New ‘buy local’ marketer in VW area

Van Wert independent/contributor content

A company that specializes in “buy local” marketing is coming to the Van Wert area.

My Area’s Best is a multimedia marketing company founded on encouraging consumers and businesses to shop local and buy local.  Originally founded in Traverse City, Mich., My Area’s Best provides a fun and interactive online platform for Van Wert area residents to locate and interact with local businesses.

Why should a resident of the Van Wert area go to www.myareasbest.com?

• To freely find what discounts, benefits, or incentives local businesses are offering
• Keep tabs on a favorite business’s new offerings, product lines, and specials by receiving automatic email and text message notifications
• Search over a 100 business categories from Restaurants, to Bridal Boutiques, to Jewelry stores
• Easily “share” or “like” your discoveries with your friends through Facebook, Twitter, and 15 other social media sites
• To support locally owned businesses, and support the local economy
• It’s free!

Why should a business in the Van Wert area join the My Area’s Best platform?

• To be discovered by local consumers who are searching the My Area’s Best site daily
• Easily interact with existing customers and keep them up to date on a business
• Attract new customers through unique marketing campaigns
• Attract travelers coming to the region
• Very affordable advertising
• Many more benefits are available

Van Wert has many great locally owned establishments in the area, so why not give them a shot at one’s business before going to a national chain or “big box” store?

The following locally owned businesses have already seen some of the benefits MAB has to offer: Citizen’s National Bank, Osting Farm Drainage Inc., DeShia-The Country Shop, Sisters Boutique, A & A Mechanical, Laudick’s Jewelry, Shutterbugg Studio, and Delphos Granite Works.

With a free My Area’s Best consumer card, local residents can take advantage of any benefit being offered by any business on My Area’s Best’s website.  Anyone can get a free consumer card at participating businesses or throughout upcoming community events.

To find any deal participating locally owned businesses may be offering go to www.myareasbest.com , search 45891, and click on “benefit” on each businesses listing.  My Area’s Best is currently in the process of expanding throughout the Midwest, so look for locally owned businesses in an area town soon.  “Like” My Area’s Best-Van Wert Area Facebook page.

For any locally owned businesses looking to inquire about the many benefits My Area’s Best has to offer, contact Travis Osting at travis.osting@myareasbest.com.