Become a Local Business Partner
To attract new customers, your business needs to be seen in today’s crowded and pay-to-play digital marketplace.
Keeping your website content current, staying abreast of changing search engine optimization techniques, posting to social media, and responding to online reviews is a lot of work! And that work is in addition to your normal duties of generating sales, ordering products and supplies, managing employees, complying with regulations, monitoring financial performance, and more.
What if you could reduce your workload and have visibility in a national forum exclusive to local businesses (and nonprofits) where you can be found by customers who prefer to support local businesses?
Enhancing Your Visibility
If you’re like most owners, your website, social media platforms, and crowd-sourced reviews serve as the primary marketing tools for your business. The problem is these forums silo your data. Because information is not shared across these platforms, you are forced to enter the same information multiple times in multiple formats. For customers to find you, they must visit each isolated silo or do battle with search engine pay-to-play algorithms.
Wouldn’t it be easier for you, and your customers, if there was one mobile website that featured only local businesses, nonprofits, and events? That’s the idea behind ComCon™ (short for community connection), America’s one-stop-shop for all things local.
This online marketplace serves as the Digital Gateway to the Local Scene, allowing users to easily find and support local businesses, local events, and local nonprofits from anywhere in the country. All they need is an internet connection. There is no fee to use and no app to download.
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi
Local Business Partners
Business Association Members
All members of Local Business Associations are welcome on ComCon™.
If you are a member of a local business association and aren’t listed on ComCon™, let us know!
We strive to offer multiple ways for local businesses to increase their visibility and have a presence on ComCon™.
Whether you just want to have a listing on ComCon™, or you want to have access to update your business’s location in real time, there is an option for you. Our three levels of local business partnership are detailed below.
Local Business Partners
Business Association Members
All members of Local Business Associations are welcome on ComCon™.
If you are a member of a local business association and aren’t listed on ComCon™, let us know! Our goal is for all small businesses to have visibility on ConCon™.
Local Busineses that are Business Association Members are listed on ComCon™ for free!
Local Business Partners
Supporter Specials on ComCon™
All over the country, people are increasingly eager to support local businesses. With Supporter Specials, you can offer incentives to customers already searching for local businesses to patronize.
Using a simple form (no tech knowledge required), you can give customers even more reasons to shop local. Take your spot on ComCon™ to the next level.
Local Business Partnership (Supporter Specials) is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
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Local Business Partners
Supporter Specials on ComCon™
All over the country, people are increasingly eager to support local businesses. With Supporter Specials, you can offer incentives to customers already searching for local businesses to patronize.
Using a simple form (no tech knowledge required), you can give customers even more reasons to shop local. Take your spot on ComCon™ to the next level.
Local Business Partnership (Supporter Specials) is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
or
Local Business Partnership (Supporter Specials)
Local Business Partnership (Supporter Specials) is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
As an Local Business Partner (Supporter Specials), you receive the following.
- The ability to upload Supporter Specials to ComCon™
Local Business Partners
Mobile & Events
Mobile and Events based local businesses face unique challenges. Your revenue depends on customers finding you. You know what a pain it is to add dates and locations to your website, and then remember to delete them afterward. Using social media platforms as additional communication channels just adds more busy work to your over-scheduled week.
By becoming a Local Business Partner (Mobile & Events), you can reduce your time investment to just a few minutes each month. Through your private and secure portal, you add your upcoming locations and dates once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop wasting time inputting the same data in multiple places.
You’ll love that ComCom™ was designed to be forward-looking, only showing present and future events. You’ll never have to remember to remove an event that has already taken place again!
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi. To shed more light on these unique businesses, they have their own categories in ComCon™ – Bizs on the Go (Mobile) and Happenings (Events).
Local Business Partnership (Mobile & Events) is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
or
As a Local Business Partner (Mobile & Events), you receive the following.
- Private, secure login to update locations/dates on ComCon™
- Permission to use the ComCon™ QR code and America’s Commerce Corps™ logo
- Our Quick Start Guide
- Custom Giving Story® for your organization
- Sprocket® Business Assessment
Local Business Partners
Mobile & Events
Mobile and Events based local businesses face unique challenges. Your revenue depends on customers finding you. You know what a pain it is to add dates and locations to your website, and then remember to delete them afterward. Using social media platforms as additional communication channels just adds more busy work to your over-scheduled week.
By becoming a Local Business Partner (Mobile & Events), you can reduce your time investment to just a few minutes each month. Through your private and secure portal, you add your upcoming locations and dates once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop wasting time inputting the same data in multiple places.
