The buck stays here

No, Colorado Springs is not for sale, at least that I know of.

Bernard Sandoval of Sandia Advertising and Marketing has come up with a logo and tag line, THE BUCK STOPS HERE, for a local campaign that could help our city out of the economic doldrums.

I have seen Buy Local campaigns in other cities but have no hard evidence that these hometown booster programs actually work. It is worth a shot, I figure.

I know Colorado Springs Utilities uses an ad agency based somewhere in Oklahoma.

The city’s website www.springsgov.com was built by a company out of Oregon.

How many other city or county contracts are with a company outside of El Paso County? What would happen to our city and county tax revenue if all 609,096 residents in the metropolitan statistical area stopped buying anything on the Internet and only purchased goods and services from local companies? Read more...

Spend, stimulate, strengthen

Good Monday morning everyone. A friend of mine recently launched a sort of social experiment to help kick-start our economy. The idea is straight forward, we all spread the message to simply spend money the weekend of December 6th and 7th. We can all agree that the current situation of our economy was brought on by many issues, but one of the biggest contributing factors keeping it down is our own fear and uncertainty. Take a look...

http://www.citizensforastrongeconomy.org/

Miles

The tweens will save us

Fear not, teenagers plan on spending everything this Holiday season that they've saved while working at that fast food joint. A new survey from Junior Achievement gives us hope for the economy. Click here.

Miles

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