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<h3 class="contentheading">Press Release</h3>
 
	
	
<h2>Using Smart Economic Positioning to Weather the Downturn</h2>

<p class="body">(Boonton, NJ, June 15, 2009) &mdash; An economic positioning committee can help minimize the 
impact that the current recession has on downtown and its 
businesses. Rich Williams, director of New Mexico 
MainStreet, says it all starts with carefully selecting 
committee members, and then tackling 10 core strategies. 
One of these is "Defining the critical need for cooperative 
advertising, marketing and promotions." Williams notes 
that, "Chief among collective business enhancement actions 
is joint advertising and promotions. Stress how businesses 
need to maintain visibility in a recession and they need 
their advertising dollars to go farther than ever."

<p class="body">The June 1 issue of <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/dpr.php" class="linkc" target="_blank"><i>Downtown Promotion Reporter</i></a> 
details all 10 economic positioning approaches.

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<p class="body"><b>About Downtown Promotion Reporter </b>
<p class="body"><A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com/dpr.php" class="linkc" target="_blank"><em>Downtown Promotion Reporter</em></a> newsletter is published by the Downtown Research & Development Center. For more than 50 years, the Downtown Research & Development Center has provided a forum for exchanging news, information and ideas on how to rebuild the hearts of our cities.

<p class="body">Website: <A HREF="http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com" class="linkc">http://www.DowntownDevelopment.com</A></p>
    
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