Our company became concerned about cities and towns that have experienced job losses due to the recession.  We found that the way out of the recession is not easy for communities where the prevailing notion is that businesses and government are the guilty parties.  Such an attitude ignores the influence that citizens have on the economic problems of a municipality.  In the closely packed communities along the East Coast and Mid West, where people can drive through several separate municipalities in less than 10 minutes, residents often do not have a distinct understanding that they are citizens of one particular community.  They regard themselves instead as being a citizen of a large metropolitan area.  For them, it would be normal to drive to an adjacent town to buy a car, furniture, computers, and other consumer items, never once realizing that every purchase made outside the community benefits a town or city in which they do not live. 

Patronizing the businesses in the town where one actually resides is critically important to an economic recovery at the local level.  If this does not occur, the business component of local tax revenues declines, and local government, which cannot print money as the federal government would in such a situation, is forced to raise property taxes to make up revenue shortfalls. 

When a community that is impaired by a bad economy and elevated taxes then hopes to lure businesses to set up shop and to create new jobs, it frequently finds that its high taxes and other associated costs of starting up a business in a new location act like bug spray, keeping businesses at bay and exacerbating the local recession to what amounts to a local depression.

To address this problem we created software that we give to local governments and chambers of commerce that bring local businesses to the attention of residents.  The software facilitates not only the discovery of businesses but also the development of new customers for businesses.  It provides a way for residents to make free telephone calls anywhere in North America and includes other features that are all designed to make the tool useful to the end user.  This ensures that end users will continue to have the local businesses of one's community always in the forefront of their thought when they are using their Internet browser.  The goal is to enable local communities to take charge of their own futures instead of waiting for the government, the economy, or something even more nebulous to save them.   A community in which business, government, and citizens have come to the point of acknowledging that everyone has a role in the final solution is a community where the recession will end and where economic miracles can occur.

If you represent a government agency or non-profit business association and are interested in using our software in Indianapolis, you may contact our company at info@calabriaconsultingusa.com.