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MISSION STATEMENT

Support-Local.com's mission is to bring consumers and small, local and independently owned businesses together for the benefit and growth of the community. Our belief is that we need to return to the basic ideal of supporting each other, our local community and our local economy. Support-Local.com offers businesses and community members the way to support one another through local events, low cost advertising, garage/yard sale listings, recipes, a local blog and more. We believe it is vitally important to "Bring it on home", support each other and bring unity back to our community.

Big corporations have put our local economy and many small businesses that help support your business into our current economic state.  Many local businesses like yours feel that the situations that created the consolidation of many small businesses into big conglomerates eventually had to break.  It is the law of diminishing return and unfortunately we now see it in our economy.  We all know that big business always puts us in recession and small business leads us out of recession. The citizens of our area, of our communities need your leadership. 

OUR OBJECTIVES
Support-Local.com has many objectives towards which we, as a community, strive to meet every day.

* to be a one-stop resource for local community connections for businesses and local neighbors

* to strengthen community ties

* to help create community sustainability

* to offer consumers reasons to buy and shop locally

* to help strengthen the local economy

* to offer timely advice and articles on surviving and thriving in these economic times

* to put a face on our business neighbors

* to offer low cost advertising to local businesses with a level playing field so no one company has an advantage over any other

*to introduce neighbors to their neighbors

* to help show how even little changes can make big differences without the need to be extreme in our approaches

Event listings are free and we'd love to list your event on support-local.com! If you or your organization would like an event listed, please send e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with the details and we'll be happy to add it to our Events.