LANDED: Insider Tips on Business Expansion
Ready to grow in a new country? Start here. International expansion is an acquired skill, and if you haven’t done it, well, you haven’t done it. But you *can* learn from those who have.
We’ll talk to business leaders, site selectors, recruiters, legal experts and more to reveal best practices for everything from finding a local leader to finding the best strategic location for your new office.
LANDED is a Waterloo EDC podcast. We help companies like yours expand in Waterloo, Canada. In the last five years, we’ve helped businesses invest more than a billion dollars in our community, so we know our stuff.
LANDED: Insider Tips on Business Expansion
EP3 - A Site Selector's Role in Business Expansion feat. Gregg Wassmansdorf, Senior Managing Director at Newmark
Business expansion is a team sport. You will need help from experts in business law, business location strategy, real estate recruiting, and accounting. Depending on your needs, a professional site selector could be the perfect way to round out your team.
In the third episode of LANDED, we speak to Gregg Wassmansdorf, a professional site selector and Senior Managing Director at Newmark, one of the world’s largest commercial real estate services companies, about the services site selectors provide, how to find a good site selector and more.
Key Questions:
- What does a professional site selector do?
- Is there a particular size or type of company that should hire a site selector?
- Do individual site selectors have different specialties?
- Is there a particular size or type of project that fits better with site selection services?
- Where should companies look for a site selector? How do I hire one? How are they typically compensated?
- How long does the site selection process take?
- How is international investment changing? What’s driving international business growth?
- What are some of the questions companies should ask before selecting a location? What are the key considerations? What questions do you always want clients to ask you?
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