Author: Ray

HOW
TO LOOK LOCAL

Check out your local Chamber of Commerce directory or website.
Search the newspaper for hot deals
Explore the phone book for local merchants
Google
“Like” your favorite stores on Facebook!
Ask a friend!
Shop Local First for gifts

WHY
LOOK LOCAL

WHY

patronize a local
business?

Create Jobs
Support City & County services
Encourage Local Character & Prosperity
Support Our Schools & Local Organizations
Stimulate Product Diversity

SHOP LOCAL
97457

Our businesses support our local schools and organizations. They donate money and items to support this community. Without monies coming in to these
LOCAL BUSINESSES, this causes a
ripple in our local economy. Money spent outside our community is money lost to our schools and local organizations. Those local businesses will no longer to be able to support these
organizations or our community.
-Paulette Jones

Find us: Cash Mob 97457

http://cashmob97457.weebly.com
http://www.myrtlecreekchamber.com

Keep your money where your
house is.

WHAT
is it?

We are not a committee. No membership needed. No dues, No fees.
IT’S A STATE OF MIND.
Think about the last time you drove into a bigger town to make a purchase.
You spent an hour or more driving.
You wandered around stores for hours.
You’re tired. Your feet hurt.
You didn’t find what you were looking for.
What might have happened if you asked a local merchant first if they had what you needed?
You didn’t have to drive as far.
You saved time by receiving service that was personal and professional
You saved gas, time and resources.
Oh, you also helped lower your property taxes.
No, you can’t always purchase everything locally, but you can make a difference by looking locally FIRST.

HOW
does it work?

YOUR
$100

$27
Leaves

$57
Leaves

$73 Stays
Local

$43 Stays
Local

SOS! SOS!
Save Our Shops!
Shop our Shops!

“Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs."- Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local.

WHAT IS THE CASH MOB?
Cash mobs have swept across the country over the last several years to breathe new life into struggling mom-and-pop businesses as they compete with big-box retailers. Utilizing flash-mob mentality, a cash mob organizes in advance. However, instead of performing a group-style dance or something similar, a group of cash mobbers flock together to support local business.
Through word of mouth, social media and press coverage, an organized cash mob can have a tremendously positive effect on hometown businesses. In most areas, small, locally owned businesses are the lifeblood of the local economy, but rising costs of doing business often means that these small retailers cannot compete with the lower prices of retail giants.
One successful mob after another, dedicated community members help the businesses they love and that add value to their community stay in business, attract new customers and thrive despite rising costs, a slow economy and big-box competition. To support local business, anyone in a community is welcome to join an existing cash mob or plan a community’s first one.
Cash mobbers even have a little fun while saving the lifeblood of their communities, as many cash mobs gather after a shopping frenzy at a local establishment for food, drinks and fun, where old and new friends alike meet.
Here in Myrtle Creek/ Tri City our Local Business support our schools and organizations in many ways. Most love doing it, but with more and more people taking their money out of the area, these businesses are not able to do as much. Our businesses also pay a personal property tax, if their were more businesses and more people shopping local this tax would not take so much from the community and the businesses could be better at being competitive with the bigger city stores. It just makes sense.
Created By: Paulette Jones– Founder of Cash Mob 97457