Small Business Saturday

I have much to say about big corporations' strategies to get people to spend money on them. And about small businesses trying to promote their work and invite people to spend locally. But I will not bore you with it upfront; if interested, read after the dots.

Lightfolly is participating of "Small Business Saturday" this November 29th, but not with a come-and-get-this-almost-for-free-service offering. If you book me for a photo session, and make the booking ON November 29th, you'll receive a 20% discount! Great, right? This is in accordance with all promotional services and specials that Lightfolly offers year-round. We want you to support local mortar and brick stores every Saturday. Every day. Let's say this is just an excuse to do it simultaneously with other people choosing small shops around the world. To feel a part of something bigger. To support the community you live in and get a little something back.

Book a session by calling 307-703-8118, emailing contact@lightfolly.com or clicking here.

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The weekend after Thanksgiving here in the USA is madness, as you all may know, even if you don't live here. Black Friday, the day right after Turkey Day, has people so frantically invested in taking advantage of the huge sales offered by big retailers (their biggest discounts of the year), that they camp in parking lots and wait all night to be the first ones in. A similar madness goes on at home the following Monday, named Cyber Monday, when it's the online retailers the ones promising you'll get their products almost for free if you shop online at their sites.

In 2010, an initiative started with the intention of promoting yet more shopping. This time is the small business community the one represented, encouraging consumers to shop local and in small brick and mortar stores. But the campaign was created by American Express and Facebook was one of the most benefited through its promotion, two companies that are everything but small or local...

I want my community to find my work appealing and to want to get photographed by me. I want for the people in it to #existinphotos. I want, whenever possible, to make money less of a reason why they wouldn't. And I trust they will want to support local businesses enough that they don't really NEED a special day to do it. May every Saturday be SBS!