Putting High Performance Economic Development into Practice: A Guide for Economic Development Leaders and their Boards | EDAC Performance Measurement in Economic Development Seminar
91% of B2B marketers use content marketing.
61% of EDO’s Use Content Marketing
82% of prospects say content targeted to their industry is more valuable.
Content marketing generates 1.1 billion ad impressions per year.
See How Content Marketing works for Economic Development!
Social Media For Business Retention and ExpansionAtlas Integrated
With majority of businesses online, EDOs cannot afford not to connect through social media. A key tool to support local businesses, social media allows economic developers to connect with owners, stay up to date on news impacting the business and discover opportunities to help companies expand locally. Discover how to super charge your organization’s BRE program using social media.
Competing in Economic Development? Use BenchmarkingAtlas Integrated
As economic developers, each one of us is interested in what our peers are doing. The most admired EDOs always seem to be doing things a little bit differently, a little bit better. During this webinar, we will show you how certain communities are taking the time to find new, meaningful ways to measure their impact, adjust their tactics, and play on an entirely different level. Find out who the highest performing economic development organizations in the country are and what they are doing to stay on top.
We believe that traditional economic development marketing and attraction is undergoing a radical change, redirection and refocus. In this upcoming webinar we wanted to take the time to address these changes and talk about how economic development organizations like those of your members can take advantage of them.
In a landscape of limited resources and heightened accountability, economic development organizations must know how to measure and communicate the value of their efforts. Based on feedback provided by participating IEDC respondents, attendees in this session will have an opportunity to benchmark the economic impact of their organizations versus those in over hundreds of other communities. Featuring case studies and illustrations of successful local and regional efforts, this panel will demonstrate how your community can compete in today's crowded economic development marketplace and add value for its citizens, businesses, and local stakeholders.
What you will learn:
• How to manage the conversation regarding the effectiveness of your community's economic development efforts
• Strategies for measuring success and communicating results to important stakeholders
• How economic development organizations of varying size and scope are adding value to their communities, and how their success can be replicated
Moderator: Ben Wright, Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Advertising, Denver, CO
Speakers:
• Barry G. Broome, President & CEO, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Phoenix, AZ
• Susan Davenport, Vice President of Economic Development, Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce and Council for Economic Outreach, Gainesville, FL
• Kenny McDonald, CEcD, Chief Economic Officer, Columbus2020, Columbus, OH
Economic development organizations have been using economic development performance metrics for years. However, with differing viewpoints, metrics have gotten muddy and misunderstood.
Lucky for the profession...
In 2011, Atlas put together its first survey of EDO outcomes, to assist EDOs in planning their marketing, business attraction, and business retention programs. In 2014, IEDC published "Making it Count," a guide on metrics for high performing EDOs.
But...
In 2016, the general public is still weary about the value of economic development and what we do in our profession.
This presentation is our take on how economic developers can leverage metrics for their day to day and how it impacts the effect that they have on thier economy.
91% of B2B marketers use content marketing.
61% of EDO’s Use Content Marketing
82% of prospects say content targeted to their industry is more valuable.
Content marketing generates 1.1 billion ad impressions per year.
See How Content Marketing works for Economic Development!
Social Media For Business Retention and ExpansionAtlas Integrated
With majority of businesses online, EDOs cannot afford not to connect through social media. A key tool to support local businesses, social media allows economic developers to connect with owners, stay up to date on news impacting the business and discover opportunities to help companies expand locally. Discover how to super charge your organization’s BRE program using social media.
Competing in Economic Development? Use BenchmarkingAtlas Integrated
As economic developers, each one of us is interested in what our peers are doing. The most admired EDOs always seem to be doing things a little bit differently, a little bit better. During this webinar, we will show you how certain communities are taking the time to find new, meaningful ways to measure their impact, adjust their tactics, and play on an entirely different level. Find out who the highest performing economic development organizations in the country are and what they are doing to stay on top.
We believe that traditional economic development marketing and attraction is undergoing a radical change, redirection and refocus. In this upcoming webinar we wanted to take the time to address these changes and talk about how economic development organizations like those of your members can take advantage of them.
In a landscape of limited resources and heightened accountability, economic development organizations must know how to measure and communicate the value of their efforts. Based on feedback provided by participating IEDC respondents, attendees in this session will have an opportunity to benchmark the economic impact of their organizations versus those in over hundreds of other communities. Featuring case studies and illustrations of successful local and regional efforts, this panel will demonstrate how your community can compete in today's crowded economic development marketplace and add value for its citizens, businesses, and local stakeholders.
What you will learn:
• How to manage the conversation regarding the effectiveness of your community's economic development efforts
• Strategies for measuring success and communicating results to important stakeholders
• How economic development organizations of varying size and scope are adding value to their communities, and how their success can be replicated
Moderator: Ben Wright, Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Advertising, Denver, CO
Speakers:
• Barry G. Broome, President & CEO, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Phoenix, AZ
• Susan Davenport, Vice President of Economic Development, Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce and Council for Economic Outreach, Gainesville, FL
• Kenny McDonald, CEcD, Chief Economic Officer, Columbus2020, Columbus, OH
Economic development organizations have been using economic development performance metrics for years. However, with differing viewpoints, metrics have gotten muddy and misunderstood.
Lucky for the profession...
In 2011, Atlas put together its first survey of EDO outcomes, to assist EDOs in planning their marketing, business attraction, and business retention programs. In 2014, IEDC published "Making it Count," a guide on metrics for high performing EDOs.
But...
In 2016, the general public is still weary about the value of economic development and what we do in our profession.
This presentation is our take on how economic developers can leverage metrics for their day to day and how it impacts the effect that they have on thier economy.
A Practical Guide to LinkedIn for: Economic Development Marketing and Attrac...Atlas Integrated
As the most popular professional networking tool worldwide, LinkedIn is an obvious place for economic development agencies to focus their social media strategies. However, most users take advantage of only a small fraction of its business development potential. This hands-on, interactive, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) session in the Exhibit Hall will walk you through the practical ways you can put this online tool to use for networking, lead generation and business intelligence.
