The first step in an economic development program is to lay the groundwork. That means you start by identifying, enrolling and collecting information from all the businesses and organizations in the community. This is the foundation.

Any economic development plan will be greatly enhanced by applying the information technology (I.T.) infrastructure presented here.

This program has been proven successful by Chambers of Commerce throughout the country via Chamber Nation. The program is now offered to other organizations where there is no Chamber taking the lead. Other qualified organizations looking to build a stronger economic base within their community may apply this system.

If you're new to enterprise level and Web publishing systems, you'll find that the Economic Development Program (EDP) delivers sophisticated solutions just right for your own economic development program. It can deliver a robust website that is localized around your community and can be extended for all your publishing and reporting needs.

EDP is different from the normal models for economic development. It was developed first and foremost to manage community-wide economic development programs from a single online dashboard. This makes it simple to use.

EDP has been developed for general use. Even volunteers that may play a part in your economic development work-flow can benefit from this program. It's designed to work primarily within a community of businesses, organizations, non-profits, municipalities and schools, where it can function as a real work experience program.

It is easy to administrate and is a very reliable online application that you can backup to your local hard-drive for security.

EDP doesn't require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate or adjust once we deliver the platform to you. We set it all up in advance so the administrator can easily grow the program no matter how many businesses and organizations are within the supported region.

Volunteers often participate in economic development or community events and need limited access to information management. Their efforts often results in better relationships within the community.

Volunteers also work for non-profits and help raise money or locate goods and services for the needy. We have a donation automation system that provides a way to easily automate the website posting and management of either monetary or pledged item donations.

Economic development means a balanced community of support and services. Our program includes the automation necessary to serve all levels within your community.

The license covers the use of the system throughout the community and offers several administrative and user levels.

Pricing is based on a small monthly subscription fee determined by the number of participants in the economic development program as we automatically activate the hosting for various ad programs.

The license extends to the end-user businesses. This includes everything needed to setup a local online marketing and advertising system and the optimization for the integrated Area Search Engine© that's powered by Google®.

In addition, most end-users will have access to the http://www.BuyLocalProgram.com at no additional cost.

While a system may be easy to use and fully automated, it requires community-wide participation and the direction of a community optimization manager. This person reads the reports, works with businesses for optimization and coordinates with schools, volunteers and member support.

The economic development program is designed to become the most trusted source for local information that would be typically accessed through the city website, Chamber of Commerce and/or the lead economic development agency.

This economic development program gets its power through our ability to aggregate the entire community for effective promotion. This is accomplished through a centralized business directory, a Google® powered Area Search Engine, automated conversion of all participant information into IMobi for mobile phone inter-connectivity, and through our local commerce platform.

This combination can achieve outstanding results.