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Pledge to Shop Local on Small Business Saturday

Support your favorite business and local business owners.

Shop Small Business Saturday on November 26, 2011 and support your favorite business. For the second year, shoppers are asked to support the local companies in their community and help jump start our economy. Shop local and support your local business owners.

According to the Small Business Association, in 2009 there was 27.5 millions small businesses in the United States defined as 500 or fewer employees. They state small businesses employee about half of our counties population and create 65% of new jobs.

Find Small Business Saturday on Facebook. Follow Small Business Saturday Twitter activity with hashtag #smallbizsat.

Find out what's happening in Algonquin-Lake In The Hillswith free, real-time updates from Patch.

—    This story was submitted by April M. Williams of Cyberlife Tutors, an executive and social network coach based in Algonquin and serving McHenry County. April writes “Career Clues blog about business social networking.

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