Main Street Oneonta Web Site – DRAFT Site Map
For Prospective Businesses
Demographic Information
Population
Income/ Age / Education
Seasonal statistics
Tourists, Colleges
Environment
Climate
Geography
Etc
Economics
Taxes
Property/ School
Infrastructure
Media
Utilities
Air, Freight, Highway
Parking
Hotels
Business Demographics
Colleges
Hospitals
Main Street merchants by type
Planned Development
Bresee’s
Arts Center
etc
Open a Business in Oneonta
Current Vacancies
Landlord Database
Assistance
Economic Development (County)
City Agencies
Banks/ Credit Union
Organizations
Chamber
CDO
ESC
Main Street Oneonta – Business Info
MSO
Mission
Meeting Minutes
Current/ On-going promotions or activities
Surveys
Current Survey
Archive
Notices
Parking
Parades
Sales, etc
Virtual Workshops:
Window Displays
Enhancing Store Traffic
Customer Relations
Etc
Additional Resources and Information:
Official City Site
City’s Welcome Site
Business/ Video Directory and more
Farmers’ Market
Otsego County Chamber
SUNY Oneonta
Hartwick College
Oneonta City Schools
Fox Care
Bassett Healthcare
- Home Page
- Who this site is for: Current downtown businesses and Prospective downtown businesses. If you are a visitor to Oneonta, go to visitoneonta.com
- Welcome video from Rachel Jessup – 5 reasons to have a business in Oneonta
- Up-and-coming city: arts center, bresees renovation
- Small but has everything you need
- Colleges – stable base of retail business
- Convenient shopping/parking
- Sidebar shows:
- Recent news
- Rotating image of college kids working with business owners which links to the internship page
- Rotating image of text “Grants for your business – apply online here”
- Subscription link using feedburner to allow people to sign up via a reader or email for future news.
- Links to
- Chamber of Commerce
- City of Oneonta
- Sweet Home Oneonta (specific page for business index)
- nylovesbiz.ny.us
- Open a business in Oneonta
- Remember A.I.D.A. -
- Get their Attention: “We’ll Pay You to open a business in Oneonta” or “Oneonta has the largest student to resident ratio in upstate NY” or “Fire your city and hire Oneonta” or “Free Grant Pre-Qualification online in 10 minutes”
- Get them Interested: College students, Baseball enthusiasts, Convenient parking, City on the rise - a really upbeat video showing a crowded main street full of shoppers, full restaurants, families, tourists, college kids.
- Name what they Desire: a free report, free access to newyorkcomparables to research real estate values in Oneonta, free this, free consultation on your business, grant summary – possibly a quick, free, online assessment to see if they would qualify for the grant – a 10 question form ( how much cash do you have to put toward your business? how much $ do you need for equipment? how much for sign frontage? how many employees will you have to start? when you are fully running? how much square footage do you need?).
- Make them Act: They must enter an email address to get some information. Use icontact to email them the grant application, welcome message, autoresponder, gives them the link to download from our site.
- Oneonta demographic information
- Population, number of houses, average income, students on campus and off
- Grid of number and types of business ( Type of business, # downtown, # all Oneonta ) – include those with 0. [i.e. we have 46 pizza places, 0 Indian restaurants, 4 sporting goods stores, 0 clothing stores, 2 gas stations downtown, 1 cleaner, 4 banks, etc.
- Summer tourist statistics
- Map/parking/attractions (Arts center, Clarion, future Bresees)
- Colleges can be a huge asset
- Vacancy map, building owners
- Do we specify the types of businesses we desire???
- Real Property Tax information
- Remember A.I.D.A. -
- Expand your Oneonta business
- About MSO
- 3-4 sentences, contact form, phone numbers
- Contact
- News archives
- By year, month descending
Main Street Oneonta is a non-profit organization supported by local business owners who volunteer their time and resources to promote events in downtown Oneonta.
All Main Street business owners are welcome and invited to participate in monthly meetings. Get involved and help Oneonta continue to offer events, parades, fairs, and entertainment to the local community. 