As many of you know we have had our shop for a year now. In that year we didn't do much advertising, none of which we did any paid ads, only things like Face Book, Craigslist, and of course our blog :) We had a great year, but I really wanted people to know we were in Eau Claire and in Banbury Place. I think Banbury has so much to offer and feel Eau Claire doesn't know it exists, yet. Sadly we have seen shops come and go and I didn't want to be one of those that had to go! So I was thinking of places to advertise (because when you are a small business you have a non existent budget for marketing). And one day one of the ladies at a new shop that opened up asked if I wanted to do an ad in Hidden Treasures. Of course I said yes right away, I knew what Hidden Treasures was all about. When I worked at Tep's Drive In, we put ads in there! (By the way if you are local, it's located in Augusta, WI. You have to go there! You must get their homemade root beer and the garlic fries that will make you drool!)
Anyways so I knew what Hidden Treasures was all about! It's a local visitors guide that gives information about Eau Claire and the surrounding areas. Including, Fall Creek, Mondovi, Altoona, Hixton, and so many more towns! Lori Schmit is the publisher for the magazine and does an amazing job! Not only does it highlight a calender of events that goes in each city, but she put articles together about the history of the cities or events that are going on and also fun articles about ice cream or picnics, and about local businesses. She does a great job featuring each city and showing all the events that the city has to offer. Hidden Treasures comes out four times a year, each season. So all year long you can find something to do. The best thing of all about Hidden Treasures is it is FREE to the public!!! So when you see one pick it up and save it, so when you have nothing to do, you can open it up and see what is going on!
We put our first ad ever in Hidden Treasures, the summer issue and not expecting it we got this wonderful write about Banbury Place!!! How cool is that, it was everything we wanted and more!
Below you can see the wonderful write up about Banbury Place!!! Or you can check out the entire Hidden Treasures issue at Chippewa Valley's Hidden Treasures Visitor's Guide!
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