Ireland – You Know You Want To Go!
Have you been to Ireland? Would you like to go? The Webster City Area Chamber of Commerce is providing the opportunity to travel to Ireland. Why not join us? We will leave March 12, 2014 and be there through St. Patricks Day! If you register by September, your rate is $2,349 (includes airfare, hotel, breakfast…
Find Your Own Secret Path
In October of 2008 I started a journey down the social media path that has led me to many wonderful adventures. I’ve learned a lot, I’ve shared a lot and I’ve created magic for the places I work because of what I’ve learned. Now I’m no expert – no one really is in this space.…
3 Tips to Increase Your Business
Some easy marketing ideas to bring customers into your store – or to pick up the phone and call you – and everyone can do these! 1. I just got a text from the local kettle corn guy. He sets up at festivals and events all over the area. But every so often he’ll set…
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…