Membership in the Saratoga Springs Downtown Business Association is more important, makes more sense and is a needed investment. The time to join is TODAY!

As President of the Downtown Business Association, I want to personally invite you to join with the hundreds of other DBA businesses and lend your mind and meaning to our already strong and growing organization.

Aside from the DBA’s educational offerings, monthly meetings, access to our local elected officials and excellent networking opportunities, the DBA sponsors and coordinates the following excellent membership benefits:

MAP: Inclusion on our beautiful “Strolling Through Saratoga Springs” Map & Directory.  We print 40,000 maps and distribute them through Convention Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, hotels, motels, restaurants, member businesses, City Center, weddings, etc.


GIFT CERTIFICATES: Anyone with a Downtown Business Association Gift
Certificate can redeem them in your place of business, if you choose. We currently sell over $225,000 in Downtown Business Association gift certificates per year.


INSURANCE: You will have access to a number of services geared to small
business needs including competitively priced health insurance through Support
Services Alliance.

MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT CARDS: You and all your employees will
receive member to member discount cards that can be used at 120 different participating businesses, allowing a minimum of a 10% discount (with 20% at Borders, 30% at Kinko’s). This program was formed to encourage employees and business owners to frequent each other’s businesses. Your business doesn’t have to offer a discount to get cards and use them. There are over 5,000 cards in use right now.

NEWSLETTER: You will receive a monthly newsletter apprising you of meeting
dates, promotions, political concerns, upcoming big events in town, etc.

SPECIAL PROMOTIONS & EVENTS: WinterFest, Travers Festival Children’s
Parade, Fall Festival, Skidmore Parents Weekend, Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Victorian Streetwalk, Marketing Committee, Blue Ribbon Ad Campaign, Shoplifting and Bad Check Phone Tree, Special Seminars and more.

WEB-SITE: Developing a multi-phase program to up grade, improve and expand the DBA web-site and internet presences; another marketing format.

Enclosed is a Downtown Business Association Membership Application. Please complete the form and mail it in today! More than ever it is time to be a part of out downtown family. Not only is joining the DBA the right thing to do, it is the perfect time to make that decision.

I look forward to hearing from you and meeting you at our next monthly meeting. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 580-0499 or Downtown Business Association Director of Promotion and Marketing, Susan Farnsworth, at the Association’s office number, 587-8635.

Thank you for your time and welcome to the family.


Sincerely,

Dawn Oesch, President