CNNMoney issued a list of American cities with five or more Fortune 500 headquarters on May 23, 2011. According to the list, Cleveland, Columbus, Englewood, Los Angeles, McLean, Milwaukee, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and San Antonio each has five Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the city.
The only city in the list with six Fortune 500s is Cincinnati, with seven is Charlotte, and with nine is Minneapolis.
CNNMoney lists Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco as having eight Fortune 500 headquarters each, while Dallas and Atlanta 10 each.
The city with the second most number of Fortune 500s is Houston, which has 22 Fortune 500 headquarters.
The number one spot is secured by New York City with 45 of Americas largest corporations by far the most number of Fortune 500s that chose NYC to establish their headquarters in.
Such big presence of the U.S. most profitable companies in NYC has attracted many large-, medium-, and small-sized businesses to the city and given (and continues to give) birth to new businesses by the residents. According to U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 954,311 small businesses being run in NYC.
Besides being home to Americas second largest television and film industry after Hollywood, NYC is one of those U.S. cities whose creative industries such as advertising, new media, fashion, design and architecture are witnessing a growing share of employment. It is important to mention here that NYC has a strong competitive edge in these industries.
New York Citys high-tech industries such as software development, biotechnology, game design, and internet services are also growing. The most fundamental reason behind the growth in the high-tech industries is the city's position at the terminus of several transatlantic fiber optic trunk lines.
Non-profit institutions, medical research and technology, and universities are other important sectors of NYC.
It is no secret that marketing plays a crucial role in the success of any business and when businesses of a city make the most of marketing, the city prospers. Seeing the success of NYC, it is not difficult to figure out that marketing has played and continues to play a significant role here also.
When we talk of marketing, the most far-reaching and arguably the most effective type of it cannot be overlooked. It is highly unlikely that internet marketing was and is not given importance by businesses in NYC. In fact some NYC internet marketing firms strong clientele that also includes Fortune 500 corporations leaves nothing to the imagination.
An
internet marketing firm helps a business achieve mainly two things:
1.High Search Engine Ranking
2.Visibility on online communities such as social networks/media sites
To help businesses achieve those two things, some of the things that a professional internet marketing firm does are:
Article marketing
Classified advertising
Inbound marketing
In-text advertising
Lead scoring
Online identity management
Online lead generation
Pay per click advertising
Post-click marketing
Social media optimization
If you are running a business in NYC, you should consider utilizing a good internet marketing firm if you arent doing that already, to realize true business success in a city that offers a lot to a business that plays all its cards wisely i.e. produce/provide quality products/services and have them marketing online via a professional internet marketing firm.
