Economic Development
Attract new projects, jobs, and investment to your community
Over 20,000 economic development entities around the world are fiercely competing for new jobs and investment. With cut-throat competition and other formidable obstacles, business attraction has become an increasingly difficult endeavor. SLP’s Economic Development Practice offers progressive solutions based on firsthand knowledge of what drives location decisions, the perspective of the corporate decision maker, and extensive experience working as economic developers. Our services are designed to intensify your marketing efforts, optimize your investment, and give you the competitive edge you’re seeking.
SLP’s continuous site consulting activities with corporate executives provide valuable insight on which strategies are effective in influencing site selectors and corporate decision makers. Many traditional marketing methods utilize a “shotgun” approach, which entails generic marketing to random companies. This undisciplined approach lacks focus and often leads to wasted time, effort and marketing dollars by pursuing inappropriate industries. Shotgun approach methods such as print advertising, direct mail and other generic lead generators have clearly become outdated, lack consistency and are no longer cost-effective.
A diversified, targeted approach is the critical element for success in today’s ultra-competitive business recruitment environment. SLP’s dynamic strategy integrates targeted industry prospect development, site selector meetings, trade show representation, site consultant forums, web exposure, and other components to showcase the strengths of your location and attract quality projects from your coveted industries. Realizing that one size does not fit all, our action plan and service delivery models are customized to address your unique needs.
Endorsements
“The Fairfield Economic Development Corporation’s experience with Site Location Partnership has been highly successful and enjoyable. SLP provided the lead that led to the first manufacturing project to locate in our new industrial park. This project will create over $9 Million in capital investment and create 14 new jobs for our community. We are very pleased with SLP and their hard work representing Fairfield. I recommend their services to any economic development organization.”
“We appreciate our relationship with SLP and their very thorough approach to generating new prospects for our organization. They have proven to be a cost-effective way to gain exposure for our county across a wide range of industries. By utilizing SLP for our business recruitment activities, we’re able to reach a much larger audience than we could possibly access on our own. They also provide us with representation at several trade shows each year – visibility that our limited resources would not allow us to attain on our own. Working with SLP has been a good investment for our organization.”
“When the opportunity to work with Site Location Partnership came along, we jumped on it. In years past, we would place a print ad in a variety of site magazines. It was a good way of getting our name out there, but we’d never really get to talk to people face-to-face. SLP’s services are so much more aggressive. We’re now out there talking to site selectors instead of just running an ad and hoping somebody calls. We plant those seeds and develop those relationships. It really does work. Plus, the annual cost of our investment with SLP is less than what we used to pay for just one print ad.”
“When we evaluated how to best leverage our economic development dollars to increase visibility and heighten awareness among decision makers in corporate expansion and relocation, Site Location Partnership’s services stood out above the rest. We feel that economic development is an industry that thrives on personal and business relationships. SLP offers us a great avenue with the resources to build and nurture the types of relationships that translate into results for us.”
“We have worked with Site Location Partnership for the last few years with great success. Their services have yielded two quality projects that located to our community. The first was a plastics manufacturing company, and the second was a transportation equipment manufacturing company. SLP has a proven track record of delivering measurable results with an unmatched return on investment. I highly recommend their services to any community seeking assistance with lead generation for economic development.”
“We know that economic development organizations around the country and throughout the world are becoming more aggressive in their business recruitment efforts. With limited resources, we need to get the biggest bang for our buck. Our investment with SLP has paid off in terms of developing stronger relationships with site consultants and targeting industry sectors such as manufacturing, warehousing/distribution, and aviation.”
“We’ve received tremendous value and return on investment by utilizing SLP as our sole business attraction service. I have found them to be one of the most innovative, forward-thinking companies we have dealt with and I certainly view them as market leaders from this perspective. We are very pleased with their work in aggressively recruiting targeted industries on our behalf and facilitating meetings for us with business leaders and site selection decision makers. As a smaller market, SLP provides us with invaluable opportunities that we otherwise could not generate on our own.”
Contact Us
Office
Site Location Partnership (SLP)
6021 Morriss Road, Ste 107
Flower Mound, TX 75028
Phone: 972-874-SITE (7483)
Fax: 972-692-0384