06/07/2026
🚨 OFFICIAL LAUNCH: THE INDEPENDENT KITSAP 🚨
Most corporations spend millions developing marketing campaigns behind closed doors.
Franchises have branding departments.
Chains have consultants.
Corporate executives sit in boardrooms deciding how to influence customers.
And they certainly don't tell you what they're planning.
We're different.
We're going to tell you exactly what we're doing.
Because transparency isn't just part of our business model.
It's the entire point.
Today we officially launch:
🔥 THE INDEPENDENT KITSAP 🔥
A long-term grassroots movement focused on supporting independent businesses, strengthening local economies, and exposing the corporate systems that quietly extract wealth from our communities.
This is bigger than auto glass.
This is bigger than valueGLASS.
This is about protecting local ownership, local accountability, local jobs, and local wealth.
Here's exactly what we're planning:
✔ Community-focused social media campaigns promoting independent businesses
✔ Educational content explaining insurance steering, claims networks, franchise systems, corporate consolidation, hidden fees, and pricing transparency
✔ "Know Where Your Money Goes" campaigns showing how corporate chains and franchise systems move money out of local communities
✔ Viral bumper stickers, apparel, hats, decals, and merchandise designed to spread independent-business culture
✔ Cross-promotion and collaboration with independent businesses throughout Kitsap County
✔ Community events, parades, car shows, and local engagement activities
✔ Customer-driven marketing where supporters actively participate by displaying stickers, apparel, and independent-business messaging
✔ Public discussions about transparency in pricing, ownership structures, and where customer dollars actually end up
✔ High-impact branding built around independence, disruption, transparency, and local-first values
✔ Ongoing advocacy for independent trades, independent businesses, and locally owned companies
And eventually?
We hope this grows far beyond auto glass.
We hope restaurants participate.
We hope contractors participate.
We hope retailers participate.
We hope service companies participate.
We hope customers participate.
Because every time a locally-owned independent business disappears, a piece of our community disappears with it.
The corporations already have their campaigns.
The franchises already have their campaigns.
This one belongs to the independents.
This one belongs to Kitsap.
This one belongs to everyone who believes local businesses should not have to compete against billion-dollar corporations and franchise systems for the right to serve their own communities.
Corporate profits leave town.
Independent businesses build towns.
Welcome to The Independent Kitsap.
