An opportunity for small businesses, artisans and service providers based in Ontario, organized and facilitated through our Ontario Small Business Community family of platforms. We use our ever-growing platform, community and promotional reach as a tool to showcase, elevate, support and promote small businesses from across a variety of industries. These include product-based small businesses, service providers, events, artists and creatives. This opportunity focuses on a number of key aspects including building ecommerce traffic, gaining brand awareness for your small business, building social presence and creating community connections. We at Ontario Small Business Community offer an affordable way for small businesses to market their small business, further their social reach, build their brand presence, introduce communities to their products, services and offerings and organically drive traffic to their respective ecommerce platforms. We know that you are invested in building and sharing your wonderful small business. We are proud to be a partner and a tool in helping you do just that! Thank you for connecting with our community and we look forward to being an avenue to help platform your small business. We look forward to helping to build your online presence, create brand awareness, introduce potential customers to your goods, services and unique offerings and share your small businesses story. 

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2024 Virtual Markets ​

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Christmas Virtual Market 

December 1st - December 24th 2024

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2025 Virtual Markets 

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Winter Virtual Market 

January 1st -  January 31st 2025

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Winter Virtual Market 

March 1st -  March 31st 2025

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Spring Virtual Market 

May 1st -  May 31st 2025 

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Summer Virtual Market 

July 1st -  July 31st 2025

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Autumn Virtual Market 

September 1st - September 30th 2025

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(To Be Released In Early 2025)

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Holiday Virtual Market 

November 1st - November 30th 2025

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(To Be Released In Early 2025)

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Christmas Virtual Market 

December 1st - December 24th 2025

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(To Be Released In Early 2025)

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 Participation Fee Per Market: $60.00

*Discounts Available For small Businesses Wanting To book Multiple Market Dates*

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Participation Includes The Following Benefits​​

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On Your Dedicated Small Business Feature Date:​

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• Static promotional content across all Ontario Small Business Community platforms. 

  • Instagram - 55k+ Followers

  • Facebook - 10k+ Followers

  • Pinterest - 5k Monthly Viewers

  • Threads - 5k Followers 

  • TikTok - 1k Followers and 1500 Monthly Viewers 

  • Ontario Small Business Community Group - 10k Users

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• Ten photos of your offerings, products and/or services. This is to offer potential clients and customers an idea of the offerings from your business. These can include product photos, photos of your process, photos of your work space and/or digital flyers. ​

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• Direct links to your website or online. Our goal is always that your business receives traffic to your website, with the intent to funnel potential clients and customers in the fastest way possible. This is a direct way to ensure that we are helping to connect them in a timely manner. Also, your increased web traffic will boost your web presence and help to index your business better across all search engines. 

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• Creative copy, which includes introductions of your business, information about your services, products and offerings, helpful selling points or points of interest about your business, and hashtags that are relevant to your industry and offerings. These hashtags may be different than the ones you may be using. This is to help index your business' social platforms better, and help widen your reach. Our goal is to do the back-end work by using social tools available to assist your business' social and web growth in the future, long after the virtual market is over. Large platforms like ours provide a unique opportunity to help index your business into tags and algorithms that your growing platform may not yet have access to. Ontario Small Business Community has become a landing and connection point in the digital space where customers, clients, small businesses, bloggers, media, influencers and community supporters meet. We provide the businesses we work with an opportunity to be presented to these various groups with authenticity and enthusiasm. Our goal is always to present each business in the best possible light. This is all created by the team at Ontario Small Business Community. 

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• All content created by Ontario Small Business Community for your small business will always include direct links to your associated social platforms and websites. All static posts remain across our platforms indefinity. which includes Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads and TikTok.

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• Two reels created by Ontario Small Business Community. Our team is pleased to be offering this as part of the virtual market. We know many small businesses are not quite comfortable yet with the video content creation aspect of small business ownership and the Ontario Small Business Community team is happy to create them for participating small businesses. Should a business have videos they wish to be used, we are happy to use them and can either incorporate them into newly created content or use them as is. Any video content created by Ontario Small Business Community will be provided to each business once their feature day is complete for their own use going forward. We will provide them formatted and without sound, so that they can be used on any platform and can have any sound or songs of choosing added.

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• Two Ontario Small Business Community created stories complete with direct links to your social platforms and websites. Stories on our Instagram and Facebook all with direct links to your websites and social media. Stories are quite popular on social media, but underutilized, so it's a great way to access people in the congestion of social media platforms. Ontario Small Business Community will create a couple of stories on your feature day. The first will be a collage-type story that includes your business name, website and Instagram handle. The second will be of a reel we have created on your behalf with an introduction of your business. These will help to widen your reach, and be successful over time by introducing new visitors to our community to your business. They are then archived in our story highlight and stay active for an entire calendar year. 

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• For each small business individual feature date the small business' Instagram is linked in the bio of the Ontario Small Business Community Instagram platform and stays linked for the duration of the business' feature date. 

