Village Living Living local Volume 5 | Issue 8 | November 2014
neighborly news & entertainment for Mountain Brook
MSNBC footage of local shopping campaign to air this month By MADOLINE MARKHAM
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There’s a new way to measure the success of Live Local Saturdays: national media attention. This month the Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce campaign will be featured on MSNBC’s Your Business, a show about small businesses and entrepreneurship, with footage filmed on Oct. 18. The program is showcasing shop small and shop local initiatives around the country leading up to Small Business Saturday, which is the
Saturday after Thanksgiving. The producers hope segments like the one filmed in Mountain Brook will give other communities ideas about how to increase their small business traffic. Mountain Brook in particular interested them for the network’s shop local coverage. “It isn’t a traditional main street, so shopping is around villages,” MSNBC producer David Foster said. “They are more spread out, so people have to make an effort to have programming to come to those specific villages. What struck a
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Continental Bakery owner Carole Griffin speaks with MSNBC producer David Foster for a segment on shopping local. Photo by Dan Starnes.
chord with us is that the community is making a concerted effort to bring people to the area.” Elizabeth Adams, who owns Ex Voto Vintage, said she noticed more people than normal in Mountain Brook Village on the day of filming. “Even for people who weren’t interviewed, any exposure that benefits Mountain Brook Village benefits all of us,” she said. While her store was being shot, Adams shared with Foster how in the past year two larger brands have contacted her about opening a local brick-and-mortar store. It’s part of a larger trend
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she has seen with high fashion brands starting their own retail stores in addition to selling within department stores. “I couldn’t believe that they would call and ask my advice,” Adams said. “It’s encouraging for local businesses that even the big boys are wanting to go small. We are already doing it and have that edge.” Foster took note of the Shop Local T-shirts and stickers he saw around Mountain Brook and
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