Useyourlocal.com News

Win loads of Samsung goodies

Wednesday 18th November 2009

Our friends at Samsung are running some great competitions to win some fantastic prizes - ranging from a top of the range 40" Samsung LED TV to everything you need to have the best experience ever playing FIFA 10 with full surround sound like only Samsung know how!

So, we're off to find a great pub to watch the match this weekend and enter the competition at the same time.....brilliant! www.samsungfootball.co.uk

The Woolpack

Monday 2nd November 2009

David Murray, the landlord at The Woolpack pub in Rossendale, has become a bit of a celebrity in his local paper by letting everyone know how fantastically useful useyourlocal.com is proving for him and his customers. Go David! You are a great example of how useyourlocal.com really can work for everyone.

Check is out in The Rossendale Free Press or visit his pub at www.useyourlocal.com/thewoolpack.

Pubs can now save £200 on printing costs

Tuesday 20th October 2009

Useyourlocal.com has joined forces with online printing specialist promoteyourpub.co.uk to give our registered pubs a massive 20% discount off all their print supplies.

Announcing the new tie up, Stuart Mills, founder of useyourlocal.com said: "We know that licensees currently spend an average of more than £1,000 a year with promoteyourpub.co.uk on everything from menus & posters to banners & flyers. As a result of this new deal, joining useyourlocal.com for just £50 would deliver an annual saving of £200 on these printing costs alone."

To get the 20% discount registered pubs just need to follow the links from their new 'My Marketing' tab when logged into their account with useyourlocal.com.

To take advantage of this great new deal simply register your pub at www.useyourlocal.com/registermypub.

We lift the cup.....nearly!

Friday 16th October 2009

Yesterday, founder Stuart Mills came about as close as he'll ever come to lifting the FA Cup. Thanks to our friends from Carlsberg at yesterday's Punch Taverns Roadshow at Villa Park, Stuart came close to one of the best days of his life....probably!

We've joined forces with The Cloud

Tuesday 6th October 2009

At this month's Punch Taverns Roadshows useyourlocal.com have joined forces with the Europe's leading broadband wireless network The Cloud to give pubs everything they need to get their own website and WiFi enabled pub. By working together we hope to help pubs get everything they need to better service customers in the 21st Century!

For more details about The Cloud visit them at www.thecloud.net.

The Sunday Times says useyourlocal.com is trendy!

Monday 14th September 2009

This weekend's Sunday Times Style magazine has recognised useyourlocal.com as one of those things in life that is officially "Going Up".

Commenting on being trendy Stuart Mills said, "We are clearly disappointed to have been pipped to the number one spot by Madonna's daughter, Lourdes, but we're not the sort of company to hold a grudge!"

useyourlocal.com teams up with Samsung and FourFourTwo

Monday 7th September 2009

UseYourLocal has teamed up with FourFourTwo, the UK's leading football magazine with over 550k readers a month and Samsung, the world's biggest TV manufacturer, to show UK consumers where they can watch live football in a local pub.

Samsung have relaunched their brilliant football website www.samsungfootball.co.uk and we're powering their postcode search so people can easily find a pub in the locality that is showing televised matches.

Announcing the new tie up, Stuart Mills, founder of useyourlocal.com said: "It may be stating the obvious, but research shows that most people prefer watching the match with their mates in the pub, home or away."

"This is great news for all outlets that show live sport and great news for football fans looking for somewhere to watch the big game. A simple soultion to an annoyingly simple problem."

For more information and to see the launch party go to www.youtube.com/useyourlocal.

Black Horse Delivers

Saturday 22nd August 2009

Martin Hill, publican of The Black Horse in the Bristol suburb of Kingswood, has already started seeing the benefits of being a UseYourLocal registered pub.
"I joined at the beginning of the summer and it has been a real success," says Martin. "I advertise the service with the simple table-talkers and I have been very pleased with the response. The website also gives me my own page which is really useful for keeping customers informed of what's going on at the pub."
Martin's customers are also enjoying being able to get their parcels delivered to their favourite local and have also been taking the opportunity to have a quick pint when the collect them by the look of things!

THE FUTURE'S BRIGHT!

Wednesday 12th August 2009

Lighting Direct, the UK's leading lighting retailer, have become the lastest supporter of useyourlocal.com by adding information about our service to their website. Gary Berg, Managing Director of Lighting Direct said, "It certainly adds another dimension to delivery options for our customers, we think it's a great idea."

For more information, www.lighting-direct.co.uk/delivery.asp

Media Mogul Chris Evans backs UseYourLocal

Tuesday 4th August 2009

After appearing live on Radio 5 Live yesterday morning the phone just hasn't stopped ringing for useyourlocal.com with highlights including:

• BBC News doing an outside broadcast live from The Nightingale pub in Balham, where landlady Keris de Villiers described UseYourLocal as, "Simply fantastic!"
• Articles in Metro, The Sun, The Mirror, The Independent, The Daily Record to name but a few
• More live local radio interviews than we can even remember
• Coverage across almost every website imaginable from Yahoo! to Sky, BBC to Capital 95.8.

.....but first prize has to go to appearing on the Chris Evans Radio 2 show where Chris even promised to make his own three pubs registered UseYourLocal outlets!

Commenting on the coverage Stuart Mills said, "It's been a whirlwind few days and the reaction has been truly amazing. There can be no doubt that joining useyourlocal.com must be the best £50 that a pub can spend."