iedc marketing and attraction: understanding the product
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IEDC Marketing and Attraction: Understanding
the Product
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I Data
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Questions We Will Answer
1. What data should I measure about my community?
2. Who are the audiences for the data I produce?
3. What formats do those consumers want information in?
4. How to use data to position your community
5. What data should I measure about my organization?
6. How should I go about selecting targeted industries?
7. Who in the organization should do this work?
8. What tools make it easier for me?
9. What should I outsource versus do in house?
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What Data Should I Measure about my
Community?
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Don’t reinvent the wheel – start where others have left off
http://www.iedconline.org/?p=data_standards
Demographics Four year colleges Labor Union information
Labor Force Community colleges Transportation assets
Employment by industry
Vocational/ technical centers
Real estate occupancy
New companies to the area
Payroll costs by industry
Utilities
Military bases Average salary by occupation
Environmental information
Research institutions Workers comp costs Government
International resources Quality of Life Available Real Estate
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Who Are the Audiences for the Data I Produce?
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Consider your audience when spending your time:
1. Site selectors and companies value workforce, labor, cost, and other comparative data.
2. Your investors, stakeholders, and other local businesses want to know about the performance of the economy over time.
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Tracey Hyatt Bosman
• Midwest Practice Leader – Biggins, Lacy and Shapiro
• Based in Chicago, IL
• Former economic developer
• Specializes in renewable energy and data centers
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What Tracey needs and doesn’t need
What We Need• Contact information• Incentive programs• Tax rates• Recent announcements• Industry-targeted info• Map of your territory• Largest employers• Area colleges and
universities
What We Don’t• General labor statistics• Secondary source wage
information• Real estate listings• Rankings• Distance to other major
cities
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Keith Gendreau
• Based in Cushman & Wakefield’s headquarters in New York City, NY, moving to Minneapolis this fall
• Consulting Manager within C&W’s Global Business Consulting division
• Geographer by Trade. Master’s Degree in Economic Development
• Very specialized skills in GIS analysis and tools
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Site Selection Trends • The location strategy process has remained largely unchanged over the past decade. What
has changed are the timeframe and tools for which to deliver results and recommendations. Today, more so than ever, clients are:
• Making decisions quickly and efficiently;• Seeking available buildings meeting specific requirements;• Cost sensitive (labor, utilities, freight, occupancy, incentives offset); and,• Interested in the ‘bottomline’ operating cost vs. non-cost environment classic tradeoff.
• General Trends• C&W Business Consulting has experienced a significant uptick in site selection activity
by foreign companies seeking to manufacture products locally in the United States vs. abroad
• Exchange rates and rising transportation costs a possible contributing factor to foreign interest
• Continued revelation of spatial integration of data
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Decision Support Data Sources and Tools
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping
Location specific wage database
C&W Team, 150+ years of specific relevant experience
Comprehensive demographic and segmentation database
Spatial and non-spatial data integration
Comprehensive Industry employment forecast, population mobility data
• C&W Global Business Consulting maintains the most up to date demographic databases and spatial analysis tools to execute projects of this type.
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• Situation: – Headquarters relocation from Midwest– Includes a new showcase manufacturing facility– Critical international air service requirement
• Once 2 priority metros were identified, a sub-market location screen was conducted:– Headquarters
• “Cluster” analysis focused on satisfying executive lifestyles including, quality-of-life, commute times, and airport access.
– Manufacturing Facility• Facility must reside within 45-60 minutes of the new headquarters. Human
resources driven, other key considerations include sites/buildings and incentives.
• Results support:• Site recommendations for due-diligence field study (define top two
headquarters and three manufacturing in order of preference)• Viability of least preferred markets• Likelihood and magnitude of incentive benefits
Case Study 1: Workforce Analysis
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Case Study 1: Workforce Analysis
• To identify best HQ submarkets, the analysis focused on resident characteristics aligned with relocatee demographics and quality-of-life indicators.
• Plotting of “executive lifestyle clusters” (green shading) within a 60-minute drivetime of Philadelphia airport.
• Client expressed interest in considering the Navy Shipyard as a possible co-location scenario for both manufacturing and headquarters operations.
• Radnor submarket & vicinity identified as optimally positioned for maximum regional commutable executive housing options.
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Your local stakeholders want your opinion and analysis
1. What are the trends in the local economy?
2. What does this data mean?
3. What does it mean for their business?
LAEDC: 25,000 person mailing list, updates sent weekly
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What Formats Do Those Consumers Want Information in?
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Sample Formats and Delivery
Data Delivery method
Format
Workforce data Online, in GIS system
In GIS system, exporting to excel
Employment data Online Downloadable Excel
Cost data Online Downloadable Excel
Infrastructure Online GIS maps and illustrated maps
Commentary on the economy
Online, in print Narrative
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What Data Should I Measure About My
Organization?
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Key organizational data (for internal use)
1. Interactions with the organizationa. Web visits
b. Inquiries and companies served
2. Impact of the organizationa. Projects completed
b. Jobs created/influenced
c. Capital investment
3. Other operating metrics
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Offer to Webinar Attendees:
Benchmark your community’s activity against similarly sized communities
http://Atlas2012BenchmarkingSurvey.questionpro.com
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Sample report
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How Should I Go About Selecting Targeted
Industries?
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How to select targeted industries
• The easy way: Use the industries that states and regions you are in have selected
• The hard way: Do your own research, and do positioning statements for each industry. If you have no differentiators for an industry, don’t select the industry.
• The expensive way: Hire a firm for a 3-9 month study
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How to use data to position your community competitively
Positioning is answering the following questions:
Who are my target customers? What are their needs?What type of community are we in their minds?What needs of theirs do we meet?What needs of theirs do we meet better than other communities?
For: Aerospace, Biomedical location decision makersWho need: Highly technical workforce, competitive labor costs, and access to intl. airportHouston is: a large regionThat offers: Workforce trained by NASA and the Texas Medical Center, and a cost of doing business that is 5% below the national averageUnlike: Other large cities, Houston has a larger workforce pool at costs as much as 30% less than comparable coastal communities.
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DIY: Foundation for positioning
1. Decide on your audience
2. Understand their drivers and needs
3. Understand who your comparison communities are
4. Do the research on yourself and the other communities
5. Find out the one or two unique elements of your
community
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Who in the Organization Should Do This Work?
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Roles in the organization (in house)
Title Research they access
Key audience served
Executive All All, including investors, stakeholders
Business Development
Product research Relocating, and Expanding companies
Marketing Product research Relocating, and Expanding companies
Research All Internal and external audiences
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What Tools Make it Easier For Me?
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What tools are available to you to understand your community?
Government Sources Private sources
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Tools to gather organizational data
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What Should I Outsource Versus do In House?
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What should I outsource vs. do myself?
Data Do in house Outsource
Comparative product data
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Time series product data and narrative
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Organizational data
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Questions We Will Answer
1. What data should I measure about my community?
2. Who are the audiences for the data I produce?
3. What formats do those consumers want information in?
4. How to use data to position your community
5. What data should I measure about my organization?
6. How should I go about selecting targeted industries?
7. Who in the organization should do this work?
8. What tools make it easier for me?
9. What should I outsource versus do in house?
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Contact Atlas
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Denver, CO 80203
Contact: Melissa Pasquale
t: 303.292.3300 x 223
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