Letter from the Publisher

Welcome to your ALL NEW, COMPLETELY RE-IMAGINED Community Resource Guide.

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER CONNECT, PROMOTE, DISCOVER WITH TOTAL LOCAL OUR PUBLISHING CYCLE, CONTENT, & SERVICES

Welcome to the 2021 inaugural issue of the Total Local Community Resource Guide! We invite you to check out all of our useful features, including an expansive community information section, park and golf course maps, restaurant menus, coupons, community history, photos, recipes, and more that makes the Haslett & Okemos communities unique. While we made the decision in 2019 to add this new issue to our line up, we’ve needed to make some additional changes to accommodate the unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic.

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE Coronavirus is the greatest challenge we’ve faced and for our first year of publishing a directory for the Haslett - Okemos community, it has been especially arduous. COVID-19 will continue to have an impact in the year to come and many of our small business advertisers are struggling to stay afloat. As a result, we realized that publishing the directory would need to be pushed out. The directory will now be a 2021 directory and next year the directory will be published as a 2022 directory.

OUR FORMAT To distinguish ourselves as a Community Resource Guide, and not just a telephone directory, our business directory is not on yellow pages. In fact, each of the sections in our directory have color coded edges so that you can turn to exactly which section you would like to view: the community information is blue; the community directory is grey; menus are purple; coupons are yellow; and the business directory is orange.

CORRECTIONS As the Haslett - Okemos Community Resource Guide is a brand new publication for us, there are bound to be more additions and corrections than in directories that we have published year after year. We apologize in advance for any omissions or errors. Please know that we have done our best, with the highest quality listing service available. In addition, our account representatives have been visiting businesses in the community since 2019. If you have a correction, please call us at 517-663-2405 or email us at corrections@totallocal.com. If you would like to advertise, please call Kim Frarey, Total Local Account Representative, at 517-249-3110.

MARKETING SERVICES We are more than a directory company, too! Total Local provides Marketing Services as well as Community Resource Guides. Our aim is to help each community and its organizations connect with one another, promote the businesses that we serve through advertising and online marketing, as well as help visitors and new movers discover the things that make Haslett and Okemos unique.

ONLINE PLANS As they say hindsight is 20/20, and had we known the pandemic would be so disruptive, we would have had a contingency plan in place. Now we know that we need to be flexible and adapt to the constantly changing circumstances. We will continue to add social media to our business model and are developing a new Total Local website. Our current website is just a temporary placeholder until we’re able to bring you a website that will help to feature each community and all of our advertisers.

Thank you for your support during this health crisis. Most of us will continue to work from home in 2021, but are available for in-person appointments. Please feel free to contact me at tmiller@totallocal.com or 734-845-2421 with any questions. Wishing you a happy, healthy year and we hope that you stay safe!

Best regards, Teresa Miller President & Publisher