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Independents Month: A Celebration of Entrepreneurship
This July, let’s celebrate our independence and our independents together.
Monadnock Food Co-op Named Best NH Retailer of the Year
From Business NH Magazine: Modern grocery stores may have rows of checkout lines and massive...
What’s Our Why? Eat Indie Local
What’s Our WHY? Help us shape our answer. As we prepare for our second Eat Indie Local campaign, we want to dive into our WHY.
Best Independent Cookie Shop in the US
Please & Thank You Cookie Shop, based in Louisville, KY, received last year's US Today Readers...
Celebrate National Farmers Market Week During Eat Indie Local Month
National Farmers Market Week is a great opportunity to show the nation how much value markets bring to their communities.
Fire Island Bake Shop: Generative Entrepreneurship and Small-Business Karma
From Alaska Journal of Commerce: If you live in Anchorage, you know the bakery is “line around the...
Cars Don’t Spend Money — People Do
“After 50 years of framing work around the automobile, retail analysts in both the private and public sectors are shifting to a new consensus: cars don’t spend money — people do.”
Founder of Hope & Main Named Rhode Island Woman of the Year
From Providence Journal: Lisa Raiola has changed the face of small businesses in Rhode Island....
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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...