Shop 49th Update
Since we launched Shop 49th earlier this year we have been able to help 23 Alaskan small businesses and 4 Alaskan nonprofits with additional sales, exposure and donations! These businesses and organizations were from 14 different communities around our state. We have been blown away at your support for this campaign. You broke online sales records for some of these businesses, one business did more online sales in one month than they had done in the previous year, the local news covered Shop 49th, and people from around the world showed up to support Alaskan businesses when COVID restrictions prevented people from showing up in person. Thank you!
However, we have seen a change over the past couple of months. Restrictions are lifting, tourism is returning, and we may even have cruises coming to our state later this season! With all of these changes we have noticed that your questions to us have changed as well. The questions are no longer "How can we help from a distance?" they are now "We're coming to Alaska, where should we go, what should we do, and where should we shop when we get there?" Remember, the goal of Shop 49th was to use our LeggLife platform to help our state and the businesses here. So, we have decided to make a change to Shop 49th. We're actually incredibly excited about this and we can't wait to share it with you in the coming weeks!
Please watch the full video below.
However, we have seen a change over the past couple of months. Restrictions are lifting, tourism is returning, and we may even have cruises coming to our state later this season! With all of these changes we have noticed that your questions to us have changed as well. The questions are no longer "How can we help from a distance?" they are now "We're coming to Alaska, where should we go, what should we do, and where should we shop when we get there?" Remember, the goal of Shop 49th was to use our LeggLife platform to help our state and the businesses here. So, we have decided to make a change to Shop 49th. We're actually incredibly excited about this and we can't wait to share it with you in the coming weeks!
Please watch the full video below.
About Us
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Hi! We're Adam & Sherri Legg. We're Alaskans, YouTubers, and online content creators. When we heard about the cancellation of the 2021 cruise season our hearts broke for the hundreds of Alaskan businesses that would be impacted by this. Many of them barely made it through the last year, and now face another hurdle. We wanted to help however we could. Over the last 5 years we have been fortunate to build an incredibly dedicated community of people from around the world. We wanted to find a way to use whatever platform we have to give people a tangible way to help Alaskan businesses. Our hope is that we would be able to help bring exposure and sales to Alaskan businesses that need it so much right now. Visit these businesses online, spend money, follow them on social media, tell your friends about them, and be the lifeline that these businesses need.
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