Listed below are a wide range of links on a variety of subjects including "buy-local" programs that support independent businesses and help create more livable communties. If you have a site you would like to add, please contact us at comments@90minutemarketing.com.


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"One of the points of this book, and my work in general, is the need for strong local communities, which in turn require strong local businesses. Independent bookstores are among the backbones of many communities, and if you click here you'll be able to locate one near you. They should have Deep Economy in stock, or be able to order it easily."
Bill McKibben



White Dog Cafe
Owner, Judy Wicks
Co-founder, BALLE








Community based,
buy-local program created
by Sustainable Connections,
Bellingham, WA


If small business are going to succeed, they need the support of the entire communtiy; businesses leaders, government, corporations, peers, and residents, all who need to commit to "buy-local".


Authors, Experts & Innovators

• Jill Bamburg - Getting To Scale

Shel Horowitz - Grassroots Marketing

• Dr. Daniel Kammen - Small Is Profitable

• Bill McKibben - Deep Economy

• Judy Wicks - White Dog Cafe


Articles - PDFs

• Gov. Agencies - Small Businesses-NFIB (PDF)

• Lessons from Pioneers - ILSR (PDF)

• Local Living Economies - Judy Wicks (PDF)

• Profits of Place - Josh Harkinson (PDF)

• Rebuilding Community-Rooted Enterpise (PDF)

• Save the Bookstore, Save the Community

• Why Support Local Businesses - ILSR (PDF)


Artists & Arts Organizations

• Arts Marketing

• Marketing for Artists

• ArtistsLogs

Buy Local Campaigns

• Austin Independent Business Alliance

• Buy Local - Baltimore

• Buy Local In Philly

• Buy Local First - Utah

• Buy Fresh Buy Local - CAFF

• Local First - Cambridge

• Local First - West Michigan

• BizShopLocal-Kitsap

• Shop Local First - San Francisco

• Think Local Buy Local - Bellingham, WA

• Think Local - Buy Local - Portland

• Think Local First - Ann Arbor, MI


• Entrepreneur.com

• Frugal Marketing

• Main Street - National Trust

• National Fed. of Independent Bus. (NFIB)

• Business Alliance of Local Living Economies

• BALLE - Seattle

• New Rules Project - Communities Matter

• Open Architecture Network

• Sustainable Connections, Bellingham, WA

• Sustainable Bainbridge

• Sustainable Ballard

• Sustainable Seattle



"Truly sustainable, livable communities cannot exist without a successful local small business base." Small Business Marketing Partners