What We Offer

Overview of what locations4business can offer economic development agencies.

Locations4business provides confidential and free location comparison for companies looking to establish, expand or relocate – our offer is unique in the business location and FDI marketplace.

User experience is top of our priorities, so companies can easily navigate the site and search on whatever criteria is important to them:
  • Geographical location
  • Keyword
  • Sector
  • Funding and support
  • Workforce factors
  • Commercial property availability and cost
  • Communications Infrastructure
  • Planned projects and developments

Therefore, locations4business provides huge savings for companies in terms of time and cost – research can be done quickly, easily and in-house.  Information and contacts are found confidentially during the first crucial stage of research.

Locations4business is dedicated to working with agencies to dramatically increase visibility to companies (even to companies who may not have heard of your location), as well as to showcasing your assets and advising on branding and digital marketing.

 Company researching online

Listings

Every economic development and FDI agency can have a free listing on the site, as well as the option to upgrade to an enhanced listing. Enhanced listings allow a lot more information and multimedia resources to be added, as well as appearing highlighted at the top of our own searches and getting maximum visibility in the search engines.

Our enhanced listing packages offer:

  • Guaranteed visitor numbers
  • Accountability – you can view your own listing’s stats
  • Value for money
  • 12 month contracts, so that in the unlikely event that you are unhappy with the service, you can downgrade to a free listing. No-one has chosen to do this so far.
  • Expertise – we are experts in international location promotion

Visibility

  • We work hard on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), to ensure that your pages of information on the site are found through search engines. This includes work on B2B media, Twitter and other digital routes, like video.
  • We work hard on international SEO, so that your listing is working for you 24 hours a day and is found easily by potential investors all over the world, including in China, India, Brazil and other rapidly developing countries. For example, we are appearing high up for searches in the Chinese search engine, Baidu.
  • Potential investors can find you on locations4business if you match their search criteria, even if they’ve never heard of you before.
  • Our traffic is highly targeted, so that people who find your listing are quality visitors and are therefore all potential referrals.

Expert Location Promotion

  • We know from our stats what works for directing companies to your pages, and will guide you maximizing the potential of your content. We will give you any technical support or help that you need to make your listing work for you.
  • Once a potential investor has found your pages, we know what will keep them on there and what really attracts them to a location.
  • We are experts in international location promotion, so can provide advice on how to appeal to foreign investors, both in terms of content on locations4business and your own branding.
  • If your agency is not UK or US based, we will iron out any language errors for you.

Giving You Expertise & Insight

  • We can advise and train your staff on getting the best value out of your listing and out of your own website.
  • We will pass on intelligence and insight gained from how the site is used about what information is most useful for potential investors
  • We will keep you informed of what the most popular search engine searches are for our marketplace and for your target sectors, so you can focus and strategize.

Value For Money

  • You won’t need to invest in additional online presence, apart from your own website - your locations4business listing alone will make you as visible as possible to potential investors.
  • Unquestionably vastly better reach than traditional marketing, e.g. advertising and printed promotional material, and far, far cheaper. This value is increasing day-by-day as the world depends increasingly on the internet for business and FDI intelligence. 80% of research worldwide is done on the internet.
  • Cost effective method of attracting interest, due to our domain authority. It is very much easier and cheaper for us to get to the top of the search engines quickly, than for an individual agency’s website to do so for the same search terms.
  • Free expert advice

Additional Services

As well as enhanced listings, we can also offer:

  • Feature articles – these are truly fantastic for SEO! Ask us for examples. You can feature whatever sector or development you are targeting, or news you want to get seen.
  • Online news campaigns on developments, specific sectors etc.
  • Specific keyword optimization on your behalf to drive targeted traffic to your listing.
  • Targeted SEO to attract traffic from countries of interest to you
  • Translation services
  • International brand consultation
  • International multi-media marketing consultation
  • Promotional videos – if you don’t have a video we can make one for you. Invaluable tools for promotion and SEO.
  • Editorial services, including researching and writing case studies for your listing.