IV Buy Local Campaign Launch

Dear Members,

Thank you for choosing to support our newly created IV Buy Local campaign launched on June 13, 2011. Myself and others have had a busy couple of weeks recruiting other businesses to join our effort. I'm pleased to report that we now have 66 local, independent, businesses that support us. Thank you everybody for your work so far in making this happen.

I plan to send out one e-mail every Friday to update you on our ongoing success. Currently our goal is to recruit over 500 businesses to support us within three months time and we are well on our way to achieving that goal. As we develop this campaign we will be providing everybody with more tools and ideas on how to have your business achieve maximum value from it. After all, that is our #1 objective for all members - revenue enhancement for your local, independent, business.

In order to support the quick growth of our membership I would ask you to take the following steps:

1) Refer other local, independent businesses to join us. The more members we have, the more influential our campaign will be. Please see attached flyer for membership information. I'd be glad to print these out for you in color at no charge at Office Supply Co. In order for a business to qualify as member (remember membership is currently free), please just send me paul@oscofficesolutions.comthe name of the business, the contact person, and their e-mail address so we can add them to our list of members. That's all I need!

2) We purchased a domain name at www.buylocalimperialvalley.org The site should be up within the next week and will list all of our members.

3) If you are a Facebook user, "like" our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/imperialvalley We have well over 5,000 local Imperial Valley residents on this page and we would like to grow this number within the next 12 months to over 10,000. Almost every day I will be highlighting a member business to our Facebook community. Each post currently renders approximately 5,000 impressions. If you consider that a typical ad online costs about a penny per impression, this amounts to an approximately a $50 value per post being supplied at no charge to our members.

If you have any ideas or feedback that you would like to share please feel free to contact me at paul@oscofficesolutions.com Until next Friday, be sure to think local, and buy local, especially from our other member businesses listed below.

Paul McManus

CEO of Office Supply Co.

Founder of the Imperial Valley Independent Business Alliance (IVIBA)

Adademi Awards & Trophies

AM Copiers

Baja Towing

Barcelo General Services

Beckish Lock & Key

Bella Musica

Boatwright's Bakery and Catering

Brooks Jewelry

Burger's & Beer

Caliber Screen Printing

Catsoozie Creations

Chairez Advertising

Charter Construction

Cicinelli's Pizza & Pasta

Computer Doctor

Curtis Roadrunner Lock & Safe

Dave West Insurance

Del Rio Country Club

Desert Paws

Desert Security

Discount Insurance & Income Tax Services

Dish Network

Dobson's Antiques & Collectibles

Dr. Drains

Fifth Ave. Book Center

First Imperial Credit Union

Fun Fit Boot Camps

Gold & Diamond Exchange

Graphix

Green's Jewelry

Green's Jewelry

Hair Inn

Hart Insurance Center

House of Steaks and Antipasto

Hutchinson & Bloodgood

ICU Optical

Imperial Business Systems

Imperial Valley Press

Imperial Valley School of Dance

KXO Radio

La Bella Pizzeria

Las Dos Cazuelas Restaurant

Linda Real Estate

Little Hands Learning Center

Office Supply Company

Old Time 60's Deli

On Broadway Guest Center

PhotoJennix

Pioneer Van & Storage

Puerto Nuevo Bar & Grill

Reliance Public Relations

Richard Pata Engineering

Romero Carpet Care

San Sebastian Rustic

Sanders Inc. Architecture & Engineering

Smile Paradise Orthodontics

Technology Depot

The Cinderella Effect

The Dahm Team

The Finish Line Pro Bike Shop

The Owl Club & Bar

Twilight

Unlimited 4x4

Vintage Collectibles

Wintergarden Toastmasters

Xxpress Lube

Yady's Jewelry