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Welcome to the September 2025 Edition of Biz Buzz Newsletter!
Keep up that "back to school" mentality this September and register for one of many SBDC trainings! This month’s edition includes:
- Small Business Development Center trainings
- Quarterly Sales Tax Update 1Q-2025
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Resource Spotlight: Recognizing Facade Grantees
Small Business Development Center Trainings
This month is all about AI and marketing! Here are some upcoming trainings and programs
📌 East Bay SBDC AI Webinar: Exploring generative AI’s use in creating or enhancing your marketing strategy, this webinar discusses a range of tools that can be used in supercharging the creation of high-quality digital marketing content, customized for specific audiences and platforms.
📌Solano-Napa SBDC Webinar: A two-week course designed to elevate your knowledge of Canva, attendees will learn how to create professional flyers, logos, email signatures and more. No prior design experience is needed!
📌Norcal SBDC AI Lunchbreak Webinars: A three-part series, get a deep dive from experts on all things AI for business and personal use, learning how to create the proper prompts to maximize your use of AI tools. Webinars will cover prompt creation for business use, AI tools for marketing, customization of AI tools and more. All the AI information you could want is right here in the lunchbreak series!
📌Sierra SBDC Marketing Webinar: Eager to learn more about advertising on social media platforms? This webinar has you covered, discussing available social media advertising options and providing a wealth of knowledge on how to use these platforms and expand your reach to potential customers
Quarterly Sales Tax Update 1Q-2025
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Mountain View’s sales tax receipts for Q1 2025 were up 1.7% compared to the same period in 2024, with actual sales growth of 2.3% after adjustments. While general consumer goods and service stations saw declines, gains were driven by casual dining, business-industry activity, and one-time allocations in building and construction. Statewide, sales tax revenues grew slightly (0.34%), with autos and construction showing the strongest rebounds.
See the Q1 2025 Newsletter to learn more.
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Resource Spotlight: Recognizing Facade Grantees
Congratulations to two recent facade grantees on completing their projects!
☕ Red Rock Coffee: Red Rock Coffee used facade improvement grant funding for their side awning (facing the Castro St pedestrian corridor). What is bringing in more customers, the great beverages and food or their gorgeous awning? We'd like to think it’s both 🤝
📖 East West Bookshop: East West Bookshop received Facade Improvement Grant funding to spruce up parts of their awning too! We love this style – and also love the much-needed shade.
 Interested in the Facade Grant program? Reach out to our team at econ.dev@mountainview.gov for more information!
As a reminder, the grant program still has funding available, but it is going fast. Grants are available for a wide variety of outdoor improvements including signage, architectural improvements, painting and more.
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Questions or suggestions for future newsletters? Contact us at econ.dev@mountainview.gov.
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Contact Us
The City of Mountain View Biz Newsletter supports businesses by providing the latest information and news about business resources, tools, funding sources and tips that can help businesses access opportunities for expanding sales and building capacity.
If you have any questions please email econ.dev@mountainview.gov.
Visit our website to learn more about the Mountain View Economic Development Team and discover valuable resources: econdev.mountainview.gov
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