MEETINGS AND EVENTS

SHOP ORTING; ALL HERE, NO HILL

By: Rich Carr March 16, 2009

At a recent Orting Chamber of Commerce meeting, I was more than pleased to hear from local businesses that the City readerboard on 162 indeed drove local traffic to their businesses. Orting News wanted to celebrate its' first year in business by assisting local business in an unprecedented manner...FREE local exposure!

Beginning Monday, April 7th, we're donating all our services to licensed businesses in Orting. All advertising will be free of charge to those businesses that contact Orting News via our CONTACT FORM expressing the desire to reach more than 3,000 monthly readers free of charge. The first eight businesses to request this FREE service of Orting News will also receive inclusion in our weekly Orting News Email Alerts.

We'll build the display advertising, the coupons, the outreach, we'll even build a SHOP ORTING page on the website expressley for making sure you can find those businesses that call Orting home and benefit by our program called, "Shop Orting! All here, No hill!"

Top Ten Reasons to Shop Orting

We all know how fun it is to shop locally in Orting, but there’s more to it:

1. Protect Local Character and Prosperity
Orting is unlike any other city in the world. By choosing to support locally owned businesses, you help maintain Orting's character and distinctive flavor.

2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong neighborhoods by sustaining communities, linking neighbors, and by contributing more to local causes.

3. Local Decision Making
Local ownership means that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Your dollars spent in locally-owned businesses have three times the impact on your community as dollars spent at national chains. When shopping locally, you simultaneously create jobs, fund more city services through sales tax, invest in neighborhood improvement and promote community development.

5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.

7. Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.

8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable downtown - which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

9. Competition
A marketplace of diverse local small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

We encourage business to participate, and residents to SHOP ORTING! Remember, It's All Here, No Hill!