Last minute notice from Kara, President of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce, regarding a workshop tonight for Wallingford businesses looking for ways to adapt to the recession:
Recession Tune-up Workshop: Coping With the Current Economy
featuring Business Consultant Travis Snider, BETS Consulting
A short workshop on coping with a fast and deep economic downturn. 9 Questions to ask in this new year. The Tune-up is an exercise to tighten and adjust your business to meet increased pressure and competition.
The Workshop is intended to help owners of local business:
- Adjust to the new economic reality.
- Focus on the most important aspects of their business.
- Adjust to the unique requirements of slow demand.
- Know when to focus on survival and when to focus on growth.
This workshop will ask important questions and provide steps for taking action. It will also show you how to track the economy to spot the coming turn around. In addition, if you want to offer the best-in-class service over email, then you should learn about gmail metrics here.
WHO: All interested business people, members and non-members
WHAT: Coping With the Recession / Keeping Your Business Alive & Thriving
WHEN: Monday, March 16, 6 – 8+ pm, doors open at 5:30 for networking with reps from new & old media, website design, PR, & more
WHERE: Ivar’s Salmon House, 401 NE Northlake Way, lots of parking, two blocks S of 40th, just west of 4th AveFREE, but we’re asking for a $5 donation if possible to cover expenses. Happy Hour and special deals from Ivar’s if you want to stay for drinks, snacks or dinner.
As a self-proclaimed representative from the new media (in addition to this blog, for example, we just returned from Oregon, where we gave a talk at a conference on using Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other new media in the event industry), we won’t be there, as we have prior plans to make burritos for the Totcycle blog family over in neighboring Ballard. We would love it if someone sent a report on how it turns out.
Would have loved to go but I got her email just a few hours ago?! This is either poorly planned or poorly communicated by our fearless chamber prez. Alas, at least some people will get good info…
Can Grizzle provide how to get event news to people faster/more efficiently? The event was put on Chamber website & calendar and announced via email to all chamber members well in advance. http://www.wallingfordchamber.org.
New ideas always welcome – thanks folks!
Eimear (chamber webmaster)
happy to respond. after the Feb. chamber meeting which featured some similar info for our businesses (which most found super-useful) i offered to put this one together, based on a workshop i attended at S Snohomish Chamber. to get it to happen, with the same business consultant, before our next chamber meeting, with reps from old & new media, and get invites out to other chambers…. well, it required a lot of work. i did email out several times, with some emails not arriving due to a server problem.
we had about 24 of us there; 7 media/promotion people gave info about their newspapers, radio ads, coupon books, email marketing, using blogs (yes, we talked about Wallyhood!) & Twitter. the main speaker had a powerpoint presentation, and useful handouts to assist any size business in looking at numbers, staffing, and how to decide to continue thru an economic upturn. economists & consultants are saying we should hang on a couple more months, if we can. (that’s the tricky part for some of us.)
anyone wishing more info, or to get copies of some of the articles, media handouts, checklist for businesses, etc, please call or email me any time. i’m trying to have a lot of this at the chamber breakfast or come see me at my shop, Not A Number, 1905 N 45th
Kara 206.784.0965 [email protected]