SaveYour.Town
Gearing up for the holiday shopping season in a small downtown is challenging in the best of years. And this is not the best of years. Social distancing…
A sample idea from our new Cheap Downtown Placemaking Ideas video with Becky McCray and Deb Brown. Make sheet murals. Get cheap torn or stained sheets from the…
Tiny business startups are our best bet for revitalizing rural areas, small towns and distressed economies. To help these small entrepreneurs to be more successful, put them into…
Jack in Georgetown, South Carolina, USA, shared what they are doing to renew, refresh and recover during and after the lockdown of coronavirus/COVID-19. Deb Brown shares all five…
You probably have one in your downtown. Maybe a building burned, or maybe the roof just fell in. These things happen. Now you have an empty space, maybe…
WHAT IS THIS SHOP INDIE ALL ABOUT? It’s called the Shop Indie Local campaign and it encourages you to take a step toward strengthening your own local economy.…
You probably know that we don’t have any standard plans here at SaveYour.Town. We don’t have a pre-written template that we try to force onto every town, but…
We received a note that said, in part: “At the two events run here in the past 10 yrs at least 50% of the tents were things like…
There are two common problems in small towns, and we think they are related: Our people shop online or in the city when they could buy the same…
How are you marketing your retail business? Small town retailers often fit into two marketing categories: old school way and idea friendly way. Old school way is doing…
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