This website has been developed and is sponsored by ExecutivePulse, Inc. for government, economic and

workforce development

professionals who are actively engaged in the discipline of

business retention and expansion

.

Imagine that you are boarding an airplane for a business trip. Your flight attendant casually mentions that the pilot has never actually flown an aircraft, but he has talked to a number of real pilots, engaged in flight simulations and even written numerous articles and white papers on aviation. Most of us would immediately leave the plane and rebook our flight.

Ironically, many ‘experts' who are offering advice and counsel on

business retention and expansion

have little or no direct experience actually doing it. Academic research, white papers and theoretical discussions acknowledged, there is no substitute for actual experience.

In Outliers-The Story of Success, author Malcolm Gladwell asserts “the 10,000 hour rule is a definite key in success.” Gladwell contends that the time threshold of 10,000 hours of experience is necessary for proficiency in any endeavor.

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.guru is the result of our tens of thousands of hours of actual experience in all facets of

business retention and expansion

.

• We are certified economic developers. We've worked in and around the

  economic development

  industry for over 20 years./We've personally conducted over 600 face-to-face

  business retention

  visits with ‘C-Level' executives in key wealth and job creating industries in both urban and rural markets./For over a decade, we actively managed a large regional

  business retention and expansion

  program that routinely conducted between 1,500-1,750 face-to-face

  business retention

  visits per year. That program utilized two dozen trained outreach specialists and included a stakeholder network of roughly 100 federal, state, regional and local organizations. That program resulted in hundreds of tangible outcomes for individual companies. The program spawned a number of value added programs and industry initiatives to meet the needs of the market area as a whole.

• Since 1996, we have offered

  business retention and expansion training

  through the International

  Economic Development

  Council (IEDC). We have trained well over 6,000 economic and

  workforce development

  professionals in

  business retention and expansion

  through IEDC./In addition to our work with IEDC, each year we provide training to state, provincial, regional and local economic and

  workforce development

  stakeholders throughout North America. This training is focused on outreach, team building and program management-all relating to

  business retention and expansion

  .

• ExecutivePulse is the largest vendor of

  business retention

  databases in North America./We are actively working with hundreds of diverse state, provincial, regional and local

  business retention and expansion programs

  throughout North America./

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  .guru will follow the KISS principle. We'll offer real world ideas, concepts and solutions that can be adapted for, and applied in, your market area.

We'll do our best to routinely update content and, whenever possible, feature articles and insights from experts who have done the things that you should be doing in your community for success!