Concord, NC, has hosted a successful Small Business Saturday event once a month for the past two years.
(Boonton, NJ, November 25, 2013) — The Small Business Saturday event launched by American Express in 2010 has been a boon to independent retailers in many communities each November. But in Concord, NC, downtown stakeholders were not content to mark this event only on the Saturday following Black Friday.
Instead, the Concord Downtown Development Corporation carefully crafted a campaign to celebrate one Small Business Saturday a month throughout the year. Launched in January, 2012, Small Business Saturday in Historic Downtown Concord is still going strong and has gained statewide attention.
The event’s success is due in part to the clear guidelines for organizing the program:
Small Business Saturday continues to be a strong event for downtown Concord almost two years after it was launched.
Details on event appear in the November issue of Downtown Idea Exchange
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