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Elmer’s Weekly Small Business Tip – Nov 19, 2009

Elmer’s Weekly Small Business Tip – Nov 19, 2009

The minute you hear the scampering of paws across the  CitySquares’ office floor and the sound of excited panting, you know that the CitySquares canine entertainment is about to begin. Elmer is CitySquares’ co-founder Ben Saren’s 15-month old dog and of course an essential part of the CitySquares’ team – he comes to work every day and keeps [...] [...more]

Customers, Featured, small business Comments

The Beginning of the CitySquares Community Scrapbook

The Beginning of the CitySquares Community Scrapbook

Everyday, the CitySquares team recognizes each local business’ and website user’s contribution to the overall CitySquares community. We are working to create an online CitySquares Community Scrapbook where we will highlight one local business per week on our Facebook Fan Page. These are businesses that people have recently shown interest in and wrote positive reviews on [...] [...more]

Campaigns, Customers, small business Comments

CitySquares Celebrates Its 4th Year!

CitySquares Celebrates Its 4th Year!

October 16, 2009 marked the fourth year for CitySquares.com, a reflective milestone for co-founders Ben Saren and Bob Leland who recognize the successes and growth of CitySquares.com since its launch in 2005. CitySquares.com began as a small website with information about local businesses in seven Boston area neighborhoods to what is now a national hyperlocal [...] [...more]

Events, Featured, General Comments

National Expansion Begins

National Expansion Begins

CitySquares started in 2005 with only seven neighborhoods on the site. We wanted to provide a useful and relevant hyper-local resource for local residents and for the small businesses. Those seven neighborhoods in Somerville and Cambridge Massachusetts (Davis Square, Porter Square, Harvard Square, Kendall Square, Union Square, Central Square and Inman Square) are now the [...] [...more]

General, Local Search Comments

Update: The Buy Local Challenge

Update: The Buy Local Challenge

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]

Consumerism, General Comments

Online Playground for Local Businesses

Online Playground for Local Businesses

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]

Consumerism, General Comments

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