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<DIV>Hi all. Pop-up businesses are a great way for microenterprises to get their
sea legs before they commit to a brick-and-mortar space (not unlike food trucks
and restaurants). Most people don’t think about it, but hair salons are a
great example of tiny business incubators that give mini-microenterprises an
opportunity to get their product out to the world. Becky McCray of Small Biz
Survival has great ideas about this kind of thing. It’s not unusual to go
to a hair salon and see someone selling jewelry, another selling paintings or
cards, a third selling mittens or scarves. You get the idea. You might ask
hair salons or similar businesses how they manage their pop-ups.
Cooperative art galleries and farmer’s markets often have similar arrangements
that you might be able to emulate.</DIV>
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<DIV>Secondly, you can encourage pop-ups within your existing retail environment
(i.e. chocolate maker in a flower shop, ceramics artist in a clothing store or
restaurant, jam maker in a grocery store or vintage shabby chic store,
etc). Just about any combo will work if the existing business owner/tenant
is willing to give it a try. It expands and enriches your retail presence
downtown while making it simple for mini-microenterprises to test their markets
and see what it might be like to run a small business in your area. And it
builds a great collaborative atmosphere. Think of things like not only
renting booth space, but renting tabletops, a bookcase or shelf, etc. If
you have any local trash-to-treasure stores they often rent small spaces of
various sizes and could weigh in on what the expectations are for their vendors,
the kinds of agreements they use, etc. Think about what your goal is with
this concept and then make your decisions about how to frame it – to fill up an
empty space temporarily so the downtown looks good over the holidays, make a
little money, showcase some home-based businesses, encourage vendors to “test”
their retail market with your downtown area, get as many lively vendors in there
as possible for a short time, etc. If you decide you want money from them,
you will usually be best off settling on a rental fee rather than trying to
collect a percentage of sales (the latter can always be challenging). And
remember that sometimes less is more. How often do you want them to be
open? Maybe on your normal busy days of the week? Saturdays only? Every
day? You get the idea.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you go for filling up an empty space be sure to make the windows look
inviting a la the Main Street suggestions (lots of holiday lights too so it
looks beautiful even when it’s not open), make sure it’s merchandised nicely
inside (do you want rows, collections of vendors, places for people to sit and
chat, etc?), and market it like crazy. Perhaps even consider throwing some
kind of downtown party to kick it off so other shop owners can see what’s in
there and can send shoppers downtown. We usually focus on getting visitors
or locals downtown, but forget that the retailers benefit from getting time to
connect too. Even donuts and coffee before most stores open would work.
Inside the space think of engaging all five senses – can you get music in
there? Any good smells from candles or food or coffee that you can
introduce? Is there stuff for people to touch? Is it visually
appealing? Is there anything to eat or taste? A wine-tasting can
also be a draw later in the day. Empty storefronts often feel really empty
and kind of dead, and you won’t get the vibe you want if you just throw a few
tables in there and turn on the lights. Anything you can do to make the
space appealing will be a big help to everyone. You might even have
vendors or downtown retailers who have stuff for sale that you can use to
decorate.</DIV>
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<DIV>In historic downtown Stayton, one of our local business owners purchased a
former department store, built some small stores within it (think Italian
village), and then encourages pop-ups on Saturdays. I don’t know what they
charge or how successful these businesses are, but this couple rarely moves
forward with something unless it makes financial sense for them. You might
try talking with Jon and Teri Mesa, either at Moxieberry Café in Stayton (Jon)
or at Marketplace at The Grove in Stayton (Teri). You can find their info
on Facebook, through the Stayton Sublimity chamber of commerce, or Dan Fleishman
in the Planning Dept may have their contact info. The phone # for
Moxieberry is 767.2233. Try to avoid lunch hour if you call Jon directly
at the café. Teri is open to texts too. At the café, a local fine
artist has his artwork all over the walls, adding nice ambience for the café,
giving Jon and Teri great decorating without costing them a penny, and providing
a great space for this artist to get in front of people who might like to buy
his artwork (this is one of our nicest cafés, people who go there have money,
they might buy his stuff. You get the idea).</DIV>
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<DIV>I love the info from the South Dakota program too. Any business help you
can provide to these folks will be great. In our world we run a free,
confidential, one-on-one consulting service that is open to any business,
aspiring entrepreneur, organization, or group. It’s also a collaborative
model, which helps encourage the kind of cross-pollinating you need in a retail
area to make it so wonderful that visitors and locals want to hang out downtown
and spend their money : ) Your Small Business Development Center may be
willing to do a mini-workshop for these folks as part of their “entrance” fee,
or you may be able to run w/ some of the info in the South Dakota program.</DIV>
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<DIV>Hope that helps a little!</DIV>
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<DIV>Allison Ford McKenzie</DIV>
<DIV>503.871.5188</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Sheri.Stuart@oregon.gov
href="mailto:Sheri.Stuart@oregon.gov">STUART Sheri * OPRD</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:41 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=oms_managers@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
href="mailto:oms_managers@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">Oregon Main Street program
managers</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Pop-up businesses</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri","sans-serif"; COLOR: #1f497d'>Attached
is a good article on pop-up projects, a sample application from a project in
Delaware w/a sample timeline to implement this type of project.
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style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OMS_MANAGERS
[mailto:oms_managers-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Elisa Joy Payne<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:20
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Oregon Main Street program managers<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[OMS_MANAGERS] Pop-up businesses<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>Has anyone
helped pop-up businesses get setup in your district? We have three prominent
retail spaces that are going to be vacant through the holiday season, and are
trying to figure out the best way to activate them, while holding off the
landlords from impulse decision making when it comes to
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style='FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"'>We are
considering actually renting one of the spaces ourselves and setting up a market
with artisan food. We have one producer that is willing to be the manager in
exchange for free rent. Everyone else will be charged fees by the space they
occupy and have to commit to some staffing responsibilities. Lots more logistics
obviously that we are working on, like contracts, POS, and insurance.
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444">Elisa Joy 'EJ'
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<P class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444">Interim Executive
Director</SPAN></I><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444">Hillsboro Downtown
Partnership</SPAN></B><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #444444">503-640-6145 | <A
href="http://www.hillsborodowntown.com"
target=_blank>www.hillsborodowntown.com</A></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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