Overview
Mini Cities is expanding throughout communities all over the country. Mini Cities does offer franchises – but being a Mini Cities Community Connector franchisee is not like buying other franchises. Mini Cities has created the first real WIN-WIN franchise. With the Mini Cities low cost franchise and our WIN-Win royalty fees – being a Mini Cities franchisee is more like joining an exclusive club. We are very selective about who joins our program. We want to make sure all our Community Connectors share the Mini Cities vision of building great local communities. That independently, we are all strong together. Also, we truly believe that when we all work together, we are all unstoppable. Mini Cities also knows that only by working with talented and committed franchisees can we feel confident that every franchisee will be successful.
History
Founded in 2008 by Ana and Steve Abraham, Mini Cities was created help people find local businesses right in their neighborhoods. After leaving a successful career in Web Marketing and Software Project management to have their first son, Ana was frustrated by the lack of local information available online about their new community. Teased by their city friends who warned them – don’t move to the suburbs – they chose to bring the city convenience they loved to the suburbs and NewTampaDirectory.com was born! It wasn’t long before neighboring communities saw NewTampaDirectory.com and wanted the same for their great community. Soon, local directories were launched throughout Tampa Bay and Atlanta and Mini Cities was created!
Opportunity
Mini Cities brings the online marketing opportunities that big companies use to reach customers online to small business - at small business prices. Mini Cities offers local businesses local search! Local businesses can take advantage of online advertising, online couponing, content management systems, search engine optimization and email marketing to small businesses who need to reach people who live within their communities. Mini Cities is built on the idea that great communities want to be connected to each other and want to Shop Local! We create the connection between local people and local business. That is why our community connectors love what they do!
Meet the Team
Ana Abraham
Founder - CEO
Ana Abraham is one of our founders. She has served as the Company's President and as a member of the board of directors since our inception on November 21, 2006. Ana Abraham has over 16 years experience developing winning online software and marketing strategies for some of the biggest Web brands today. Ana was a pioneer in the online space creating one of the first online real time chats for the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. The real time chat hosted questions from patients across the United States to physicians attending their annual conference in San Francisco. This was one of the first internet events and put the association on the map as a patient centered organization. Ana went on to lead the development team and was responsible for the user interface architecture and online buying experience for 1-800-Flowers which lead to 1800Flowers.com moving from a small phone-based company to a public internet-based company which went on to beat the giant FTD in the online market space.
Steve Abraham
Founder - CTO
Microsoft Technology Expert, Steve Abraham, holds 8 Microsoft certifications and attained all but one of the certifications within the span of 19 days passing all tests on the first attempt. The SQL Server 2008 exam was also passed on the first attempt but at a later date.
Along with having the above certifications, Steve has also contributed to the development of 4 Microsoft certifications covering SQL Server and ASP.NET. He has participated in writing the objective domain, writing exam questions, reviewing other SMEs exam questions and helped to set the pass / fail criteria for multiple exams.
Steve has also presented at the VBUG developers conference on the Microsoft campus in Reading, UK. Steve is also a contributing author on Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide and SQL Server 2008 Deployment Guide.