We've enhanced the local consumer's shopping experience and added more opportunities for local businesses to promote there products and services to local residents. With over 27,000 listings and current events, promotions and articles of local interest we have enhanced ChesterCountyShopping.com to be your one stop source for information in Chester County.

Our advertisers now benefit from the new automatic Search Engine Indexing provided by our new design as well as new self-serve advertising opportunities to help promote your business locally in the major search engines.

The businesses featured in our directories are locally owned and operated. They keep their profits in our communities and recycle that money back into your local economy many times over. Locally owned businesses pay the bulk of the taxes that run our counties. They support the local charities that offer so many great services, and they pay living wages to their workers. They are the businesses that make our counties special and we urge you to think local first when making your next purchase.

At Local First, LLC we are showing that independent locally owned businesses can go beyond traditional measures of success. We're proving that these businesses are essential to the community and the local economy.

 

We are helping these businesses flourish in their local economies and we are leveraging the power of local networks to strengthen the local business market, the local economy, and the relationships between local businesses and consumers to build a better local community and economy.

The concept is simple...

What's Spent Here, Stays Here Locally owned businesses spend their profits locally, purchase more goods from local suppliers, and employ local residents.

Get More for Your Money
When more money gets re-circulated in the community, general prosperity as well as tax revenues increase, creating a more vibrant and sustainable economy.

Local Businesses Offer Unique CharacterA wide variety of locally owned businesses contributes to a stronger local identity and cultural diversity, creating an attractive place to live and visit.

Neighborly
Strengthening our locally owned business community promotes authentic and meaningful relationships between employees, business owners, customers, suppliers, and neighbors. Business owner who live in town take better care of the environment, participate in public life, and donate generously to local charities.