Never before has the phrase ‘Think Global, Buy Local” meant so much. With today’s stay at home mandate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, communities across the nation are struggling to keep their local shops and restaurants afloat until normal life resumes and beyond. Consumer spending is down and business mortality is up — a trend that can only be neutralized from a grassroots, local relief effort. Thanks to a new initiative from Operation Main Street powered by eGifter, we warmly welcome LongIsland.com to the directory. Now, Long Islanders can search local.egifter.com to find nearby restaurants, shops, studios, academies, barbers, beauty stores, coffee shops, music stores (and more!) The idea is to empower consumers to easily locate and shop at stores in local Long Island neighborhoods from the comfort of their home by searching a local directory of companies to find what they need nearby. Together with LongIsland.com, we’ve engineered a way for Long Islanders to save the small businesses they love while keeping their homes stocked and their families fed.

For businesses not yet on the searchable directory, signing up is simple, quick and free. 

At launch time, the Long Island business directory included several hundred company listings which will be joined by many hundreds more, as LI Business Owners and Long Island Chambers of Commerce learn how to get discovered and take the simple, quick (and free!) steps to register their business or organization. Because it only takes a few moments to register a company in the searchable directory at local.eGifter.com/location/LongIsland, increased visibility, engagement and revenue is close at hand, just by adding their business listing to the directory, for free.  

Not just that! Long Island Chambers of Commerce will be able Claim Their Town, increasing exposure and participation in all the town has to offer.

Says @AndrewHazen, owner of Long Island media and Long Island Technology Hall of Fame ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’, “the team at LongIsland.com is thrilled to join up with eGifter.com. LongIsland.com has been LI’s most popular website since 1996. We continue to push the edges to make sure that LI residents and visitors alike can quickly and easily get the who, what, where and when on Long Island.”

We’re proud to stand with you, Andrew. 

With each passing day, the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks more and more havoc on our society, putting lives at stake and our country at economic risk. But in the face of it all, we’re also seeing good, old fashioned American Spirit rise to battle the blaze. Every day at the stroke of 7pm, people are stepping away from their living rooms and into the streets. Their cheers and thanks are directed at the healthcare workers who put their own lives in harm’s way caring for the sick and suffering, In our own response to the nation’s call for help, the eGifter team quickly conceptualized, developed and launched a solution that is having a dramatic, healing effect: OperationMainStreet.com. As a national initiative with local roots, Operation Main Street is an emergent technology solution offering real help to real people. Through the combined power of both search engine and gift card technologies, the Operation Main Street platform adds an economic spending boost to local communities and neighborhoods across the United States. Operation Main Street is a uniquely designed local business directory where search requests automagically return a list of stores in selected zip codes that serve *you* and *your* community. Read on to learn how it works and to see how good neighbors like you can literally save livelihoods in your own backyard. And, in turn, through spending boons through gift card sales, local businesses and organizations can stay in business to serve the community that loves them.

OperationMainStreet.com: A Free Searchable Local Business Directory Making Gift Cards Accessible

Making sure neighborhood businesses can be easily found by local residents who want to save their favorite shops and restaurants is the promise delivered by the powerhouse business directory at OperationMainStreet.com. Together, we’ll endeavor toward the better days that lie ahead.

Neighbors: Save Your Favorite Local Restaurants and Shops

At this precarious time in our nation’s history, we’ve all reached the same conclusion: We must do our collective part to help small business owners in our towns and villages stay solvent, pay their rent and taxes, and employ salaried workers. Helping small businesses stay afloat and feed their own families is the task at hand, which will in turn empower them to pay the local taxes on which our towns depend. Keeping businesses going is a moral and financial imperative. It’s the only way that we, the people, will maintain access to food, essentials and services upon which we depend to keep our homes and families safe, well and active. Search local stores in the directory. 

Local Businesses: Keep the Revenue Rolling

Residents of every U.S. community are clamoring to patronize local stores to help them stay in business. Gift cards make it super easy for customers to buy products and services because they are incredibly accessible and flexible payment currencies. Already offer gift cards? Great, add your listing! Have never offered gift cards but want to? Great, we can help! List your business in the directory. 

Chambers of Commerce: Help Your Community Thrive

As the heart of any community, Chambers of Commerce across the U.S. have a vested interest in promoting and protecting the interests of its members, citizens and businesses. With the ability to “Claim Your Town”, you’ll soon acquire a customized website and dynamic local business directory personalized to your town. Made with the organizations below in mind, our team is ready, willing and able to accept and convert your inquiry into an actionable solution — a website and local directory of your very own. List your town and generate a local directory. 

• Chambers of Commerce
• Local Municipalities
• Business Associations
• Regional Web Directories
• Local Radio Stations
• Local Television Stations
• Local Newspapers

The World Needs All the Good We Can Muster. 

Yes, there is uncertainty about tomorrow. And true, there are no guarantees for the health and safety of our families, friends and loved ones. However, we say this with 100% certainty: Through sheer determination and human spirit, leaders will lead. At eGifter, we will continue to innovate new paths to health, safety and connectedness through gift cards and related technologies. The team at eGifter is on the job. And we don’t plan to clock out any time soon.

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