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WXYZ) - Dennis and Patrick Kaiser are two hard-working entrepreneurs who set out with one big goal.
“We had a dream for a brighter Michigan,” says Dennis Kaiser.
Their own business had gone bust.
“We had a manufacturing home company and in real estate doing remodeling and rebuilding and development and everyone knows what happened to that market,” says Dennis Kaiser.
We met Dennis back in 2004 when things were going well. He and his brother donated a mobile home for a young girl with cancer; you may remember Samantha Ingram. Her home was infested with mold. We tore it down and the new mobile home went in its place. Sadly, Samantha died before her new home was ready.
Now, these big-hearted guys are trying to help Michigan.
“So we decided if we could put together a business that would help Michigan residents, Michigan businesses and Michigan schools, we’d have a winner,” says Dennis Kaiser.
The result? “It’s My Michigan.” They covered a lot of Michigan getting it up and running.
“How much legwork was involved here?” asks JoAnne Purtan.
“My legs are almost gone,” says Dennis Kaiser.
He put fifty thousand miles on his car the first year getting businesses to sign up, to offer a discount for you, the customer, in hopes you’ll shop or eat there.
Here’s how it works: For $20, you buy a one year membership to It’s My Michigan and you’ll get a membership card. Use the card at more than 1200 businesses all over Michigan and you’ll get a discount - every time you go.
Big Boy’s gives you 10% off your bill.
“Everyone in Michigan is struggling and this is one way we can help each other. We’ve got to do it with each other to survive,” says Big Boy’s manager George Henney
Most Leo’s Coney Islands will also give you 10 percent off your meal. All Matt Prentiss restaurants, Unique Deli, the Novi Chophouse give a 10 percent off food no matter how often you go. All Cottage Inns and Benito’s Pizza are offering discounts, but it’s not just about restaurants.
Show the card at all Dunham's Sporting Goods and you’ll get 10 percent off your purchase. Valvoline Instant oil changes, five-dollars off a regular oil change. You’ll find discounts participating Curves, Maaco, and Precision Tune Auto Care stores. The website allows you to search your city for the deals.
“So, you can check in your own backyard what businesses are participating?” asks Purtan. “Yup, and you click on the ad and it tells you what the discount is,” says Kaiser.
A half-dozen schools are now selling the cards as a fundraiser, including Waterford Mott. They get to keep seven-dollars for every card they sell.
“A lot of fundraisers, they’ll ask us for like a thousand dollars, we have to pray we get that money back, this costs us nothing!” says Kathy Hubbard, a parent who heads fundraising for Waterford Mott.
It costs individual business about $250 to sign up for the program. That gets them the ad on the website and hopefully, increased business.
“It has worked for us,” says Henney. “A lot of interest, people signing up for cards and they’re using their cards too!”
These brothers would like to sign up thousands more businesses, but they can’t do it alone.
“So, we’re looking to hire right away between two-to-three-hundred people for sales throughout the state of Michigan,” says Patrick Kaiser.
Their dream of making a brighter Michigan may just be coming true.
For more about It’s My Michigan, visit www.itsmymichigan.com
To apply for a job or learn more about employment , email: jobs@itsmymichigan.com
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