Archive for the ‘News’ Category

The New York Times today says that using ZoomProspector is one of “The basics of starting a business.”  The article explains start-up fundamentals including the business plan, proving the concept, raising capital, and legal structure.  According to the article:
“Along with doing Google searches, you should also check out trade publications and association Web sites.  If [...]

Corporate real estate magazine Business Xpansion Journal article “Business Location Intelligence For Free” discusses how “Choosing the ideal location for your business is only possible with the right business intelligence” and how free information on the Internet can be used for business site selection.  Here is an excerpt:
“One tool, ZoomProspector.com, is a one-stop site selection resource [...]

 
Site Selection magazine’s July article “The Value of Location-Intelligence” discusses how site selection is not really about selecting a property as much as it is a process of selecting the right community.  The article explains how professional corporate site selection consultants select a location for a business and how online tools like web-based GIS used [...]

Forbes today quoted ZoomProspector Co-Founder and CEO Anatalio Ubalde in an article entitled “Top College Towns for Jobs.” The article details that while the job market has shrunk across much of the United States over the last year, the article looked at 62 college towns that have experienced job growth over that same period. Mr. [...]

News outlets nationwide have reported and redistributed the Forbes’ list of “America’s Top 25 Towns to Live Well” which was based on data and research from ZoomProspector. Here are some of the publications that have written about the list so far:

AOL Real Estate: “Most Livable Towns“
National Association of Realtors: “Top 10 U.S. Towns for Living [...]

Forbes.com, one of the world’s leading business media companies, has integrated a ZoomProspector powered online map into its website. The custom made and fully integrated map, which shows demographic densities across the United States using ZoomProspector.com’s patent-pending mapping technology, was built to help Forbes show their website visitors “Where Americans Are Living Well.” Pablo Monzon, [...]

Forbes, one of the world’s leading business media companies, today released its list of the best small cities to live, work and operate a business in an article entitled, “America’s Top 25 Towns To Live Well.” Forbes turned to ZoomProspector to research and rank the cities on the list by a variety of demographic, business, [...]

David Kolman, a thought leader in the trucking industry, reviewed ZoomProspector in an article published today in Refrigerated Transporter entitled “Where o where should I locate my facility?” Here is an except:
“The key to finding the best location is to have good information upon which to make the decision. How’d you like to be able [...]

In reaction to the BusinessWeek article “The Pros of Planting Startups in Smaller Cities” - which listed Ann Arbor as the best city in Michigan to startup and which used ZoomProspector data and research methodology to determine the list for the best cities for startups in each state - radio station 1290 WLBY in Ann [...]

Mobile Electronics Magazine today recommended ZoomProspector.com to their readership in an article entitled “Web Tool Can Help Retailers Find Best Location for New Store,” saying ZoomProspector is a:
“search engine that allows business owners to look for a range of available properties, for example storefronts, industrial buildings and warehouses, in an area they’re interested in.”

Small Business Trends, today ran a feature on ZoomProspector as the top story on their homepage entitled “Startups and Sole Proprietors - How Does Your Area Rank?”

The article uses ZoomProspector’s Heat Map functionality to examine where startups and sole proprietors are located and concentrated throughout the USA, and according to the story:
“Does your area have [...]

Before fully launching to the public in October 2008, ZoomProspector.com released a beta version at the Web 2.0 Expo in April of last year as one of the standouts of the week. This year at the Expo, ZoomProspector successfully launched our new “Find Similar Communities” feature (read the Fortune and VentureBeat coverage), and ZoomProspector marketing [...]

VentureBeat, a popular business and technology news blog, today covered ZoomProspector’s new “Find Similar Communities” search feature in their article entitled “Take the guesswork out of expanding your business with new ZoomProspector tool.” Written by MG Siegler, the article says that:
“A lot of startups have to start small and focus their businesses on specific areas [...]

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, we are pleased to announce an exciting new ZoomProspector.com search feature called “Find Similar Communities”. This feature provides a new search option (Option #3 on our homepage) for businesses to use to match a familiar city to cities that have similar demographic and geographic characteristics. We [...]

Fortune Small Business announced ZoomProspector.com’s newest business location search feature in the print edition of its April issue. The two-page spread, entitled “Picking the best places to launch a biz” demonstrates how businesses can use ZoomProspector’s new “Find Similar Communities” search option to match a familiar city to cities that have similar demographic and geographic  [...]

