10 Tips for Better Enewsletters
Jeff from Constant Contact gave a presentation last week. I was pretty sure I knew all about email marketing, I’ve been doing it quite awhile now. Goes to show you that you can teach an old dog new tricks! Take notes friends, here’s a few things you may not know. 1. SENDER Is your…
Happy Mother’s Day
I just spent the last 5 days at a conference in Sioux Falls. It was the Midwest Area Chamber Executives conference, and I walked away with new contacts, information I an use and more motivation. You’ll see more on that this week. But the coolest thing about the last week? I took my mom with…
Scary Stats
I was recommended to read The End of Membership As We Know It and told to go to www.xyzuniversity.com to find it. I found it, ordered and will report on it in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, let me share a few Scary Statistics from their site. A culmination of Scary Stats as presented by XYZ University:…
Be A Connector
Today I heard from Delore Zimmerman from Praxis Strategy Group. Delore presented the Enterprising States research that is published by the U.S. Chamber Foundation. (See this link for the full report and some interactive fun.) You might think this was boring. On the contrary, anyone that lives in a town and works at or owns a…
April Update for Webster City Chamber
I’m Deb Brown, the new Chamber Director and my first job will always be to support our Chamber members and make sure they are receiving many benefits as a result of belonging to the Chamber. We want to provide sound business policy, the highest level of service, encourage innovation, develop a strong business climate and…
The Tour – Declared A Success
Wednesday, April 24, we hosted The Tour. We chose 11 vacant buildings that were either for sale or rent and showcased them for two hours. We invited everyone to come. Realtors and/or owners were present in order to show the building and give the statistics; size, price, kinds of businesses that would be a good…
Happy Birthday Will
William Shakespeare was 52 years old when he died. He died on his birthday, April 23. He married a woman 8 years older than he was (he was 18, she was 26) and he married her because she was pregnant. At the age of 36 he had 15 plays (out of 37) already published and…
Funeral Factoids
Last week we had a Chamber Coffee hosted by Boman Funeral Homes. A quiz was given, answers were turned in and this week the winner was announced. Mary Lou Gordon answered most of the questions correctly and won $25 in Webster City Bucks. I’d like to share a few of those questions and answers with…
Kickstarter, Grenades and WTF
Kickstarter is this site where inventors can raise money to back their projects. It’s a real grassroots kind of thing, and those of us in small towns are very familiar with grass roots fundraising. People will give if it’s a worthwhile project. Lots of things get done when local, small town people put their mind…
Cardboard Regatta
The Boone Bash River Dash is June 22 in Webster City. There are canoe races and floats, Iowa Games Adventure Race, Kids Dash Inflatables and Games, a community wide picnic and the Cardboard Regatta. The Chamber sponsors the Cardboard Regatta and it sounds like a ton of fun. People make floating devices out of cardboard.…