You’ll love that ComCom™ was designed to be forward-looking, only showing present and future events. You’ll never have to remember to remove an event that has already taken place again!
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi. To shed more light on these unique businesses, they have their own categories in ComCon™ – Bizs on the Go (Mobile) and Happenings (Events).
Local Business Partnership (Mobile & Events)
Local Business Partnership (Mobile & Events) is Offered as a Yearly Subscription Only
or
As a Local Business Partner (Mobile & Events), you receive the following.
- Private, secure login to update locations/dates on ComCon™
- Permission to use the ComCon™ QR code and America’s Commerce Corps™ logo
- Custom Giving Story® for your organization
- Sprocket® Business Assessment
- Our Quick Start Guide
Mobile Member Partners
As the owner of a mobile business, you know that your revenue depends on customers finding you. Constantly posting on social media and updating your website to make that happen requires extra time and money you just don’t have. You need an easy way for customers to know where you will be next and when.
By becoming an Association Member Partner, you can reduce your time investment to just a few minutes each month. Through your private and secure portal, you add your upcoming locations and dates once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop wasting time inputting the same data in multiple places.
You’ll love that ComCom™ was designed to be forward-looking, only showing present and future locations. You’ll never have to remove past locations again!
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi and clicking on Bizs on the Go in the hamburger menu.
Event Member Partners
If you’re responsible for planning and communicating events for your organization, you know what a pain it is to add them to your website, and then remember to delete them after the event has occurred. Using social media platforms as additional communication channels just adds more busy work to your over-scheduled week. You need an easy way for patrons to know what events you will be hosting next, when, where, and if there is a cost to attend.
By becoming an Association Member Partner, you can reduce your time investment to just a few minutes each month. Through your private and secure portal, you add your upcoming events once, and the information is automatically displayed in ComCon™ and on your website. Stop wasting time inputting the same data in multiple places.
You’ll love that ComCom™ was designed to be forward-looking, only showing present and future events. You’ll never have to remember to remove an event that has already taken place again!
Check it out by visiting www.comcon.mobi and click on Happenings in the hamburger menu.
Bonus Tools
Giving Story®
As an Association Member Partner, we’ll create a custom Giving Story® for your organization that shares how you are affecting positive change in your community. Whether the focus is on dollars given, volunteer hours donated, or unique community involvement projects, Giving Stories® are beautiful narratives that use impactful graphics and authentic storytelling to shine a light on the good work you are doing.
We know you don’t like to toot your own horn, but there is no disputing that consumers today are increasingly making purchasing decisions based on their own personal values and ethics. A phenomenon known as identity-based commerce.
But these consumers are not easily fooled by pandering. They expect to see results. Don’t think of it boasting, think of it as educating your community about what they risk losing if they don’t support local businesses. Can they get things cheaper at a big box store? Probably. But we need to let them know what they give up in quality of life to save a few bucks.
Check out our Giving Stories® at www.GivingStories.org
Sprocket®
The world is changing at an exponential pace. And that means that what is working today will likely not work tomorrow. This is true whether your business is 100 years old or 100 days old.
Businesses that are designed and structured with the expectation of change will outcompete those that are not. Sprocket® shows you how to optimize and realign your business with this goal in mind.
This business optimization tool was developed by an SBA Small Business Person of the Year to help leaders achieve transformational and lasting impact in their organizations by making small, focused changes in operations. You won’t find trendy business theory or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Sprocket® gets down to brass tacks so you can quickly increase your productivity and resiliency by getting out of neutral and into gear.
Organizational leaders complete an anonymous online assessment using our secure and private portal. We compile the aggregate results and provide you with your Sprocket Adaptive Response Score indicating the nature and degree of imbalance in your business.
Using this “big” picture”, and our recommendations about how to rebalance your organization, you can finally solve those chronic problems that never seem to go away no matter how many meetings you have about them.
Optional Tools
ACC Website
To keep your website content current and do the rebuild necessary every 2-5 years to keep pace with changing technology, you only have three options.
- Hire staff capable of doing the work in-house and then panic when they leave.
- Beg a friend or family member to do the work for free or at a discount and then wait and wait and wait.
- Hire a professional at going rates and fruitlessly explain that you don’t want to pay for a Cadillac because a Chevy will get the job done nicely, thank you very much.
We’d like to offer you a fourth option – the ACC Website. Using our template and streamlined process for updates, you won’t need special skills, you won’t have to beg for help, and you won’t overpay for a basic tool.
The best part? No maintenance fees!