Does your Community or State have a Comprehensive Economic Development Plan?For many communities across the world, Tourism is just one part of the Economy. The goal of comprehensive economic development in my mind is to import money in. That can be achieved by: 1. Payroll dollars, creating jobs which pay more, hire more, and bring money in that spend in your locality instead of elsewhere. 2. Homeowner money. The person or family buys a home, so that person or family will do most of its consuming locally. Food, materials for the home, services for the home and family, and supplies for the use of items such as school supplies, fuel for the vehicle and more. 3. Tourism, the community attracts people and their money into the area, The money is spent on food, lodging, shopping for interesting items, enjoying sports of many kinds, and or coming to visit family. So the importing of more money into an area by a combination of the three (3) items is a sound economic development base. Does your community have a strategy? How are you telling people about the area's resources? Well, the internet is a great resource and is far reaching. I would say people searching for areas, to live, work, or visit, want to see it, Become educated about it, Then maybe they can be persuaded into coming to the area. Some resources that may need enhancement are what your online presence is telling them about your area. So how are you doing? Is your community online attractive? If not then it's time to hire the experts, to collaboratively build out your presence. http://jdyourmarketing.blogspot.com/ http://ditbm.weebly.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus,_Wisconsin

1. Digital Community
Enhancement
Does the Internet Affect a Community?

2. What does a recent Image Search say about you?

3. What kind of Videos are describing your community?

4. Is Facebook showing your best businesses?

5. What things are there to do in your community?

6. Do your businesses know what sites to populate?

7. Can they find Commercial Real Estate

8. Is the Commercial Real Esate available sites and attractive?

9. Value Proposition
Drop in the Bucket Marketing can build out your community.
Drop in the Bucket Marketing can advise your businesses how to build out the
digital community.
The Digital Community is for large and small businesses, Let us show you why
and how?
Increased awareness can only build business, economics, and the tax base!

10. So is Carbondale, Illinois a great Digital Community?
Actually not bad but more improvements could help?