Promotions Meeting

Promotion Committee 10/6/08 Meeting Minutes

Present: Jason Gault, Molly LaLone, Debbie Baker, Robert Renchik

Walking Tour Brochure:
Ask Brenda Timmermans to do it this year again. Change picture to maybe Glass with Class Bead store and the entrance to Crossman Park. Ask Portia to draw. Talk to merchants associations about adding a coupon on the back of the brochure. Idea’s were – $5.00 off a purchase of $25.00 or 10% off. See what business would be interested in participating. When a customer “filled up the form” i.e went to all the businesses and were checked off they could bring the brochure to the village office and receive “Main Street money” or “ Downtown dollars” to use at any DDA business and the DDA would reimburse the merchant. Work plan needs to be modified.

Web Site:
Needs to be improved, calendar needs to work or link to Google calendar. Spot light a DDA merchant and their specials for the month.

Database:
Talked about which program would be better, outlook or access. Raffle tickets that were filled out at BB&E are to Greg Swix to be entered in a data base and run statistics.

Tag Line:
One main marketing idea for “Ortonville” One sentence that describes Ortonville. Make into a contest, press release to papers, forms and collections at the DDA businesses.
Examples: “Keep Austin weird” Austin TX and “Just do it” Nike

501C3:
Jason to fill out and send in appropriate forms to get the DDA certified.

Get High School involved:
Set up meeting with High School principal Dr. Michael Ferguson. See what specialty classes they offer and what kids could fit into areas where we could use them and they would earn community service hours. Molly will add this to the DDA Board agenda to come up with ideas of what areas we could use the kids in. Talk to Jodi Burkett about graphic designs for Tshirts and printing.