best practices in economic development websites for better results
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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CEO, Atlas Advertising [email protected]
www.twitter.com/atlasad
Guillermo Mazier Director, Strategic Accounts Atlas Advertising
[email protected] www.twitter.com/atlasad
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About Atlas Atlas Advertising helps economic developers reach national and international prospect and site selection audiences. We specialize in branding, website development, GIS mapping, research, social media, and creative services. Unlike firms with little or no economic development experience, Atlas Advertising uses a proven mix of economic development marketing tactics that generate interest from site selection audiences.
Atlas Advertising is led by a former economic development practitioner and has worked with 140+ different economic development clients in 43+ states. Our approach and experience means that our campaigns generate an average of three to ten times the response of other campaigns. Featured clients include:
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Atlas Agency Services
• Website Design Services • GIS Websites • Brand Development • Targeted Industry Campaigns • Search Engine Marketing
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• Content Services • Research Services • Training Services
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• Project Tracking Software • Email Marketing Software • Data Products
– Demographic Data – Business Lists – Enhanced Prospect Lists
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ― Commercial Property databases ― Business databases ― Data Search (Data Tab) ― Other Data Management (Map
Overlays) ― Community Data Management ― GIS System Analytics ― GIS Data Reporting ― Data Widgets
• Website Analytics
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Outline
1. Introductions
2. The Evolution of the Economic Development Website
3. What’s good? 1. Time on site
2. Conversions
3. Unique visitors
4. Branding Engagement
4. 4 things you probably aren’t doing
5. How to sum this up?
6. Wrap up/Questions
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WE WONT TELL...
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
POLL QUESTION:
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Poll Question: What makes a good economic development website?
(Open Ended)
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Poll Question: What is your main objective for your website?
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Poll Question: What % of your prospects come to your website
first?
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Poll Question: Do you believe your community would get more projects
if your website converted better?
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The Evolution of the Economic Development Website
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The Oldest ED Website We Could Find (Circa 1997)
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Fact: The Charlotte region NOW consists of about 2.7 million people living in 16 counties in two different states
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A Blast from the Past for IEDC Members
The Evolution of an ED Website Grand Rapids Michigan, 1998
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More website content = more conversations: 2000
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A Blast from the Past for IEDC Members The Emergence of the
Community Profile 2000
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Making connections with real people. It still matters, 2000.
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The in-depth interior page. Architecture matters for Economic Development. 2002.
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Content is an everyday action, 2007.
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Conversations are KING 2010.
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Property search drives 50% of conversations: 2011
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A truly integrated experience 2013.
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Language and Mobile are more important than we ever thought 2014.
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On average, 20% of Economic Website visits come from mobile devices
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So, What is Good on an Economic Development Website?
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10 STEP CHECKLIST FOR YOUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE
REDESIGN 1. Benchmark your current metrics 2. Determine your goals 3. Inventory your current assets 4. Analyze the competition 5. Identify you “Unique Value Proposition” 6. Design your website around personas 7. Optimize your site for search 8. Identify calls to action 9. Create an ongoing content marketing strategy
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How Site Selectors Use Your Website What We Need • Contact information • Incentive programs • Tax rates • Recent announcements • Industry-targeted info • Map of your territory • Largest employers • Area colleges and
universities
Based in Chicago, IL Former economic developer
Specializes in…
renewable energy
and data centers
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3 Questions to Ask Yourselves
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What is Good on an Economic Development Website?
How does your audience interact with you?
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57%
AVERAGE VISIT
DURATION
PAGES PER
VISIT
SITE
BOUNCE RATE
VS RETURNING
UNIQUE VISITS
74.7%3.27%
25.3%
Can your EDO’S website do better than this?
2014: Results taken from 2 million Atlas Customer User Sessions
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So, where is your website traffic coming from?
Atlas monitored website traffic taken from 2 million Atlas Customer User Sessions
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HOW METRICS WILL SAVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT .
Webinar| June 11, 2014
Register your EDO today:
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Questions
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