What you will learn:
• How to implement strategic improvements to your personal and organizational LinkedIn profiles
• Ways to employ an organizational profile for business retention and local community engagement
• Proven strategies for introductions, referrals, recommendations, and prospecting
Best Practices in Economic Development Websites Better ResultsAtlas Advertising
en Wright, Atlas CEO & Guillermo Mazier, Atlas’ Director of Strategic Accounts, will cover the latest theory, website examples from around the country and 2014's best practices of the biggest game changer economic development marketing has ever seen. Takeaway real tools and techniques to review and revamp your most important marketing asset – your website
Atlas High Performance Economic Development White PaperAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising's White Paper, "High Performance Economic Development, How Technology and Outcome-Based Metrics Will Save Economic Development Investment and Promotion as we Know It," details how economic development professionals can use industry benchmarks and proven marketing processes to better generate conversations with business and have a positive impact on their communities. Written by Atlas CEO Ben Wright.
Find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities. Through case studies and illustrations of successful EDOs, find out how top performing communities are competing in today's crowded economic development marketplace and where your community ranks among its peers.
The Science Behind Economic Development BrandingAtlas Integrated
The Science Behind Economic Development Branding: going beyond logos and taglines; the value of an economic development brand; why economic development branding is important; how prospects, site selectors, and visitors experience brands; and how to leverage a brand for the largest impact.
Atlas High Performance Economic Development is a Team Sport - Pure MichiganAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising and Community Systems CEO Ben Wright presents "High Performance Economic Development is a Team Sport" to Pure Michigan Economic Development team in 2015, in Kalamazoo, Michigan
EDOs have been measuring their performance for years, but with differing viewpoints, metrics have gotten muddy and misunderstood. In 2011, Atlas put together its first survey of EDO outcomes to assist EDOs in planning their marketing, business attraction, and business retention programs.
Your Rock Solid Digital Approach to Attract More Industry AttentionAtlas Integrated
Learn how to identify which digital tools attract attention from companies, how to incorporate industry attraction into your digital media strategy, how to digitally target entrepreneurs within an industry, and how to digitally target site selectors and business location decision makers.
People are a community's greatest asset. They create growing, thriving, and sustainable places. People bring high caliber skills to markets and can help good communities become great communities. So what's your people strategy? Does your organization use workforce development or workforce attraction strategies to foster or find its people? This presentation defines each strategy and shows how both can be utilized for community success.
Ben Wright, Atlas CEO & Guillermo Mazier, Atlas’ Director of Strategic Accounts, cover the latest theories, metrics and best practices to prove that economic development makes a difference for communities.
Using Social Media to Measure Economic Development SuccessAtlas Integrated
Find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities. Through case studies and illustrations of successful EDOs, find out how top performing communities are competing in today's crowded economic development marketplace and where your community ranks among its peers.
Do you have an economic development website? Is it an effective marketing tool? How do you know if your website is dying? In 'Is Your Economic Development Website Dying,' we cover the following topics: best of the best in community branding online, tips for outstanding online content, functional website navigation and usability, how to use social media effectively, best practices in website analytics.
Position your place so site selectors and other target audiences don't pass your community by as they search online. Put your best 'digital' foot forward and create interest and excitement around your community's assets. Present your digital information in a way that's consumable and digestible and allows site selectors and other location decision makers to gather and compile data at the drop of a hat.
Mixing Business with Pleasure: How DMOs & EDOs Realize Ultimate Community Vit...Atlas Advertising
Understanding how destinations and economic development organizations are breaking down silos to strengthen individual industry efforts while simultaneously contributing to the success of the other
Top 5 Ways to Get More Marketing Investment in Your CommunityAtlas Integrated
The Top Five Ways to Get More Marketing Investment in Your Community will help you understand how to best position your organization (rationale for support) for financial consideration, how to validate (measure) your marketing efforts so that prospects see their worth, how to put together a proposal to solicit funds, and how to create a holistic approach (and not miss any key steps) to a funding campaign.
Mixing Business with Pleasure: How DMOs & EDOs Realize Ultimate Community Vit...Atlas Integrated
Understand how destinations and economic development
organizations are breaking down silos to strengthen individual
industry efforts while simultaneously contributing to the success
of the other
Atlas 7 Keys to High Performance Economic DevelopmentAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising CEO Ben Wright and Manager of Strategic Accounts Guillermo Mazier are joined by Janet Miller, from the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Sara Dunnigan of the Greater Richmond Partnership, and Clint Kolby of the Brenham Economic Development Foundation to discuss 7 Keys to High Performance Economic Development.
A Practical Guide to LinkedIn for: Economic Development Marketing and Attrac...Atlas Integrated
As the most popular professional networking tool worldwide, LinkedIn is an obvious place for economic development agencies to focus their social media strategies. However, most users take advantage of only a small fraction of its business development potential. This hands-on, interactive, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) session in the Exhibit Hall will walk you through the practical ways you can put this online tool to use for networking, lead generation and business intelligence.
What you will learn:
• How to implement strategic improvements to your personal and organizational LinkedIn profiles
• Ways to employ an organizational profile for business retention and local community engagement
• Proven strategies for introductions, referrals, recommendations, and prospecting
Best Practices in Economic Development Websites Better ResultsAtlas Advertising
en Wright, Atlas CEO & Guillermo Mazier, Atlas’ Director of Strategic Accounts, will cover the latest theory, website examples from around the country and 2014's best practices of the biggest game changer economic development marketing has ever seen. Takeaway real tools and techniques to review and revamp your most important marketing asset – your website
Atlas High Performance Economic Development White PaperAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising's White Paper, "High Performance Economic Development, How Technology and Outcome-Based Metrics Will Save Economic Development Investment and Promotion as we Know It," details how economic development professionals can use industry benchmarks and proven marketing processes to better generate conversations with business and have a positive impact on their communities. Written by Atlas CEO Ben Wright.
