Discounted Economic Development Tools
Learn at your own pace. Build your expertise. Drive economic growth.
Unlock the knowledge and tools to excel in investment attraction with ResearchFDI Academy.
Our on-demand, self-paced courses are designed for economic development professionals seeking to enhance their skills, generate leads, and secure investments. With expert-led modules covering topics like global investment strategies, lead generation, and investor engagement, you’ll gain actionable insights to transform your region’s economic potential.
Key Features of ResearchFDI Academy Include:
- Comprehensive Training: Expert-led modules covering a wide range of critical topics for economic developers.
- Flexible Learning: Self-paced access to training materials with assessments to ensure retention and understanding.
- FDIP Certification: Achieve certification by completing coursework, passing assessments, and delivering a live final presentation.
- Customizable Solutions: Organizations can tailor the platform with their branding and monitor team progress through robust reporting tools.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your career and your community’s growth. To celebrate this partnership, BCEDA members can use the code BC2025 to receive a special provincial discount on access to the ResearchFDI Academy. Sign up now!
Unlock economic potential with CityViz, the go-to data portal crafted for economic development professionals. BCEDA members now have exclusive access to comprehensive suite of tools CityViz provides at special discounted rates.
Provide investors, entrepreneurs, and decision makers with comprehensive, reliable, and freshly updated data in an easily accessible format. With a set of unique features, CityViz makes it easy to reach your data, present it, and distribute it while always using the most recent data available. Use CityViz for:
- Investment and talent attraction
- Community profile
- Market research and strategic planning
- Support grant applications with data
- Generate custom PDF and PowerPoint presentations for the Council, investors
- and more!
Explore the possibilities with CityViz and elevate your economic development strategies.
Special Offer for BCEDA Members:
- 20% for three-year subscriptions
- 15% for two-year subscriptions
- 10% for one-year subscriptions
Claim your CityViz discount by clicking the link below, don’t forget you must be signed in with your BCEDA user email and password.
Save and integrate
BCEDA and Localintel have entered into a strategic partnership that will make it more affordable for BC's economic developers to integrate world leading business and talent attraction tools into their websites.
About Localintel
Localintel is a Canadian technology company providing a catalog of plug-and-play economic development tools that hundreds of organizations have integrated into their existing or new website to help attract businesses and talent by:
1. showcasing their location's advantages;
2. increasing website engagement; and
3. sharing valuable data.
Localintel’s clients range from the District of Tumbler Ridge in BC (population ~2,200) through to Invest in Canada.
Benefits
BCEDA members who are not already Localintel clients will receive an exclusive 20% discount on all Localintel’s tools when you sign up for a three-year subscription and a 10% discount with a one-year commitment. Click here to claim your discount.
Learn more
Check out Localintel’s website
BC BusinessCounts is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution powered by ExecutivePulse, designed specifically for economic development organizations. The intuitive design allows users to easily manage data, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and track progress. With unlimited training, consultation, and 24/7 technical support, organizations can make the most of ExecutivePulse. BCEDA Members can enjoy exclusive discounted rates.
The Insider App is a streamlined solution for your community's investment attraction, tourism marketing, and shop local and education initiative needs. Powered by the 468 Insider platform, Insider apps reward people for exploring, while generating data and economic development opportunities for your community.
The Insider app is made available to BC Ale Trail, and other community partners through a partnership between BCEDA and 468 Insider. Find out more information on how your community can add this to your marketing toolkit.
BCEDA Members enjoy a subscription to BCBusiness, which includes six issues of the print and digital editions. There's no easier way to stay smart, informed and ahead of your competition.
BCEDA Members also enjoy discounted advertising rates in BCEDA's annual print and online publication, Invest in BC. The Invest in BC Magazine helps business owners and managers make informed decisions by profiling each of B.C.'s eight economic regions. Informed articles highlight living conditions and current business trends along with informative graphs depicting economic data.