About “Let’s Go! Fairhope”

Early 2025 Stats

• Over 1K weekly email subscribers (growing daily)
• 65% open-rate
• Over 4.5K website views monthly
• 16.2K Facebook group members  / 3.5K Facebook Followers
• 1K+ Instagram Followers
• 80% Women 35-65

Summary

Let’s Go! Fairhope is an events-related calendar, newsletter and website resource for Fairhope, Alabama.

We list events, provide educational information about events-related news in the community, and allow businesses and groups to advertise their services in order to spread the word about booking-possibilities for the community.

While events must have a 36532 (Fairhope) address in order to be included in the black-and-white events list, we allow ANYONE to advertise in the newsletter. “Even the family dog can be a sponsor.” We can also incorporate your logo into the “The List” as a headlining sponsor or inner-publication mention.

Components of Let’s Go! Fairhope

Weekly Electronic Newsletter

• Delivered weekly to email inboxes on Sundays, highlighting the week ahead
• Full-color newsletter information regarding upcoming events, articles, opportunities, sponsors, etc.
• Promotes the weekly black-and-white printable events-list (see below)
• Shared on social media – Facebook & Instagram

Weekly Events List  aka. “The List”

• A simple, friendly, black-and-white “handwritten” style list that reminds folks at-a-glance of daily happenings
• Can be printed and posted on the fridge
• Promoted in the weekly Let’s Go! Fairhope newsletter as “now available” and accessed via the website
• Comes out on Sundays for the week ahead, link included in the newsletter (above)
• Contains approx 120-150 events each week
• Free to submit events to “The List,” but members/sponsors are prioritized and guaranteed space where others are included when possible
• Sponsor space is available in three ways: Headlining logo, inner-publication, and guaranteed space for event(s) to be listed with embedded link to sponsor information

Website 

• Resource for local residents and businesses seeking events-related services including photographers, musicians, venues, decor, food trucks and more
• Opportunity for event-related businesses, venues and services to list available offerings

Why Fairhope Loves It

While we are all increasingly connected digitally as a community, it can often feel overwhelming, difficult, if not impossible to keep up with everything going on around town. Let’s Go Fairhope seeks to help.

Let’s Go Fairhope sifts through endless posts, websites and insider-scoop information to bring you the skinny on events and things to do locally. It filters out the noise and gets to the point. It’s a simple list, presented in a friendly format, reminding us at-a-glance of what’s happening each week. Our fans say they like it because it’s basic, easily accessible, can be printed and posted on the fridge, and found on social media.

History

Let’s Go Fairhope began as an email-only black-and-white list of events circa 2018, quickly amassing a couple hundred subscribers to the weekly blast. After repeated requests for it to appear on social media, a Facebook profile was created which gained over 1,000 local Friends. Facebook quickly said, “Nope, You have to be a real person… with a Page” and said they were going to shut down the profile.  So the Let’s Go Facebook page and events group was born.

During the pandemic, no events = no list, and the social media group was fostered in its place. Things quieted down for a while, but Fairhope is growing and is as vibrant as ever, so this useful information source came back with even more opportunities in Spring 2024.

When Let’s Go! Fairhope’s founder, C. Darby Ulery, developed a health condition that limited her ability to continue in her former career path and attend events personally, the list became even more important in terms of a way to stay connected and relevant in a difficult time.

Released each Sunday, highlighting things-to-do for the week ahead, there is now a newsletter and website with a variety of resources that can be viewed 27/7-365 in addition to the traditional printable black-and-white events list.

Please Help to Continue this Project:

The only way this resource can continue is if the community helps support it.  Low-cost sponsorship options include headline advertisements, featured ads, short articles, and guaranteed space in the events list. We also accept donations and private contributions, with or without name recognition.

No one likes to be sold anything. That’s why Let’s Go! Fairhope uses an educational and informational approach to help the community connect with local businesses, makers, and other individuals who have unique and special opportunities to offer.

Click here to contact us.

Let’s Go Fairhope needs your support to continue to grow and provide this valuable service.

Please consider submitting your events, becoming a friend / sponsor, and/or just reach out here:

LetsGoFairhope@gmail.com / 251-929-GOGO

Your thoughts and suggestions are always welcome.