Small Shops
HOLIDAY SHOPPING
EVENT
Inspiring people to
shop local this holiday season
Small Shops Big Hearts unites our community to
make holiday shopping fun and rewarding!
We invite you to participate!
How this works for our customers:
1
Download or enter your address to receive our shopping guide with participating small businesses and start mapping out where you'll be shopping on Nov 26th & 27th
2
Head to kuto.app/smallshopsbigheartst to access your gameboard
3
Start shopping! You'll receive a digital raffle entry for each participating small business you visit.
4
Each purchase unlocks 10% at every other participating small business. Each purchase earns you 3 raffle entries.
5
Purchases made through the Kuto app doubles your raffle entries (6/purchase).
6
Visit as many participating small businesses as possible. Your raffle entries double after 3 purchases, triple after 6, and quadruple after 9.
The rules of the game:
Participating businesses agree to market event through their communication channels: email, social media and in store signage.
Participating businesses agree to offer 10% off to participating customers.
Businesses encourage customers to visit other participating businesses..
How it Works for Participating Small Businesses:
We provide you with posters and shopping guides that list all the participating shops. We get you an email template and graphic assets to share with your email list and on all your social channels.
We create a FB event and host an event page on the Small Shops Big Hearts (formerly PDXSOS) website with store list, map and other info. We send you tips on how to promote the event.
We work with sponsors to amplify this event. One of our sponsors has already secured OPB advertising.
We will reach out to try to get press coverage.
Sounds Great, Right?
What You Have to Do as a Small Business:
1. Sign Up.
2 Put up Small Shops Big Hearts posters
3. Keep Shopping Guides at the counter
4. Promote through your channels
5. Offer 10% off purchases to participating customers
PROMOTION
PROMOTION
PROMOTION!
Collectively we market through our communication channels. With sponsors we amplify with additional advertising and media coverage.
This will have an impact
We have a proven
track record.
We had an amazing effort with the Portland Pledge event last year and we will build on that success to make this bigger and better!
A United Small Business Community
Between Little Boxes and PDXSOS we have over 9k customer emails and 16k+ social media subscribers.
United, our reach can go well beyond that.
Our Amazing Sponsors and Partners
Our primary sponsor Kuto, is a social good enterprise, created to help small businesses save money. They have already committed to providing the technology platform to host the event and pay for advertising to promote the event.
80k+
pageviews
During the 2020 Portland Pledge holiday campaign
49%
Of visitors come from direct searches of our name!
$20k
of Small Shops Big Hearts gift cards sold
500+
#pdxloveletters written
share on SOCIAL MEDIA (COMING SOON)
what 2020 portland pledge holiday
campaign participants say
“We brought in almost $2,600 in sales directly from the Portland Pledge campaign, although I’m sure it was higher than that, because our online sales were up 60%!!! That’s fantastic.”
“We had the best December Sales in
6 years! A lot of new customers saying they are supporting local.”
“New customers were a big part of our
business this year, and many said they
found us in the brochure or on the pdxsos website.”
COMMUNITY SUPPORT MAKES THIS POSSIBLE
2020 PORTLAND PLEDGE SPONSORS
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Join us in helping our small business community
CONTACT SARAH SHAOUL
SARAH@BRICKS-NEED-MORTAR.COM
FISCAL
SPONSORSHIP
Your sponsorship covers the hard coats of producing and promoting this event.
Your organization will be listed on all digital and printed materials. Your business and organization will be recognized in communications with our businesses and with our email list of over #9K people.
Sponsorship Tiers
$2,500 $5,000 $10,000
IN KIND
SUPPORT
Our In Kind Sponsors are essential partners in this year’s holiday event.
We are currently seeing in kind support for:
Printing
Media
Raffle Prizes
Your business and organization will be recognized in communications with our businesses and with our email list of over #9K people.
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