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Board debates hiring lead-generation consultants, narrows priorities for June workshop
Summary
Members pressed staff on whether to hire third-party lead-generation firms, debate cost and scope, and agreed to prepare a short list of target industries and a workshop in June (inviting FGCU and possibly Dover Kohl) to clarify the board's long-term economic-development vision and priorities.
The Economic Development Advisory Board spent much of the meeting discussing how to focus limited city resources and whether to hire third-party lead-generation or marketing firms. Staff offered cost estimates: lead-generation firms ranged in examples from about $50,000 a year (Veil Strategies) to $75'$85,000 (Kamoinge Associates), with some firms requesting…
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