Would you support local first if you knew it was made or owned, here, on the Sunshine Coast? Groceries, clothing, manufactured products, services, anything. If you knew they were made and owned here on the Sunshine Coast, would you support them first? Of course you would and so would many others, but you have to know who, what and where they are to do that and most people dont, so they just keep doing the same thing, shopping from the same place and buying from the same place (often not local).
We are trying to help put a small amount of focus on supporting local more. This site is here for both buyers and suppliers. If you're a locally owned business, that produces a locally owned product using (mostly) locally supplied materials, then we have customers that want to support you. Let us know what you do. If youre a potential customer that would like to support local more, then this is for you too.
This is early days, we are still developing the fundamental tools, but hope to have stage one ready in the next couple of weeks. Its about awareness, branding, message, promotion and findability. Thanks for getting involved.
If you havent had a chance to like our facebook page, heres the link: Sunshine Coast Business Now Facebook page.
You can also find our Sunshine Coast Business now directory here: www.sunshinecoastbusinessnow.com.au