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30,000 and rising

Locally Epic Greenville

GREENVILLE, S.C. – The Locally Epic app, which helps bring together businesses and users in real-time, just eclipsed 30,000 users in less than a year of operation.

Locally Epic engages local consumers via a mobile platform that allows them to enhance their ability to find local offers and promotions from a wide range of businesses in real time, while allowing businesses to effectively reach new audiences.

The app, which can be downloaded here or found on Itunes or GooglePlay, has  45 total categories for people to review and more than 100 local businesses and non-profit organizations on it.

Locally Epic also is creating mass way for small business to get noticed. A lot of people are deleting apps from their phone, while many small businesses don’t have the resources to create new apps to meet market needs. Locally Epic allows companies to share the app, and by creating value to consumers the app is more likely to get added – not purged.

Locally Epic chose the Greenville area to launch because its team believes the region’s economic growth and high number of small businesses make it a perfect fit for the platform.

“We created something that real people could use in Greenville and the Upstate,” said Chase Michaels, Locally Epic’s CEO. “We are excited by the growth, but we know it will keep growing.”

About Locally Epic:

Locally Epic is the next generation of real-time location-based marketing technology for businesses and consumers. Locally Epic leverages time, space and message deployment with real-time aspects of engagement, implementation, customer loyalty and consumer acquisition metrics. Learn more at www.locallyepic.com.

 

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GSA Business talks to us

Locally Epic Greenville

Did you do any shopping this weekend? Was it local? Check out this story from GSA Business Report where our very own Chase Michaels was talked to about the importance of shopping locally. Remember this as you continue to shop.

Also, story is not online, which is why we are going way old school with this photo clip!

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Have an Epic Thanksgiving weekend

Locally Epic loves helping you find everything “epic” about the Greenville area. And with that in mind, here are five ways you can be “locally epic” this Thanksgiving weekend.

  1. Take part in a road race. There are a lot to choose from including the Trees Greenville  8K and 5K.
  2. Shop locally at one of the thousands of homegrown businesses in the Greenville area this Saturday as part of the Small Business Saturday Check out our Facebook page and check out the app for local businesses doing promotions.
  3. There are more than 16,000 non-profit groups in Greenville. Next Tuesday is a big day for them as they strive to get people to give a donation. Check out the Locally Epic app for some local agencies doing good work to make Greenville better.
  4. The Palmetto Bowl is this Saturday. If you don’t have tickets for the Tigers-Gamecocks matchup, you can check out the Locally Epic app to find the best places to watch the game with friends.
  5. Take a hike. One of the most epic things about Greenville is that you be surrounded by trees and nature just by driving 15 miles out of downtown. That is pretty cool. VisitGreenville has a great list of places to take a hike this weekend.
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Giving back: It’s the Greenville Way

There are an estimated 1,600 non-profit groups in Greenville County.

And there are roughly 500,000 people. With that kind of math, each nonprofit should be up to its ears in volunteers and funding if every person in Greenville gave. Unfortunately, not every one of them gives. Most don’t.

But a lot do. Greenville is a giving community. It’s like that old Tina Turner song (Ok, Ike and Tina…ok, ok, originally Credence Clearwater Revival, but Tina’s version is best known) about if you don’t have any money, you don’t have to worry, people on the river are happy to give. I will let you sing the rest of Proud Mary in your head before I start typing again.

And we’re back. Greenville is a community built on volunteerism. It is part of the community’s DNA. And we want it to be part of the Locally Epic DNA.  That is why we offering the Locally EPIC to any non-profit organization in Greenville for free. Free? FREE!

Yes, free. No access fees. No hidden charges. No cost. Just free. We want you to use it to find volunteers. We want you to use it to find donors. We want you to find it to help your mission. We are doing this because we believe in Greenville.

This Thursday at 8 a.m., we will be showing nonprofits from across the region how to learn more about using the app. Please join us. Sign up here.

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Locally Epic app expands to include nonprofit organizations

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GREENVILLE, S.C. – Locally Epic is offering free access to the app’s location-based marketing technology for local non-profit organizations.

The Locally Epic app allows businesses to communicate directly with customers, using geo-fencing and push technology to send mobile offers to nearby users in the area. Nonprofits will be able to utilize the app to reach out to donors, recruit volunteers, publicize events and share their story with the community.

Locally Epic will host a free informational session on Thursday, November 16 at 8 a.m. at Endeavor to explain how nonprofit organizations can utilize the app. Interested organizations can pre-register here. 

“Nonprofit organizations are a vital component to our community,” said Locally Epic Founder and CEO Chase Michaels. “Our hope is that by providing access to Locally Epic’s services, we can help the Upstate’s nonprofits further their reach in the community.”

About Locally Epic:

Locally Epic is the next generation of real-time location-based marketing technology for businesses and consumers. Locally Epic leverages time, space and message deployment with real-time aspects of engagement, implementation, customer loyalty and consumer acquisition metrics. Learn more at www.locallyepic.com.