• Celebrate Small Business Season and Support Local Merchants with #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card

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    October 31, 2024
    NAVARRE BEACH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INVITES COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE SMALL BUSINESS SEASON AND SUPPORT LOCAL MERCHANTS WITH #SHOPNAVARREFIRST E-GIFT CARDS
     
    Now give the experience of the Navarre area’s unique restaurants, shops, entertainment and more
     to friends, family, employees, and clients in one simple digital Community Gift Card.
     
    NAVARRE, FLORIDA – Friday, November 1, 2024 – This year, the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is encouraging you to keep holiday shopping local. Small businesses are the backbone of our community, providing jobs, tax dollars, contributions to our schools and non-profits, as well as the character that makes our community unique. The #ShopNavarreFirst E-Gift Card is a community-based digital gift card that makes it fun and easy to keep local spending local. Purchase a #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card here to spend at one or many of the participating merchants listed on the Chamber's Website where the Cards can be purchased.. Recipients could use it for their latte in the morning, visit the salon next door for a pedicure, grab lunch with a friend, hit the boutiques, and meet up for date night happy hour – all using their #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card from their mobile phone.

    The #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card is a unique gift for employees, friends and family
    that supports the Navarre area. Recipients enjoy a fun experience spending it
    at our unique local shops, restaurants, entertainment and more.
     
     
    Why supporting local businesses is so important
    Participating in this program means supporting the heart of what makes our community unique. The purchase of a #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card creates a pool of cash that local businesses in the Navarre area can rely on. Studies have shown that local independent retailers recirculate 47% of their revenue back into the community, while only 14% of national chains’ revenue stays in the community. More dramatically, restaurants recirculate 73% of their revenue back into the community, versus only 30% for national chains.
     
    By supporting local businesses, more money continues circulating through the local community—this is achieved through a combination of profits paid to local business owners, wages paid to local workers, goods and services procured locally for internal use or resale, and charitable giving within the community. If you’re looking for a way to do some good or want to know how you can help the community you love, send a #ShopNavarreFirst Community Card!

    Volume Discount Program for Organizations

    Support Local! For companies, governments, schools, hospitals, non-profits, and other organizations with an EIN. Special benefits: reduced or waived purchase fee, custom-branded cards, personal assistance, business reporting. Minimum purchase $1,000; cards must be used for rewards, gifts, incentives or promotions.

    Become a Participating Business to Accept the #ShopNavarreFirst E-Gift Card
    Apply to be part of our local network that accepts #ShopNavarreFirst E-Gift Card and allow customers the convenience of shopping, eating and playing in our beautiful area. Increase visibility to your business and expand your customer base by signing up now. (PLEASE NOTE: All Participating Businesses must be a member of the Chamber in good standing.)
     
    About the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
    The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (NBACOC) is a vibrant organization with 500 business, civic, non-profit and individual members, serving as a collective voice for their interests. For more than 50 years the NBACOC has been working every day to make the Navarre area a better place to live, work and visit. The NBACOC strives to be the voice of the Business Community for a better Navarre. If you like to be at the center of the action, then the Chamber is the place to be. You will have the chance to establish relationships with every business in the Navarre area. The Chamber strengthens our community as a champion for small businesses.
     
     
    About Yiftee, Keep Local Dollars Local 
    Yiftee (Yiftee.com) serves more than 500 communities and 16,000 local businesses with simple, secure, PoS-independent Community Cards and eGift Cards that keep millions of local dollars local every year. Companies, schools, medical facilities, city governments, realtors/developers, and consumers purchase them for employees, clients, friends and family. Community Cards are FREE to set up and FREE for the merchants. Yiftee has a local partner in every community who brands and markets the program and recruits 10s to 100s of small businesses, who get incremental revenue and foot traffic. Redemption is powered by Mastercard® so no special equipment or integration is required, and implementation is quick and easy. Yiftee also provides custom-branded eGift Cards for individual merchants, franchises, and chains.
     
    Contact:
    Chanda Ryan, President/CEO
    chanda.ryan@navarrechamber.com, (850) 939-3267