1. South Jersey – Covering three counties in New Jersey
2. Bloomington-Normal, IL – Home of Illinois State University
3. The Outer Banks North Carolina – a very popular tourist destination!
4. Concord, CA – Partnered with a Coupon magazine
5. Eau Claire, WI – Incorporated in 1872 in northwestern Wisconsin
6. El Paso, TX – Recently named as 2010 All-America City

We’re excited to be announcing all these cites at once. Local Proud has now grown to be represented in 20 cities across America. Additionally, we will be announcing new partners as well and expect to grow this number to around 60-100 cities by years end.

If you haven’t already done so, please check out how you too can be a reseller of Local Proud by clicking here.

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!

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 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 continues its growth across the country and is now licensed in 15 cities with another 6-10 to be announced later. “We’re very pleased with the progress of Local Proud and how well it’s been received by both businesses and consumers” says Jeff Palmer, CEO of Rev Up. “With the name itself, Local Proud brings a sense of community and being a part of something bigger and that’s what we wanted to build from the start,” says Jeff.

Being tied in with Night Out brings great opportunity for the licensees of Night Out and the communities they are a part of. “Building local relationships and supporting each other in our communities is what it is all about,” says Randall Duncan. That is part of what Local proud is – bringing consumers, business and communities together to one central place and to instill a sense of pride about shopping locally…

As we have stated before, we are just getting started and will be sharing much more as we grow this program to entrepreneurs everywhere!