Webster City
JunqueFest Starts Today
JunqueFest is a 3 day event in Webster City, Iowa held at Wilson Brewer Park (Ohio and Superior). There will be over 50 different vendors who will be set up to sell primitive, vintage, re-purposed, up cycled, yard art, rusty, wood, architectural salvage, metal, and handmade crafts. It’s a party! Food for sale will be:…
Read MoreHERO UPDATE
PHASE TWO COMPLETE, MORE FUNDRAISING AND OPENING DATE PROJECTED Help Entertain and Restore Organization, HERO, announced today that $133,000 has been raised to Save the Webster Theater. Phase One needed $22,500 in order to purchase the building. Phase Two needed $80,000 to purchase the projector, video and sound equipment. The building is now owned by…
Read MoreWorld Book Night
Who is helping give out half a million free books across America on April 23rd? We are! Webster City Area Chamber of Commerce has partnered with All Cultures Equal, Hamilton County Public Health and RSVP to become one of 2,300 bookstores, businesses and libraries across America supporting World Book Night 2014. On April 23 —Shakespeare’s birthday— 25,000 volunteers from…
Read MoreNew Activities Guide for Webster City
Every year the Chamber partners up with the Daily Freeman Journal and releases the Activities Guide. It’s a lot of fun for us because we get to find out about everything that is going on around the community. Now, you can see it right here online!
Read More8 Questions Restaurants Should Answer
Marketing for a restaurant in a small town involves lots of on the ground work. You need to let the locals know what you have, where you are, specials, and more. You’ll want to talk to the newspaper, the radio station and the Chamber. Make friends, visit other business establishments with your menu, build relationships and…
Read MoreIndiegogo to Save the Webster
The Webster Theater is closed. It took $24,500 to buy the building. It will take $80,000 to upgrade to the digital equipment. The nonprofit group HERO (Help Entertain and Restore Organization) has raised almost $50,000 towards the equipment. The local community has given and continues to give. SHIFT Happens is having a dodgeball tournament on…
Read MoreFind the Chamber Online
The Webster City Area Economic Development and Chamber of Commerce has been diligently beefing up their internet presence. We believe it’s a great way to stay in touch with our members and our community. Here’s a few things we’re doing: Enewsletter, the Chamber Chatter Ever Monday we send out the eChatter with news of events…
Read More5 Ways to Build Loyalty
Small businesses often ask that we shop local, that we be loyal to them. I’ll be the first one to encourage you to shop local, and I’ll also be the first one to tell those businesses that they need to give their customers reasons to shop local. Chris Brogan, has a set of criteria he…
Read MoreHeroes Needed
Webster City is working to save the Webster Theatre. Donations are needed and can be made online here: http://www.desmoinesfoundation.org/HEROFund The primary challenge right now for small-town theaters is not the lack of market or community support in patronizing the theater; it is in fact the financial resources needed to obtain digital equipment necessary to show movies. HERO has a three-stage…
Read MoreThe Tour Update
December 2013 Update In April of 2013 we gave a tour of 12 buildings in Webster City. People picked up a map, and went around and visited the locations. These 12 buildings were either for sale or for rent and our goal was to get some attention. We wanted people to talk, to dream, to…
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