Yesterday I attended a press conference held at CitySquares customer, Model Ace Hardware in Allston. Mayor Menino was there to announce the city’s new Boston Buying Power initiative. If you haven’t heard about Boston Buying Power yet, than listen up! This truly is exciting news for local businesses. Boston Buying Power is an energy buying group [...] [...more]
(This blog entry was copied from Ben’s blog at YourSuspect.com) This weekend is CitySquares’ 3rd birthday! It was October 15th, 2005 and Bob and I had been working extremely long days getting the website ready for its unveiling, but it was entirely on Bob’s shoulders! For the previous eight weeks or so, while Bob and a [...] [...more]
With July now in full swing, it’s time for our final update on the Buy Local Challenge. For those of you who haven’t been following it, we here at CitySquares gave ourselves a challenge to buy only from local businesses for the month of June. Below are words from my fellow CitySquares staff members. “Even though [...] [...more]
Amended 7/22/08: New version of the animation posted, with a new ending. A couple of months ago we had an idea to put a bit of an animation together that demonstrates how we feel about traditional print media, specifically the phone book and local newspapers. We didn’t want it to be too serious or lengthy, so [...] [...more]
Buying local is what CitySquares is all about. We talk about buying local with our customers and with community members daily. Earlier this month, we gave ourselves a challenge, to buy only from local businesses for the month of June. While there have been some mishaps (it’s called a challenge for a reason) I’m happy [...] [...more]
As pointed on on several blogs and in the print media, CitySquares has expanded our website beyond the Metro Boston area and into the rest of New England as well as the Metro NYC area! This is a big and exciting step for us! This expansion of the website brings the total number of businesses [...] [...more]
I was recently asked, along with two coworkers, to try and put together a new flash demo that would help better explain the benefits of being a member of CitySquares. After working on it for a while and tossing around several ideas, we realized that we kept coming back to the same two points. [...] [...more]
As a member of the CitySquares sales team, I think it is important to keep everyone updated on what is new and exciting with our customers and here’s my first of such postings. Clevergreen Cleaners is an environmentally friendly dry cleaning service in the Boston area with three locations: Beacon Hill, Medford Hillside and Wellington [...] [...more]
For those of you out there with Facebook accounts please also check out the CitySquares Page and feel free to Become a Fan! We’ll be adding quite a bit up there. Here’s the link: CitySquares.com on Facebook –Ben [...more]
Welcome to the Official CitySquares Company Blog! This is the start of something new. I’ve been blogging for quite a while on my own personal blog, Your Suspect, which is both about CitySquares and local search but really more about my perspectives and experiences as an entrepreneur. I’ve been blogging about such things since the [...] [...more]
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