Top Reasons to Buy Local, Eat Local, Go Local BUILD COMMUNITY! – The casual encounters you enjoy at neighborhood–scale businesses and the public spaces around them build relationships and community cohesiveness. STRENGTHEN YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY! – Each dollar you spend at independent businesses returns 3 times more money to your local economy than one spent [...]
18 Ways to Stay in Business When Your Storefront is Locked Down Did your business struggle during the shutdown? Are you wondering how to stay in business or are you afraid of limitations that may be coming due to more COVID restrictions or lockdown again, it’s time they make the switch or grow [...]
Top Reasons to Buy Local, Eat Local, Go Local BUILD COMMUNITY! The casual encounters you enjoy at neighborhood–scale businesses and the public spaces around them build relationships and community cohesiveness. CREATE A HEALTHIER ENVIRONMENT! Independent, community-serving businesses are people-sized. They typically consume less land, carry more locally-made products, locate closer to residents and create less traffic [...]
The chamber of commerce is often seen as a Better Business Bureau of sorts. People have confidence in using businesses that are members of the chamber. Chamber membership equates to business respectability in many customers’ minds, which often means greater sales for business members. Many people see chamber membership [...]
5 Ways a Chamber Membership Can Balance Out Seasonal Business If your business is seasonal, it probably feels a lot like feast or famine. You may love your seasonal crowds but hate the fear you won’t last long enough to see your next one. Seasonal businesses or businesses in towns with [...]
