Look Local First
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Think Global, Shop Local |
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Looking locally first not only saves time, its better for the community, environment and helps you build relationships with other local businesses. |
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Independent Business (Related) DVD's |
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| Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop is an entertaining account of Hosein and Hughes’s expedition through 32 states as they look for an America unchained by corporate retail. Self-imposed road rules bar them from major highways and corporate chain retail. Traveling on alternative roads, the duo can only do business with Mom & Pop. Pockets of resistance across the country add up to a nationwide opposition: Starbucks is vandalized in Colorado. Supporters of an anti-big box law in Arizona are compared to Nazis. A rebellious Texan city forces Borders Books into retreat. Patriotic residents of America’s “Fourth of July” capital in Nebraska start to turn on their new super center. And an entire town in Wyoming goes into business for itself after it’s abandoned by its chain department store. Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop not only provides a balanced and much larger picture of what is happening in communities across the country when it comes to chain retail; it provides solutions that viewers can employ to change their lives and their communities. | 
| WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE 'The film dives into the deeply personal stories and everyday lives of families and communities struggling to fight a goliath. A working mother is forced to turn to public assistance to provide healthcare for her two small children. A Missouri family loses its business after Wal-Mart is given over $2 million to open its doors down the road. A mayor struggles to equip his first responders after Wal-Mart pulls out and relocates just outside the city limits. A community in California unites, takes on the giant, and wins!' -Well worth a look. Read more in the director's introduction. |
| Wal-Mart vs. a small Maine coastal village, population 2041. A David and Goliath story about conservation, community activism, and the citizens' right to choose the future of their towns. “When I heard that Wal-Mart wanted to build a SuperCenter in our town, it was as though everything I love about Damariscotta was threatened”. Jenny Mayher, Co-Founder, OurTown Damariscotta USA. |
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Shop Local First Books & Publications |
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| The Small-Mart Revolution
Contrary to popular belief, many small, locally owned businesses actually out-perform their "big box" and Fortune 500 competition—both in outright profitability and the value they bring to consumers, workers, and communities.
Unlike mega-stores and multi-national chains like Wal-Mart, these small businesses stimulate the economy by buying supplies and services locally, adapt to (rather than fight against) higher local environmental and labor regulations, and stick around for many years, often many generations.
The Small-Mart Revolution details dozens of specific strategies small and home-based businesses are using to successfully out-compete the world’s largest companies. And it shows how consumers, investors, policymakers, and organizers can effectively revitalize their own communities by supporting local businesses.
| | | Going LocalThe Small-Mart RevolutionNational drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens.
Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses. These strategies include locally owned companies, import substitution, new community financial institutions, and smart local policymaking.
Selected as "recommended reading" by Utne, Social Policy and Tikkun. Also features a detailed appendix entitled “Around the World Economy in 80 Ways,” which has mailing addresses and other contact information for hundreds of organizations.
| | | Marketing that matters
“Marketing” is not a dirty word or a last resort—it is key to advancing the mission of any socially responsible business. In this book, award-winning marketers Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman offer ten principles any business can use to engage new customers and strengthen relationships with current customers. For overworked entrepreneurs who want to match their mission with their values but lack the time or the training to develop a strategy from scratch, this field manual provides practical steps for incorporating marketing as a core element of the business, and for ensuring that marketing always reflects and reinforces what the business stands for. Full of inspiring stories, key concepts, and tested advice, this book shows how to sell what you do without selling your soul.
| | | Growing local value
How to Build Business Partnerships that Strengthen Your Community This down-to-earth guide explains how to build or expand a values-driven business that is deeply embedded in the life of the local community. While most people think of community engagement only in terms of philanthropy or volunteerism, entrepreneurs Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart show how every aspect of a business (from product creation to employee recruitment to vendor selection to raising capital) holds the dual promise of bigger profits and a stronger local community. Combining key best practices and a host of real-life examples, Growing Local Value explores the full spectrum of ways in which a business can contribute to its community—and the benefits it receives when it does. | | | Values-Driven Business
How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun
In Values-Driven Business, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and Social Venture Network chair Mal Warwick team up to provide you with a way to run your business for profit and personal satisfaction. This practical, down-to-earth book details every step in the process of creating and managing a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them. | ![]() | True to Yourself - Leading a Values-Based Business
This is an engaging, accessible guide to a critical component of socially responsible business: effective leadership. Mark Albion, author of the New York Times bestseller Making a Life, Making a Living®, argues that small-business leaders who are concerned with more than the bottom line are not only more fulfilled than others but also more successful with more sustainable lives. He uses real-world examples to identify five critical leadership practices, each illustrated with a chapter on how successful businesspeople have put that practice into action, along with questions for reflection and a hands-on exercise to help you put that practice into action. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re many years on your way, True to Yourself will show you how to combine profit with purpose, margin with mission, value with values. | | | Values SellTransforming Purpose into Profit Through Creative Sales & Distribution Strategies
Sales and distribution are the lifeblood of any business—socially responsible businesses are no different. To make a difference in the world you have to make your product or service available and convince the public to buy it. But how can you compete with businesses for which the bottom line is the only measure of success? The answer: get creative!
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