Contact Us if we may assist
you with a business location search anywhere in the USA, such as site
selection for a new office, factory, distribution center or other
operations.
Scroll down for an explanation of
this USA Search feature and other custom search tools. Refer also to
our Invest
USA directory for state and local economic development contacts.
Try our unique
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 about
potential business locations.
This custom Google site search tool is provided for
selective 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.
Try the new Search: Americas
tools to search across states or provinces in North America, or to search
across many local areas within states.
Tip : See Google "Cheat
Sheet" help page for advanced web search features.
Some websites, because of their design, may
provide content which Google does not index. In other cases, websites
have been relocated or the advertised domain names are not the actual URL's
where the website content is now found, but rather redirect the user.
We will update the above list to make it more comprehensive as such
discrepancies are resolved. Please inform us if you discover any
broken or obsolete links for any state.
Other state websites may be added in the future according to
feedback from the corporate executives, professional business advisors, and
sponsors we serve about what they would like to search this way, because
this tool is designed for their convenience.
A new feature under development in April 2006 is a
collection of articles by state economic development officials on the topic
of why to invest in their state. These articles will be found as they
are received and published at :
They will also be featured through links on a new "Long
List" page on this website.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Other custom
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 is the new Media Search
feature on this website.
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.
Try the new CRE Search
feature on this website, along with other new research features.
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.
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.
The custom Google site search above
can quickly find
any content Google has indexed on the selected websites of US state economic development agencies,
or on this website or www.gdi-solutions.com.
We also maintain an Invest USA
directory for regional, city, county and local economic development
contacts by state, and a similar
NAFTA directory See also : Global contacts
for other business locations and services worldwide.
Google may not index all website pages of such organizations
because of their design, but our market research work in this niche makes
thousands of relevant pages available for quick
reference in a globally consistent way.
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 to test how Google is finding
results for such a site, and how the results of interest would appear to
Google Search users.
This complements our Area Search feature, which will
selectively search the websites of Tour hosts and sponsors. Both
make it easy for professionals to research such areas in advance or
following a Tour visit or meeting, or as they evaluate whether the area
should be "on the short list" for a client's
project. These features also help the executives we serve
through our own market research and personal referral
work or other services.
Suggestions for improvements to this USA Search feature
are welcome.
Additional
websites to search may be added selectively. Relevant
reciprocal links are also welcome.
Many other economic
development organizations within each state can be found through our Invest USA
Directory.
USA Search is
for state economic development websites (this page).
Area Search is for
local areas and Tour host or sponsor organizations
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
Our main SEARCH feature (UP
in the header of this or other custom search pages) 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. Those summaries create easy search paths to
recognize when their services may be relevant. Area Profiles and Area
Surveys can do the same thing for business locations.
These custom site search features make 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 is our more comprehensive global
reference website, which now attracts visitors at a pace of 500,000
visitors per
year.
Daily visits graph.
Our more selective
directories on this website 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) will be easy to search in the same manner.
