The Charlotte Observer (November 2015) – Look for some changes this year with Small Business Saturday, the shopping holiday that happens the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This year’s event is on Nov. 28. Shop Micro Local, the pop-up shop featuring Charlotte-area food and products producers, won’t be back this year. Organizers, who first launched the vendors […]
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Career Sales & Marketing Exec. Launches Our Town America The Triangle
PRWeb (November 2015) – Our Town America, the nation’s premier new mover marketing franchise, has announced its third North Carolina location on October 7th in Raleigh. This is big news as the Our Town America business model, a direct mail marketing program specializing in delivering warm community welcome packages filled with free offers for new […]
Local Foodies Launch Our Town America of Greater St. Petersburg
PRWeb (October 2015) – Our Town America, the nation’s premier new mover marketing franchise, has announced its third Florida location on October 5th in St. Petersburg. This is big news as the Our Town America business model, a direct mail marketing program specializing in delivering warm community welcome packages filled with free offers for new […]
Marketing to Millennials via New Mover Direct Mail
The U.S. Census Bureau currently reports a total U.S. population of 322 million people with 83 million of those people being part of the millennial generation, making up the largest living generation today. Millennials’ birth years range from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. Epsilon’s #marketingtomillennials report, released September 2015, shows the average length […]
Boise: America’s Best Kept Secret
FOX News – Boise has existed under the radar as America’s best kept secret for years. However, the secret is out as Boise was featured by About.com as one of the “Top 5 Safest Places to Live” and listed at the top of Simple Moving Labor’s annual “10 Best Cities to Move to List” the last […]
Technological Progression Leads New Mover Marketing Industry
Franchising USA (July 2015) – Our Town America began the year with a projected goal of adding 20 new franchise units in 2015 and, after just one month, had signed six new franchise agreements – expanding their presence into a half dozen new markets across the United States. Since then, Our Town America has shown […]
From Corporate America to Owning a Business
The Wall Street Journal (July 2015) – It is awful to see your spouse under stress at work. It is worse still to have to hear about it every night. Partners want to be able to talk and hear about each other’s work lives, but complaining about problems at work can morph into a rant, […]
Ways to Cut Back on Moving Costs & Stress
ABC 15 Arizona (June 2015) – Our Town America Phoenix-area franchise owner, David Cox, shares a few ways to lower moving costs and moving-related stressors. Specializing in helping local businesses market to new movers, Cox can be considered an expert in the moving industry. As one of 57 Our Town America franchisees across the nation, […]
People Moving Can Face Fiscal, Emotional Potholes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 2015) – Kevin Drewery has moved from Pittsburgh to Oregon to Texas and recently back to his native community in Beechview over the past 12 years for family and other personal reasons. He says all the moving has practically emptied his bank account and left him in a deep hole of debt. […]
Our Town America Top Low-Cost Franchise 2015
Franchise Business Review (June 2015) – For their 2015 Top Low-Cost Franchises Report, Franchise Business Review surveyed over 9,200 franchisees from 132 different brands to identify the top low-cost franchises with the most satisfied franchisees. Our Town America is ranked the #7 franchise in this comprehensive list of businesses under $100k. Our Town America is […]