If you are a downtown director looking for the best way to promote local shopping, chances are your city needs a sustainable, affordable, measurable solution that brings new foot traffic to downtown businesses. To that end, the Main&Me downtown app incentivizes both shoppers and local businesses to act together to promote discovery of your city’s best products, sales and events. … Continue reading
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When Cashmobs Double As Photomobs They Benefit All Your Local Businesses Not Just One
Your cash mob is a precious resource. Why not turn it into a photo mob and leverage it to bring lasting benefit to ALL the stores in your town? Just ask your volunteers to bring their smartphones and digital cameras along to snap, caption and check in photos of storefronts and favorite merchandise as they … Continue reading
Support Local In Your Town Or It May Just Go Away
Where National Mainstreet.Orgs Go To Offer Online Windowshopping And Wish-listing Of Their Downtown Historic Shopping Districts
Main and Me is the free, user-generated social shopping network where National Mainstreet.Orgs and downtown merchant associations come to “put their downtowns online.” That way they can offer online windowshopping and wish-listing of their downtown historic shopping district, and begin to turn the tide in the competition with Amazon and Big Internet Retail. Won’t you … Continue reading
Attract More Shoppers to Your Downtown Historic Shopping District With a Main and Me Tag Party
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
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
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 10 Reasons Why Main and Me Supports Local Independent Business Better Than Pinterest
Many merchants and Main Street associations are adding Pinterest to their growing list of social media must-dos. We think this is right and encourage businesses to take advantage of every channel they can to find new customers, but we also want you to know that we consciously designed Main and Me to support local independent … Continue reading
Why We Love The 3/50 Project at Main and Me
Congratulations 3/50 on 90,000 likes. 90,000!!?? A testament to your vision and the authenticity of your message. We are big supporters of the The 3/50 Project here at Main and Me. Such a simple idea, and so very wise about creating an actionable concept (3…50…) which captures the imagination and changes what seems abstract and … Continue reading
How Everyday Gift Registries Can Help Local Business Disrupt Amazon!
Amazon really put the screws to local business over the holidays last year with their Price Check app. Wouldn’t it be nice to return the favor? It turns out there is a practical and fun way to do so. The seven major U.S. holidays present an opportunity to simultaneously solve a problem shared by millions … Continue reading
