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Find 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…

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Debworks and Health: Part One

I’m writing a series about my personal journey to better health.  This is the first entry in that series.  What does it have to do with business?  Everything.  How we treat ourselves is how we treat others.  How we talk to ourselves is how we talk to our employees.  How we feel affects our decisions,…

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5 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…

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Every Stone on the Road Precious to Me

Stanley Kunitz lived to be 100 years old and wrote many poems.  According to Poets.org: His honors include the Bollingen Prize, a Ford Foundation grant, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Harvard’s Centennial Medal, the Levinson Prize, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, a senior fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Medal of the Arts,…

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Pinterest Saved My Marriage

Today’s guest post comes from fellow Chamber Executive, Nathan Knottingham in McMinnville, Oregon.  It was too good not to share!  Okay, so that is not actually true.  Pinterest did, however, make it easier for me to do great surprise gifts and earn awesome husband points which definitely helped to strengthen my marriage.  Let me explain…

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Rob Hatch: Owner, mission driven

Rob Hatch is the President of Owner Media Group; he’s much like the Wizard of Oz.  The guy behind the curtain.  Lots of people have heard of Chris Brogan, but fewer know of Rob Hatch.  I had the great pleasure of spending a couple of hours on the phone with Rob and he allowed me…

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Heroes 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…

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January, where have you gone?

It’s been a whirlwind of a month to kick off 2014! Here’s a few things we’ve been doing at Debworks. I got interviewed on the Money for Lunch program and you can hear what I have to say about 23 minutes into the recording here:  Deb Talks About Small Towns  My friend Jon Swanson wrote…

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Tucson Ideas to Take Home

I’ve spent the past week in Tucson for Chamber Institute.  I love to explore a new community and see what kind of ideas I can take home with me! Many small towns are fund raising to save movie theatres, historical buildings, and community projects.  Ideas are needed for ways to honor donors.    These leaves…

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Three Words for 2015

Each year I choose three words to focus on for that year.  This is my sixth year and it all started by a prompt from Chris Brogan.  You’ll notice my words put into pictures of my face.  That’s because I’M DOING IT! This years words are: Big Intentional  Step    Big as in dream BIG,…

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