People like you have been asking some very good questions about how Main and Me works. Here are some of the most common questions received since we’ve launched. Q: Is this an app or a website or both? A: Main and Me is a web app (up and running right now) and a mobile app … Continue reading »
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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 »
How Main and Me Works to Support Local Independent Business
Welcome, Early Adopters! The world (increasingly) shops online, but very few local independent merchants have the time or resources to a) post photos of their newest inventory to the web, and b) master the art of “search engine optimization” (in order to appear at the top of Google searches). Main and Me is a web … Continue reading »
How the Whole Earth Catalog Predicted the Internet
As creators of an internet start up, the Main and Me founding team tends to be connected to the internet almost 24/7. To offset the health risk of over-connectedness, some of us have formed the habit of taking a one hour walk everyday with Omar, the standard poodle disguised to look like a regular dog. It was during … Continue reading »
Use Your Smartphone To Help, Not Hurt, Local Independent Business
We use the phrase “local, independent business” a lot on these pages. We could just as easily use “mom-and-pop,” “specialty shop,” “bricks-and-mortar,” and “Main Street” business. In our minds, all refer to this country’s 10 million-plus small to medium sized retailers that sell to their customers in person–in their stores–and not online. When you talk … Continue reading »
Post Photos So Online Shoppers Can Discover What You Sell
We are a nation of visual shoppers. That’s a problem for offline local retailers. Information-only websites, Google place pages and online directories help visual shoppers get basic info about local shops, but without photos of what’s new, what’s hot and what’s on sale they don’t act as very enticing gateways to offline Main Street stores. … Continue reading »
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