Program overview:

Supporting local businesses takes a year-round strategy that keeps residents engaged and gives businesses new opportunities to connect with customers.

Our Support Local Business program empowers you with access to trending ideas, ready-to-implement templates, and hands-on support to make your vision a reality.

Program Benefits: What our team offers.

Interactive Business Directory Created for You
Ready-to-Launch Programs Customized for You
Hands-on Support to Help You Promote

How it works

We’ll help you launch proven shop local initiatives without starting from scratch.

Choose Campaigns

Select the community initiatives that are right for you - from networking events and shop local programs to our concierge business directory build out.

Concierge Setup

Our team builds your business directory, creates your selected campaigns, prepares promotional materials, and gets everything ready for launch.

Launch & Grow

Share your small business initiatives with the community, driving increased visibility and support for the businesses you serve.

Concierge Business Directory Setup

Spotlight your businesses with an Interactive Directory

Our team creates an interactive, digital directory of your local businesses. We'll map out your members, create profiles for each business, and provide marketing materials to help promote your directory.

Interactive Business Directory

A searchable online directory featuring custom business profiles, business categories, interactive maps, contact information, websites, photos, and more.

View Interactive Directory

Business Directory (PDF)

A professionally designed business directory featuring individual listings for your businesses and an introduction to your organization's mission and events.

Download Business Directory

Visitor Guide (Tri-Fold)

A compact brochure designed for visitor centers, welcome packets, and community events, featuring businesses with a QR Code linking to your interactive directory.

Download Visitor Guide

Ready-to-Launch Templates: Proven to Support Local Business

Shopping events: one-time and recurring downtown celebrations

Host shopping events that bring the community downtown to discover local businesses. These can be recurring monthly events like First Fridays or one-off national celebrations like Small Business Saturday. Both drive foot traffic and build community connection.

Launch Shopping Events

Business networking and support programs: build long-term relationships

Create programs that recognize businesses, offer discounts to community members, or provide educational support. "Shop Local" discount programs, business award nights, or educational workshops keep local businesses visible and valued.

Create Networking Events

Signature events: create year-round reasons to shop downtown

Organize holiday markets, seasonal festivals, and themed celebrations that bring the community downtown during natural shopping times. Christmas markets, 4th of July festivities, Easter celebrations, and seasonal events create festive reasons to shop locally throughout the year.

Celebrate Every Tradition

Interactive tour maps: showcase local businesses year-round

Use digital maps and interactive tours to highlight local restaurants, public art, boutiques, and historical landmarks. Residents can explore at their own pace, and the content stays visible year-round to draw both residents and visitors.

Craft Interactive Maps

Local contests and awards: celebrate and drive friendly competition

Host contests and awards that recognize outstanding local businesses while encouraging community participation. From holiday decorating contests and best storefront displays to annual business awards and customer choice recognitions, these programs inspire friendly competition, celebrate local success, and keep residents engaged through nominations and voting.

Inspire Friendly Competition

Downtown walks and crawls: drive foot traffic with ticketed events

Create themed downtown experiences where residents explore local businesses, restaurants, and attractions. Charge a ticket price and have participating businesses register or sponsor the event.

Launch a Downtown Crawl

Farmers markets and vendor fairs: make participation easy

Streamline vendor applications, payments, and registrations for farmers markets and pop-up vendor events. When participation is easy, you get more vendors and more community engagement. These are great ways to connect with new small businesses in town.

Grow Your Vendor Ecosystem

Ready to support local businesses?

Bring your community together with professionally managed campaigns and a complete business directory designed to increase visibility, encourage exploration, and strengthen your local economy.

Have Questions?

Every community is different. We’d love to learn about your goals and recommend the right mix of campaigns and tools to support your local businesses.

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