09/13/2026
💗 THANK YOU, VENDORS! 💗
First and foremost, we want to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated with the Commercial Street Collective during the Great American Market! We appreciate the time, work, preparation, and energy you put into showing up and sharing your businesses with our community.
We also want to remind our current vendors—and anyone who may be interested in joining us—that we plan to host 1–2 pop-up events each month! 🎉 We would LOVE to continue bringing in new businesses, makers, creators, and vendors. If you’d like more information about upcoming opportunities, comment below and we’ll get you the details!
We also want to touch on something important as we continue growing the Collective.
We completely understand that some of our vendors may be newer to events, promotions, or selling in a shared space. One of the biggest things we want everyone to remember is:
📣 Self-promotion is your BEST promotion.
We will absolutely continue doing our part. We’ll create events, advertise the Collective, share posts, send customers your way, and use our platforms to expose as many people as possible to the businesses participating with us.
However, please don’t rely solely on the Collective for your marketing.
Think of us as another tool in your toolbox to help grow what you’re already building. Your customers and followers want to hear from YOU. Post that you’ll be there. Share the event. Show what you’re bringing. Invite your friends and customers. Tag the Collective so we can reshare it. The more each vendor promotes, the larger the audience becomes for everyone.
Putting on an event as a small business owner takes an incredible amount of time, energy, mental preparation, and physical preparation. Doing all of that while also trying to individually market every participating business is a lot to carry.
So, a special THANK YOU to the vendors who created your own posts, shared our posts, tagged the Collective, invited your customers, and helped build excitement leading up to yesterday’s event. That is exactly how a collective is supposed to work. 👏
We also want everyone to remember that we have only had this space for SEVEN WEEKS! We are still learning, adjusting, adding, changing, and figuring out what works best. Every single week is another step forward toward making this space bigger, better, and more beneficial for everyone involved. We’re incredibly proud of what has already been accomplished in such a short amount of time, and we have so many ideas for where we want to take it next.
The Commercial Street Collective was created around the idea of Create. Collaborate. Grow. That only works when everyone contributes to the environment we’re trying to build.
When you promote yourself, you’re helping your business. When you promote the event, you’re helping your neighbors. When we communicate respectfully and work together, everybody has a better opportunity to succeed.
We’re only seven weeks in, y’all. We’re just getting started. 💗
Here’s to more pop-ups, more collaboration, more customers, more growth, and making the Commercial Street Collective better with every single event! 🎉
