Getting to the Heart of Broadband
and Economic Development
This two-day customized workshop helps you build or strengthen the business case for a broadband network to improve economic development in your community and increase your grant application's success potential. Attendees also learn how to increase revenues that sustain network operations. Session details include:
- how to use wired and wireless broadband networks to retain current businesses while attracting new ones;
- marketing and technology tactics to create thriving home-based businesses;
- strategies for generating institutional customers from the medical and education communities;
- recommendations for
local government's role as the network's anchor tenant
- how to partner with nonprofit and other organizations to increase digital inclusion; and
Broadband project leaders, local officials, stakeholder representatives and service providers completing the workshop come away with:
- a foundation for doing effective needs analysis of business and other stakeholder groups that lead to better grant proposals;
- insights on reconciling your community's needs with those of the agencies approving grant proposals;
- an overview of the merits of various technology options and how they impact network budgets;
- a sampling of possible business models that best generate and sustain revenue for network operations and
- recommendations for creating strong partnership opportunities.
The stimulus grant application requires a lot of work, and we increase your ability to make that hard work pay off. Contact us today for more details.
Call 510-536-4522 or e-mail today. Download your free copy of our survey report, The Economic Development Impact of Municipal Broadband, and its supplement Fighting the Next Good Fight.
