After uploading photos of local products and services to Main and Me, volunteers who wish to help attract even more shoppers to their downtown historic shopping district can log into http://www.mainandme.com and like, wish-list, comment on, and tag individual items. When two or more volunteers do this in the same room, you have a Tag … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: July 2012
A Social Network 100% Dedicated to Promoting Local Independent Business
The elves are busy. The number of communities adding photo galleries of their local businesses to Main and Me before the holiday shopping season is growing. Who knew how many cool barbershops and tattoo parlors and yoga studios and boutiques-for-everything and (dare I say it, tasteful adult toys?) there were in America?? (Check for your … Continue reading »
Help Wanted: Looking For A Programmer Who Loves Local Businesses
HELP WANTED: FULL or P/T DEVELOPER Main and Me is looking for a full or part-time developer (avg. 20 hrs/week w/ possibility of 40 hrs/week in initial months) to help us move our project forward. Tasks will include: completion of the mobile app (in progress) addition of ecommerce capability implementation of miscellaneous UI and graphic … Continue reading »
Organize a Photo Mob To Put Your Town Online In A Day
Main and Me is the fastest, easiest and FREE-est way to put your town online in a day so online shoppers will know what’s for sale in the brick and mortar stores around them–and stop defaulting to Amazon every time they buy a pair of shoes. To that end, one of the best ways to … Continue reading »
Top 9 Things You Can Do To Promote Your Main and Me Store Page or Community Page
Dear Merchants and Executive Directors: Now that you’ve created a storefront for your business, here are some things you can do to build on that momentum and take full advantage of the power of Main and Me. 1. PLAY! When you get a minute, go to your page and click on everything: images, buttons, especially … Continue reading »