Placemaker Local Rewards Program

01-07-2017

Friends and Family Update

We want to bring Placemaker to our community so that independent businesses can be stronger together.

WOW! Thanks to you, we’ve raised 14% of our fundraising goal for our Placemaker Local Rewards Program crowdfunding campaign.

This week, we reached out to 15 of our friends and family members — and next week we’ll reach out to 15 more before our official public launch on July 15. Our goal is to surpass the quarter-mark before then. With your support, we can do this!

Share, share, share

We’d so appreciate you sharing our campaign with your friends and family today! To make it easy, here’s a link to share via email or social media.

Another way to help

If you’re really ambitious, please tell us why you support bringing Placemaker to our community. Email your quote to us. Don’t feel like typing? Feel free to make a short video and share it on your favorite social media platform (and tag it with #tlcmonadnock).

Stay tuned!

Yours locally, Jen

16-07-2017

Near the 30% Mark

WOW! We officially launched our Placemaker Crowdfunding Campaign yesterday and we’re thrilled to share we raised 29% of our fundraising goal — thanks to all of you.

Now, the real work begins — spreading this opportunity beyond our immediate friends and family, to community members and independent business owners. Can you help us? Email us and we’ll forward you an email template to share.

Why You Gave

Thank you to Jocelyn for sharing why she gave — we’d love to hear from you, too. What excites you about bringing Placemaker to our region?

“We moved here three years ago from a busy metro area with the belief that a smaller town, with more individual personality, would be a better place to raise our family. Placemaker will encourage a healthy local economy and ensure that the qualities we love about Keene will remain and hopefully strengthen. I love the idea of supporting my neighbors and friends in this way, and I’m not going to lie… I like rewards!”

More Sponsored Rewards

As they come in, we’ll add more sponsored rewards to our campaign. They make incredible gifts — so be sure to check back often.

22-07-2017

Week 1 Updates

We’re Spreading the Word

We hoped to inspire at least 471 page views to our Placemaker Local Reward crowdfunding campaign by August 14… well, thanks to everyone’s help spreading the word — we had over 1,000 page views in our first week! Now, we need to re-engage those visitors over the next three weeks.

Are you connected with a group interested in learning more about Placemaker? We’d love to share a short overview with your group — just contact us today.

Why Local Economy Builders Love Placemaker

You might be as crazy about building the local economy as us — so we wanted to share this short video connecting the dots between Placemaker and Community Economic Development efforts: Placemaker Overview for Local Economy Building Organizations

New Sponsored Rewards
Two more Monadnock Buy Local Members added Sponsored Rewards to our Placemaker Campaign this week:

Dine, Play and Stay in Peterborough: Sponsored by the Jack Daniels Motor Inn
Year of Yoga: Sponsored by Yoga with Josephine
Learn more on our campaign page (along the right) — and share these great rewards with your contacts today!

Week 2 Updates: Help Us Reach the Half-Mark

$2,000 Fundraising Milestone
We surpassed the $2,000 mark this week — and are now reaching towards the halfway mark (we’re 41% there!). We built up 5,000+ Placemaker crowdfunding video views on Facebook BUT very few viewers watched long enough to learn what this awesome program is all about. So, we added a new Facebook video just about the Placemaker Program — feel free to share it with your Facebook contacts.

You’re Invited!

Please join us for TLC Monadnock Night at the Monadnock Food Co-op on Friday, August 4 from 4 – 6pm in Keene. Visit our table to say hello, share your questions and enjoy a special treat or two! Also, plan to stay for the Co-op’s Local Food BBQ.

RSVP on Facebook and Help Spread the Word!

In Case You Missed It
Last week, the Monadnock Shopper News featured our Placemaker crowdfunding campaign. Here’s to hoping it reaches more community members and inspires them to vote with their dollars to bring Placemaker to the Monadnock Region!

Please Read and Share: Making Connections Visible and Rewards Sweeter

05-08-2017

We Need Your Help Telling Our Story

Say it with video

We need your help sharing our story about the power of Placemaker. We’d love a very short video of you sharing why you support bringing Placemaker to the Monadnock Region. This would mean the world to our campaign — as we try to convert interest into support. Post your video on your favorite social media platform and send us an email to let us know it’s posted. (If you need help with this, please let us know — we’re so happy to help!) Thank you so much in advance!

