Top 11 Reasons to Support Local Business:not in any specific order | 1. | Capital available for small local businesses is sluggish, and difficult for most small businesses to acquire. By supporting the businesses in your area, you help to increase their chances of expansion with or without outside investment. |
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West Michigan has seen a big impact from outsourcing of manufacturing jobs. By spending money in our own communities, we are supporting ourselves, rather than supporting corporations who are not concerned about our well being. |
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Supporting local business increases the chance that area residents can find employment close to home, rather than commuting to outside communities. |
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Thriving local businesses help to support initiatives to improve the overall image of an area to make it attractive to investment. |
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By supporting local businesses, we can create economically healthy communities with opportunities for the young to find satisfying work locally and where there is a significant degree of local control of the economy, development and growth. |
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Local owners, typically having invested much of their life savings in their businesses, have a natural interest in the community’s long-term health. Community-based businesses are essential to charitable endeavors, and their owners frequently serve on local boards and support numerous causes. |
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Studies have shown that locally based businesses provide some of the most stable employment opportunities in a community and account for the largest share of net new jobs generated each year. |
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Local ownership helps to ensure that important community decisions are made by people who live in the community and will feel the impact of those decisions. |
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Entrepreneurship fuels economic innovation and prosperity, and provides a means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into higher economic sectors. |
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As opposed to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community. |
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Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships and contributing to local causes. |
Top 11 Reasons to Advertise with LakewoodAreaCOC.org:not in any specific order | 1. | Increase Brand Awareness - Your brand image will be visible to every visitor of the chamber web site. |
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Flexibility - You can change your image whenever you like, to another image of the same size, in order to keep your ad new and interesting and to keep visitors clicking on your site |
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Specialized Promotions - You can change your rollover to offer specials or to announce promotions any time you like. |
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Helping the Community - LakewoodAreaCOC is focused on helping local businesses grow within the communities, allowing more money to stay within the community and subsequently improving the community’s overall welfare. |
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Personal Investment - We know how much your business means to you, and that you’re doing everything you can to make it a success, and we are committed to helping you with that goal as well. When you succeed, we succeed. |
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Focused Advertising - LakewoodAreaCOC.org focuses solely on the greater Clarksville, Freeport, Lake Odessa, Sunfield, and Woodland, MI area, meaning your advertising dollars are not wasted on markets that are inaccessible to you. |
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All-In-One Solution - We can not only fill your need for local advertising, but your need for professional marketing tools, like logos, business graphics, web design, stationary, and much more as well. |
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Weekly or Monthly Coupons - Instead of paying big bucks to deliver coupons through direct mail or weekly circulars, we can host printable versions for you. This means nothing spent on postage or printing, and no more envelopes to stuff. You'll thank us later. |
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Maximum Exposure, Minimal Cost - With ads under $20 per month and a focus covering the entire Lakewood area, your advertising dollars can stretch further than ever before possible. |
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Personal Connections - Our visitors are looking for businesses close to home. Places that they can relate to. This is your opportunity to connect with the customers who love our communities as much as we do. |
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Purchase Guarantee - We guarantee that any ad purchased will be exactly where we said it would be for the amount of time you purchased. We have redundant hosting packages, as well as domain servers paid for through the year 2011, so no matter what, we’ll be around. You’re not getting rid of us that easy. |
Chamber Phone: 616-374-0766 |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 October 2009 17:28 )
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