Clarksdale-Coahoma County Industrial Foundation goes into cyberspace with web site

BY ROBERT MCFARLAND, JR.

Delta Business Journal

The Clarksdale Coahoma County Industrial Foundation is moving into cyberspace with the construction of a new web site that will enable the organization to better market its efforts to lure businesses and industries to the Clarksdale area. Other similar organizations across the state are in the process of doing the same thing - Clarksdale is one of the first.

"One of the main things that we hope to accomplish with the site is to promote our available buildings particularly our buildings that we have right now to industries that may want to relocate," says Tana Vassel the foundation’s coordinator. "We’re also going to have other screens devoted to demographics, quality of life, the community, educational resources, and workforce training. Information on our industrial park will also be available and we’ll be describing these properties and the costs and incentives programs."

Vassel says that promoting I-69 and its proximity to Clarksdale will also be a main point of interest on the site.

"Besides going straight to our site, the site will be linked by the official Clarksdale homepage, the Mississippi Resource Center, and the Mississippi Department of Community and Economic Development’s web page," says Vassel.

"We have been talking about this new way to market Clarksdale for a long time," says Vassel. "We are really trying to promote our buildings building and we have been running ads in several out of state newspapers, using direct mail, and we have taken out ads in several trade publications. A lot of people are just now going on-line to look for information and we’re hoping that this will be very usual for us."

Larry Blades, a Clarksdale web site designer is constructing the foundation’s site.