About Us
In a society focused on greed, speed, and profit, we dare to be different. We do business the old fashioned way, by building relationships, and connecting over causes that are meaningful and fulfilling.
Sit Stay Live Here has been over ten years in the making, with several partial launches over the years that felt like they lacked “something”. Our goal was always a simple one. Create stronger more thriving communities, support hardworking small businesses, and create a life that lets us help dogs.
Through our efforts and connections with small businesses, one thing stood out to us more than anything else. Advertising is designed for big businesses. It’s a pay more get more model that leaves small budgets struggling, and hidden.
We dove into this idea to learn more about why it’s priced so expensively, and we learned something really important. Other than greed, there’s no reason for it, at all.
Sure, if you’re a multi billion dollar corporation then yes you need to invest in the SEO and the Google Ads, the pay per clicks and the expansive campaigns, but your small coffee shop doesn’t need two billion customers, it needs two hundred.
Paying for advertising alongside the behemoths was like throwing money into a wishing well. Feels good at the time, but you shouldn’t expect too much in return.
We tested out hundreds of different “budget” friendly advertising options and were left feeling overlooked and disappointed. But being who we were, we also, without thought, supported local causes through our business name.
We donated candy to the trick or treat event in town, bought and donated luminairies to a memorial fund raiser for the woman’s club. We custom carved and donated trophy plaques for the youth sports and endlessly donated to teachers, shelters, safe grad, school fundraisers, and pet shelters.
While our paid advertising returned minimal, it was these community efforts that kept our phones ringing.
Small businesses need different advertising, and very little exists because it’s not as profitable for advertising agencies. Is it possible to offer affordable and effective solutions at reasonable prices to help small businesses thrive and support meaningful causes within communities at the same time?
SSLH is a template for this business model. Designed to create stonger more thriving communities through affordable advertising supporting and promoting small businesses and reallocating funding to help meaningful and important causes. It’s not profit driven, it’s community driven, and everyone win.
Especially the pups.
So join us on this journey of revamping the landscape of advertiisng with impact and join in the fun as we explore, connect, support, and showcase what a wonderful place it is to live when people embrace this mindset through action.