Past the half-way mark
We’re excited to share we surpassed the half-way point yesterday and reached 65% of our fundraising goal. Woo-hoo! Thank you to the Monadnock Food Co-op for hosting our TLC Monadnock Night at the Co-op last night (and for Mother Nature for a rain-free evening). Next week, we plan to join the Dan Mitchell radio show and broaden our outreach quite a bit. We’ll also be at the Farmers’ Market of Keene next Saturday.

Get an early jump on your holiday shopping

Hopefully, you’ve already browsed our amazing rewards for contributing to our Placemaker campaign — but have you considering getting an early jump on your holiday shopping through our campaign? Have someone on your list looking to get more healthy in 2018? Get them one of our yoga or fitness rewards. Know someone who would love to see a Peterborough Players play? Get them the Picnic and a Play Package with the Jack Daniels Inn. A Citizen Membership to Monadnock Buy Local would also make an amazing gift for a buy local enthusiast. Check out all our rewards on the right side of our campaign page.

Parting words from Michael Shuman

16-08-2017

Just $470 to go!

Down to the final days

Thank you for all the shares on social media — we really feel the local love for Placemaker! We just need $470 to meet our crowdfunding goal, so one more shout out is very appreciated.

We spoke with Placemaker and if we make our goal it looks like we can launch the program this November — just in time for this year’s Shift Your Shopping season and Plaid Friday event!

New Sponsored Reward

Debbie Daniele Photography of Keene donated one Lifestyle Portrait Photography Session, plus one 11×14 enlargement for donating $250 to our crowdfunding campaign. Thanks Debbie!

Thanks to Nest :: mother child home

A big thank you to Kim Peck from Nest :: mother child home in Peterborough for her video lending support to our campaign.

19-08-2017

Thank you!

We did it!

Thanks to all of you, we did it! We reached our crowdfunding goal — so we’re bringing Placemaker to the Monadnock Region! Thank you all SO MUCH for making this happen.

What’s next?

We will work to distribute rewards over the next month. If you have any questions about any rewards, please feel free to reach out. Also, we will make arrangements with Placemaker for an early November program launch. We’ll be sure to keep you updated on our progress. Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend! And — once again — thank you all!

14-10-2017

Mondanock Placemaker

Just a quick update on our efforts to launch Placemaker in the Monadnock Region. It’s looking more and more like we will be ready for a soft launch in early 2018.

Like Monadnock Placemaker on Facebook

Behind the Scenes

We started to receive marketing materials from Placemaker. So excited… Here’s a sneak peek of our business recruitment page featuring Holly and Willard Williams of Toadstool Bookshops. They continue to support Monadnock Buy Local year after year and we’re so very proud of that! We hope to have more updates next month, so please stay tuned.

07-02-2018

Monadnock Placemaker: The Chicken or The Egg

Hi all,

We’re so excited to share that we started recruiting businesses to participate in Monadnock Placemaker!

We’re looking for 6-8 innovative business owners to be the first ones on board. Of course, business owners want to see that you’re ready and waiting to start using Placemaker…. but if you sign up now, there are no businesses list yet… hence, our chicken or the egg dilemma.

So here’s how you can help us break this vicious cycle:

1. Check out the Placemaker Landing Page

2. Download the app for your iPhone or Android (or register with your cell phone number)

3. Forward this invitation to your favorite locally owned business and ask them to check our Monadnock Placemaker

4. Patiently wait while your sign-up combines with others to blow away locally owned business owners, motivating these folks to race to sign up and launch their business on Placemaker

If you notice any glitches or have any suggestions for us, please let us know. We couldn’t have gotten this far without your support!

All the best,

Jen

30-09-2018

Milestone Reached: Six Monadnock Placemaker Businesses

Hi All,

While it’s taken us longer than we’d hope, we met a major milestone for Monadnock Placemaker this month:

Six locally owned businesses launched

(or are SO CLOSE to launching their business)

Thanks to all of you for your patience and support!

If you haven’t already:

1. Check out the Placemaker Landing Page

2. Download the app for your iPhone or Android (or register with your cell phone number)

3. Stop by the Welcome Table at the Keene First Friday Art Hop on October 5, from 5 – 7pm (in front of Good Fortune, 110 Main St., Keene) and check-in at Monadnock Buy Local on Placemaker. We’ll award you merit points — save up your merit points and redeem for great rewards.

All the best, Jen