Find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities. Through case studies and illustrations of successful EDOs, find out how top performing communities are competing in today's crowded economic development marketplace and where your community ranks among its peers.
The Science Behind Economic Development BrandingAtlas Integrated
The Science Behind Economic Development Branding: going beyond logos and taglines; the value of an economic development brand; why economic development branding is important; how prospects, site selectors, and visitors experience brands; and how to leverage a brand for the largest impact.
Atlas High Performance Economic Development is a Team Sport - Pure MichiganAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising and Community Systems CEO Ben Wright presents "High Performance Economic Development is a Team Sport" to Pure Michigan Economic Development team in 2015, in Kalamazoo, Michigan
EDOs have been measuring their performance for years, but with differing viewpoints, metrics have gotten muddy and misunderstood. In 2011, Atlas put together its first survey of EDO outcomes to assist EDOs in planning their marketing, business attraction, and business retention programs.
Your Rock Solid Digital Approach to Attract More Industry AttentionAtlas Integrated
Learn how to identify which digital tools attract attention from companies, how to incorporate industry attraction into your digital media strategy, how to digitally target entrepreneurs within an industry, and how to digitally target site selectors and business location decision makers.
People are a community's greatest asset. They create growing, thriving, and sustainable places. People bring high caliber skills to markets and can help good communities become great communities. So what's your people strategy? Does your organization use workforce development or workforce attraction strategies to foster or find its people? This presentation defines each strategy and shows how both can be utilized for community success.
Ben Wright, Atlas CEO & Guillermo Mazier, Atlas’ Director of Strategic Accounts, cover the latest theories, metrics and best practices to prove that economic development makes a difference for communities.
Using Social Media to Measure Economic Development SuccessAtlas Integrated
Find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities. Through case studies and illustrations of successful EDOs, find out how top performing communities are competing in today's crowded economic development marketplace and where your community ranks among its peers.
Do you have an economic development website? Is it an effective marketing tool? How do you know if your website is dying? In 'Is Your Economic Development Website Dying,' we cover the following topics: best of the best in community branding online, tips for outstanding online content, functional website navigation and usability, how to use social media effectively, best practices in website analytics.
Position your place so site selectors and other target audiences don't pass your community by as they search online. Put your best 'digital' foot forward and create interest and excitement around your community's assets. Present your digital information in a way that's consumable and digestible and allows site selectors and other location decision makers to gather and compile data at the drop of a hat.
Mixing Business with Pleasure: How DMOs & EDOs Realize Ultimate Community Vit...Atlas Advertising
Understanding how destinations and economic development organizations are breaking down silos to strengthen individual industry efforts while simultaneously contributing to the success of the other
Top 5 Ways to Get More Marketing Investment in Your CommunityAtlas Integrated
The Top Five Ways to Get More Marketing Investment in Your Community will help you understand how to best position your organization (rationale for support) for financial consideration, how to validate (measure) your marketing efforts so that prospects see their worth, how to put together a proposal to solicit funds, and how to create a holistic approach (and not miss any key steps) to a funding campaign.
Mixing Business with Pleasure: How DMOs & EDOs Realize Ultimate Community Vit...Atlas Integrated
Understand how destinations and economic development
organizations are breaking down silos to strengthen individual
industry efforts while simultaneously contributing to the success
of the other
Atlas 7 Keys to High Performance Economic DevelopmentAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising CEO Ben Wright and Manager of Strategic Accounts Guillermo Mazier are joined by Janet Miller, from the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Sara Dunnigan of the Greater Richmond Partnership, and Clint Kolby of the Brenham Economic Development Foundation to discuss 7 Keys to High Performance Economic Development.
Innovate Like Apple: Disruptive Economic Development StrategiesAtlas Integrated
In today's world of economic uncertainty, changing priorities, and constant need for redefining our role in our communities, economic developers can call on the practices and principles of this great company to drive change in their communities. Learn from Apple’s journey as their initial vision evolved through the ups and downs of founding, being fired by, and ultimately returning to Apple to make it the most valuable and creative company in the world.
The Road to Economic Development Marketing ReinventionAtlas Integrated
The future of economic development is about focused reinvention. And that means ruthlessly evaluating your core practices, pushing the market, testing boundaries, investing in new ideas that haven't been done before, and enhancing ones that you already think are good.
Atlas TIP Strategies Economic Development Marketing and the Future of Jobs Atlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising CEO and TIP Strategies Principal Jon Roberts discuss Economic Development Marketing and the Future of Jobs in this webinar. Topics include Job Creation, the Economy, Economic Development Marketing, and more.
I 70 75 Keynote Presentation: High Performance Economic DevelopmentAtlas Integrated
Atlas Advertising CEO gives the keynote to the I-70/75 Development Association's Annual Economic Development Summit in Dayton, Ohio on May 29, 2013. Ben discusses Atlas Advertising's High Performance Economic Development framework, and how those approaches apply in the Dayton, Ohio region.
Best Practices in Economic Development Websites for Better Results Atlas Integrated
Ben Wright, Atlas CEO & Guillermo Mazier, Atlas’ Director of Strategic Accounts, will cover the latest theory, website examples from around the country and 2014's best practices of the biggest game changer economic development marketing has ever seen. Takeaway real tools and techniques to review and revamp your most important marketing asset – your website.
Atlas How Site Selectors are Using GIS to Evaluate CommunitiesAtlas Integrated
Atlas CEO Ben Wright and Cushman & Wakefield Consulting Manager Keith Gendreau discuss trends in Geographic Information Systems, Economic Development, Technology, Marketing, and more.
Atlas Using Digital Tools to Start ConversationsAtlas Integrated
Atlas CEO Ben Wright presents "Using Digital Tools to Start Conversations" at the International Economic Development Council's Marketing and Attraction Conference in Baltimore, Maryland in June 2014
To differentiate your message and strategy is to stand apart, to be unique, to tell a story unlike any others. In economic development, it means raising your community profile, and getting noticed as a viable option for companies all over the world.
