The City’s Geographic Information System (GIS) staff provides information about the City to its citizens and employees. We maintain accurate corporate limits, streets, zoning, and many other layers of information in our City’s GIS system.
We also provide technical assistance to other departments to help them develop and maintain their own GIS information. Our staff is currently working towards creating a system from which all City employees will have real time access to our GIS information.
The most common way that we communicate GIS information with residents and employees is through maps. We can produce maps up to 34″ x 44″ in size for a minimal fee. Citizens can request a map by emailing us at mckeet@ci.charleston.sc.us, calling or coming by our office at 75 Calhoun Street. Some of our most popular maps are available online for viewing and downloading.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system of computer software, hardware and data, and personnel to help manipulate, analyze and present information that is tied to a spatial or geographic location. GIS is NOT a Global Positioning System (GPS) nor is it a static or paper map. Maps are a product of GIS. GIS is really a ‘smart map’. Every feature, such as a street, parcel or building is actually linked to a database that contains information about that feature such as the street name, property owner, or building height.
GIS is so powerful because it allows us to view this information in map form instead of a complex database. Additionally, because features are associated with a geographic location they know how they are related to each other. For example, a GIS can tell you what property owners and therefore how many residents are within a 1 mile radius of a particular park.
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by How Customer Communications Creates New Factors in a Marketing Communications Plan
In delivering a customer communications management system, there are extra considerations in respect of the development of a marketing communications plan.
The marketing communications plan can provide a clear guideline as to how to execute, the expected costs and the expected return. Customer communications management will increase the ease with which a multi-channel marketing communications strategy can be executed. It will also increase the sophistication with which a company can communicate in a relevant manner with its customers.
In the context of discussing the plan I will use Philip Kotler ‘P’s framework as this is the standard study for virtually all marketers.
First off, lets establish the Four P’s of product marketing in context with customer communications management:
Product – Which products are you looking to promote? Today’s customer communications management platforms mean that you can market more than one product in an individual campaign based upon an individual users profile. Therefore Product Range Selection is an additional component in the customer communications management driven marketing communications plan.
Place – Customer communications management processes give the marketing communications plan complete freedom to choose from a wide range of communications methods. These include voice, Direct Mail, Transactional Mail, Email, Social Media oriented email, social media direct, SMS, mobile and web. Therefore channel flexibility is a key advantage for the marketing communications plan.
Promotion – Specifically what is your promotion and what are the promotion objectives? To garner new customers? To market more to your existing customers? To raise awareness of a product launch? To build brand appeal through a news advisory about your company’s efforts in the community? To raise funds for a charity that your company sponsors? The options are wide and… Continue reading
by Free Dry Cleaner Business Plan
Free Dry Cleaner Business Plan for Loans
Obtaining Business Financing
When obtaining a business loan for a dry cleaning business, it is imperative that you have a properly structured business plan that will assist you in showcasing how you intend to operate your Dry Cleaner, how the business will operate, how you intend to market the business, the anticipated financial results of your company, and how you intend to repay your debt obligations. This sample loan business plan will provide you with the framework that you need in order to acquire a business loan for starting or expanding this type of business.
Executive Summary
Introduction
When obtaining a business loan for a dry cleaner, it is imperative that your business plan has a clear and concise executive summary that provides an outline of what are seeking to accomplish, how much capital you are seeking to raise, the management biography of the business owner, and an overview of the anticipated profit and loss statements of the business. Here is an example of how the title paragraph should be written:
Dry Cleaner, Inc. (“the Company”) is seeking a business loan of 0,000 in order to launch the operations of a dry cleaning business that will be based in San Francisco, California. The Company was founded in (Insert Year). The business was founded by Mr. John Doe.
Products and Services
In the next segment of the business loan and business planning document, you should showcase the products and services that you will be providing to the general public. For instance:
The Dry Cleaner will provide the outsourced cleaning of clothes to the general public and to other dry cleaners that solely operate in a drop store capacity. The business will generate substantial revenues from these services… Continue reading
by kevindooleyFree Tanning Salon Business Plan
Free Tanning Salon Business Plan for Loans
Obtaining Business Financing
When obtaining a business loan for a tanning salon business, it is imperative that you have a properly structured business plan that will assist you in showcasing how you intend to operate your Tanning Salon, how the business will operate, how you intend to market the business, the anticipated financial results of your company, and how you intend to repay your debt obligations. This sample loan business plan will provide you with the framework that you need in order to acquire a business loan for starting or expanding this type of business.
Executive Summary
Introduction
When obtaining a business loan for a tanning salon, it is imperative that your business plan has a clear and concise executive summary that provides an outline of what are seeking to accomplish, how much capital you are seeking to raise, the management biography of the business owner, and an overview of the anticipated profit and loss statements of the business. Here is an example of how the title paragraph should be written:
Tanning Salon, Inc. (“the Company”) is seeking a business loan of 0,000 in order to launch the operations of a tanning salon business that will be based in San Francisco, California. The Company was founded in (Insert Year). The business was founded by Mr. John Doe.
Products and Services
In the next segment of the business loan and business planning document, you should showcase the products and services that you will be providing to the general public. For instance:
The Tanning Salon will provide a number of high technology tanning beds that will be used by the general public. The Company will generate revenues from the ongoing usage of these tanning beds on a daily basis and… Continue reading