A Main Street Iowa specialist was back in Guthrie Center earlier this week, and you can chalk it up as another productive and successful meeting, according to Main Guthrie Center Director Julie Bailey.

Main Street Iowa’s Terry Buschkamp met with members of the Promotion Committee Tuesday evening, and Bailey discusses with us the information that was shared.

“Terry is just a wealth of information–she’s been a Main Street director herself and so it always refreshing to have her come in and share her ideas.  We tried to focus on three areas: retail promotions, special events and lastly, image building.  The Promotion Committee here in Guthrie Center has already been busy working on all three of those but it was good to hear from Terry so that we could get some ideas on what else we can be thinking about.”

As for what her personal takeaway was from Tuesday’s meeting, Bailey says she realizes that Main Street Guthrie Center needs to delve deeper into the retail promotions aspect of its organization.

“One of the things that became very clear to me on Tuesday was that we really need more input from the retailers of downtown Guthrie Center.  We can’t do promotions and special events without them being a part of the planning, and so that will be one of my goals–to try and get the retailers more involved in what Main Street Guthrie Center is doing.”

To hear more from Bailey as she recaps Tuesday’s meeting in full detail, tune-in to today’s Let’s Talk Guthrie County program.  Our full conversation will air during the 9am, noon and 5pm hours on K107.