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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Krystal, and all,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Main Street America and American Express do a great job of providing lots of really great tips for promoting Small Business Saturday Every Year. The Neighborhood Champions
program is a great resource to stay in the loop on latest updates. Registration isn’t open for 2025 yet but you can find past articles and resources at the link
<a href="https://mainstreet.org/about/partner-collaborations/american-express-neighborhood-champions">
https://mainstreet.org/about/partner-collaborations/american-express-neighborhood-champions</a> . If you subscribe to the Main Street America newsletter you should get a notice when registration opens this year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In addition to limited free merchandise (Bags , sticker, decals, etc…) the Neighborhood Champion program also provides some great digital assets that you can download and easily
customize for local efforts and the link above has several great articles about how to implement a local campaign.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Great to see you planning early.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#000099;mso-ligatures:none">Timothy Bishop, CMSM<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">P.O. Box 670 / 1000 Adams Avenue</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Office: 541-962-1308<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces@omls.oregon.gov>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Krystal Grace Stevens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 29, 2025 4:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> oms_managers@omls.oregon.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OMS_MANAGERS] Small Business Saturday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Main Street Friends,<br>
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I wanted to reach out and see which of you participate in Small Business Saturday? The Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday? We would like to do something for it this year, but we are so small and don’t have a ton of downtown businesses. We’re considering
how we can promote shopping local and also get creative with possibly other ideas to draw crowds to our downtown during the event.
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Are there any cities with populations lower than 5,000 that participate in this event? I’d love to hear what you do for it in your towns.
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