04 How Locals Benefit

Businesses, community organizations and children all benefit…

The benefits that a best-in-class community website such as Just Ask Locals can provide to locals of a community can be significant if locals choose to utilize it to its fullest potential.   It can easily become the single most dominant and relevant website about the community on the internet.  This enables communities to self-promote tourism rather than rely on individual traveler reviews or privately owned stand-alone websites or morsels of recognition by major publishers.

The technology behind a Just Ask Locals community website is such that a community can quickly catapult its community website to the top of search engine rankings and drive site traffic simply by (i) utilizing the private social networking capabilities of Groups to consolidate community collaboration and communications on the website; (ii) contenting the public facing promotional aspects of the website with local knowledge via the Website Stewardship Program; and (iii) consistently referring others to the website via links from individual websites and emails. 

It is also important to understand that Just Ask Locals is building a global portal, and that all communities will realize the benefits of global branding and increased exposure as we exceed critical mass by continually adding new countries and communities to our portal under the single justasklocals.com domain.  Our level of investment in technology and search media optimization is impracticable for small stand-alone private websites.

Benefits include:

• The community at large benefits from the ability to bridge distance and time to privately debate collaborate and gain consensus on important community issues outside of the public eye by utilizing Groups as fully functional private mini-websites.

• Individual business owners benefit by advertising their businesses on Directories, Community Calendar and Community Map. The advanced functionality of Directory Ads far exceeds that of most private websites that can cost thousands of dollars to produce.  While basic advertising for local businesses will always remain free, the community may choose to monetize advanced advertising functionality such as media galleries, featured videos, contact forms, events and maps to raise funds for local schools with our Public-Private Partnership program.

• Non-Profits and community organizations are always welcomed to utilize all features available on Just Ask Locals at no cost to promote their causes, including Groups.

• Children benefit when the community initiates a fund raising campaign to monetize the advanced functionality of Directory Ads to provide funds for primary education. Primary education and providing community internet access is Just Ask Locals' primary cause.

Learn more about:

Public-Private Partnerships

Website Stewardship Program

How to get involved and make a difference in your community

How to get a Just Ask Locals website for your community