10 Key Trends for Economic Development Websites in 2016-2017GIS Planning
What are the top ED website trends heading in to 2017? Will your organization be up to date, or will you fall behind? Join Golden Shovel CEO Aaron Brossoit and GIS Planning VP of Marketing, Alissa Sklar for a look at the 10 most important trends in economic development marketing online for the coming year, with live examples and practical tips related to the following factors - and more!
* Design trends
* Strategies for engagement
* Microsites
* Interactive and dynamic features
* Visualizing data
*Tracking website visitors
Monterey Bay Economic Partnership Regional Website Launch Atlas Integrated
The Monterey Bay Economic Partnership website was launched to promote the Monterey Bay Region as a top tier location for economic development and investment, in order to create new business opportunities and a dynamic job base. The partnership consists of public, private and civic entities located throughout the counties of Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz, united in the vision to increase prosperity and enhance the quality of life for all citizens.
Have you ever wanted to show your board or your elected officials the value of economic development? View this ppt to find out how economic development organizations can measure/quantify the value of their promotional activities.
Atlas White Paper Why Metrics Matter: A Guide to Measuring the Impact Economic Development Organizations Have on Their Communities is the definitive study that compares organizational metrics such as conversations with companies, jobs announced, and capital investment announced among 200+ organizations worldwide.
Slides for An Introduction to Results Reporting WebinarCharityNav
Charity Navigator has developed a new rating dimension - called Results Reporting - that specifically examines how well charities report on their results. In this webinar, we explain why Charity Navigator developed Results Reporting metrics, introduce the new methodology and explain our process for implementation.
Atlas and leading economic development professionals are always trying to find ways to be more targeted, more precise, and more relevant to the needs of recruitment and retention prospects. As a way to help economic developers refine their marketing and business development offerings to prospects, Atlas presents “Four Things Economic Development Prospects Want"
Ben Wright, Atlas Advertising's CEO, gives an overview of the latest trends in economic development marketing, including websites, GIS, Linkedin, and more. Presented at the IEDC Basic Economic Development Marketing and attraction course.
High Impact Corporate Programs: What Sets Leading Companies ApartTCC Group
Successful high-impact corporate philanthropy programs generate numerous positive, measurable results for both businesses and society. Thomas Knowlton, partner and director of the corporate practice at TCC Group, and Erica Weinberg, senior consultant at TCC Group, shared a new framework for thinking about how to assess, develop, and execute successful high-impact programs. They addressed common barriers to building these high-impact programs and focus the discussion on several key elements that TCC Group has identified as critical to distinguishing leading corporate citizens from their peers. This event was hosted by San Diego Grantmakers.
WEEK 1 Discussion Course HLTH – 1000-5, Concepts of Health Promo.docxmelbruce90096
WEEK 1 Discussion: Course: HLTH – 1000-5, Concepts of Health Promotion
Understanding Heath, Illness, Individual and Community Health
There is a fine line between the health of an individual and the health of a community. Each can influence the other. In this Discussion, you will analyze a case study to determine if members of a family and their community are "healthy," according to the WHO definition
Review the "Introduction to the Writing Center" guide located in the Week 1 Resources.
Explore some of the handouts and tutorials relating to tone and scholarly writing as well as the example of "gold star" discussion posts.
Use these examples as handouts to help you create your first discussion post.
Then, consider the following scenario with respect to the health of the Davis family and the health of their community:
Jonathan Davis and his wife, Alexis, are 55 years old and have one daughter, Joanne. Jonathan and Alexis live in the same neighborhood as Joanne, who visits her parents frequently.
Jonathan has smoked one pack of cigarettes every day for the past 30 years and is 20 pounds overweight. He works in a local plastics manufacturing plant and has a physically demanding job. Alexis enjoys working in her garden and cooking a variety of vegetable-rich meals. Joanne exercises regularly but does have asthma, for which she uses an inhaler when needed.
The community where Jonathan, Alexis, and Joanne live has extensive walking and biking paths. Joanne makes full use of the paths and bikes on them at least once every week. The community has recently instituted a wellness clinic about three blocks away from Jonathan and Alexis’ house.
Although the plastics plant pollutes the river, the company plans to install water and air pollution control measures in about 3 years. The plant is currently implementing purification measures for the river.
By Day 4, post a comprehensive response to the following:
1. What does being "healthy" mean to you?
2. Are the members of the Davis family healthy, according to the WHO definition? Your definition?
3. Are they living in a healthy community? Please explain.
4. What can be done to improve and promote the health of the Davis family as well as the community?
Introduction to the Writing Center: Please cut and paste in browser to view.
· Readings
· Course Introduction
· Article: Montague, J., & Frank, B. (2007, July/August). Creating whole-person wellness. Assisted Living Consult, 3(4), 14–20. Retrieved from http://www.assistedlivingconsult.com/issues/03-04/alc78-Wellness-719.pdf
· Article: Hettler, B. (1976). The Six Dimensions of Wellness Model. National Wellness Institute. Retrieved from http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.nationalwellness.org/resource/resmgr/docs/sixdimensionsfactsheet.pdf
· Article: Smith, B. J., Tang, K. C., & Nutbeam, D. (2006). WHO health promotion glossary: new terms. Health Promotion International Advance Access, 21(4), 340–3 45. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/about/HP.
How to Humanize Your Economic Development Metrics With Stories & Quirky DataAtlas Integrated
Economic development metrics are all the same. How many locations or expansions did your community see? How much capital was invested? How many jobs were created? And while these metrics are critical to measure, it's time to go beyond the basics. What if our profession started talking about the human aspect of these measurables? In other words, how does your work as an economic developer have an impact on people? Families? Future generations?
