Member Perks/Discounts

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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!

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 and then schedule a call with the Localintel team. (You can also schedule a call by clicking here or emailing info@ecdev.org.)

Claim your Localintel discount 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.

Claim your CityViz discount now

NEW Uncover new perspectives, enhance site development, and access highly specific investment and economic development data through Manifold Data Mining. As the leading data provider across countless industries and having worked with 300+ economic developers across Canada, we're proud to offer BCEDA members exclusive access to our comprehensive Data Licenses, Polaris Intelligence software platform, Dashboards, and Custom Projects at special discounted rates.

With our Manifold Data Licenses, we provide high-quality, extensive, dependable data updated to the current year and descriptive down to the postal code level that cannot be found anywhere else.

• SuperDemographics: Understand the demographic characteristics of your market with thousands of detailed variables not found on the StatsCan census.
  
• Estimates & Projections: Present to investors the multi-year population and income projections of your city.
  
• CanaCode Lifestyle Clusters: Develop insights into the various lifestyle segments that reside in your areas of interest.
  
• Neighbourhood Scores: Produce the quantitative scores of the livability of different neighbourhoods.

Between 2022 and 2023, Canada’s population growth accelerated to 3.2%, one of the fastest rates in the world. Implications for economic development include commercial and residential site development, investment attraction and more. Public data sources and their lags cannot capture these critical changes, highlighting the importance of current-year data down to the postal code.

Presented in a user-friendly format, our software platform Polaris Intelligence makes use of our Manifold Data and stands out with its unique modules that simplify data access, visualization, and distribution. Utilize Polaris for a range of applications, including:

• Profiling your town and specific neighbourhoods
• Conducting market research and strategic planning
• Bolstering grant applications with high-quality Manifold Data
• Attracting and retaining investment and talent
• Creating charts and heatmaps on the population and multi-year growths.

Discover how Manifold Data Licenses and Polaris Intelligence can transform your approach to economic development.

Exclusive BCEDA Member Offer:

• Enjoy a 20% discount on three-year data licenses/software subscriptions.
• Save 15% on two-year data licenses/software subscriptions.
• Get 10% off one-year data licenses/software subscriptions.

Elevate your economic development efforts with Manifold Data Mining today! Claim your Manifold Data Mining Discount now.

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.

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.