A pattern shows up in conversations with economic development directors who are new to their roles. It almost does not matter whether they are taking over a two-person county office or a regional authority with a full staff. Within the first few months, they run into the same wall. There is no system. Or more […]
A mid-sized city (population ~135,000) recently joined the Executive Pulse family and asked us to import the community’s entire business population into the CRM. In the end, there were just under 10,000 records. I participated in several internal calls about the data migration and realized that the majority of businesses that our team and our […]
Every economic development professional has experienced that sinking feeling: learning that a major employer is relocating, only after the decision has already been made. By the time you see the press release or hear through the grapevine, it’s often too late to intervene. But business relocations rarely happen overnight. Companies typically signal their intentions months […]