Talent Attraction Strategies to Build America's Greatest CitiesAtlas Integrated
Talent Attraction Strategies to Build America's Greatest Cities will coalesce economic development thought leaders, place branding experts, and talent strategists to discuss the ways cities and other places can position themselves to be talent magnets – to attract the best and brightest, the most skilled and eager, to come and live and work in their cities.
The 6 R's Reshaping Downtowns: Ridesharing & app-driven business models; rechargeable battery technologies; residential development in the urban core; revitalization of downtowns as 24/7 districts; really bad traffic; rise of the remote workers
What Site Selectors Really Want From Your MarketingAtlas Integrated
This webinar covers: the role of the modern day economic development marketer, how consultants really see your marketing, what tools and technology consultants use and what information communities should have available for them, how site selectors experience communities, how the site selection process has changed over the past year, and 19 irrefutable laws of site selection.
Design Thinking for Destinations introduces you to the concept of design thinking and how it applies to community marketing. Learn how to use design thinking to solve your biggest challenges of today: Millennial marketing, strategic initiatives and planning, community branding and marketing, collaboration, and more.
The Road to Economic Development Marketing ReinventionAtlas Integrated
Metrics drive outcomes, and the best outcomes for economic developers are found using digital means. In economic development, digital is the ideal methodology for the foreseeable future, and the preferred platform for business decision makers and site selectors. Much of the success we’re seeing from EDOs stems directly from digital efforts.
Disrupting Economic Development Through Leadership, Technology, and Grit. (Presentation given by Atlas' Guillermo Mazier at IEDC's Annual Conference in Cleveland.)
How DMOs and EDOs Can Champion the Three-Legged Race and Be Better TogetherAtlas Integrated
DMOs are making a bigger impact on their communities now more than ever before by aligning forces with economic development organizations: It's the "1+1=3" phenomenon.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
===============
Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Acorn Recovery: Restore IT infra within minutesIP ServerOne
Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing
Putting High Performance Economic Development into Practice
1. Putting High Performance Economic
Development into Practice: A Guide for
Economic Development Leaders and
Their Boards Presented
by
September 25, 2014
EDAC Performance Measurement in Economic Development
Seminar
2. About Me
Ben Wright
Founder and CEO
Atlas Advertising, Community Systems
benw@atlas-advertising.com
benw@communitysys.com
www.twitter.com/atlasad
– Former economic developer and tourism
marketer for the Metro Denver EDC, and the
City of Westminster, CO
– Degree in Quantitative Economics and Urban
Studies from Stanford
– Worked for a British MP who focused on urban
economic development, housing, and poverty in
an inner London Borough
– Industry speaker, business attraction and
marketing for economic development
@BenWrightAtlas
3. Who is Atlas?
1. Denver-based marketing services company, specializing in economic development
2. Founded in 2001, with 25 employees
3. Have worked with more communities than any other economic development
marketing services firm in the past 10 years: 140+ economic development clients in
43 states and 6 countries
4. Specialize in providing branding, marketing planning, digital marketing, and GIS
enabled websites, all for economic development
5. Pioneered the industry’s first metrics based benchmarking approach for marketing,
business attraction, and business retention: High Performance Economic
Development Marketing
6. IEDC’s High Performance Economic Development Marketing Partner
7. Frequent public speaker and lead speaker on benchmarking marketing, business
attraction, and business retention programs, as well as on branding, research,
digital marketing, websites, and GIS.
4. Who is Atlas? 25 people dedicated
to creating community vitality.
5. How do we help you engage
investors, stakeholders, and
partners?
1. Partner workshops and
charrettes
2. One on one stakeholder
interviews
3. Large scale stakeholder
and investor events
4. Featured companies and
investor programs
5. Collaborative prospect
response software with
ED partners
6. Public metrics
dashboards
6. Our clients generate superior results and
make a greater impact on their
communities
7. About Atlas’ High Performance
Economic Development Program
1. Initially developed High Performance Economic Development (HPED) to answer
questions from clients “What should our goals be?”
1. HPED, in its third year, is now the the largest and longest running collection of
marketing, business development, and business retention metrics available.
1. Hundreds of EDO’s have used the data to benchmark their marketing, business
recruitment and retention efforts and outcomes that can prove ROI for marketing,
branding and website efforts within economic development space.
1. On Monday October 6, Atlas will launch High Performance Economic Development
Online, an interactive benchmarking tool that will allow EDO’s to enter their data
and benchmark their business recruitment and retention outcomes by
organizational staff size, budget, community population, region, or any combination
of these factors.
8. View the slides, continue the
dialogue
• Continue the Conversation:
– Follow us on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/AtlasAd
– Tweet questions using hashtag
#ASKATLAS
– Join High Performance Economic
Development LinkedIn Group
• View and share the slides with
your colleagues (available now):
www.slideshare.com/wright0405
9. What we will cover
1. Who is Atlas?
2. Two comments about change
3. The History, Challenges, and Rationale of High Performance
Economic Development
4. Defining High Performance
5. Our Analysis of the Data
6. How Canada and the Rest of the Sample Compare
7. Profiles of High Performing Communities
8. How to Put High Performance into Practice
9. Questions
10.How to Get Your Community’s Report
11.Exercise: Deciding what type of organization you are, and what
position you will play
17. History of High Performance
Economic Development Methods
1. EDO’s have been measuring their performance for years
1. However, with differing viewpoints, metrics have gotten muddy, and
misunderstood
1. In 2011, Atlas put together it’s first survey of EDO outcomes, to
assist EDO’s in planning their marketing, business attraction, and
business retention programs
1. In 2014, IEDC published its “Making it Count” Metrics for High
Performing EDO’s
18. Challenges to High Performance:
Why hasn’t this been done before?
1. There is an ongoing debate about the tools that EDO’s use to recruit and retain
companies (incentives), which is really a critique of the value of the procession
1. EDO’s service companies that comprise a very small percentage of their
economies.
2. Often, economic developers are the only ED professional / organization in their
community, and work on economic development tasks with non-economic
developers.
