Happy Birthday William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, born 450 years ago today, is known for his wit, and considered the greater writer in the English language by many. But did you know he gave great leadership advice? “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well You’ll come across many people in your lifetime.…
World 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…
Butter the Toast
David Baeza, my misfit friend, told the story of what it means to butter your toast. First you put your toast in the toaster at exactly the right toast degree you like. After it’s toasted, you remove it, put it on a plate and you take out your butter knife. Then you put the knife…
Sunday Update: Functional
Randy Andrews, with Lucky Shot Athletics, is a functional trainer. I work with him because he understands what I need, pushes me but doesn’t get me hurt. Here’s his description of functional training: When looking at the big picture of fitness, functional training is considered to be a relatively new way to train our bodies.…
Commercial Revitalization Webinar
On April 29 at 1 pm,Tyler Abens and I will be featured on a National REALTOR webinar. The webinar will showcase how becoming engaged in community and downtown revitalization efforts can lead to leasing/sales of vacant buildings and other positive impacts on commercial real estate development. Targeted efforts involving REALTOR® associations, REALTORS® and community organizations…
Sunday Update: Filters
It’s come to me this week that I view people through a couple of filters. It’s subconscious, but still there. “Will she think I’m fat?” and “I’m fatter than him.” First of all, my logical brain knows those thoughts are crap. I don’t want to think like that. Its put a pale on every conversation…
New 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!
Sunday Update: Wellness Journey
It’s been a busy week and it started with a trip to the emergency room for my mom. She’s got Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Congestive Heart Failure. We’ve been told there will be visits like this — a week or two in the hospital balancing out her heart, lungs and kidneys and the home…
Culinary Tourism: Best Practices
A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. Wikipedia We’re listing a few best practices in this post and encourage you to work together to flush them out and see where you can go with them. Anything you…
Enhancing the Visitor Experience
Many thanks to Rebecca LeHeup from OntarioCulinary.com for getting the conversation started! Why not think about having culinary tourism where you live? Welcome the visitor: Have a welcoming retail space. Is it clean? Is the doorway clear? Are you greeting customers? Post hours and adhere to them. Don’t leave early because it’s raining. Don’t change…