“imagine getting rewarded for just changing your buying habits.... to shopping local and buying local....”
That is the founding vision for this card, in Rocky Garcia’s own words from 2013. Well, Now you can! The Community Plus Rewards Card is coming home to UBA — United Business Alliance Group — as the digital member card of the alliance, wearing the same blue design language Rocky gave it years ago.
The relaunched card, re-skinned for UBA in the original design language. The digital card itself ships with the card program — founding members are first in line for it.
This is not a new idea looking for a name. It is Rocky Garcia’s original consumer program — documented, designed, and filmed more than a decade ago — finally getting the network it was always meant to run on.
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2013 — Born in San Antonio
Rocky founds United Business Alliance Group and designs the Community Plus Card: one rewards card for the whole city’s local businesses. His 2013 headline for it: “San Antonio’s largest most lucrative Consumer Sharing Program EVER!!!”
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The LBBN Years
The program travels with Rocky into his Live Business Broadcast Network — “Your Shop Local - Buy Local Community Support Network.” There the card receives its finished blue design and its consumer program flyer — both shown below, exactly as they were made.
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2026 — Coming Home to UBA
The card returns to the alliance that created it — as the digital member card of UBA membership. Same name, same mission: fill the community with Premier businesses, and reward the people who shop them.
How the original card worked — told as history, because that is what it is: the 2013 design ran on points, one point for every dollar spent inside the network, with freebies on your seventh visit, birthday freebies just for registering, and points you could trade for gift certificates and prize drawings — more than 23 automated reward levels, running on the merchant’s own terminal, set once and left to run. It was an ambitious design that lived mostly on paper and on film. The 2026 relaunch keeps the name, the card, and the mission — and builds the network first: real member businesses, real award winners, real published discounts.
The Community Plus Card — United Business Alliance Group EditionThe Community Plus Program Flyer — United Business Alliance Group Edition
The Original Pitch Film — Produced for the Card’s 2014 Launch Push
“Empowerment Thru Unity” — the founding line of the alliance, 2013. It is still the line this card runs on.
🎧 Listen — Membership and the Card — The Offer
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Membership Today — and the Card That Comes With It
The card is the member’s key; the membership is what it opens. Here is today’s offer, stated the same way it is stated everywhere on this site — nothing added, nothing dressed up:
Plus the Whole Member Network
Members receive the directory of the alliance’s local businesses — every member business — with the Premier Businesses highlighted at the top: the local shops that have earned The People’s Premier Business Choice Award, each with the standing member discount it honors, printed exactly as stated. Winners are highlighted everywhere UBA markets and advertises, and featured in the members-only newsletter.
Plus the Coupon Book, Every Two Weeks
As member businesses join and post their offers, members receive the alliance’s digital coupon book by email every two weeks — a coupon book that lives in your inbox, not a glove box.
Plus Your Say in Who Earns It
Members are customers first — and customers are where every award begins. Your nominations decide which businesses get introduced, shopped, and scored.
$49 a Year
One membership, the whole network, all year — $49 per year. The fee funds the directory, the member card, and the community promotion that puts members in front of winners. It never touches the judging.
The Card Itself
When the card program ships, every member’s digital card carries the name on this page: the Community Plus Rewards Card — show it, get verified, and shop the network as a member.
A Community Support Network
Everybody feeds everybody. Members shop local with confidence, winners earn loyal traffic, and every business watching gets one more reason to earn its way in.
Join the Founding-Member List
Honest timing: the first Premier Businesses haven’t been crowned yet, and no member businesses are listed yet — the inaugural award cycle is being nominated right now, and the member directory opens as the first member businesses join and the first class of winners is crowned. Membership checkout isn’t open yet either. Join the founding-member list below — free, no charge today — and you’ll be emailed first when checkout opens. Membership will be $49/year, and the Community Plus Rewards Card ships to members with the card program.
You’re on the founding-member list. 🎉
Check your inbox for a confirmation email. When membership checkout opens, you’ll be emailed first — and you’ll hear it first when the member directory opens and when the first Premier Businesses are crowned. Your Community Plus Rewards Card ships with the card program.
“See you at the top!” — Rocky Garcia, Founder, UBA — United Business Alliance Group
