The Michigan Yelp community has announced a “Buy Local Pledge” for this holiday season. Yelp, if you aren’t familiar with it, is a recommendation and review site where people can review businesses they’ve patronized. The community of Yelp users is pretty big, so Yelp feels that by encouraging people to spend locally for the holidays could have a reasonable impact on small businesses.
From their post on Yelp:
Yelp’s challenging communities to keep their hard-earned dough close to home, by taking the Yelp Shops Local Pledge! What does this mean? Pledging proudly to make a hearty effort to support the great local business community whenever possible, and encouraging others to do so as well. Every dollar counts. The impact from this Pledge can and should make a HUGE difference this holiday shopping season. The gifts and rewards for doing so will be plenty!
If you want to take the local pledge, all you have to do is click “I’m attending!” and then use the honor system: Make sure you buy local as much as possible for your holiday gift giving!
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