ZoomProspector Blog and News

ZoomProspector.com Wins Second Place in U.S. Commerce Department’s “Business Apps Challenge”

erics — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:43:47 +0000

The U.S. Commerce Department announced today that ZoomProspector.com has won second prize prize in the nationwide Commerce Business Apps Challenge. The high-profile judging panel that selected ZoomProspector.com included Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; Vivek Kundura, VP at Salesforce.com; Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook; Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media; John [...]

Entrepreneur Magazine Recommends ZoomProspector for Market Research

erics — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:21:07 +0000

Entrepreneur Magazine spotlighted ZoomProspector.com in a piece titled “Free Market-Research Tools — A Sampler,” informing its readers that small businesses can tap a variety of free resources for insights about customers, competitors and trends. ZoomProspector was one of eight resources listed, along with providers like Moody’s Analytics, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. [...]

ZoomProspector Launches First Facebook Applications for Economic Development Organizations

ZoomProspector — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:48:27 +0000

The first-ever Facebook applications created exclusively for economic development officially launched today. The free apps were created by GIS Planning Inc. to reach this exploding global network of more than 500 million people and help the expanding businesses that use Facebook get the community and property information that they need. Specifically, GIS Planning is offering two apps [...]

ZoomProspector.com Receives Excellence in Economic Development Award from the International Economic Development Council

erics — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:17:33 +0000

GIS Planning, Inc. received an Excellence in Economic Development Award for their ZoomProspector.com website in the category of New Media for communities with populations of greater than 500,000 from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The honor was presented at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, September 28 during the IEDC Annual Conference, September 26-29 in Columbus, [...]

Forbes Uses ZoomProspector to Find Most Innovative Cities

ZoomProspector — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:16:30 +0000

Forbes has once again turned to ZoomProspector for help in evaluating cities, this time to help determine “America’s Most Innovative Cities.” Forbes used data from ZoomProspector on the concentrations of creative professionals in the largest cities. “For [Forbes'] ranking we started with the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. and used data from [...]

Bloomberg BusinessWeek Partners with ZoomProspector.com to Find Top 10 Cities for Startups

ZoomProspector — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:10:19 +0000

Bloomberg BusinessWeek partnered with ZoomProspector.com to identify the top 10 cities for starting a new business. “ZoomProspector.com weighed a total of 11 factors, including the number of startups, quality of the workforce, number of patents, universities, and venture capital to determine the best place to build the next Apple or Google.” Here is the [...]

GIS Planning Inc. and Business Xpansion Journal Announce Business Partnership

ZoomProspector — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:25:32 +0000

GIS Planning Inc. and Business Xpansion Journal magazine are partnering to provide the readers of Business Xpansion Journal with access to GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector.com nation-wide database of local communities, directly within the Business Xpansion Journal website.

ZoomProspector and Business Facilities Magazine Announce Business Partnership

ZoomProspector — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:14:28 +0000

GIS Planning, Inc. and Business Facilities magazine are joining forces to provide the readers of Business Facilities magazine with direct access to GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector.com service, a nation-wide searchable database of local communities. Business Facilities readers can now instantly search tens of thousands of communities and available properties on ZoomProspector.com, directly from the magazine’s website.

ZoomProspector and Site Selection Magazine Announce Business Partnership

ZoomProspector — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:06:00 +0000

GIS Planning Inc. and Site Selection magazine have partnered to provide Site Selection magazine readers with access to GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector.com searchable database of local communities directly from Site Selection’s official data website, DevelopmentAlliance.com.

New York Times Recommends Business Start-ups Use ZoomProspector

ZoomProspector — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:32:24 +0000

The New York Times today says that using ZoomProspector is one of “The basics of starting a business.” The article explains start-up fundamentals including the business plan, proving the concept, raising capital, and legal structure. According to the article: “Along with doing Google searches, you should also check out trade publications and association Web sites. If [...]