**3 Reasons Why Around Chilliwack Supports Local and Small Businesses**

1. It puts money back into the community and into local families

When you purchase things locally or use local services, you are putting your money back into the community, into people who are your neighbour. You are helping put a daughter through jui-jitsu or dance classes, a son through piano or soccer lessons. You are investing back into your community, and into businesses that help support businesses and their community.

For instance, one local artisan we love is “Scrappy Creations by Jenn”. Though mostly found online and at local markets, she also hosts classes inside locally owned Decades Coffee Club. Another example is The Town Butcher; we love that The Town Butcher not only provides “instant meals” for us to buy, but that a local chef also makes them. We also love that our local Locke’s Pharmacy held a free street party for our community, simply to celebrate 70 years of serving their community and to thank the community for their support. These are businesses supporting businesses, and it’s not just about business, it’s about a community.

We love supporting people and businesses that invest back in to people and their community

2. It’s not just about money in their pocket, but also about customers and quality service

Dan at the Local Harvest takes great pride in his self-sustaining market and quality products.

Local and small businesses genuinely care about their customers and clients. These businesses are not in it to “get rich”. Oftentimes, these business owners saw a need within the community and wanted to provide a product or service to passionately fill that need.

We love that we are valued as a client and customer, and not just valued for our wallet.

3. Unique products, unique services

Local business often host one-of-a-kind products or services, with a creative twist. Items are made with care and precision and are offered with intent and thought. This includes thought as to its impact to the environment and that it is sourced ethically.

We really like local honey, which we often buy at farmers markets or in locally owned stores. We have often found that local honey suppliers and sellers are not only passionate about the importance of local honey, but also about its quality, about the bee population, and how the honey is processed. There is thought put into this product offered, and it is something unique that stands out from the rest.

At Around Chilliwack, we love supporting people’s passions and accessing original products.

How Around Chilliwack Can Promote and Support Your Business

Recently, we have expanded our team and created a brand new package that now includes professional and visually appealing content made for your business, and provides a platform to help market and promote your businesses and expand your reach within our community and throughout the Fraser Valley.

Our work has originally been to simply promote and feature new, old and hidden treasures within our community, free of charge; however, the creation of these new packages will now allow businesses to proactively access our platform to promote and expand their business.

Oftentimes local business owners have to wear too many hats. Wearing too many hats can spread a person too thin, reduce productivity and also increase one’s stress level. We know that when we need our furnace repaired, we call our repairman, or when our microwave breaks and can’t be repaired, we visit GP Furniture. If we need business cards, we go to our printers, and if a blog post or photo needs extra help with editing, we send it to our team member best qualified to do that. We are your team members as well. The packages we have put together are designed to help local businesses market their business and increase their presence online and on social media by:

Bill Turnbull, owner of The Town Butcher

Providing professional photos and/or videos
Making advertising and feature spots available on our website to help showcase businesses and services/products offered
Providing clients with content, content, content, content. Every day, content is pushed down and replaced by the latest content. We provide businesses with the new content needed to stay relevant.

Let us help you with one of your many hats. Our newly expanded team consists of professional marketers, photographers, videographers and writers. This team has a way of finding and capturing the beauty of light shining on an amber glass of beer, of seeing the beauty in a perfectly lined row of colourful clothes, and even in how a dedicated owner slices a piece of beef with care and precision. We can focus on what we do best so that you have more time to focus on other aspects of your business.

To find a package right for your business, contact us or view our available packages at https://www.aroundchilliwack.ca/advertise-with-us