Holiday Trees

Get Your Business Rockin' Around the Holiday Trees

Description:
Evergreen trees will be installed in the large pots around the Bloomingdale Court shopping center on Army Trail Rd.  Chamber businesses will have the opportunity to decorate the trees for a fee.  Each sponsored tree will have a sign identifying the business with a QR Code taking them directly to your website. Trees will be up from mid-November to early January.  This gives businesses the opportunity to advertise their business in a new area reaching new potential customers. To increase participation, residents will vote on their favorite tree by posting a selfie with #BCCHolidayTrees, tagging the business. Each week a winner(s) will be chosen from those who posted to the #BCCHolidayTrees.  The better the tree is decorated the more recognition it will receive.  To increase enthusiasm, a pickle will be hidden in the tree.  Whoever finds it first wins an instant gift card. This also ensure people are looking at all the trees and not just the one in front of their favorite store.

Marketing Benefits:

• All participating businesses will be listed on the Chamber’s website
• Signage at your tree, with a QR code link to your website.
• Exposure of your business to a new market of potential customers in the largest shopping center in Bloomingdale.
• Chamber’s Social Media postings
• Facebook posting from those who like and vote for your tree, exposing your business to their family and friends.
• The event will be advertised through banners in community, signs around Bloomingdale Court, Daily Herald, Chamber website, eblasts, social media, Village’s enewsletter and/or Almanac and through all participating businesses who share the information.

• Decorations are to be festive and holiday themed, not to be pollical in nature. The design must be approved by the Washington Prime before decorating.  Submit descriptions and/photos of decoration themes to Matt Gugliciello of Bloomingdale Court at Matt.Gugliciello@washingtonprime.com with the subject line of Holiday Trees by November 17^th.
• The trees will be accessible to electricity for lighting. The electrical source is above the trees, so end your cord on the top of your tree to be accessible to the electricity.  Bloomingdale Court will connect your tree to the outlet. Lighted trees stand out since it gets dark early in the day.
• Trees will have a small sign with the sponsoring business’s logo and/or contact information with a QR code linked to your website.
• The entire trees needs to be decorated, top to bottom and on all sides.
• Decorations are to weather resilient and firmly attached to prevent litter in the area. Best to use heavy duty twist ties for ease of removal. No filled ornaments that can break open and spills its contents.
• Businesses are responsible for decorating, and taking down the decorations by January 8, 2022.
• There is an optional take down fee of $30 if you do not want to take the decorations down yourself. Recovered decorations will be returned to you.
• The Chamber and Washington Prime are not responsible for any harm to the trees or decorations.
• Businesses will not decorate trees near competing businesses in Bloomingdale Court.
• Businesses are to supply all decorations and lights.
• If a ladder is required, businesses may make arrangement with Bloomingdale Court to borrow one.
• The event will be marketed across platforms: social media, Daily Herald, Village, Chamber website, posters and flyers in participating businesses.
• Businesses are encouraged to promote their tree on social media and with their customers and followers.  Only post with the #BCCHolidayTrees will be counted in the raffle.