Ec Dev Toolbox
Tools from BCEDA and Partners
The BC Economic Development Association is pleased to present the BCEDA Professional Development Series. These manuals and webinars will provide information for economic development practitioners to expand their knowledge and skills base. They focus on specific economic development elements practitioners will need to build stronger, healthier economies.
Manuals Include:
- Economic Development Recovery & Resiliency
- Business Walks
- Economic Development Ethics
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Training
Professional Development
Disaster Preparedness
Curate an Experience: Easily customize the look and feel, locations and content in your app. Name and brand your brand, including logo, icon design and color scheme.
Reward Exploration: Assign points to each location in your app, creating incentives for users to visit points of interest and make purchases while earning rewards at local businesses.
Instantly Update Your App: Easily set up, manage and dynamically update information within your app through a user-friendly online control panel.
Generate Insights: Your control panel provides valuable data about visitor activity. Generate reports to show popularity of individual locations, periods of peak activity, and where visitors are from.
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Shop Local
Tourism
Marketing
Business Retention & Expansion
BCEDA has developed workshops to help communities be better prepared to overcome the economic impacts of disasters. Please contact BCEDA for pricing and more details. Training can be delivered virtually or in-person, adhering to social distancing measures with under 50 capacity.
- Community-Delivered Training: Making Resilience and Recovery the New Norm
- Community-Delivered Training: Business Continuity Planning
- Community-Delivered Training: Business Retention and Expansion (1, 3, and 5-day options)
- Community-Delivered Training: Economic Development for Local Leaders
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Training
Professional Development
Business Retention is best performed as a community driven activity to maximize local development of existing industry. Each community or region develops its own approaches to conduct business outreach. A robust CRM is an integral part of this approach. The BC BusinessCounts Program, powered by ExecutivePulse™ has the ability to upload your business database, enter survey results in the system and run robust reports.
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Business Engagement
Business Retention & Expansion
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Resilience & Recovery
Disaster Preparedness
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Marketing
Thanks to a partnership with Destination BC, BCEDA is pleased to provide links to the following tourism resources:
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Tourism
Marketing
Best Practices
Training
Disaster Preparedness
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Business Support
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Business Support
BCEDA has partnered with Spring, a global incubator and accelerator that empowers entrepreneurs and entrepreneur ecosystem organizations, to launch the Business Resilience Program, an online program created to help businesses recover, adapt, and survive challenging economic conditions.
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Resilience & Recovery
Training
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Peer Sharing
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Marketing
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Shop Local
Province-Wide Shop Local Program
Support Local BC is an online gift certificate marketplace where 100 per cent of the proceeds go directly to the local business owners. To date, the website features over 1,330 businesses and has sold more than $400,000 in gift certificates. To ensure this platform is the right fit for your business, please visit the website to confirm that you meet the criteria.
Regional Shop Local Initiatives:
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Shop Local
Resilience & Recovery
BCEDA is continuing to seek success stories to highlight on the Economic Development in Action website. The website is advertised internationally and used as a tool to market your community and attract investors. Economic Developers can use the website to collaborate on ideas and gain inspiration from others. We a looking for a brief summary of your successful projects, partnerships and initiatives.
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Best Practices
Resilience & Recovery
To support economic development at the local and regional levels around B.C., the Province provides online tools and resources that can be found at gov.bc.ca/economicdevelopment:
- Economic Development Funding and Grants Search Tool: a database that helps communities to locate funding and grants through existing provincial and other (non-governmental, regional and federal) programs and initiatives.
- Strategic Planning Toolkit: a customizable, self-guided process that allows communities to quickly and effectively develop a concise, measurable and actionable economic development plan.
- Performance Measurement Toolkit: a tailored, step-by-step approach that helps communities to track their economic development successes, communicate the value of their activities and ensure their efforts remain focused.
- Business Attraction Toolkit: a step-by-step guide that helps communities to prepare and implement a business attraction strategy.
- BC Ideas Exchange: a webinar series and library of success stories that share economic development ideas, promising practices and community collaboration happening in B.C.
- BC Economic Atlas : web-based mapping application that integrates and displays spatial economic and natural resource data to support business and investment opportunity identification, business case analysis, and business and investment decision-making in B.C.
- Economic Development Organizations and Groups: a growing directory of more than 200 organizations, including trusts, Crown corporations, provincial and regional organizations and groups supporting economic development in B.C.
- What is Economic Development?: an online resource that provide the economic development basics including economic strategies, economic models, the role of local government and regional districts.