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.
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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
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
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: