ABOUT US...
Pocket Of Prosperity - P.O.P. was created out of an inspiration in February 2009. Our founder, Jimm Crouse, was in a forum online sharing about a positive ad campaign that had been staged back during the recession in the mid-1970's.

He shared how his local small town newspaper put up "Pocket Of Prosperity" billboards, handed out buttons and bumper stickers and backed it all up by running stories not about lay-offs and bad stock market prices, but rather about new businesses opening, businesses that were thriving, etc. The community rallied around the promotion and did come out of the recession faster and with less lasting damage than many other areas.

After sharing this story, Jimm immediately started receiving raves from people from all over the U.S., Canada, England and Australia thanking him for the words of encouragement and wanting to know where they could find out more about this Pocket of Prosperity - P.O.P. campaign.

Jimm quickly put together some resources, did some research, got a graphic artist, Ray Rast, out of Columbia, SC to help him created a Pocket of Prosperity logo. A few days later P.O.P. inspirational merchandise was posted on zazzle.com, we established a Twitter presence as ProsperityPOP and this website was created.

The goal of P.O.P. is not just to sell a bunch of t-shirts and merchandise. We are here to promote positivity in a world that has become polluted with negativity. We want to share positive stories with our readers and by so doing let the world know that there are those of us who are surviving, who are thriving and that they can do it too! The sky is NOT falling, and we refuse to participate in the government's recession!

ABOUT WORDS...

"As you sow, so shall you reap"

"Whether a man says he can or cannot, he is correct."

"Words are like arrows, once loosed they cannot be called back."

The point here, without trying to sound too New Age is that words have power. Whatever is said is put out there into the universe, into society and it affects us all...if we let it.
 
Today's media is absolutely spewing black clouds of negativity almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week regarding our economic conditions. How can we expect anything except bad conditions with talk like that polluting our very essence?

Did you know that in the last quarter of 2008, what the media called "the worst quarter in recorded financial history for America", there were large companies that INCREASED their sales, and INCREASED profits?

But, the media didn't want to report on that! Did you know that in that same "terrible" quarter that numerous online businesses actually thrived? No. Because the media doesn't care about that kind of thing. Gloom and doom make for better headlines.

We need someone to champion for positivity, someone to pour out stories about people who are making comfortable, recession-proof livings from home, mom & pop companies that are thriving in spite of current financial conditions, and more.

So, PLEASE....send us your stories. We WILL print them. We WILL put them out there to in some small way start to counter all this negative bilge that's being turned out. It has to start somewhere, why not here at P.O.P.??