Should Neighborhood Community Businesses be Online?
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BizBuzz, LLC was a presenter at Live Pitch 2008 in Seattle recently. BizBuzz has one goal: to unite all businesses within a community under one umbrella resource. Having a centralized community location for all businesses, people will be able to find what they need faster. Businesses will also be able to network much easier, to better meet the needs of their communities.
BizBuzz, LLC
- Business Category: Tech Startup
- Founder: Nancy McManus
- Inspiration for Product/Service: I was looking to give myself, my friends, and my neighbors a vehicle to access the incredible local resources that exist in our community. Previously, these resources were outside our grasp, as there was not a well-known centralized place to turn to find the answers.
- Target Customer/Audience: The businesses and the neighbors in a single neighborhood of a big city.
- Synopsis of Product / Service: BizBuzz, LLC is a unique community-driven website that cuts through the chatter of Internet congestion and allows you to garnish the best (and often unknown) resources of your own community… while also enabling every business to have a indexable web presence.
- Main Company Contact: Nancy McManus
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2 Comments
DoubleB
June 22nd, 2008
at 7:12pm
Well, I think services like Google Local have her beaten to the punch. It is a good idea and she is going for a smaller neighborhood based search, but a small business like mine that is run out of my home can be found on Google Local.
Damon
June 29th, 2008
at 5:12am
Double B is right. That idea is already in the works. I have my businesses listed with two local Chamber of Commerce sites and there is a company in NW Arkansas that puts together a package to address the local community in such a way. I have not signed up for the latter because as a local business that requires more referral type customers our site is pretty static.
We have a web presence but nothing special.
Here is the thing, there is not one company that has figured out how to do this and leave everyone else in the dust. If you can, you will have a business as successful as Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google. If not, it will be just another option for people.