Take A Note
I don’t like to drive and text. In fact, I can’t do it. And wouldn’t you know it, the best ideas come when I’m driving! I have an iPhone and Siri (male version) is a real life saver. I simply hold down my home button and say “take a note” and the wonderful Siri says…
Debworks and Health: Part Three
Let’s talk about food. I’m a food baby. I don’t like most vegetables. Green beans, romaine lettuce and well, nothing else – those are the two that I like. Peas are ok, corn is out. Tomatoes – oh hell no. Broccoli – can’t get past the smell. Cauliflower I will eat, but what’s the point?…
Debworks and Health: Part Two
If you look, you’ll see I’m making progress. My shape is changing. I started not being able to do one single dip to now I can do eight. I couldn’t get off the floor without help, now I need no help. I could only walk slowly on the treadmill, and I now I can kinda…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…