About the Economic Development Directory

This is the internet marketplace for economic development: It.is a directory of the websites of important economic development agencies. Not every agency website is listed -- only websites with significant information useful to consultants and business people deciding on communities or regions to contact for site selection negotiations.

Site selection consultants, consultants for economic development agencies, GIS suppliers, associations and research organizations in the field are listed separately.

Boxes with text are paid. The one-column Text Box is $195 for 12 months. The two-column Logo Box is $310 for 12 months. For more information, contact pokeefe@ecodevdirectory.com .

Who uses the Directory?  A consistent average of 19,000-20,000 people use the Directory in a month. 70% are regular users who have this Directory on their list of Favorites or Bookmarks. The other 30% are referred tothis Directory by Google, Yahoo or Bing. Ask Google for "Alabama economic development." High up on the first page is this Economic Development Directory. (Or try any other state.)

Why do they use the Directory? 90% of site selection decisions are made behind closed doors. As one consultant put it: "Confidentiality must be maintained until the search is narrowed down to the final 5 or 6 communities for visits."

The internet is the first and most important investigating tool for almost everyone -- local business people, company real estate departments, consultants.

 The new book "Economic Development Marketing" by Ubalde and Simundza makes this point clearly: "In the first three stages of a site selection -- initial search, developing a long list of possible areas, and narrowing the long list down to a few finalists -- site selectors are far more likely to visit a website than to make a call to the organization."

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