Seven years ago this month, I began meeting with local businesses and organizations to ask them to join with me in a mission to bring our friends and neighbors together (in print and online), through a new hometown magazine.
I told the business owners the success of our “Bringing People Together” mission hinged on reader loyalty. And that loyalty would transfer onto the local businesses who made our hometown pride project possible as advertising Sponsors. Thankfully many business owners agreed and the rest, as they say, has now become nearly seven years of Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors magazine you’re reading now.
I’ve lived in Newtown Square for over 30 years. My wife Jean, and I have raised four sons here. We’re proud of our town, the people of our town and the businesses of Newtown Square who, like us, get involved in local organizations. But here’s what I learned over the years: The businesses of our community had vision early on, even while seeing what’s happening with online buying and big box stores, but they never stopped believing in the benefit of bringing us together.
The businesses you see advertising in your hometown magazine were willing to bet on Bringing People Together, (which his our motto), by their willingness to commit a portion of their advertising budget to support their hometown magazine, mailed to you each month for free and available online at NewtownSquareMag.com.
The hard part is over. The cold winter months are gone. It’s Springtime now, a time to take notice of what has been made possible for us by our local business leaders. Will you thank them with me? Will you reward their commitment to Newtown Square? Call them. Stop in to see them. Tell them how much you enjoy receiving Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors magazine. Give our advertising sponsors, who all took a bet on us, a win by
choosing their businesses first over others whenever possible, and then tell them why!
If you like how your monthly magazine is increasing Newtown Square hometown pride with each new monthly edition, be a Reader Leader and partner with local Business Leaders who make it possible now for us all to be Bringing People Together as Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors.