Local Proud Announces 6 New Affiliate Cities



Rev Up is pleased to announce 6 brand new Licensees for Local Proud… The following are all the new cities where Local Proud will be launching soon or are operational already! (more…)

Another Local Proud City Announced – Cincinnati, OH.



Rev Up announced today that Cincinnati, OH has signed on as another Local Proud city.

We are very excited about Cincinnati as our new affiliate city. Our representative there has many years of experience in advertising and marketing with an extensive backgorund in radio and online marketing… As we get Cincinnati up and running, we will be announcing other great features.

Keep coming back, we expect to tell you about two more cities this week!

Tulsa, OK. – The Next Local Proud City!



Rev Up announced today that Tulsa, OK has signed on as our newest Local Proud city. As we continue our growth of signing new affiliates across the country, Local Proud is gaining momentum every single day!

To date, we now have 13 licensed city affiliates across the country and expect to grow this number by 2-3 a week. It’s been amazing to see how fast we have experienced the desire to be an Entrepreneur and for one to start their own business.

We expect to be announcing 2 additional cities this week so please check back to see who they are…

Local Proud Gets Local News Coverage in Rockford, IL.



Having just launched about 8 weeks ago in Rockford, IL, we thought we’d share this video news story with our friends and the people who may either seek us out or stumble upon our website. We’re happy to have all of you here and we hope you take a moment to check us out.

Local Proud is not just a discount card program, it’s a movement that many of our licensees are telling us about. We’re proud to be a part of this grass roots effort and we feel it happening around us!

I read a quote today… I found to be profound. It was a comment on an article posted at inc.com – the comment went like this:

Gail Margolies Reid wrote:

Getting back to the discussion/debate earlier this week on jobs creation, I thought I would post a link to the new Kauffman Foundation report entitled : The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Job Destruction. Quote of the day for relevance with this Inc. cover story? Here goes -

“The oft-quoted American sports slogan, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing!” could well be attributed to the economic importance of firm formation in creating jobs. A relatively new dataset from the U.S. government called Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) confirms that startups aren’t everything when it comes to job growth. They’re the only thing.”
http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/firm_formation_importance_of_startups.pdf

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Local Proud to Launch in Philadelphia!



Local Proud, one of the fastest growing reseller programs in the country today announced an agreement with Philadelphia Night Out to launch Local Proud there. On top of some great promotion, Philadelphia businesses will now have the opportunity to be a part of the shop local movement. (more…)