The site allows deal-seeking customers to search for types of products by city or ZIP code, and allows small businesses to promote their deals and discounts online. Stuart says he’s not just offering a deal to get deals. Call it a one-man stimulus package.

Stuart believes that the success of small business will have a ripple effect across the recovery of local communities and the economy at large. He should know. He’s seen the highest highs in business only to lose it all literally overnight.

He built a multi-million-dollar business, only to see it fail due to the Wall Street Crash of 1987.

“In the late ’80s, I felt like I had it all,” Stuart says. “I created a highly successful internationally distributed product line of men’s care products. Then the stock market crashed, and I was wiped out.

“I know what small businesses are going through today, and it hurts me to see it because I’ve been there. Through no fault of their own, the economy’s collapsed, and they’re struggling. So, I started to think, how can I help them?”

JansDeals.com lets small-business owners create their own promotions to announce their deals to their neighborhoods - or anyone who want to shop their ZIP They can post unlimited, real-time deals and can update the deal as often as they want for no extra fee. For example, a restaurant can post a lunch special and dinner special the same day and cahgne it all in time for the next morning’s rush. The site takes care of everything from web master to search engine marketing.

Stuart is waiving the initial subscription fee of $299 a year for a three-month period for the first 50,000 small businesses that sign-up, totaling about $3.74 million in free advertising.

More than 220 million Americans have Internet access, according to Nielsen. But more than half of all small business owners don’t use the Internet to market their business, an American Express survey reports.

That ability to help small businesses bring in more people via online marketing is what inspired Jan Stuart

“I believe this economy won’t recover until we help out the small business owners of America,” Stuart says