1. Economic development projects have a long lead time to show results.
1. EDO’s and EDO governing boards have multiple, and often ever changing
priorities.
1. Each stakeholder defines high performance differently.
19.
20.
21. EDO’s service companies that
comprise a very small percentage of
their economies.
186 < 25,000
Average companies
Served
Typical number of
establishments in
a community
23. Economic development projects have
a long lead time to show results.
Company
evaluates
business
and
creates
plan
Company
evaluates
locations
Company
contacts/e
valuates
finalist
communiti
es
Company
makes
and
announce
s decision
Expansion
and
relocation
real estate
project
executed
Company
hires staff
Communit
y feels/
realizes
impact
1-5 Years
24. EDO’s and EDO governing boards
have multiple, and often ever
changing priorities.
Infrastructure
Workforce
Entrepreneurship
Partner outreach
Business Retention
Business Attraction
Investor relations Marketing
25. Each stakeholder defines high
performance differently.
Internal Audiences Include:
1. Largest employers
1. Community partners
1. Elected officials
1. Business leaders
External Audiences Include
1. Prospective companies
1. Site selectors
27. Poll Question:
As a practitioner, how much do
you think you impact the overall
economic activity in your area?
28. Why We Believe that High
Performance Economic Development
is1. TCher dietbiactea ralges on: Should our
community fund economic
development?
2. It is often required for fundraising
1. Elected officials won’t stop running
on a jobs platform any time soon
1. Communities exist in comparison
(competition) with other communities
29. “Economic development organizations increasingly operate under much
tighter budgets at a time when the need for economic development
programming is becoming more crucial to the continued vitality and
competitiveness of a community.”
International Economic Development Council in
“High Performing Economic Development Organizations,” 2011
30. Discussion:
What are the key differences
between economic
development in Canada and the
United States?
32. Defining High Performance
1. What corollaries are there in the world to measure
performance?
1. Definitions provided by an international trade organization
for economic development
1. The metrics that Atlas High Performance Economic
Development focuses on, and our criteria for choosing them
1. Defining what High Performance means for each key
audience
1. Should we measure outcomes or not?
34. Why do ED trade organizations
believe the industry should measure
itself?
"That which is measured improves. That which is measured and
reported improves exponentially.”
- Karl Pearson
International Economic Development Council in
“Making it Count, Metrics for High Performing EDOs,” - 2014
35. Four Ways the International Economic
Development Council Defines High
Performance
1. Internal Segment (Employee satisfaction,
funding sources
1. ED Program Segment (Business Attraction,
Business Retention, Business Creation)
1. Relationship Management Segment
(Relationships with internal and external
stakeholders)
1. Community Segment (Community well
being, in terms of demographics, )
36. Atlas High Performance Economic
Development Focuses on the Relationship
Management Segment, plus outcomes from
those relationships.
1. Internal Segment (Employee satisfaction,
funding sources
1. ED Program Segment (Business Attraction,
Business Retention, Business Creation)
1. Relationship Management Segment
(Relationships with internal and external
stakeholders)
1. Community Segment (Community well
being, in terms of demographics, )
Outcomes for jobs announced and
capital investment announced
)
37. The Metrics Included in the Atlas High
Performance Economic Development
Study
Relationship management
1. Visits to the community economic
development website
1. Number of companies served
(conversations with companies)
Outcomes
1. Jobs announced in the
community
1. Capital Investment announced in
the community
38. Atlas criteria for including a metric:
1. That is is not available from another party
1. That it is comparable from one community to the next
1. That one metric has a causal relationship on another metric: I.e.
website visits drives conversations
1. That it includes data that enables business development and
promotion focused agencies to benchmark their performance against
similar communities.
39. Metrics that Atlas High Performance
Economic Development Does Not
Include, and How to Get Them
1. Internal Segment (Employee
satisfaction, funding sources
1. ED Program Segment (Business
Attraction, Business Retention,
Business Creation)
1. Relationship Management Segment
(Relationships with internal and
external stakeholders)
1. Community Segment (Community
well being, in terms of demographics,
)
1. Do an employee survey, and audit
public v private funding (internal)
1. Hire a consultant to benchmark your
Business Attraction, Business
Retention, Business Creation
program
1. Relationship Management Segment
(Relationships with internal and
external stakeholders)
