to tell us what you would like to know in general (not just to support a specific investment project plan) so that we can focus our research work more precisely on what you would most like to find through this website or our personal referral work.

We may already know where to find what you need, or can readily find it, so our work is not limited to the website content and links or the contacts identified in the directories.

Replies enable us to focus on research which is known to be relevant to your interests for continuous improvement.  It also enables us to notify you when significant new information comes to our attention which we believe may interest you according to your instructions.  Rather than simply publish general content through the website or distribute periodic newsletters about recent developments, this helps us to customize our response as we try to address your specific needs.

Aside from our own ability to do custom research work, we can provide referrals or work with other research professionals.  We can help to organize shared research projects according to the special interests of a group of executives or service providers.  This can provide a more efficient way to perform custom research which would interest more than one company.

For example, if we know that 10 companies want to get much better information about the business investment climate in a particular region, we can develop a proposal to perform such research work as a shared service for all 10 companies, so that the cost to each is much less.  This can also support better shared research work than one company alone could justify.

Our services are intended for business executives and professional advisors whose work is relevant to our specialization in the support of corporate direct investment project plans.  It is not a general offer to do free research work for anyone (students, general Internet users, etc.).