AMIBA News & Updates
Choose Indie Art: This Fall, Choose Local and Handmade
This October, celebrate the arts during Choose Indie Art Month hosted by the American Independent Business Alliance.
This Halloween đ Choose Indie Local
Halloween is a great time to Choose Indie Local. Total Halloween spending is expected to reach a record $12.2 billion, exceeding last yearâs record of $10.6 billion.
Resist Prime Days Campaigns: A Prime Time to Make Ripples
Anti-Prime Days Campaigns: A prime time to focus on all the ways our communities benefit when we Choose Indie Local.
Novel Refuge: A Community Bookstore with Purpose, Heart, and a Mission
What started as an abandoned meat processing facility turned into a vibrant, walkable, and bikeable community center with an astounding 300 local farm partners.
Local Legend: Laury Hammel – Longfellow Health Clubs
Itâs always an inspiration to meet someone like Laury Hammelâsomeone who is active and successful in the business world while also staying true to his lifelong ideals and principles.
Shining a Light on Local First Arizona
In this issue of The Main Street Journal, weâre pleased to interview Kimber Lanning, the founder and CEO of Local First Arizona.
Localism: Begin In Your Backyard
Michael Shuman, economist, author, and publisher of The Main Street Journal, shared four main principles of Localism: action, power, partnership, and respect.
This Fall đ Shop Small
Why promote Shop Indie Local early this holiday season? Because more of us are shopping early for holiday gifts.
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Who’s Coming With You?
You might have noticed that information about the upcoming AMIBA virtual conference is encouraging you to "bring" a group of people -- not just from your IBA, but from other organizations and agencies that you work with (or would like to work with). You might have...
Maine Voices: COVID-battered local businesses need Congress to step up
AMIBA Board of Directors member and Portland Buy Local Executive Director Mary Alice Scott wrote this great opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald. Chances are, it fits your community, too. Have you done a survey like the one Portland Buy Local conducted? If...
Technology FTW: practical ways to communicate with your community and promote your businesses
Cross-posted from wiseeconomy.com An AccelerateUs: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Local Industrial Revolution conversation. How do you get the news about your local businesses out to everyone when everything changes every day? How do you keep a few hundred...