Hope for Local Businesses: A Greater Town

Slowly, over a 3 year development process, a small internet start up appears to be ready to go big. Through A Greater Town, communities small and large are embracing what could be construed as the internet's version of the "Fireside Chat". Once a town becomes part of the AGT community businesses can advertise, local events and calendars can be posted. Local news feeds and directional mapping also come into play.

Essentially, a go to page for your local community that feeds comprehensive facts and important town specific information includuing allowing business to not only advertise their business but become search engine optimized at the same time.

This appears to be the first site that combines all the essential elements of information feeds for a specific geographical location and allows local businesses to let folks know they're just down the street ready to do business. AGT's short term goal is to be in every township in America by 2013, going international shortly thereafter.

Here is an example of a typical township page. This is only a small cross section of the actual information available at the click of a link. 

The potential for local business is extraordinary. Please take a look at what AGT can do to increase the bottom line.

Our Universal Listing service is a powerful and effective one-stop distribution point for your business listing. We distribute your detailed business profile through companies like InfoUSA, Acxiom, and Dun & Bradstreet, the data warehouses behind the scenes that power 95% of online search. With Universal Listing, you’ll see your business profile show up across more than 350 digital distribution points:

• Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing
• Online yellow pages like Superpages and 
  Yellowpages.com
• Social networks like Yelp, Twitter, and Facebook
• Portals and guides like AOL and Citysearch
• Mobile devices like BlackBerry and iPhone
• 411 directory assistance services
• GPS navigation services
• Telematics services like OnStar

And we don’t stop at name, address, and phone number. We’ll help you build a rich profile for your business, including accurate basic information, descriptions of your products and services, hours of operation, payment methods, logo, photos, coupons, and more.

Take charge of your business listing with A Greater Town Universal Listing, and make sure your customers see the information you want them to see, wherever they’re looking.


Author: Chris Borowski 

What it means to be American?

If anyone best understood how imperfect people are, it was the drafters of the United States Constitution. With such varied backgrounds, diverse ideas, and a common goal, our founders understood no one person had all the right answers. They knew it would take many generations worth of trial and error in every facet of life to accomplish the goals of freedom. As a living document, the Constitution allows for amendments to develop laws governing our nation as we change.

As American citizens, we each have freedoms and opportunities of which most countries only dream, such as the freedom to speak our mind, to worship as we see fit, and to demonstrate our needs for change through assembly. We have the freedom to find, follow and live our dreams to their fullest. While many individuals can be coarse, closed-minded, and fiercely protective of such traits, they have the right to speak their minds and learn from their mistakes.


With the freedom to stand up for and speak openly about our beliefs, our ideas strengthen our communities, which in turn strengthen our nation as a whole. With all the ideas we are free to express, each individual has many chances to hear that one phrase that gets his or her attention; that one speech that opens his or her heart forever. Without the freedom of speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality would never have been heard, and no one would have learned from it.

We each have the potential for greatness, but we tend limit ourselves by our own preconceptions. Diversity and compromise teach us to look beyond those preconceptions so that we can understand each other better. We learn to build trust through the bonds we form and overcoming the mistakes we make, enabling us to build a better society. The choice to move beyond preconceptions and embrace new ideas makes the efforts to improve society and the desire to do so stronger.

Tyrants view people as an expendable commodity in wars to protect a way of life benefiting few. Though the possibility of a draft still exists, the United States discovered unwilling defenders cannot compare with the strength of resolve of one defending his or her home and country willingly. Forming our country took the strength of both men and women, of all races and creeds, because we were free to learn what each unique talent any given individual had to offer. The freedoms we enjoy and wish to share with future generations convict American service personnel to protect and defend, sometimes with life’s last drop of blood.

The summation of what it means to be an American consists of hope. Freedom ensures we can hope and work for a better tomorrow. Throughout the course of our nation’s history, Americans have sought life and liberty, abolished destructive forms of governments, established laws for safety and the pursuit of happiness, and fulfilled their duty to provide new guards for their future security and their hope. Because of the freedom to hope, Americans have come a long way from oppression, and our progress as a community serves as a beacon for others to follow.


Finally, ask your children! If they don't know what a precious gift has been delivered to them and why, explain it, in detail. They have seen war movies and played video games depicting famous battle scenes. Do they know why men and women were willing to sacrifice their very existence to protect the personal freedoms we have today? Children are the future and those ignorant of the past are destined to repeat it. We were born or were lucky enough to be living on the most cherished and fiercely protected ground in the world. Let's keep it that way.

Happy 4th all!