Nancy Erickson
ABQ Growers Market
nerickson505@q.com
Join Date: 07/25/2013

KENT MATHIS
ALL SPORTS TROPHIES, INC.
Website
allspts@aol.com
Join Date: 07/26/2013

Rob Dickson
EDo Spaces
Website
Rob@AbqHigh.com
Join Date: 07/30/2013

Phil Kenny
Trucks Unique
Website
phil@trucksunique.com
Join Date: 08/01/2013

Diana Rael
Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce
Website
Diana@ahcnm.org
Join Date: 09/11/2013
 

Small Business Marketing Secrets 3-Hour Seminar
09/25/2013

PR Explosion System
09/29/2013

How To Increase Your Profits By 61%
10/02/2013

Small Business Marketing PowerCircle
10/08/2013

KeepItQuerque Board of Directors Meeting
10/15/2013

GrowthCLUB-All Day Strategic Goal Setting Workshop
10/18/2013

Small Business Marketing PowerCircle
11/12/2013

We don't care who you vote for, but PLEASE, Vote!

You can wait until October 8th or go to one of twelve early voting locations now through October 4th.

As for "voting often," we encourage you to vote with your pocket book!  Regarding your "dollar-votes" vote early, often, and KeepItQuerque - buy local!

Don't forget Ruben Garcia and Johhny Boards will put your message in front of your customers when they have to look at it! Plus, you can benefit your KeepItQuerque - buy local branding AND save 15%!
Call Ruben now at 505.254.1147

Duane Trythall of Excel Staffing.  Martha Doster of MarthasBodyBueno.com. Steven Keator of Dressed To Kill.
Mary Jury of Workspace Dynamics. Jeff Jinnett of Marble Brewery. Sam Hufnagel of ABQCashMob. Nancy Denker of Focus Ink, Inc.
Mark Ryan of Furniture Medic by Bespoke Restoration. These are your fellow KeepItQuerque - buy local members who have joined the conversation about "who, what, why, where, when and how" to buy local on locally owned The Rock of Talk, 1600AM and 95.9FM.

Each week Eddy Aragon's radio station has let us into his recording booth to talk visit with your colleagues about why "Local" is important to them and their businesses - and as individuals.

Whether it's the pragmatic reality of doing business with the decision-maker or the special feeling of promoting your "Hometown" your fellow KeepItQuerque members
are letting your fellow Albuquerque citizens know about their favorite local vendors, local haunts and why those places are near and dear.

This weekend we'll be talking with Antonia Montoya of Change is Yours and Travis Chapman of AHL Garden Supply.

Among other guests in the coming weeks will be Tania Armenta of the Albuqueruqe Convention and Visitors bureau with tips on how you can show your out-of-town guests how we KeepItQuerque between the morning liftoff and the evening glows!

We look forward to having YOU on the show soon.  Just contact Clifton Chadwick (or call 991-333)1 to schedule your opportunity to share your reasons to KeepItQuerque - buy local!

For years it's always "big news" when a new chain is coming to town.  Kohl's created a stir with many folks when they came to town.  More recently Gordman's did the same.   Remember when Krispy Kreme came to town and the Police helicopter landed there?  Why?

KeepItQuerque - buy local president Wayne Story, owner of Marketing Strategies Rx may have expressed it best when speaking with the Albuquerque Journal recently; "'Albuquerqueans turn out in force when a name-brand restaurant opens in town," he said, 'because of the large number of residents who moved here from somewhere else.

'They tend to connect with things they are used to from their old cities, and I think that’s what has a tendency to (provide) that initial boost that gets people excited to go there when they first open up,' he said."

This is especially true since many of these franchise won't enter a "small" market.  The Albuquerque of my youth couldn't have hoped to have anything fancier than a Dillard's.  Necessarily, then, back in the day we did a lot more business locally.  With new people coming to Albuquerque we've seen both the necessary market growth and the combination of familiarity plus "pent up demand" of people who feel they've been missing something they already know.  This has helped drive the expansion of these big companies into Albuquerque.

But every time we go to one of these places (I admit, I really like Chipotle!) we're sending a good portion of our money somewhere else.

So, as Wayne says “There’s no way you can buy everything from a local business; it’s almost impossible,” he said. “What we’re asking people to do is move a small amount (over to independents) and to be conscious about it when they go out to buy (something) and when they go out to eat.”