In Fortune’s 2011 list of cities with five or more Fortune 500 headquarters, the city of Minneapolis is ranked 4th with 9 of America’s largest corporations headquartered in the city.
Minneapolis is also called “City of Lakes” (due to the presence of more than twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls) and the “Mill City” (no more an entirely accurate title). It is the state of Minnesota’s 4th largest city and U.S.’ 48th.
Minneapolis’ economy is based on commerce, finance, rail and trucking services, health care, and industry. Also, there are businesses, albeit in small number, in sectors of publishing, milling, food processing, graphic arts, insurance, education, and high technology. Moreover, metal and automotive products, chemical and agricultural products, electronics, computers, precision medical instruments and devices, plastics, and machinery are also produced here. In 2005, Popular Science magazine named Minneapolis the “Top Tech City” in the U.S. Minneapolis is also nicknamed “Twin Cities” (along with Saint Paul) and the twin cities put in 63.8% of the gross state product of Minnesota. The area of the twin cities produces gross metropolitan product of $145.8 billion and the value along with the area’s per capita personal income rank fourteenth in the U.S.
It is important to mention here that the above assets of Minneapolis are not all that the city has. Speaking of assets, marketing agencies including internet marketing firms can also be regarded as assets of a prospering city because of the significant role they play in the success of any business/region.
To understand the role of an internet marketing firm in the success of a business or city, one needs to know what a professional internet marketing firm does.
A professional internet marketing firm:
- Helps in increasing the visibility of a business on most widely used search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing by increasing the ranking of that business’ website i.e. bringing the website of the company on the first search engine result page for highly relevant keywords and key phrases.
- Helps in getting the sales pitch across to the target market on world’s most used social media sites/networks like Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, etc as well as on increasingly popular, innovative social projects like Google+, Yuwie, etc.
Imagine a business or businesses of a city not utilizing the services of a professional internet firm or digital marketing agencies and then imagine those businesses that are, and you’ll, like most business-minded people, have no other thought but to conclude in favor of a professional internet marketing firm.
Coming back to the city of Minneapolis, after seeing the success that the city has achieved, and continues to achieve, it becomes clear that businesses here must have used and continue to use services of a professional digital marketing agency or internet marketing firm.
