Hi my name is Connie Good and I am the community advocate for ShopShelburne.com, ShopMeaford.com and ShopOwenSound.com. this is because I live in between all of these communities. These are the communities that my ShopLocal businesses are in, they are where I buy my daily needs and gifts.

I am a strong believer that if we don't shop in our communities at our local business owners, putting money back into our community, we will lose our small community businesses as they will not be able to keep their doors open. Sometimes it might mean paying a dollar or two more, for a product at present, but if we help their business grow, we will save our community, as well as people's jobs, and maybe as their business grows that couple of dollars will come back into our pocket. Is it not better to have locally grown or made products than something that was made overseas somewhere? Or having the profit giving a local person the ability to feed their family, rather than someone sitting in a big office somewhere outside of our community? Choose is ours, you make the decision that you can live with!

I have been doing online as well as print marketing with small to medium businesses now, for 5 years. I am a strong believer that everyone should be found, whether you have a store front, or work from your home, or out of your truck as many of our contractors do. In this day and age with costs of doing business getting higher, many business owners use cell phones to run their business, even if they have a store front. Therefore the business phone number is not published through usual paper directories, and because most directories use those business phone number lists to start a data base, often these people can not be found in the directory. One of my goals is to help all of these businesses to be found in the ShopMeaford.com directory.

Therefore I encourage you to help me, if you have a business, or have a friend or neighbour that has one, contact me to make sure that they are listed. If they are listed and I haven't had a chance to reach out to them, please don't hesitate to reach out to me, so I can help them claim their listing and show them how they can get the most out of ShopMeaford.com. There are many things they can do with the free package to help drive traffic to their business, and with one of our packages, there are a lot of things that can make them stand out in the field of cyberspace. There are also ways for them to keep in touch with their customers, with newsletters, news feed posts, coupons and the list goes on. With more and more people checking online, before making a purchase to either research a product or find out who sells it. It is more important to have what you do or sell online!

I am hoping in the near future to set up some group training sessions, to help others, set up Facebook pages for their business, link it with their ShopMeaford.com , so you can save some time and money by posting news once and being in cyberspace twice, increasing your presence. As well as pass on tips of how to use the system and get the most out of it, and have a little fun in learning together. If you want to know more or have a business that isn't listed or one that I have not reached out to yet, please call me at 226-668-1921. Look forward to speaking with you soon!

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