Shop small
win big
Inspiring people to
shop local this holiday season
November 17th through Dec 11th
Joining as a Community to Inspire and Reward
Shopping Local this Holiday Season
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 this holiday season
2
Head to smallshops-bighearts.com/shopsmallwinbig to access your game board
3
Start shopping! Receive a digital raffle entry for each check in to a participating small business.
4
Each purchase earns 2 raffle entries.
5
Purchases made through the Kuto app doubles raffle entries (4/purchase).
6
Visit as many participating small businesses as possible. Raffle entries double after 3 purchases, triple after 6 and quadruple after 9.
The rules of the game:
Businesses agree to market event through their communication channels: email, social media and in-store signage.
Businesses encourage customers to visit other participating businesses.
How it Works for Participating Small Businesses:
We provide businesses with posters and shopping guides that list all participating shops. We provide email templates, graphic and video assets for each business to share with their own email lists and social channels.
We create a FB event and host an event page on the Small Shops Big Hearts website with list of participating stores, map and other info. We share tips on how to promote the event.
We work with sponsors to amplify this event.
We promote to multiple press outlets for earned media.
We promote with a mix of paid media
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
PROMOTION
PROMOTION
PROMOTION
Collectively we market through our communication channels.
Sponsors help us to amplify with advertising and media coverage.
This will have an impact
We Have a Proven
Track Record and We Continue to Evolve and Improve
We are responding to rapidly changing consumer behavior to keep what works and expand the shopping experience beyond a single weekend event.
A United Small Business Community
Small Shops Big Hearts alone has over 9k customer emails and 16k+ social media subscribers.
United, our reach will go far.
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.
share on SOCIAL MEDIA
24K+
SITE VISITORS
During the 2021
2-day event
16k
social media
followers
$9k+
consumer emails between Little Boxes and Small Shops Big Hearts
800
small shops big hearts
businesses
WHAT PAST CAMPAIGN
PARTICIPANTS SAY
“In addition to actual sales on the weekend, we also view SSBH as a part of our marketing & advertising, so it has a lot of value for us.”
“We are definitely more visible due to our association with SSBH and being included in their online traffic…The sales we did have were almost 100% due to SSBH so we are grateful to be part of this community coming together.”
“I got many new visitors and press coverage to increase awareness of my small shop.”
COMMUNITY SUPPORT MAKES THIS POSSIBLE
2021 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 seeking 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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