2. Benchmark workforce, cost of living,
and household income against your
peer communities, internally or with a
consultant
40. Exploring IEDC’s Core Community
Metrics to Identify High Performing
Communities
IEDC Core Community Metrics
1. Business related metrics, including workforce, ratings, new business permits
1. Housing metrics, including housing affordability, cost of living, property values
2. Quality of life, including broadband, median household income, crime rates
3. Public Transit, including commute times, access to mass transit
1. Trade and Tourism, including website and social media visits, exports, hotel
vacancy rates
1. Environment, including energy incentives, energy use, sprawl, etc.
41. Defining High Performance by
Audience
Internal Audiences
1. High Performance for largest employers
1. High Performance for community partners
1. High Performance for elected officials
1. High Performance for business leaders
External Audiences
1. High Performance for prospective companies
1. High Performance for site selectors
42. Board
Members/Largest
Employers: Chris
Ciaccio 1. Largest board member
2. Company planning an expansion
3. One of the largest employers in
the Bradenton, FL Area
Vice President of Marketing and Sales–
IMG Performance
43. What Chris needs and
doesn’t need
What Chris Needs
• Access to elected officials
• Access to incentive programs
• To feel like his company is
valued
• Help marketing the area to
attract world class talent
• To know he is making a
difference in the community
• Projects to work on and own
What Chris Doesn’t
Need
• Demographics about the area
• A good website
• Generalized economic news
• Long meetings that drone on
44. Elected Officials:
Mayor John Lewis
1. Entrepreneurial
2. Active in support of economic
development
3. Built extensive digital
communications team within Town
Former executive at Apollo Group, University of
Phoenix
45. What Mayor Lewis needs
and doesn’t need
What Mayor Lewis
Needs
• Oversight into the direction of
economic development
programs
• An active, measured
approach to communications
• Full access to projects and
deals
• To show a return on budgeted
activities
What Mayor Lewis
Doesn’t Need
• To execute outbound
recruitment marketing himself
• To be targeted using your
website
46. Community Partners:
Mike Freeman
1. Former economic developer
2. Runs largest incubator in Fort
Collins
3. Works with 75+ companies per
year
CEO at the Rocky Mountain Innosphere, an
incubator/accelerator in Fort Collins, CO
47. What Mike Freeman
needs and doesn’t need
What Mike Needs
• Low cost financing for his
space
• Access to partners (Such as
Colorado State)
• Investment from City of Fort
Collins
• To be aware of ED services
for his customers (financing,
EZ credits, etc)
What Mike Doesn’t
Need
• To be a part of City meetings
• To have to go through tons of
reporting red tape
48. General Business
Leaders: Carl Byers
1. Venture Capitalist
2. Never been engaged in economic
development
3. Likely thinks he knows what
economic development is
Venture Partner at Fidelity Biosciences
49. What Carl needs and
doesn’t need
What Carl Needs
• To know how economic
development is relevant to him
• To know when to contact an
economic developer
• To understand the difference
between EDO and tax collector
What Carl Doesn’t
Need
• To be sold on Boston as a
good location for biotech
50. Site Selectors: Tracey Hyatt
Bosman
1. Based in Chicago, IL
2. Former economic developer
3. Specializes in renewable energy and
data centers
Midwest Practice Leader – Biggins, Lacy and Shapiro
51. What Tracey needs and
doesn’t need
What Tracey Needs
• Contact information
• Incentive programs
• Tax rates
• Recent announcements
• Industry-targeted info
• Map of your territory
• Largest employers
• Area colleges and universities
What Tracey
Doesn’t Need
• General labor statistics
• Secondary source wage
information
• Real estate listings
• Rankings
• Distance to other major cities
52. Prospect CEOs: W. James
McNerney
1. Based in Chicago, IL
2. Has held positions at 3M, GE prior to
joining Boeing in 2005.
3. Company has a global supply chain,
with parts manufacture in dozens of
countries
CEO and Chairman of the Board, The
Boeing Company
53. What W James needs and doesn’t
need
What W James Needs
• Fast response
• Available property
• Incentive programs
• Tax rates
• Commitment to long term
infrastructure
• Access to area colleges and
universities
• Information for relocating
employees
• Supplier lists
What W James
Doesn’t Need
• Overly technical incentive
programs
• To be sold on the quality of
life
• Distance to other major cities
56. Who
participated
PROVINCE ORGANIZATION
ON
Chapleau Economic Development
Corporation
AB Community Futures Alberta Southwest
AB
Newell Regional Economic Development
Initiative
MB Town of Neepawa
ON Tewatohnhi'saktha
BC LEDA
QC
Centre Local de developpement
Beauharnois-Salaberry
ON Town of Halton Hills
NS City of Moncton - Economic Development
AB County of Grande Prairie
AB
Lloydminster Economic Development
Corporation
NL Town of Conception Bay South
ON Town of Oakville
ON
City of Vaughan, Economic Development
Department
AB Alberta's Industrial Heartland Assoc.
2012:
197 Communities
2013:
208 Communities
6 Countries,
15 in Canada
Canadian Participants
60. Sneak Peek at 2013 data:
Tremendous variance in results
Budget Level Low Jobs
Announced
High Jobs
Announced
Low Capital
Investment
Announced
High Capital
Investment
Announced
Low
Convers
ations
High
Conversa
tions
Under $100,000 12 852 $500,000 $442,000,000 10 214
$100,000 to
$249,000 10 3,000 $150,000 $1,100,000,000 4 726
$250,000 to
$499,000 15 7,000 $300,000 $4,500,000,000 2 600
$500,000 to
$999,000 10 32,000 $235,000 $2,500,000,000 10 10,000
$1,000,000 to
$2,500,000 10 11,278 $1,000,000 $1,000,000,000 10 4,000
Over $2,500,000 10 50,000 $1,500,000 $11,700,000,000 15 5,045
61. Sneak Peek: EDO Performance,
benchmarked by population
POPULATION YEARLY WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES PAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE JOBS
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
Less than 25,000 2,474 80 193 $67,950,000
25,001 to 100,000 11,426 93 503 $81,773,363
100,001 to 250,000 24,864 133 1,120 $187,837,410
250,001 to 1,000,000 33,696 303 2,137 $379,538,874
1,000,000 to 2,500,000 102,913 319 3,679 $482,484,240
Over 2,500,000 71,051 800 14,604 $1,463,092,402
Average for all Sizes 27,063 186 1,882 $271,855,546
62. EDO Performance,
benchmarked by staff size
STAFF SIZE
AVERAGE YEARLY
WEB VISITS
AVERAGE INQUIRIES
PAST 12 MONTHS
AVERAGE JOBS
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
1 2,337 68 276 $37,334,722
2 to 3 14,350 106 672 $154,734,368
4 to 9 29,660 372 2,668 $277,386,479
10 to 19 75,592 381 2,477 $483,902,403
20 or more 69,517 324 11,258 $1,214,120,612
Average for all Sizes 27,063 186 1,882 $271,855,546
63. EDO Performance,
benchmarked by budget
Budget Level
AVERAGE YEARLY WEB
VISITS
AVERAGE INQUIRIES PAST
12 MONTHS
AVERAGE JOBS
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT ANNOUNCED
LAST 12 MONTHS
Under $100,000 932 47 181 $44,048,524
$100,000 to $249,000 5,363 82 378 $75,655,476
$250,000 to $499,000 15,127 93 614 $186,704,037
$500,000 to $999,000 19,317 236 1,483 $215,056,038
$1,000,000 to
$2,500,000 27,130 293 1,707 $230,341,735
Over $2,500,000 78,591 279 5,471 $657,938,155
Average for all Sizes 27,063 186 1,882 $271,855,546
64. Who are the highest performers
in terms of jobs, and other
categories?
