Search & Go Shop Local Businesses

Support Small Businesses Initiative: “Coming Back Stronger!”

Consumer spending comprises 70% of GDP.
Local businesses benefit from local spending.

Local Spend Drives Local Economy

Support Small Businesses Initiative: “Coming Back Stronger!”

Shopping local lessens our individual burdens of budgetary responsibilities.
Also it improves the quality of public services in our communities.

Buying Local, Best Investment

Support Small Businesses Initiative: “Coming Back Stronger!”

Acting locally and thinking globally is the key to a well balanced community priorities.

It’s All About Local Economy!

Support Small Businesses Initiative “Coming Back Stronger!”

The small businesses are the life blood of the local economy that supports our community.

Create Local Jobs, Shop Local

Support Small Businesses Initiative “Coming Back Stronger!”

According to the SBA, Small Businesses create 1.5 million jobs annually.
This account for 64% of new jobs created in the US.

Stop for a Bite/Coffee while shopping

Support Small Businesses Initiative: “Coming Back Stronger!”

Win, Win, Win for All

Support Small Businesses Initiative: “Coming Back Stronger!”

This is a WIN for: You, Local Businesses, and the Community

Search & Go Shop Local Businesses

Registering Your Business Says: "WE'RE OPEN"

Ambassador – Shop Local Business

At least three (3) local ambassadors needed to initiate this free services in your community. If you want to sign-up as one of your community Ambassadors, please do so here. This a critical component of the process of which without, no community registry for local businesses.

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Register Your Business

This populates your Regional/ Community Business Registry. This helps the business and also enable shoppers to search for local services and products. If your Community is not activated yet, information will be provided to you on how to.

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Search & Go Shop Local Businesses

The Community Business Registry houses your local businesses. Search here and go shop your local businesses. Share the "News" with friends and others. Your local businesses appreciate your support and your community is better for it.

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About Us

Save Your Local Small Businesses: Buy Local

The services outlined in this publication are free of charge to all participants. We support the collective actions of individuals directing their expenditures toward local businesses. Buying local is an important individual action that can save the local small businesses, our communities, and improve the quality of public services available to us. It is a very powerful community investment. 

iBusiness Strong, d/b/a iBStrong, is a 501(c)(3) organization sub-classified under IRC section 170 dedicated to providing local small businesses a virtual platform that promotes shopping and buying from local businesses. According to the SBA, small businesses create 1.5 million jobs annually and account for 64% of new jobs created in the United States. Small businesses are the economic engine that can power-up your community with your support.

We understand that one size does not fit all. Most small businesses locations are as unique as their mission.  Therefore, we believe that iBStrong initiative has to be driven locally, organically and from bottom-up. While striving for a strong local response, thinking nationally enables us to leverage the collective know-how of our activated locations to share best practices on small businesses coming back stronger post COVID-19. 

We provide these services free-of-charge to all qualified local small businesses participants. The COVID-19 changed the way we interact with one-another and how we interact with and conduct business. These colossal seismic seasons decimated small business around the country. Our local small businesses are facing unthinkable dire and darkest business winter ever known to us. Together, we can help our small businesses come back stronger!

The Services

Operationalizes - Search & Go Shop Local Businesses

iBStrong is a non-profit virtual grass-root efforts designed to support local small businesses.  Together, we can do our part by making conscious efforts to buy local whenever we can. Buying local supports our local schools, roads and our public services. Consumers spend is one of the powerful drivers that powers the US economy. It is the largest single variable that measures the health of the national economy. We need to turn that spending power to boost our local small businesses. The iBStrong site is designed to help you easily identify and connect with local small businesses in your community.

This initiative has four (4) Core Pillars:

1) Establishment of Regional/Community Shop Local Business Ambassador who leads the initiative: (Ambassador)

2) Establishment of Regional/Community Business Registry: (Registry)

3) Local shoppers patronizing the listed businesses on the Community Business Registry: (Local Shoppers)

4) Establishment of Regional/Community Business Classification(Classification)

Ambassador

The Ambassadors are community stakeholders who are committed to helping their local small businesses. They are responsible for creating awareness in their communities about the “Search & Go Shop Local Businesses” initiative.

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Registry

The registry is a list of local businesses that are registered on the Business Registry. The local shoppers use it to search and shop local businesses. This service is free to both the local businesses and the shoppers. Share the news with others.

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Local Shoppers

The Local Shoppers are participants of the "Search & Go Shop Local Businesses" initiative. The search identifies and lists products/services offerings within the community to enable shoppers to go shop THEM!

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Classification

The business classification is based on data driven processes. The system makes determination based on the information represented by the registrant. This may result in various classifications designations to registrant's businesses.

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