Purpose

TheUpstate.com's purpose is to be a unique Regional Web Site, offering individuals key listings or links  to businesses or links to web sites offering recreation, entertainment, sports, travel, dining, or other needed services. Too often people live in an area and do not know about or take advantage of the tremendous resources or recreational avenues available to them.   We offer you absolutely free upstate advertising. If you have a business in the upstate of South Carolina, simply click the Add Your URL FREE button. We will list you and link to your site after we review your site.

Some people don't want to make purchases without seeing and touching the item. TheUpstate.com's search engine is tailored so that you can drive to most locations within 45 minutes and locate the store. This encourages doing business with local companies whose employees make their living in the local area. For example:  Perhaps you own a local book store and you have a web site.  When someone looks up 'books' on Yahoo!, 150,000 listings pop up and your listing is nowhere to be found.  You can advertise your store in local newspapers or on the radio, but to do that regularly is very expensive.  TheUpstate.com will post your listing or link to your website absolutely free.  You will be listed with similar companies in the local area. (You must have a physical address in the upstate. If you are out of the area and submit a request to be listed, you will not get a response.)  Through our link to your web site, which works for you 24 hours a day at no additional charge, people can see exactly what you want to show or offer.  No one can remember everyone's web site address.  We do the research in that regard so that you don't have to.  This brings local buyers together with local companies.

Web Sites

If you do not have a web site, we would like the opportunity to build one for you.  This is one way we support our business.  

We want as much interaction and positive feedback as possible in order to make the site best serve your individual needs and interests.  With your help and with your support of local businesses, we will have the best Regional site around.