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Campaign Kit

Here is your resource for the Press Release announcing the campaign, logos, Membership Form, and a Livingston Buy Local Campaign Kit to help your business join the Livingston Buy Local campaign. Note that membership is free; the form helps us gather descriptive information about your business for use in business listings. Your contact information will not be shared. You can also list your business online here.

Materials to help you participate and promote your business:

Logos For Your Promotions and/or Website:

Get the Buy Local Advantage

Display Buy Local Campaign Materials Prominently in Your Business

The more people learn and the more they see and hear the Livingston Buy Local message, the greater the impact of this campaign and the more it will influence purchasing choices. Member businesses are provided with a window decal, a fact sheet, stickers for shopping bags/customers, bumper stickers, and permission to use the Livingston Buy Local logo in their own advertising.

Learn More about Why Supporting Locally Owned Businesses Matters

The more you know about the well-documented economic, community, environmental, and customer benefits of locally owned businesses, the better you’ll be able to articulate the case for choosing locally owned. Please see Reasons to Buy Local for information, including studies, articles, and books. (This “Reasons” information is also available in nicely formatted PDF in the Livingston Buy Local Campaign Kit on this page; feel free to copy and distribute this to customers, employees, and other business owners.)

Talk to Your Customers

Take the opportunity to talk to your customers about the importance of local businesses and the challenges they face. Encourage people to visit this website for more information.

Inform Your Employees

Talk with your employees about the Livingston Buy Local campaign so they will be better equipped to answer customers’ questions and communicate the message.

Recruit Other Locally Owned Businesses

Please talk with other business owners about this campaign and encourage them to become members. We can use all the help we can get to reach every locally owned, independent business in Livingston.

Source Goods and Services from Locally Owned Businesses

Examine your list of vendors and look for opportunities to shift your purchasing from non-local to local suppliers.

Spread the Word

Help spread the word by writing letters to newspapers and other local media, mentioning Livingston Buy Local in your newsletter and on your web site (and linking to our site), and encouraging community and non-profit groups you are involved with to include information about Livingston Buy Local in their newsletters and to join the campaign as well.

Be Active in our Social Media Campaign

Contribute interesting entries to our blog and our Facebook Page. Become a fan of Livingston Buy Local on Facebook and add our page to your page’s favorites. Follow us on Twitter. Keep us informed of specials and events that we can post on Facebook and Twitter for you.

Give Local

Consider sponsoring and donating to local charities and non-profits, in addition to national and international non-profits you might already support. By donating locally, you and your community will receive many of the same economic and social benefits as when you buy local goods and services.

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