One of the elements of keeping a franchise growing is selecting successful sites: Learn how to select a winning site location!!! In an issue of Esri News for Business, a case study talks about how GIS and location intelligence is used, in-house, to keep the Great Harvest Bread Company, a franchise with 220 units in…
Last year the Colorado Legislature passed two bills to fund an Economic Gardening (EG) pilot in Colorado. GeoWize, national experts in Economic Gardening, will be working with the Colorado Small Business Development Center (See article) to provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis services to the client companies in the pilot. The pilot will be managed…
I recently received a copy of an interview with Al Ricks, the commercial Realtor for Vom Fass, written by Toni Jakovec. See the attached article. In this interview Al discusses how he helps the Vom Fass franchisees site prospect for the right location. In the article, Al also discusses the measures of market potential that…
Welcome to our new and improved website. I believe that you will find it much more dynamic and relevant to providing GIS (Geographic Information Services) to small businesses to help them achieve a higher level of success.
Nancy Lanard from Spadea, Lanard, & Lignana, Attorneys at Law, posted the following article on due diligence for franchisees: http://www.spadealaw.com/blog/2012/07/18/due-diligence-prospective-franchisees?goback=.gde_67633_member_135863231. Here is my reply posting: Nancy, Your comments are absolutely “right on” when it comes to selecting a franchisor. Once a franchisee selects the “right” retail, B2C franchisor, there is a very important next step…
Over the past six years of supporting small business entrepreneurs with GIS , I have found that most entrepreneurs really have no clue about the power of GIS for small business success. No wonder! for years, GIS has been the secret weapon of big business. Although we can try to educate each small business owner,…
Here is a reprint of site location considerations from www.toolkit.com/small_business_guide. Some of these factors need to be assessed during an on-site visit, but a majority of them can only be discovered using geospatial information analysis. An important factor in selecting a location is that you keep a long-term perspective. Site selection can be a big…
Hi everyone: I’m speaking at GITA’s 2010 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Phoenix, AZ, on 4/27/2010, from 3:15-4:00 p.m. at the Phoenix Convention Center in Room N226B. I hope you can make it to my presentation. I’ve pasted the abstract below, and here’s a link to the main conference page: http://www.gita.org/gis. You can navigate to…
The best way to be successful with your business is by selecting a successful site: Learn how to select a winning site location!!! It used to be that the big guys (Target, Walmart, McDonald’s, Walgreens, etc.) were the only ones that could afford to use business demographics and GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) for finding successful sites…
Collaboration is a powerful tool! It is an example of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. In the Commercial Special Interest Group, we were discussing the need to create vertically oriented tools in Business Analyst to solve specific business problems for different industries. One solution was to rely and expect ESRI to accomplish…