Reserve Your Summer Residency — $297
Ten local brands. Ninety days. One living local story.
Limited to 10 Hastings-area organizations.
Hastings should be able to hear your story.
Your business changes every day.
A new dish. A new employee. A seasonal service. An event. A milestone. A useful answer customers keep asking for.
Give those moments somewhere to go.
Your Soundbites, photographs, videos, and Local Updates become part of a living local record—clear to residents, useful for future HastingsNow storytelling, and easier for search engines and AI answer systems to understand.
Your residency includes
Your home in The Rack
We’ll introduce your organization and begin building its living presence inside HastingsNow’s online magazine.
Your Local Pigeon Messenger
Send HastingsNow a Soundbite, photograph, event, deal, job opening, or announcement whenever something changes.
Three researched questions
We’ll study your organization and prepare three useful questions designed to help you tell stories customers genuinely want to hear.
A Proper Introduction Story Visit
One focused onsite session that may include:
Up to three introductory Soundbites
A brief livestream or local interview
A mini library of fresh photographs
One short vertical video clip
Prefer a simpler introduction? Your launch can also be completed remotely.
Ninety days of guidance
We’ll help you publish your first stories, learn the Messenger, and begin a storytelling rhythm your organization can continue.
How the residency works
Move in
Complete a five-minute intake. We research your organization, create your Brand Channel, and prepare your Messenger.
Introduce yourself
We visit, capture your Proper Introduction, and help Hastings understand who you are and what you do.
Tell your Messenger
Whenever something changes, send a photograph, Soundbite, deal, event, job, or announcement.
Keep your story growing
At the end of 90 days, continue independently for free or select an ongoing storytelling service.
After your residency
Local Pigeon Messenger — Free
Keep Hastings informed using Soundbites and Local Updates.
Local Pigeon Story Loop — $97/month
Receive fresh researched questions and ongoing guidance while producing your own updates.
Local Pigeon Seasonal — $675/season
Add a quarterly onsite visit, photography, a livestream or interview, and a seasonal story refresh.
Local Pigeon Partner — starting at $595/month
Collaborate with HastingsNow throughout the year to create original local media.
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It is a guided 90-day introduction to HastingsNow and Local Pigeon. We create your initial brand presence, research your first questions, set up your Messenger, and help you publish your first local stories.
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It is designed for Hastings-area businesses, nonprofits, teams, community organizations, attractions, and local professionals with useful stories or updates to share.
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No. We guide the first stories and show you how to send future updates from your phone.
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You can submit Soundbites, photographs, events, deals, job openings, announcements, and other useful local updates.
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No. Your residency pays for research, setup, media production, and publishing support. LOCAL 10 selections remain editorial and are based on usefulness, timeliness, trust, and value to residents. That separation is already required by the repository’s publishing policy.
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Your Messenger can remain available for self-directed participation. You may also continue through Story Loop, Seasonal, or Local Pigeon Partner services.
