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Chamber-funded influencer pilot reaches tens of thousands of views; merchants report no clear sales data yet

Downtown association meeting · December 4, 2025
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The Chamber used a $3,000 grant to host four Instagram influencers as part of a downtown gift-card promotion; organizers reported posts with view counts (examples: 3,000; 7,500; 21,000; 18,900) and said merchants were pleased but have not yet reported definitive sales increases.

Laura (speaker 5) told the committee the group was awarded $3,000 that was used to fund visits by local Instagram influencers through a Chamber gift-card program. "We were granted $3,000 that we put into the Chamber gift card," she said.

She reported contracting four influencers who visited downtown and profiled shops and…

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