For a Desert Town on a lone highway in the middle of nowhere, Quartzsite, AZ has a lot going for it. We have been watching that towns expansion for about 5-years now. And we wish to thank the former Mayor of Quartzsite for agreeing to meet with us. We would also like to thank The Executive Director of the Quartzsite Chamber, Tina Positano for meeting with us in November of 2001.

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We congratulate the City of Quartzsite for their article in National Geographic for their several page full color article in the January 2001 issue. Although Quartzsite only has 2300 year round residences it boosts over 1 million snow birds, who come with motor homes and small cars they tow. Quartzsite has no banks, but many ATM machines at its 2 big truck stops and 2 little mom and pop stops.

This is where the census leaves off and our real world knowledge picks up. We discussed the incredible influx of snowbirds to warmer states from Canada and Northern US states. Well here is a perfect example of a city, which appears to not be a very good location for a business, yet has 1 million population for 5 months out of the year, the same four-five months that many cities with high energy costs and temperatures with wind chill factor of minus zero for weeks on end.

I would urge all marketing executives to look for such anomalies such as the City of Quartzsite, AZ when determining the best locations for your companys business expansion. It pays to not always rely on demographic data or census data, or any data for that matter. If you really want to know, you have to go and take a look you see? Consider all this in 2006.