Some like to call it a platform, others call it a news site and others use it as a reference for small business, jobs, Connecticut sports and events. 

I designed a platform out of my own experiences, trying to make experiences easier for others, like looking for work – jobs that are available vs dealing with AI with websites like indeed.  Posting open houses for future home buyers to have list in front of them instead of finding them on site likes Zillow. I also believe in asking permission to punish something on my platform, so this way I know the informant is real and current. 

I also design Connecticut based merchandise, both state and by town. 

Being in the wrong lane leads to beautiful destinations
I was driving on route 1 in Norwalk heading towards Westport and was suppose to make a left on to Wilton Road, when I noticed I was in the wrong lane. Instead of being impatient and squeezing my car into a lane filled with cars, I figured there would be place to turn around a head, instead what I found was Westport’s Downtown area and fell in love with the landscape. After a year of trying to find the answers to my many questions, I decided to answer my own questions by starting a few social media pages and website. This lead me to meeting the Westport community. Finding Westport was one of the leading site with small business information during covid. Over the course of 4 years, Finding Westport spread out to other towns by request and eventually started Finding Connecticut. 

Not all of town sites have the same traction of Finding Connecticut or Finding Westport,  cI believe in time our small sites will gain the traction it needs to be successful like the Finding Connecticut and Finding Westport. 

 During the fall of 2020 I decided to start Finding Connecticut, I thought it was going to be a place where I repost content. 

In the summer of 2021 I put a poll on instagram asking what my followers wanted to see, more concerts, sports, or other. It was a split between more concerts and sports. I reached out to some Connecticut sports teams and venues and before I knew it, the website was taking off. 

We work with venues and teams all over Connecticut 

We love to help Connecticut small businesses!
How do we do that?
We have a help wanted, business resources section on Finding Connecticut’s website
We also have a yearly retail list that is published Thanksgiving week giving retailers a space to let our readers know what their Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Holiday hours are. 

From coastline to the foothills, Connecticut has a lot of inspiration for merch designs. I have designed everything on the merch store myself. There is more designs coming

“Jillian is a great resource for local. She was the perfect person to collaborate with as 203local expanded its offerings to include the Facebook communities 203socialclub, 860socialclub, and 914socialclub. I look forward to working with her in the future and evolving our offerings as the social media landscape changes to best help all of our local small businesses.”
Micaela Marshall, 203local

Social Media
2500 Followers

Daily digest subscribers
500+

Finding Connecticut is on track to having over 500,000 yearly visitors before Dec. 2022

The numbers above is for Finding Connecticut. All of the Finding’s pages together has over 25000 social media follower and over 350K page views

Social media followers and website visitors are all local. 

Victory Designs 
Splashing Creativity in Connecticut
 203.429.4378 
hello@splashingcreativity.com