Beyond our more practical goal to develop a new way to make local marketing affordable and effective for small business, we have a much more passionate and emotion-filled goal: to create thousands of new local jobs, doing our part to stimulate local economies all over the country!
In addition to creating new jobs directly related to RelyLocal (local owner, sales rep(s), graphic artists, accounting, etc…), we are excited about the greater impact RelyLocal can have on a community overall. There are millions of small local businesses across the country who are struggling – not just because of a poor economy, but also because; 1) they can’t afford to advertise, and, 2) the can’t compete with national companies.
To address the first problem most small business face, we developed a platform for cost-effective marketing. To address the second problem, we are working with territory owners across the nation to develop a grass-roots campaign to energize the LOCAL business community by educating consumers on the importance of doing business locally in our ever growing global market.
We have all seen the pain and desperation caused by the loss of jobs in our communities. Whether it is a sandwich shop cutting one position, or a small factory calling it quits. We currently have over 850 job opportunities left across America for the right people, and are doing our best to protect the jobs of millions more.
[...] with simple solution (low-cost, locally driven multi-channel marketing), and we combined it with a passionate goal (putting at least 1,000 people back to work within a year). Within a month we had our new [...]