News outlets around the county have been promoting their local city’s inclusion in BusinessWeek’s list of Best Small Cities for Startups featured in the article “The Pros of Planting Startups in Smaller Cities“. Here’s a quick list of the coverage so far:

Irvine, CA - OC Metro “Irvine among top U.S. small cities to start a [...]

The New York Daily News ran an article today entitled “A step-by-step guide to finding the right location for your business” in which they lay out effective ways for businesses to research and choose a location. The article cited ZoomProspector as a resource for businesses, saying:
“After developing a clear, detailed picture of your customer and [...]

List of best mid-sized cities in the USA for startups. BusinessWeek uses ZoomProspector to determine the best mid-sized cities in the USA for startups.

CFO Magazine, a publication of the Economist Group and the leading resource for CFOs worldwide, covered ZoomProspector in the Tech section of their March 2009 issue. The article, entitled “Zooming Market” starts off by saying “Looking for locations in all the wrong places? It’s a vexing problem when companies expand or consolidate, especially in unfamiliar [...]

Forbes, one of the world’s leading business media companies, featured ZoomProspector today in its article, “America’s Fastest-Changing Cities”.
Using data and analysis from ZoomProspector, as well as the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Association of Realtors and the Census Department, Forbes listed ten cities that have recently seen dramatic demographic [...]

Planetizen, the most popular website for the planning community, today named ZoomProspector as one of its Top 10 Websites of 2009!  2009 is the fifth year that Planetizen has made a top 10 website list.  According to the awards page, “Our annual list of the 10 best planning, design, and development websites represents some of [...]

Entrepreneur Magazine today covered ZoomProspector in an article entitled “Find Your Perfect (Business) Match“. Here’s an excerpt:
“Entrepreneurs seeking guidance in locating their business can turn to the likes of ZoomProspector.com, which helps small businesses identify optimal locations based on a range of community and property characteristics.”

Commercial real estate news outlet Real Estate Finance & Investment covered ZoomProspector in an article entitled “Location Website Maps Out Data Enhancements”. Read the full article here (registration required).

ZoomProspector is currently featured in the January/February print edition of Inc. Magazine, which compares how ZoomProspector’s revolutionary new national site selection search engine is an evolutionary step for the 21th century of the methods that legendary entrepreneurs Ray Kroc and Sam Walton employed to grow two of the largest companies in the world. The full [...]

GlobeSt.com, which provides in-depth and breaking commercial real estate news, covered ZoomProspector in their article entiled “Web Tool Aims to Simplify Site Selection“. Here’s a couple of excepts:
“ZoomProspector promises to demystify the, arguably, confusing task of identifying the right location for a new, expanding or consolidating business. Although designed with small and mid-size business in [...]

BusinessWeek Magazine today covered ZoomProspector in a story about how businesses find the best locations to help them succeed. Saying that ZoomProspector “offers free help” to businesses and that “choosing the right place can mean the difference between profitability and failure”, this article is another verification that businesses of any size need to deeply analyze [...]

National Real Estate Investor Magazine reviewed ZoomProspector.com today, saying that ZoomProspector:
“enables anyone to identify communities that best match their expansion criteria”
ZoomProspector.com has strong ties to the commercial real estate community and the professionals that work in and around this vital industry, and as the article mentions we are always open to partnering with complimenatry organizations. [...]

The business reference and research company, JJHill, made ZoomProspector.com their Business Website of the Week this week, saying:
ZoomProspector highlights available research on places, but focuses just on those aspects most essential to business interests.
and:
This is a great tool for comparing U.S. places, whether your plans involve a new location or just getting to know your [...]

Tom Taulli of AOL’s BloggingStocks covered ZoomProspector.com today in an articled entitled “Entrepreneur’s Journal: Thinking of starting a business? Check out ZoomProspector“. Taulli, a noted author on small business issues, notes:
“All in all, to succeed in the current economic environment, business owners need to do lots of homework. It’s essential. The good news is [...]

GIS Planning Inc. announced a partnership with The International Economic Development Council at its (IEDC) Annual Conference in Atlanta today.  GIS Planning Inc. will use the International Economic Development Council as an important venue to educate people about its ZoomProspector Enterprise product and ZoomProspector.com service.
“GIS Planning Inc. is pleased to announce this new relationship with [...]

TIP Strategies today wrote a great review of ZoomProspector.com, saying that it “will help revolutionize the industry”, that we’ve “pulled off a coup” and that “ZoomProspector is also invaluable for economic development organizations and site selectors”. TIP Strategies is a privately held Austin-based economic development consulting firm committed to providing quality solutions for public and [...]

