Economic development websites
Just $999 a year
Our actively managed, content-rich economic development websites start at just $999 a year (with no upfront startup or website development costs). The annual fee includes domain name, SSL, website development, hosting, webmaster services, active site management, updates, monitoring & continuous improvement.
Includes up to five pages
- Home page: We'll do a full review of current online resources to identify and pull in all relevant content, placed alongside your economic development message and contact info. We can also accommodate most any content you provide (text, images, videos, publications, documents, forms, links, brochures, pamphlets, etc., some restrictions apply).
- Quality of Life: One of the top interests of site selectors for an area considered for business relocation or expansion. The Quality of Life page includes content, info, and links to local & regional visitor centers, major attractions, events, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, health care providers, recreational amenities & opportunities, cost of living, and more!
- Business Resources: Includes info on business taxes & licensing; trade names, trademarks & patents; resources for starting a new corporation or LLC; available startup & business development assistance; local financing; workforce development resources; networking opportunities; local utilities & telecommunications, including available business internet service providers; trucking & shipping companies; rail service providers; available commercial properties & brokers; state & local growth programs, incentives, and more!
- Developer Resources: Includes available commercial sites for sale/lease, commercial real estate brokers, local development assistance (planning & zoning, building department, zoning maps, codes, permit applications, GIS maps, etc.), planning documents (general plan, etc.), local financial services, growth programs, incentives, and more!
- Data graphics: Population, demographics, labor market, and other key data via embedded third-party graphics (content varies by state, subject to availability; sometimes displayed over multiple pages at no additional cost). Also includes links to local and regional market reports, industry cluster mapping, and other economic development resources.
Additional features at no additional cost
- One-click Spanish (or other language) translation with Google Translator
- Google Analytics (insertion of sitewide code from your Google Analytics account--we can help you set one up; requires activation of cookies banner)
Email accounts linked to your domain: $129 per year/per user
Add a 'Community Assets' page
Just $200 annually
A community asset inventory is a key step in asset-based economic development. Our asset inventory provides a one-stop web resource of continuously updated information on community assets (people, land, buildings, quality of life, transportation, infrastructure, and business environment) for your local area and region, including:
- PEOPLE
- population (estimates & projections)
- demographics
- age groups
- income (per capita, family & household)
- language spoken at home & English proficiency
- school enrollment
- educational attainment
- poverty rates
- labor market & workforce
- average travel time to work
- LAND & BUILDINGS
- housing units
- vacancy rates
- home ownership rates
- home values
- homeowner costs
- rental costs
- available land & properties (commercial & residential)
- local realtors
- planning & zoning resources
- QUALITY OF LIFE
- cost of living
- health care providers
- weather & climate
- things to do (events, attractions & activities)
- libraries
- school districts
- colleges & universities
- housing affordability
- restaurants
- TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
- distance & routes to major metro markets
- shipping & parcel delivery
- trucking companies
- airports
- international trade resources
- utility & telecom providers
- financial services
- BUSINESS SERVICES
- meeting venues
- hotels, motels & lodging
All the most commonly requested info for your county, city, town, or place, all in one location.
Additional geographies are $200 annually per year)
Samples
Southeast Arizona Economic Development Group
Southeast Arizona Economic Development Group
Benson Economic Development Center
Southeast Arizona Economic Development Group
Cochise Business Resource Hub
Central Arizona Governments Economic Development District
Graham County, Arizona
Safford, Arizona
Thatcher, Arizona
Santa Cruz Economic Development Resource Center
SouthEastern Arizona Governments Organization (Economic Development District)
SouthEastern Arizona Governments Organization (Economic Development District)
Terms & conditions
What's not included
The annual fee does NOT include the following (please contact us for a custom quote if you'd like any of these--we can do all of this and more and keep it affordable):
- Custom-designed/client-directed layout. We use third-party, component-based website development software and standard page layout for our sites, which allows us to keep the price of our websites low but limits customer input on layout, design, etc.
- Development of narrative language (the annual fee does include pulling language from your existing economic development resources and anything you provide along with basic editing & placement)
- Site visits or in-person presentations & meetings; all coordination is via email (primary) or phone (secondary)
- Custom photos, but we'll include any you provide (we also have access to a sizeable library of stock photos or can arrange for a photo shoot in your community)
- Individual research for specialty content (research to identify and integrate special content is available for a one-time research fee starting at $79 per topic)
- Data retrieval (information cited in 'What's included' above is provided via links to secondary sources)
- Email accounts (email accounts linked to your domain are available starting at $129 per year, per user)
- Social media accounts (we can link to your existing accounts or help you set them up for free; we also offer social media set-up and administrative services, please contact us for a quote)
- Blog (we can embed your existing blog or help you set one up for free; we also offer blog set-up and management services, contact us for a quote)
- Calendar (we can embed your existing online calendar or help you set one up for free; we also offer calendar set-up and management services, contact us for a quote)
- Periodicals published more frequently than quarterly (contact us for a quote on weekly, monthly, etc., updates to periodicals)
- Community bulletin board, news postings, or similar routine, regularly updated announcements or posts (this service is available with prices depending on frequency of updates/postings, please contact us for a quote, or can also be accomplished with a blog [see above])
- Membership or business directories or other similar listings including detailed information laid out in web format (we can display a PDF of your directory or linked logos; contact us for a quote to layout your directory in web format).
- Website promotion (we offer budget-based web and social media promotion, contact us for details)
Please contact us for a custom quote on any or all of the above
IMPORTANT: Intellectual Property Rights
- US ECONOMIC RESEARCH, LLC retains full ownership of all intellectual property including web design, images, and custom narratives, with the exception of any and all intellectual property provided by customer, which shall remain the sole property of customer. Customer certifies that any and all intellectual property provided for use in the website is the sole property of customer and that customer has the right to print, publish, copy, and otherwise distribute such property and grants US ECONOMIC RESEARCH, LLC unrestricted license for that purpose.
- Domain Names: Upon cancellation of service, US ECONOMIC RESEARCH, LLC will, upon request, transfer registration of assigned domain name to customer (or customer's agent) at no charge, unless our registration of the domain name has expired.
Contact us to get started!
Contact us and let's start building your economic development website today. No risk (we'll invoice you once the site is up and running and you're happy with it). 100% satisfaction guaranteed!