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Bryan Daniels: Driving Economic Success for Rural Communities
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In this chat with Kelly Fletcher and Mary Beth West, Blount Partnership President / CEO Bryan Daniels, CEcD, discusses:
- The old versus new model of marketing rural communities successfully
- Ways in which Blount County, TN has differentiated itself as a top quality-of-life community
- Blount County's true partnership-driven approach, with collaboration and cooperation among municipalities, elected officials and business community leaders
- How Blount County is taking a role at the international level to help drive thought-leadership and best-practices (with Bryan Daniels serving on the board of the International Economic Development Council, which will bring its conference to Nashville, TN, later this year)
- https://www.iedconline.org/index.php?src=directory&view=staff&srctype=detail&refno=804&category=Board%20of%20Directors
- How local, high-quality workforce development remains the most critical driver of attracting and retaining employers to a local community
- Ways in which today's social-responsibility discourse is informing the site-selection process... with some corporations including as part of their due-diligence a request for the voting record of local electorates as a criteria point for moving a headquarters or base of operations to a new community
- Rationale for rural communities to take a proactive stance versus a reactive stance in their econ-dev approach:
- Proactive: Driving site-selection visibility and relationship-building from the front, with a rural community sending its own delegations overseas
- Reactive: Relying entirely on one's state department of economic development to send site-selection leads to the local level
Learn more about moving your business to Blount County, Tennessee -- The Peaceful Side of the Smokies:
Blount Partnership: https://www.blountpartnership.com/
Connect with Bryan Daniels: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-daniels-b597283/
Follow the Blount Chamber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blountchamber
Smokies Vacation: https://www.smokymountains.org/
Peaceful Side of the Smokies / Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peacefulsmokies/?hl=en
Site-Selection / Pellissippi Place: https://blountindustry.com/our-region/sites-and-buildings/pellissippi-place/
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