The response from the blogsphrere yesterday to ZoomProspector’s public launch was overwhelmingly positive. In addition to some of the most popular blogs in the world including TechCrunch, CNET, Mashable and VentureBeat (see previous posts below!), a number of other great blogs covered our launch as well.

Here is our coverage in The Washington Post.

CNET News, a part of broadcast company CBS, covered ZoomProspector’s launch today! Here’s an excerpt from the article, entitled “ZoomProspector helps you relocate your business” :
“The service will also connect you with consultants who specialize in industries or locations, as well as economic development agencies that can help you grease the skids when you get [...]

VentureBeat covered ZoomProspector’s public launch today! Here’s some excepts from the article entitled “ZoomProspector plays matchmaker to businesses, cities“:
Small business owners conflicted about where to put down roots have a new web tool at their disposal today with the launch of ZoomProspector.
Right now, there’s really nothing like it out there in the field.

Mashable, one the top ten blogs in the world, covered ZoomProspector.com’s public launch today! The following is an except from the article entitled “Commercial Real Estate Service ZoomProspector Opens to the Public” :
“Centralizing all of this data and offering a search tool along with customized maps of information provides users with useful knowledge that they [...]

TechCrunch, the second most popular blog in the world, covered today’s public launch of ZoomProspector.com! Here’s an excerpt from the article entitled “ZoomProspector Launches To The Public To Help Businesses Relocate” :
“One of the more useful search functions is the ability to see what other businesses operate in the vicinity, so businesses can determine if [...]

ZoomProspector launched to the public this morning. Here is our official press release:
ZoomProspector Powers Business Location Decisions
New website is first to offer businesses free access to comprehensive demographic, community, and real estate data while providing a new way for economic development organizations to market their communities.
San Francisco, Calif., October 7, 2008 - A new website [...]

Density is a clothing retailer that started in San Francisco and is now involved in a West Coast expansion. Michael O’Conner identified new expansion locations and with ZoomProspector.com’s help was able to discover other cities he did not know about that also match his demographic and transportation requirements. Instead of taking the months it took [...]

Steve Sarowitz, CEO of Payocity, speaks below about how his fast growing company (from two to fourteen locations in the last year) can leverage the functionality and depth of information on ZoomProspector.com to make business location decisions. “We’re continuing to expand all the time,” says Sarowitz, and using ZoomProspector is much quicker “than another source, [...]

In the video below, Jamin Arn, CEO of OfficePro talks about how ZoomProspector is “the perfect company” for helping OfficePro to quickly search for community information, including demographics and commercial real estate. Growing companies such as OfficePro often need to quickly analyze numerous potential business locations simultaneously, and ZoomProspector enables them do so.

Sharon Chan, Exec. VP at Laurus Construction talks in the video below about how ZoomProspector.com helps Laurus to “get information to explore new markets”:

ZoomProspector.com was one of five presenters at the July 2008 Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup held in Palo Alto, California. ZoomProspector’s Co-Founder and CEO, Anatalio Ubalde gave the presentation (top video) and answered the audiences questions (bottom video). Thank you to SV NewTech Meetup and to all attendees.
For some reaction to our presentation, you can read [...]

Below is the third of three videos that were taken at ZoomProspector.com’s launch party held as part of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Below is the second of three videos that were taken at ZoomProspector.com’s launch party held as part of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Below is the first of three videos that were taken at ZoomProspector.com’s launch party held as part of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Top 10 blog Mashable.com today covered ZoomProspector.com’s private beta launch at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The article, written by Kristen Nicole, is entitled “ZoomProspector Introduces Real Estate Search for Business Locations“. Here’s an excerpt:
“Whether you’re a storefront looking to gain customers based on foot traffic, or you’re a startup seeking out a [...]

The 2nd most popular blog in the world (and the most read tech blog), Techcrunch.com today covered ZoomProspector.com’s private beta launch at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The article, written by Mark Hendrickson, is entitled “ZoomProspector Put’s Geographical Data at Businesses’ Fingertips“. Here’s an excerpt:
“If Zillow is the best place for home buyers [...]

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, GIS Planning, Inc. launched our new revolutionary business location service, ZoomProspector.com! Launched as an invitation only private beta, ZoomProspector.com is the first website that allows businesses to search and find the best communities and commercial real estate properties nationwide that match their business needs. Read our [...]