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• All small businesses receive a listing within the Ontario Small Business Community Linktree bio. This includes direct links to said business' website, the business' name, a brief deception of said small business' offerings/services and a photo. These stay active and available for 90 days after the completion of the virtual market.

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• Advertisement of any sales, deals, or promotions you may be having while the virtual market is taking place. Should your business be running any sales or promotions during the month of participation. Ontario Small Business Community will include this information on your feature day and highlight it in the Facebook event as part of your business' listing. Should you be hosting a sale, giveaway or promotion we are happy to help promote and amplify it.

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• All content created by Ontario Small Business will be posted to provide each business the option to collaborate. Collaboration on posts and reels is highly lucrative for any social account as it leverages our platform and yours to help further the reach of all content. This also helps build your social platforms engagement and will help to boost your reach and visibility for weeks and months to come after the market is complete. 

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• All participating small businesses with Instagram/Facebook shops, relevant products/offerings will be tagged in both static posts and video content. Created for small businesses who are utilizing this shopping function on their platforms.

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• We at Ontario Small Business Community use all social media platforms and tools for the benefit of the small businesses we work with. However, it is not mandatory for participation to be active on social platforms. We often suggest that using more platforms can be beneficial, but it is not essential. We find this opportunity works best if a small business is using at least two social platforms for their small business. For example, we suggest a variation of any of the following combinations so that we can better funnel audiences to said small businesses and create consistent content that will aid in building the long-term viability of that small business. Social platforms work like a catalog database, and the more platforms we can create content for a small business the more effective the reach of that content will be for months and years to come. 

  • Website, Facebook and Instagram. 

  • Website, Instagram and TikTok.

  • Facebook and Instagram. 

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Please Note: We find it most effective when we can offer audiences and potential customers/clients a few different platforms to connect with you and your business. Regardless of which platforms you have utilized for your small business, Ontario Small Business Community will always include whatever variation of platforms you have chosen to ensure comprehensive reach. 

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Beyond Your Dedicated Small Business Feature Date:

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• All participating small businesses - along with their websites/online platforms and social media direct links - are listed collectively in the correlating Facebook event page associated with their virtual market month. This is promoted through paid advertising prior to the start of the virtual market. This event stays active indefinitely on the Ontario Small Businesses Community Facebook page. Ontario Small Business also shares the event to relevant groups and community spaces, and lists the events via local media outlets. 

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• Upon the completion of said small business' individual feature date. Ontario Small Business Community advertises/boosts each small business' static post. A portion of each small businesses participation fee, $10 goes towards advertising their individual content. We use geographically targeted ads to further introduce your small business to new communities and further the promotional reach of the advertisement of any sales, deals, or promotions you may be having while the virtual market is taking place.

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• All participating small businesses are included and listed on the Ontario Small Business Community website. Depending on the season of the virtual market, the Ontario Small Business Community website receives 1k+ unique visitors. Each small business listing includes direct links to their website, a brief description of said business and photo that represents said small business. Ontario Small Business Community keeps this listing active for 90 days after the completion of any virtual market. To take advantage of site-wide visitor traffic in months when Ontario Small Business Community is not hosting a virtual market, Ontario Small business is always driving traffic to our website though our blogs, educational material and resources which are always free and available to any small business. 

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• All participating small businesses are included in introductory promotional content prior to the start of any virtual market. This includes all participating businesses websites/online platforms and social links. This content is intended to soft launch a virtual market, help create brand awareness and give participating small businesses an opportunity to leverage their social presence in unison with other participating small businesses. 

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• All participating small businesses are included in smaller broken-down groups' promotional posts prior to the start of a virtual market. Participating small businesses are promoted as a grouping which includes one picture of each small business, their websites/online platforms and all social links. This is passive promotion and intended to soft launch each business and provide a preview to audiences across Ontario Small Business Community platforms. 

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• All participating small businesses static feature content from their individual feature date is shared to geographical or special interest groups related to said small business' industry. This is done to widen the reach of each small business, introduce their business to their local communities, provide further visibility and access customer and client bases beyond the Ontario Small Business Community platform's reach. For instance, if you are a fashion small business that operates in Southern Ontario, our team will share your static feature content in groups of fashion enthusiasts, local city relevant groups and community groups from said business' relevant catchment areas. 

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• All participating small businesses along with websites, social links, brand photo or product/services photo are included in the Ontario Small Business Community monthly newsletter. This is seen monthly by over 16k active and engaged viewers. 

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Find our social, website and other links below. So you can get to know us and what we do better. 

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https://linktr.ee/ontariosmallbusinesscommunity
www.ontariosmallbusinesscommunity.com
www.instagram.com/ontariosmallbusiness
www.tiktok.com/@ontariosmallbusiness

www.threads.net/@ontariosmallbusiness

www.pinterest.ca/ontariosmallbusiness

www.facebook.com/OntarioSmallBusniessCommunity

www.facebook.com/groups/ontariosmallbusinesscommunity