WordPress.com and Rebrand Cities want to Support Local Small Businesses—

WordPress.com Teams Up with Rebrand Cities:

Inside Plan to Work with 10,000 Small Businesses—
WordPress.com / Rebrand Cities initiative to provide online tools and workshops/training to drive resources to businesses that lack access, while highlighting some amazing stories of people that may have otherwise been overlooked.

 Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities.  WordPress.com and Rebrand Cities want to support local businesses as they grow their own communities (and their revenue!) on the open web.— Full Article by Mark Armstrong.

WordPress.com / Rebrand Cities collaboration kicked off in Detroit, see the results of that collaboration. Courtesy of Automattic:

There are 28 Million small businesses that drive the American economy, forty-six percent (46%) of these entities operate without a website. The absence of a web presence has led to trillions of dollars of unrealized business in neighborhoods all across America. — Learn More on How to Get Involved!

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