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Georgia Made Georgia Grown LLC has an e-broadcast list to tell everyone the latest in marketing and promoting. If you'd like to sign up for the e-broadcasts, send your contact information to
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Are there opportunities for Business-to-Business (B2B) marketing? |
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We would love to see artscentrics working with corporate partners in a host of ways. Anytime a corporation based in Georgia gives gifts, we would like them to have the option at their fingertips to Buy Georgia Made. I've tested the idea. I ask people if they would like to Buy Georgia Made. Every one says "Yes! But where do I find it?" The Tourism Foundation has a vision of providing the networking to make Georgia Made Georgia Grown Products available to corporate buyers, whether they are looking for gifts, office decor, or internal incentives. And this is probably where Georgia Made Georgia Grown LLC will make a lasting link. Corporate, gift shop and other buyers tell us they are very interested in buying Georgia Made, but they do not have time to make relationships with 50 or 100 products producers, that they would rather work through one representative, place one big order, then have that order delivered in one shipment. We hear this plea and are working to develop a solution. |
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What resources are available for local Georgia makers and growers? |
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There are new resources every day for Georgia Made Georgia Grown makers. Did you know, for example, that the Georgia Farm Monitor, a half-hour TV program that's seen on 14 Georgia stations, is looking for creative entrepreneurs with an agribusiness connection? The Sandy Springs Festival (September 26-27) will have a Georgia Made Georgia Grown Market component. Do you have a food product you'd like to market? This may be perfect for you! Contact me at
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Does your local chamber or CVB know what you do? Have you invited them over to see your business? What about your regional tourism representative? Those reps are always looking for new, fresh and unusual. And they often bring writers on tours of their regions. Email
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to find out who you need to tell about yourself and your business. Georgia Made Georgia Grown LLC is always researching programming available at little to no cost. We hear business owners tell us that they don't have time or energy to go to lengthy structured classes, such as those offered in technical schools, but they would be very interested in Saturday or short workshops about making a business plan or learning modern technology. Georgia's Small Business Development Centers offer workshops, including "Maximum Marketing" and "Maximum Finance" to Entrepreneur Friendly Communities. The Arts Development Council of Georgia (www.adcg.org ) has scheduled three workshops in art business development in 2008. Lee Nelson leads an excellent Art Biz workshops (www.artbiz.biz). |
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Is there a state-wide database of Georgia producers? |
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The Georgia Tourism Foundation through the Creative Economies Initiative has done just that. Register for FREE at www.gamadegagrown.org Be sure and choose as many of the ways to register - People, Places and Things - as you'd like. And give every way to contact you that you can think of. Don't forget to load images of your work, too!
Our own GeorgiaMadeGeorgiaGrown.com online store will itself be a source of information about locally made and grown products and services. We will also provide lists of and links to more local resources over time. |
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What is the Creative Economies Intiative doing for Georgia artisans and growers? |
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The Creative Economies initiative became an official Statewide program when it rolled out at the Governor's Conference on Tourism in Tifton in September, 2007. Our first pleasure was to invite Creative Economies business people to ten Town Hall meetings to listen to what they want from programming. At each of the meetings, we asked each attendee to tell us what their best assets were, what their roadblocks seem to be, and how the Creative Economies initiative could best help those who chose to, to move to the next level. From these conversations, the commonalities of assets, roadblocks and how to move forward indicated that we could put into place three useful programs in 2008 - a statewide database of Creative Economies business people; resources for business development; and business-to-business networking. |
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