Economic Development Secrets

This month's special guest is Pete Fullerton, Assistant Director for Commercial Properties & Development with the Kansas City Aviation Department. Pete shares his immense knowledge of performance metrics and incentive compliance. He discusses why it is vital for economic developers to track these metrics and offers advice on how to use this data.

This month's special guest is Christian Fletcher, Executive Director of the Marble Falls EDC. He shares why his organization decided to transition from a Type A organization to a Type B economic development organization. Christian also discusses what metrics he currently measures and how he shares this information with stakeholders.

This month's special guest is Phoebe Fleming, Director of Research at the Orlando Economic Partnership. Phoebe discusses the merging of her organization - the Orlando Economic Development Commission with the Central Florida Partnership and she discusses how this merger  has impacted how her organization views and conducts economic development. She also shares why her organization focuses on broad-based prosperity.

This month's special guest is Shelby Zaricor, Director of Business Development at the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce. Shelby shares information about their very exciting role in the aerospace industry and also discusses their Foreign Direct Investment Strategy. She also shares how she uses Google Alerts to save economic development projects.

This month's very unique episode catches up with Will Novak, Project Manager for the city of Mesa. Will starts out the episode discussing what's going on in Mesa, but then goes on to discuss his crazy story that has gotten much media attention.

This month's special guest is Matt Wavering, Director of Project Development at the Rockwall EDC. Today Matt discusses balancing out their historical perception of being a bedroom community, while also feeling the flex of rapid growth. Matt also discusses their workforce development efforts by means of an annual job fair and he shares the economics behind their mission to attract primary employment and investment in Rockwall. You won't want to miss this information-packed episode!

This month's special guest is Andrew Stork, Operations Manager for the Klamath County Economic Development Association. Andrew shares why his organization views itself as an extension for all of their local businesses and also how they are addressing some challenges such as a housing shortage.

In this month's bonus episode, we are joined by Aaron Brossoit, CEO and Founder of Golden Shovel Agency. Aaron shares how economic developers can use virtual reality to market their community, as well as other advanced marketing tactics.

This month's special guest is Tracye McDaniel, President at TIP Strategies also the current Chair of the International Economic Development Council. She shares why corporate diversity is so important for economic development and what economic developers can do to help their local businesses with this initiative. Tracye also shares some of the exciting work that IEDC is up to.

This month's special guest is Rachel Ray, Economic Development Administrator for the city of Dublin, Ohio. Today Rachel discusses how they use site capacity studies and also their Dublink Fiber Optics program. In this information-packed episode, Rachel also shares information about their Workforce Development Strategy and also a plethora of resources that they offer local companies that they refer to as "incentives that aren't incentives".