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Community Shopping Zones are the ultimate tool to support and promote local shopping. They help keep money circulating locally, protect local jobs and help support the businesses that are vital to sustaining your community!

Create a Shopping Zone for your neighbourhood, business park or local shopping centre.
It's absolutely FREE. NO gimmicks.

Let's get started! Your Shopping Zone needs a name...

Shop

Community
Shopping Zone

Business Park
Shopping Zone

Mall / Shopping Centre
Shopping Zone

Good work! Step 1 is done.



4 steps to supporting your community like never before!




When you create a Shopping Zone for your community...


Let's use "Shop Orleans" as an example:

- All businesses in "Orleans" can join and add products and promotions in "Shop Orleans".

- Local businesses can now cost effectively promote specials to everyone in the community every week!

- A zone administrator ensures only businesses in Orleans are featured in the zone.



Shopping Zones can be found by searching for the Zone Name (ie: "Shop Orleans"), or by clicking the link in the Shop section.





Community Shopping Zones feature:

Products (with ecommerce links from businesses in the Zone)

Services (Promotions and Daily Deals from businesses in the Zone)




We provide marketing material to promote your Shopping Zone


(ie: nearest.com/ShopOrleans)

You can order post-it notes and add them to customer parcels to help promote your Community Shopping Zone

Participating businesses can print window and point-of-sale marketing material to promote their Shopping Zone directly from links on our website. We make the process quick and easy to maximize business participation and exposure for your zone.

We provide businesses with code to add banners to promote their Shopping Zone directly on their website. We also provide a URL which can be used to lead users directly to the business's Shopping Zone.

If all participating businesses link their website to their Shopping Zone, it will significantly increase the traffic that we will be able to generate from search engines to support those local businesses.

If these simple steps are taken by every business in a Shopping Zone, everyone in the community will be made aware of their local Shopping Zone. This awareness will result in a significant increase in local commerce to support local businesses and protect local jobs.

If we all work together, we can make a big difference in your community. Let's get started!

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Create a Shopping Zone video




Shopping Zones can generate millions in local commerce for your community!

The chart below illustrates the significant potential if everyone in your city spends an extra $10 a week locally.

City Population 10,000 100,000 1 Million
$10 /week per person x $10 x $10 x $10
Weekly Commerce $100,000 /week $1 Million /week $10 Million /week
Annual Commerce $5.2 Million /year 52 Million /year $520 Million /year
* The Local Multiplier x 3.2 x 3.2 x 3.2 x 3.2
Total Annual Commerce $15.6 Million /year $156 Million /year $1.56 Billion /year
3 Year Potential almost $50 Million in 3 years almost $500 Million in 3 years almost $5 Billion in 3 years

* The Local Multipler Effect - Every dollar spent locally has the potential to circulate in your community 3.2 times.




To get started, contact the support team at nearest.com
support@nearest.com



In support of local businesses please follow and share your 'Community Shopping Zone'

https://www.nearest.com/shoppingzones



Each 'Community Shopping Zone' has it's own Follow/Share page
to help businesses, malls and municipalities onboard consumers

https://www.nearest.com/shoppingzones/1/Ottawa



Other important links:

How nearest.com helps municipalities

How nearest.com helps shopping malls

How nearest.com helps local businesses




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