Small Business Saturday Promotes Shop Local

Every year, American Express helps small businesses promote shopping locally on Small Business Saturday^®, the movement they started in 2010. Now, 10 years later, small businesses face one of the greatest challenges ever: a worldwide pandemic that has seen millions of Americans lose their jobs, countless small businesses close, and many more struggle to keep going. According to the Amex-commissioned 2018 Small Business Economic Impact Study, 62% of U.S. small businesses reported that they need to see consumer spending return to pre-COVID levels by the end of 2020 in order to stay in business. When you Shop Small^® this holiday season – and all year long – you can help create a big impact.

When you Shop Small^®, the dollars you spend at a local business in your community add up, and those dollars tend to stay in your community with those businesses hiring locally, sponsoring area schools' sports teams, nonprofits and fundraisers for those in need, and community events for us all to enjoy.

You help local artists further develop their creativity, kids have access to art classes and fun activities, and pets get the care they need.

You support your neighbors who run those businesses, so they can provide for their family, earn a living, and live the American Dream offering goods and services in the community they call home.

You support the environment shopping closer to home, reducing mileage on your vehicles, saving gas $$ and greenhouse emissions, and decreasing shipping from out-of-state vendors.

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Our Chambers of Commerce are excellent resources for finding businesses you need, and organizing special events that help promote our area businesses and offer something fun for all of us to do. With the challenges caused by COVID-19, many of those favorite events have been canceled; but, the Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce has put together a "Light Up Conifer" holiday lights contest for businesses and residents alike, and created a Holiday Gift Guide to boost our local businesses! Learn how you can participate, and download the Holiday Gift Guide, by clicking here.

What are the locals' favorite places to shop? We gathered their recommendations, and here they are in alphabetical order for each category:

How can you Shop Local with My Mountain Town, you wonder? Why, by posting here on MyMountainTown.com and by advertising with! :) Every time you..:

• add content to our Forums
• list your items for sale in our Free Member and Business Classifieds
• add your organizations to our local Business & Nonprofit Directory or tell us about the businesses who've served you well
• share the jobs you have available or services you need
• upload events you have coming up on our Community Calendar and in the Community News, Events, & Calendar Forum
• update us on the Highway 285 or Hwy 73/Hwy 74/I-70 Road Conditions you've experienced
• tell us your opinions on political issues, movies or books you've just seen or read, rant about your sports teams, or dazzle us with tales of your latest hike 
• share your favorite hobbies, gardening tips, and recipes (or places to eat in the area)
• add photos of our wondrous mountain landscapes, sunrises and sunsets, flowers, and wildlife
• comment on, share, and rate our Mountain Secrets Blog posts
• tell your friends and family about our helpful Emergency Page with the latest accidents, fires, and emergencies plus handy resources or to Join and Subscribe to our Scanner & Emergency Info Forum for instant email alerts!
• check out our Daily Mountain Weather Forecasts and Comprehensive Webcam Pages

...you are supporting us, our area nonprofits and businesses, and helping your neighbors and fellow community members and for that we are incredibly grateful! Our mission has always been to provide a place where it is fun, safe, and easy to participate so you can stay informed on that which affects you and your family, our businesses and nonprofits can connect online with you and vice versa to support one another, and we can continue to keep our mountain home safe and vibrant for generations to come! We are here to serve you and if there's anything we can do to improve our services or help you, we encourage suggestions and questions anytime. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 720-608-0285

You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn, plus find other local organizations with services or products you need through those with whom we are connected (check out our Page Likes on Facebook, our 'Hwy 285 Corridor' and 'All Things Evergreen, CO' lists on Twitter, and who we Follow on Instagram and YouTube - if you are a local business or nonprofit with accounts on those platforms and we don't yet follow you, please let us know and follow back!). 

Leave us a review with specific details on what we did well and/or could improve upon, post photos and videos to our Page, tag us in your posts to grab our attention, tell your neighbors to follow us, add a link to our website on yours, and Share our posts please! We LOVE when you do that! :)

To our fellow businesses and nonprofits: consider advertising with us for your online, social media marketing needs!

Thank you everyone for all you do to support us and all of our local businesses, not just Small Business Saturday, but every day; it means the world to us!

With gratitude,
Your My Mountain Town Staff and Volunteers