Crystal Morphis will be attending the SCEDA Midyear meeting October 9th and 10th. Please contact her at [email protected] if you would like to discuss consulting projects while at the conference. It’s the time of year to start planning your board retreat and set program of work priorities for 2015. Contact Creative EDC about facilitating your annual board planning …
In January 2014, we announced the first Creative Give Back, our commitment to give away one consulting project each year (https://creativeedc.com/creative-give-back.aspx). The winning proposal was submitted by the four towns of Indian Trail, Matthews, Mint Hill, and Stallings. They proposed to form an economic development alliance to capitalize on the assets shared by the four …
Social media isn’t just about gaining followers. Social media can be a powerful networking and intelligence tool. Social media can be incorporated into your BRE strategies. LinkedIn can be a powerful tool for your BRE program. Login to LinkedIn and follow the companies (large and small) within your community. Don’t just follow – listen …
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Even though our team cannot attend the upcoming SEDC annual conference in Memphis, we donated a Site Selector Review to the silent auction. It is for a good cause so bid often! 2014 Annual Conference Memphis, TN August 3 – 4
If you don’t have a social media strategy, it will fail as a marketing tool. “Social media isn’t a toolbox of silver bullets given to us by aliens, it’s just a new set of technologies and concepts that we need to integrate into our existing marketing strategy” (Lon Safko). As with any marketing initiative you …
Study: Larger technology talent pool needed for Knowledge Park Rock Hill will need to attract talent from Charlotte to make Knowledge Park viable, according to a new city-commissioned study. The existing local pool of technology workers is not big enough to support the Knowledge Park effort initially, Creative Economic Development Consulting of Elkin, N.C., concluded …
Abbeville County, SC (pop. 25,000) is a small, rural county without an interstate. What Abbeville County does have is a creative and innovative local economic developer. After being in economic development almost 20 years, I’ll take that over an interstate any day. Abbeville County developer Steve Bowles’ philosophy is that “small ideas can grow into …
Wingate University & Henderson County Economic development, even though highly competitive, embraces partnership. We form partnerships with ally organizations. We facilitate new partnerships between business and government. We leverage regional and state partners. In spite of its occasional frustrations, partnering can lead to creative solutions that can be more impactful than solo projects. Henderson County is …
The Creation of an Economic Development Alliance for the Towns of Indian Trail, Matthews, Mint Hill and Stallings The four towns propose to develop a partnership between Indian Trail, Matthews, Mint Hill, and Stallings to create an Alliance for economic development. The Creative Give Back project will evaluate various economic development partnership opportunities for …
Creative EDC has received certification from the North Carolina Department of Administration, Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses. We are a 100% woman-owned business. As former local economic developers, we have worked with businesses to receive HUB certification in order to aid with federal contracting. The HUB status is very useful to defense contractors and others that …
The Creative Solution for Social Media and E-Marketing. Spend your time on Economic Development and let the Creative Team keep Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and your blog updated. Creative EDC staff has expertise in blogging, newsletters, eblasts, and social media outreach. We offer a wide range of services to fit the needs of every EDO: Social Media …
Look for Crystal at the South Carolina Rural Summit on March 3. Ask her about Creative Site Assessment, our new online site assessment tool. Take the guesswork out of product development. Use creativesiteassessment.com to determine your priority sites. Creative Site Assessment is an online site assessment tool, the first online site assessment tool in the …
Creative Give Back Applications Due February 28th The application for the Creative Give Back, Creative EDC’s plan to give away one consulting project a year, is on our website. Applications are due by 5:00 on February 28th, 2014. Organizations can send applications for the Creative Give Back by email in PDF format to Crystal Morphis at …
Creative Give Back Questions Are Now Posted on our Website. Questions and answers for the Creative Give Back, Creative EDC’s plan to give away one consulting project a year, are on our website, creativeedc.com. The Creative Give Back question period is formally closed. Thus, if you are a procrastinator and begin working on your proposal at the …
Santee Cooper is leading the way in innovative product development strategies. In 2012, Santee Cooper launched a low-to-no interest loan program for product development. The loan program was one initiative out of a strategic planning process for the utility’s economic development program. To date, twelve loans of more than $24 million have been made …
