Business Partnership Benefits

The support and confidence our business partners have in our organization allows us to forward our mission to create, sustain, and grow a unique and thriving community, one that celebrates heritage and embraces the future. Our partners enjoy a wide variety of benefits from cooperative advertising opportunities to access to information that provides solid business advice.

Partner with Main Street Vermilion and enjoy these benefits!

• Partnerships allow Main Street to build marketing programs that promote tourism to Vermilion. Look for our tourism advertising in Erie Shores and Islands, Lorain County Adventure Guide, Lakefront Publications, the official Travel Guide for the State of Ohio, Lake Erie Living, the local newspapers, social media and digital marketing venues and other publication.

• Your business will be linked on our website where thousands visit every year to find lodging, dining, shopping, marinas, and what’s happening in Vermilion. We make it easier to find your business.

• Opportunities to participate in cooperative advertising opportunities for your business to targeted markets. Make your marketing dollar go further.

• Main Street hosts the Vermilion Business Connection, a quarterly meeting of merchants, restaurateurs, and business owner—a way to share ideas and stay connected. Meetings are hosted at different merchant locations.

• Main Street, a 501c3, is the umbrella where Vermilion in Bloom, Shore Thing, Public Art Vermilion, Historic Preservation and Vermilion Arts Guild exist. They add the features to our community that create a sense of place and of pride in our community.

• Partnerships and sponsorships allow us to continue to bring quality programs and projects to town including the Ice A Fair, Market in the Park, Chalk it Up, All Washed Up, Hot Diggity Dog Day and Light Up Vermilion…all reasons to visit Vermilion and support local business.

• Exclusive access to webinars, workshops, and conferences through Heritage Ohio, National Main Street, and other business-minded organizations.