Main and Me Local-Only Ecommerce Platform

How the Main and Me crowd-sourced local-only ecommerce platform can help independent neighborhood shopping districts compete with Amazon and put themselves online in a day.

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1. Introducing “What’s for sale in the brick and mortar stores around you” App Website
2. Millions of LOCAL independent businesses across the world face a challenge: THE WORLD SHOPS ONLINE...
3. But they lack the time and energy to post photos of what they sell online, so web & mobile shoppers can’t find local sources for the goods and services they seek.
4. That’s where comes in
5. Main and Me makes it as easy as “snapping, captioning and checking in” photos from your phone (or the web) to create an instant storefront gallery for your independent business... & get what you sell discovered by web & mobile shoppers...
6. Then we automatically gather every storefront gallery from your town into a Community storefront for your town...
7. So web and mobile shoppers can find local sources for the goods and services they seek...before defaulting to Amazon
8. Think of it as a crowdsourced*virtual Main Street for your town -- one that helps every independent business in it get discovered better online -- all for free The more storefront galleries, the more traffic to the town’s page, and the more discovery for each storefront. *Anyone -- merchants, shoppers, even “flash mobs”--can use the website or app to add content to store pages and help put their town online
9. It’s also a great way for last-minute gift buyers to know what their loved ones want on birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, Christmas, Valentine’s Day...you get the idea Dad’s LOCAL Birthday Wish list *other clever uses include seasonal wish-listing contests, flash mobs organized to put your town online in a day, school fundraisers, and on and on. Hmm, I wonder if Harold made a Main&Me wish list for his birthday...BINGO! BINGO!...Glad I shared my Main&Me birthday wish list
10. Snap! photos of the products or services you sell... To use the Main&Me app, just... 1.
11. Caption those photos with price range, description and category, so shoppers can use keywords like “Blue coat” to find them... 2.
12. 3. Check in those photos to the name and address of your business ...and
13. FREE: To gain users and attract content, M&M is free for independent businesses and communities to upload as many items as they wish-for life. FREEMIUM: For a subscription fee, merchants and communities may add premium content management features including gift certificate capability, direct offers to followers, and enhanced administrative dashboards displaying analytics on likes, comment & wish listing activity. That’s Main and Me in a nutshell. Our business model is:
14. james@mainandme.com 413-250-8800 www.mainandme.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id659197571?mt=8 Questions?
15. The End App Website