Buy Pocatello!

This site is meant to allow all small business owners, both public and home based a place to hang their shingle, so to speak.

First of all, add your business to our directory.

This will add you to our searchable database of small companies doing business in the Pocatello area. Say everything you can about your business in 800 characters or less!

Next, take a look at our advertising options.

It can become very expensive to advertise in all the usual media venues, this site is meant as a cooperative of business owners to share their service with the public and each other.

For more information, see the About Us page.

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Here’s what I’ve been trying to do with this site. Let’s help each other out and then we help ourselves!

Found this article on Business Pundit.

There is a simple and easy way to help your local economy. This easy-to-implement technique can be used right away. You don’t have to have new zoning laws passed, or get approval from your Mayor. It won’t require too much risk. It is not the least bit complicated. Here it is….

Do business locally!

I mean it. The next time you want to order 500 glossy brochures for your small business, go to your local printer, and get it done there. If you have used out of town printers in the past, tell the local print shop owner that you really want to support his or her local business, and ask for competitive pricing. You’ll get it.

Do you need a PC? Do you have to order it online? Do you think there is a local computer store that would benefit from your local business? Even if it is a corporate big box store, the salesperson who resides in your city gets paid, and the store adds revenue to your city via the taxes that they have to pay.

Do you have a fleet of vehicles that you want to add GPS to? There must be someone local who can help.

Do you have a marketing or PR firm? Are they local? Do you think they should be? Find one. {Maybe it is time for a fresh perspective, anyway}

When you are shopping for a car, go to the nearest dealer to your home, last. Give that dealer an opportunity to earn your local business.

Are you starting to get the picture? Maybe my suggestions will require a little more time and maybe even a little more work, but doing business locally helps out everybody around you, in the long run

The internet has made it almost a little too easy to shop around. We get to do all that cool research, and then do some really neat price shopping, half the time on websites that are probably a little risky, anyway. It is fun, and we get a deep sense of satisfaction that we were able to spend all those hours online, and we can tell everybody that cares that we most certainly got the best deal around…Our egos are inflated to capacity. But something is always missing. The thing that is missing is the fact that we didn’t do business with our locally owned and operated businesses. We didn’t even really try. Could that be one of the reasons that our economy is less than stellar?

Please try to buy local. It’s worth the effort.

Joel Libava is President of Franchise Selection Specialists Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio. Joel is a franchise consultant, franchise industry blogger, and marketer. Check out his award winning blog, The Franchise King Blog for more of his musings

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Not only can you get an @buypocatello.com email address with a web page on buypocatello.com, but you can also get an @buychubbuck.com if you have a business in in Chubbuck, Idaho.

This site is designed to be an easy way for local small businesses to get their business on the internet, so that they can be found through all the common search engines.

If you go to www.buychubbuck.com, that address will take you here, so you can always be found by your @buychubbuck.com email address and the buychubbuck.com domain name too!

Go ahead and send an email if you have any questions!

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Buy Pocatello would like to welcome the Chubbuck Pocatello Hockey Association to our business directory.  They are working to provide both ice hockey and roller hockey for the youth and adults of the Pocatello and Chubbuck area.

Check out their site, and see how many ways you can get involved in this exciting sport.

Did I mention they just got two Zambonis?

The Chubbuck Pocatello Hockey Association (CPHA) invites you to help build the most exciting indoor recreation complex ever constructed in Southeast Idaho! The City of Chubbuck recognizes the urgent need for this facility and has stepped up to lease us land in Capell Park.

Currently, housing CPHA’s outdoors roller rink and is expanding to outdoor ice skating and hockey.The permanent facility will house not only our hockey programs, but provide indoor recreation facilities serving more than 5,500 youths in Bannock, Power, and Bingham counties, and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

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 “Friends of the Animal Shelter’s Campaign” and “Learning About our Stormwater System” are the topics of this month’s “CALLING CITY HALL”

  Mayor Roger Chase invites citizens to join him this Tuesday, October 7, 2008 as he hosts his monthly call-in show “Calling City Hall.” The show will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is aired live on Government Access Television, Channel 11.  The Mayor will be joined by his guests Eva Nye, Pocatello City Council member; members of the Friends of the Animal Shelter; and Hannah Sanger, the City’s Environmental Educator.

 During the first half of the program, the Mayor and his guests will talk about the proposed “safe haven” building plans for a new animal shelter.  They will discuss why our community needs a new animal shelter and how citizens can get involved in the effort to help our furry friends. 

For the second half of the program, Hannah Sanger will join the Mayor and Council Member Nye. Ms. Sanger will educate the public about the City’s stormwater system, its importance to the environment, and how the public can help in its management.  

 “Calling City Hall” is shown live the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The program helps citizens learn more about city government and community issues, while providing an opportunity to call in with any questions, suggestions, or concerns they may have.

 For more information about this program, Government Access Television, or Public Access Television, please contact Video Services at 234-6281.

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