66. EDO Performance, Canada Vs.
Sample
POPULATION YEARLY WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES PAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE JOBS
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
AVERAGE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED LAST 12
MONTHS
Average for Canadian
respondents, 2013
5,605 162 479 $137,470,833
Average for all Sample,
2012
27,063 186 1,882 $271,855,546
67. Poll Question:
Did your organization set
measurable goals for your
marketing, business
development, and business
retention programs this year
(2014)?
69. Loudoun County, VA
Leadership: BUDDY RIZER, Director
Geography: A 520-SQUARE MILE SUBURB
OF WASHINGTON, DC.
Catalyst initiative in 2013: The retention
of the Telos Corporation, which represented a $5
million investment and 460 jobs
Inspiration: Loudoun Virginia is one of the
most dynamic places in the country...always
among the fastest growing in population and
jobs, a top technology location, and home to a
great international airport.
70. Southwest Michigan
LFeiardsertship: Ron Kitchens, CEO
Geography: Southwest Michigan comprised
of the counties of Berrien, Branch, Calhoun,
Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren
and representing more than 780,000 community
members.
Catalyst initiative in 2013: Our team
believes in an open information strategy,
meaning that we want to be the teaching hospital
version of an economic development corporation
Inspiration: When I was just four years old, tragedy struck our family when my father was
killed in an accident at work, leaving my mother as a nineteen-year-old widow with two sons,
ages four and two. Oftentimes, food was hard to come by, meaning endless meals of rice and
beans. One Christmas gift from a Church food basket—mandarin oranges—that I hid in my
desk, became my personal symbol of education and escaping poverty. Today I still keep one, as
my daily reminder of my responsibility to create positive change by brining jobs to my community.
71. City of St. Cloud, MN
Leadership: Cathy Mehelich, Economic
Development Director
Geography: City of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Catalyst project in 2013: Expansion of
New Flyer of America – World leader in
manufacturing of heavy-duty transit buses.
Creation of 136 new jobs through expansion of
company’s new Midi-bus production line.
Inspiration: My passion is driven by a strong desire to help businesses growth and
succeed by understanding and anticipating their unique needs, effectively connecting
them to resources, and efficiently facilitating the city development process.
73. Steps to Put High Performance into
Practice
1. Discuss your organizational priorities for marketing,
business recruitment, and business retention
2. Assign metrics to certain staff
3. Set a plan to influence that metric for each staff person
4. Make the plan transparent to your stakeholders
5. Execute, report, and adjust
74. How Does Your Organization Prioritize
Business Recruitment, Retention, and
Marketing/Promotion?
76. Assigning Metrics to Staff: What
Metrics does Each Function
Influence?
WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES
/CONVERSATIONS
JOBS ANNOUNCED
CAPITAL INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED
CEO/Executive X X X X
Business Developer X X X
Marketer X X
Researcher X
77. Setting a Plan so That Each
Staff Person Can Drive High
Performance
78. Economic Development CEO/
Executive
WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES
/CONVERSATIONS
Metrics He/She Should Influence
1. All
Role He/She Plays
1. Setting the direction for the organization
2. Allocating staff and resources
3. Communicating with stakeholders to
ensure board buy in
JOBS
ANNOUNCED
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED
79. Business Developer
WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES
/CONVERSATIONS
JOBS
ANNOUNCED
Metrics He/She Should Influence
1. Inquiries/Conversations with
Companies
2. Jobs Announced/Conversation
3. Capital Investment
Announced/Conversation
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED
What He/She Should Focus On
1. Rapid response to prospects
2. Investigating prospect needs
3. Providing customized responses
80. Marketer
WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES
/CONVERSATIONS
JOBS
ANNOUNCED
Metrics He/She Should Influence
1. Website visits
2. Ratio of website visits/inquiry
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED
What He/She Should Focus On
1. Driving traffic to the website via Search
Engines, social media, email
2. Keeping content fresh and creating
opportunities to engage
3. Optimizing the website for conversion
81. Researcher/Economist
WEB VISITS
INQUIRIES
/CONVERSATIONS
Metrics He/She Should Influence
1. Website Visits
2. Jobs Announced
3. Capital Investment Announced
Role He/She Plays
1. Creating outstanding content for the
marketer
2. Providing customized data to the
business developer
3. Managing and reporting on
benchmarked data
JOBS
ANNOUNCED
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANNOUNCED
82. How to Make the Plan Transparent to
Your Stakeholders
1. Write down a strategic plan for the
next year
1. Outline each staff person’s role in
reaching that plan
1. Set activities and outcomes for each
person, and for the organization
1. Report quarterly, using a pre-defined
dashboard, to your board and
stakeholders
1. Benchmark annually
83. How to Execute, Report, Adjust
1. Report quarterly, using a
pre-defined dashboard, to
your board and
stakeholders
1. Review performance
quarterly, including trailing
metrics and forward
looking metrics
1. Benchmark annually
1. Fold benchmarks back into
the annual plan
84. How to Benchmark Your Community
Using Atlas High Performance
Economic Development 1. Take the survey here:
2. View your report online, starting Monday October 6, here
87. Thank you!
Contact information:
929 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
Contact: Ben Wright
t: 303.292.3300 x 210
benw@Atlas-Advertising.com
www.Atlas-Advertising.com
LinkedIn Profile | LinkedIn Group | Twitter | Blog | Slidespace
Editor's Notes
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.
Sample Oral Instructions:
Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.
So please take out your cell phones, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by sending a text message.
This is a just standard rate text message, so it may be free for you, or up to twenty cents on some carriers if you do not have a text messaging plan. The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see your phone numbers, and you’ll never receive follow-up text messages outside this presentation. There’s only one thing worse than email spam – and that’s text message spam because you have to pay to receive it!