Toolkit - Idea 7
Community Bubbles
Return to ToolkitPrint out the "speech bubble" templates and as customers come in to the store, ask them to write one word on the bubble that they think describes what is good about their local community.
Stick these bubbles onto the shop window so that after a short while the window is filled with positive messages from the townspecople themselves.
This gets the shop noticed and instructions in the window can encourage more people to come into the shop to add their own.
People will stop to read these bubbles, so make sure the window display is looking brilliant behind them!
Download some 'bubbles' here as well as the instructions for in store and on the window.
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