Tiffin Town Money Saver | March FOM 2021

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WHAT’S YOUR “STANDOUT FACTOR?”

There are more than 26,000 high schools in the United States. That means there are 26,000 football captains; 26,000 prom queens; 26,000 valedictorians; and 26,000 yearbook editors. If you want to stand out to a college, you’ve got to really stand out.

There is a very powerful way to differentiate you from other students applying to college: Ensure you have a Standout Factor. The most interesting Standout Factors are activities that are typically dominated by adults, or noteworthy tasks that no other high school student does. Either way, a Standout Factor will help you differentiate yourself from other applicants.

How to Increase Your Standout Factor

It’s simple. Do something you wouldn’t normally consider doing. Standout Factors are not run-of-the-mill activities. Participating on your school’s yearbook staff, for example, is not a Standout Factor. In fact, every high school yearbook in the world is put together by students. It is a good learning experience, but it won’t necessarily help you stand out.

Managing the yearbook staff will help you stand out because it shows leadership. But taking it further will give you a true Standout Factor. Running a yearbook business will easily help you stand out from the crowd. Few high school students, if any, own yearbook production companies!

How to Tell if it’s a Standout Factor

If other high school students do it, it’s not a Standout Factor. Also, the more positive impact your activity has on others, the better.

Examples of Standout Factors

• Restore antique instruments

• Hike the Appalachian Trail

• Invent something

• Start a real business with customers

• Breed a special strain of flower and and employees name it after your grandmother

• Make a movie and convince real

• Help run a political campaign

• Start a community charity theaters to show it or volunteer organization

Go for big impact with your Standout Factor.

MAKE AN IMPACT IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

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10 GREAT REASONS TO SHOP LOCALLY

1. Keep money in the neighborhood

A recent study in Chicago showed that locally owned businesses recirculate 70% more money back into the local community than chain stores, per square foot occupied. A space lled with a local business rather than a chain puts more dollars back into YOUR neighborhood.

2. Embrace what makes us di erent

The city of Ti n and the surrounding area makes us a city of neighborhoods where we shop, where we eat and where we hang out. Chain businesses change the character of our neighborhoods. If we wanted to live someplace that looked like everywhere else, we wouldn’t be living in the Ti n area.

3. Get better service

In a local business, you know the person behind the counter and they know you. They have a deep understanding of the products they’re selling and they take time to service their customers.

4. Create and keep good jobs

Small businesses are the largest employer nationally, and small businesses account for the vast majority of job growth. Locally owned businesses are far less likely to pull up stakes and move operations to another city or county, taking their jobs with them.

5. Promote competition and diversity

A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based on the needs of their local customers and not a national sales plan, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.

6. Help out the environment

Locally owned businesses can make more local purchases, requiring less transportation, and they generally set up shop in commercial corridors rather than developing on the fringe. This means less sprawl, congestion, habitat loss and pollution.

7. Support community groups

Non-pro ts range an average of 350% more support from local business owners than they do from non-locally owned businesses.

8. Put your taxes to good use

Local businesses in neighborhoods need comparatively less infrastructure investment and make more e cient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community.

9. Vote with your dollars

A study in Austin, TX showed that if each household redirected just $100 of planned holiday spending from chain stores to locally owned merchants, the local economic impact would reach approximately $10 million.

10. Invest in the community

Local businesses are owned by people who live here, work here and are invested in the community with much more than just their dollars.