CitySquares is proud to announce a new partnership with CallSource, through which we are now providing call tracking for small businesses. This new service allows small businesses to measure and monitor phone calls coming to their business through a variety of campaigns, and therefore increase marketing effectiveness, capture more sales opportunities and improve customer service.
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Mystery Cafe Dinner Theater in Boston MA is America’s Original Murder Mystery Dinner Theater! Not many people know this, but this worldwide phenomenon actually began in Cambridge MA over ten years ago! I have been to many shows that they have produced including The Mobfather Boston Harbor cruise over the summer, as well as Finnegans [...] [...more]
Many of us have just completed setting our goals for 2009 (and if you haven’t yet, stop reading this right now and get going on it!). Writing down your goals is a great first step toward achieving them. But once you’re done with this exercise, then what?
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As we rang in 2009 over here at CitySquares we also wrapped up our Shopping All Star competition. Throughout the biggest shopping season of the year, you voted for your favorite local shopping destinations and we are thrilled to announce our Top 10 Shopping All Stars!
Habit – Best Boutique and Overall Shopping All Star Winner
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When Ben sent out a call for contributors, I immediately responded. I hope to bring a slightly different perspective to this blog, and let me make it clear that these positions will not be neutral.
I am the founding director of Somerville Local First, a nonprofit network of Local Independents (locally owned and independent businesses) [...] [...more]
In the midst of snow and cold, I hunker down to indoor work, paper work the stuff I will not want to be doing when the good weather returns. So it is tax preparation, reports of the last business year, plans for the upcoming year and employee reviews. At Irving House employee reviews are a [...] [...more]
We first launched CitySquares back in 2005, for just a few neighborhoods in Somerville and Cambridge. Now, three years later, we’re rolling out the site nationwide. Bob, Justin, Michael, and Clay (our product team) are doing some amazing things, and working very hard to bring CitySquares to every community across the country, and the goal [...] [...more]
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