Services
Economic development lead generation
Propel's roots are in economic development. Every service below exists because an EDO told us the same thing: we know who we should be talking to, we just cannot get to them consistently.
Core engagements
Most partnerships are built on one of these three and grow from there.
Core
Attraction & Expansion Lead Generation
Continuous outbound prospecting to companies that fit your region, run by a dedicated Propel representative who works as an extension of your business development team. We learn your assets, your target industries, and your disqualifiers, then send under your organization's name so every conversation belongs to you.
- Target identification built around growth signals, not static industry lists
- Contact research and verification before anything is sent
- Message writing tailored to each company and your regional value proposition
- Multi-touch sequences with disciplined follow-up
- Every reply answered the same day, including the referrals most outreach lets die
- Meetings booked onto your team's calendar with the background attached
- Clean lead status in your CRM and reporting your board and funders can read
Core
Conference & Trade Show Meetings
Trade shows are the most expensive week on your calendar. Walking the floor hoping to bump into the right people is not a strategy. We book your team's one-on-one meetings in advance, so the delegation lands with a schedule instead of a badge.
- Speaker, exhibitor, and confirmed-attendee targeting for the specific show
- Outreach timed to the weeks that actually produce commitments
- Meetings anchored to a specific day, with booth or neutral-location logistics handled
- Coordination across multiple team members attending the same event
- Post-event follow-up so the conversations do not end at the show
We have run event campaigns around aerospace, defense, aviation MRO, life sciences, automation and robotics, logistics and material handling, food processing, and unmanned systems shows.
Core
Business Retention & Expansion Outreach
Existing employers produce most of the expansion activity in any region, and BR&E visits are the first thing to slip when the calendar gets tight. We take the scheduling burden entirely off your team.
- Consistent, thoughtful outreach to your existing employer base
- Visits scheduled against your target cadence and coverage goals
- The right contact identified when the one on file has moved on
- Clean handoff so your team walks in prepared
Specialized capabilities
Added to a core engagement, or run on their own.
Specialized
Foreign Direct Investment Outreach
A company with no US presence is a completely different conversation than a domestic expansion. The introduction has to establish who you are before it can establish why they should care, the qualification path is longer, and the timing rarely matches a fiscal year.
- Targeting international companies with credible US market intent
- Introductions framed at the state or national level where that carries more weight
- Coordination with trade missions, inbound delegations, and international events
- Patient follow-up on the timeline these projects actually run
Specialized
Signal-Based Target Identification
The single largest driver of outreach performance is not the message. It is who you send to and whether there is a reason to send today. We monitor the signals that indicate a company is in motion and build lists around them.
- Newly announced projects, facility investments, and site searches
- Funding rounds, contract awards, and capital raises
- Hiring patterns and job postings that indicate physical expansion
- Supply chain shifts, reshoring activity, and customer co-location pressure
- Ongoing monitoring, so your list refreshes instead of aging
Which one fits your year?
Tell us what your metrics look like and what is not moving. If we are not the right answer, we will say so.