YYJLocalsforLocals – BC Marketplace

YYJLocalsforLocals

A group of tech and marketing professionals offering assistance to local businesses.

YYJLocalsForLocals is a group of community-minded tech and marketing professionals offering pro-bono assistance to local small businesses, restaurants, and bars.

The four organizers behind the project, Emily Hannan, Eve Olynyk, Tara Price, and Nathan Sorochan, have assembled a team of volunteers to support local businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.

Victoria is such a great place to live because of the amazing restaurants, bars, breweries, coffee shops, and unique local retailers. The overall goal of the project is to help make sure that when this is over and everyone is safe and healthy, all those great places will still exist.

To get work out quickly, YYJLocalsForLocals offers eight main services, listed below. Any small business in the area can request one of these services through the website located at yyjlocalsforlocals.com.

Some of our pro-bono services:

Help designing merch to drive sales

Building a single page website (landing page)

Write a message about how your business is handling COVID-19

Email design to send to your customers

Social media post or ad copy & design

Help setting up gift card sales on your website

Marketing help to promote your delivery service

Help setting up a subscription box service

We respectfully acknowledge our place of work is within the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ/sel̓ílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and that we serve the Peoples of the many Nations throughout British Columbia.