Global Direct Investment Solutions

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Contact us directly to discuss your marketing plans.

We develop independent working relationships with networks of executives, professional advisors, and communities  to provide very well-qualified referrals to relevant contacts, somewhat like a global concierge service in this market.

See how to request a relevant directory listing. 

This business was developed by Bruce Donnelly (biographic profile) after a decade of experience at regional investment promotion and the sale of site selection consulting projects across North America for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Let's work together on your marketing initiatives.

Give us a call : TEL 847-304-4655

If you face budget or other constraints, but would already like to participate in our services to help promote investment in your area, talk to us about it.  We offer a variety of marketing services.  Even the small ones can deliver high value.

Our response-oriented services to highlight the benefits of an area provide many ways for small communities to benefit from our work in the same manner as the largest.  We can also do short term projects, such as to arrange and report on location consultant familiarization visits to an area, or to help with promotional work and the scheduling of introductory meetings at events.

Our proactive targeted marketing services are very economical.  We also offer custom services according to the time and resources required.

We can also do some marketing work on a base plus success fee basis to reward performance such as well-qualified introductory referrals, "inward visits", and actual jobs created by projects.  Contact us to discuss such services.

 

Suggestions are welcome, as are relevant reciprocal links.

We already made it easy to find your website among the 20,000+ relevant resources listed on this website.  Try the Google site search feature.  If you aren't listed, please let us know.  By working together to share more knowledge of your area, it will be easier to attract the attention and interest of those who may not yet be aware of the relevant benefits of your area.

In short, why should investors look at your area?  Developing very well-qualified referrals for major projects involves more work than just publishing directory listings and useful content for quick reference by the estimated 500,000+ visitors to this site.  The website is just one aspect of our work to facilitate business location searches.  Our main focus is on personal contact with executives and professional advisors about their investment project plans.

By working more closely together, we can identify and refer more relevant projects and actively share useful knowledge about what differentiates your area and services.

 

Try the new Area Search and other features at www.OnTheShortList.com , where we will selectively highlight areas which choose to work with us.

Our Google site search feature, available from every page (button, upper right), reflects the fact that this website was designed for business location search purposes.

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We specialize in personal, independent introductions to relevant professional service providers such as business location strategy consultants and our many economic development contacts according to the project interests of the executives we serve. www.ontheshortlist.com

We can also privately coordinate executive visits to one or more business locations when planning an investment project or seeking local business alliances.  Please contact us to discuss such services or introductory referrals.

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How fast can anyone in the world find out about your area now?

 

 

There are many ways that we can help you to attract business investment projects.

 

 

The GUIDE Network Survey is a fast way to update our basic knowledge of your area.

We can publish replies for a small annual fee so that investors and their advisors can readily find such information as they search for relevant business locations.

 

Publishing a Survey reply is an economical way to highlight what communities have to offer.

Some supporters have asked for website statistics, so we have provided our analysis, even though this is not a performance metric for our work in this small niche market.  After all, there are only a few thousand major direct investment projects worldwide each year, so the key to this business is to develop relationships among a few thousand relevant executives.  The data is useful, however, as one indicator of our growing market reach.

In 2004 this website attracted 200,000+ visits.  In 2005, it attracted 320,000+ visits = already comparable to leading magazines in this niche.

In 2006 we attracted more than 400,000 visits.  In 2007 we attracted more than 600,000.  Visits have declined somewhat in 2008 as one would expect in a weaker economy for corporate expansion plans.

Refer to the Market Reach page at www.ShortListNews.com  for the latest visit statistics.

We are not a publisher using statistics to boost advertising prices or sales.  The statistics just demonstrate usage patterns which may be of interest to some supporters of our work as one indicator of our large and growing market reach in this specialty.

Our focus is on personal referral work among top executives and advisors to support individual project interests.

You may find our 7 year analysis of investment project trends by state or our analysis of traditional costs of "lead generation" work on a per job basis to be of interest, including market reach through advertising and events.  Our April 2006 newsletter (4 pages with graphs) summarizes this market research and analysis.

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This website was designed for high resolution display settings (1280x1024 or higher) as typically used by the executives and professionals who we serve, instead of older display standards. 

We regret any inconvenience to users of lower resolution display settings.

WARNING : recent virus attack activity among our contacts - precautions

ALERT : recent spammer activity exploiting addresses on this website and elsewhere

We never send messages from "admin", "enquiries", etc.  Since valid email addresses are openly published, they are sometimes used by hackers to "spoof" a return address at our company when in fact the email does not originate through any of our systems.

GDI Solutions shares knowledge and regional contacts worldwide.  In addition to professional service providers, we offer referrals to economic development agencies, investment promotion agencies, Chambers of Commerce, utilities, and other sources of information, as illustrated by thousands of links available through the tables below. Much of the available information about professional service providers and other sources of support for direct investment strategies, plans, and implementation work can be reached quickly through links from the tables below.  These tables are also repeated for convenience at the bottom of many pages on this website.
Regional directories of economic development organizations and contacts, websites.  See also : Invest USA and USA Search - Area Search - CRE Search
US : Northeast US : Great Lakes Canada Mexico
US : Mid Atlantic US : North Central US : Mountain South America
US : Southeast US : South Central US : West Coast Central America, Caribbean
Europe    Europe Search South Asia Australia, New Zealand Middle East, and Africa
China, Taiwan Southeast Asia Korea Japan
State directories of US regional, county, city, and utility economic development organizations and chambers of commerce which promote new business investment

 

Northeast          NY   CT   MA   RI   NH  VT  ME

Mid-Atlantic       PA   NJ   MD   DE   DC   WV   VA   NC

Southeast         SC   GA   FL   AL   MS   TN

Great Lakes      KY   OH   MI   IN    IL   WI   MN

North Central     MO  IA   KS   NE   ND  SD

South Central    TX   OK   AR   LA

Mountain          AZ   NM  CO   UT    WY   ID   MT

West Coast      CA  NV   OR   WA   HI   AK

Economic development directory - alphabetical list by state for convenience

Same links as provided by the abbreviations at left (not familiar to all foreign visitors)

See how to request a relevant directory listing

Alabama   Alaska   Arizona  Arkansas  California  Colorado  Connecticut  Delaware  Florida  Georgia   Hawaii  Idaho  Illinois  Indiana  Iowa  Kansas  Kentucky  Louisiana  Maine  Maryland  Massachusetts  Michigan  Minnesota  Mississippi  Missouri  Montana  Nebraska  Nevada  New Hampshire  New Jersey  New Mexico  New York  North Carolina  North Dakota  Ohio  Oklahoma  Oregon  Pennsylvania  Rhode Island  South Carolina  South Dakota  Tennessee  Texas   Utah  Vermont  Virginia  Washington   West Virginia   Wisconsin   Wyoming


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