The Entrepreneur Rollercoaster

Found this video at Life Out Of The Box.  If you have ever tried to start your own business, you will appreciate this.  For those who haven't but want to, it is good for you to watch as well.

Congressional Visit

Yesterday Congressman Pat Tiberi visited with our Board of Directors and our Government Affairs Committee for a nice lunch and discussion.  I always appreciate the time our elected officials spend with their constituents.

Kurt Harden, member of the Government Affairs Committee and Past Chairman of our Board, summarizes our meeting yesterday on his personal blog, Cultural Offering.  Drop by and pay him a visit.  You will always learn something new.

Visitor Map

Below is the map from our recent visitors to this blog from statcounter.  Pretty cool.

By the way, stole the idea to post the map from CO. 

Spoilers Beware

. . .you will not be ruining my day today.

Thanks to Nicholas.

If you are seeking transformation in 2011, there is no better place to go than to his place.

Saying No . . .

. . .means you can say yes to someone or something else, according to Nicholas.

The Way It Should Be

Everything seems to boil down to customer service. Want to build loyalty with your customers? You don't have to have the cheapest prices in town. What you do need is people like Carol.

Nice post Sean. Oh, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves donuts!

- Posted by Cheri

Facebook Stats and Blogging

FACEBOOK

If you or your company have a page on Facebook, you should be receiving a weekly update with some stats from the week. Here is the most recent one I received:

Hi Cheri,

Here is this week's summary for the Facebook Page: Licking County Chamber of Commerce

+2 Fans this week (119 total Fans)
3 Wall Posts, Comments, and Likes this week (10 last week)
407 visits to your page this week(382 visits last week)

Not a bad week.

BLOGGING

I started this blog almost two years ago and still haven't perfected what I would like it to be. I also started a personal blog around the same time. Crazy, I know.

There are so many blogs out there where you can find some great advice if you are thinking about starting a blog or if you are trying to improve a current one. CulturalOffering links to this post at Execupundit which has some guidelines for bloggers. I am a frequent violator of most of these, I'm afraid.

-Posted by Cheri

The High Five

Check out this great video I found at Matt's place which created over 2,000 smiles. What a great way to start the day and the week!

Thanks Matt.

Are You Still Happy?

This was a question that I was asked today about my job. "Very happy" I answered.

I then found this interesting post called How To Lower Productivity by Joining Dots.

It was an interesting read. Check it out.

Found it via Bate, by the way.

Have Some Fun Today

Just finished watching a great video over at CultureOffering about having fun.

Watch it. Do it.

Sunday is always a great day to start something new.

Just In Time For Valentine's Day

There's another new blog in town and it arrived just in time for Valentine's Day.

Welcome Goumas Confections!

Reading it makes my mouth water.

- Posted by Cheri

Search and Discover

Another great use for Twitter here.

27 New Blogs To Skim

I love finding new blogs.

Problogger has a popular post entitled 30 Bloggers to Watch in 2010.

I am familiar with three of them, so I have 27 new blogs to skim.

- Posted by Cheri

Leading Under Pressure

Came across this posting regarding how leaders have to deal with pressure internally and externally.

It reminded me of an incident that happened today. A non-member was very unhappy with us (more like angry) and came to give us a piece of her mind. I was in a Board meeting so the staff had to deal with her. By the time I came upstairs, Vicky and Mandy had calmed her down and I was able to have a pleasant conversation with her. She left much more happy than when she came in, partially because she got it off her chest and also because we agreed to work on the problem.

It is important to allow individuals to express their frustration and sometimes anger instead of keeping it inside, or worse, complaining all over town to everyone about a problem you or your company may be dealing with. How you handle the pressure can determine how you are looked upon as a leader of your business.

Found it at Client K.

5 Social Media Tools for Business

I have been softly pushing our members to utilize social media as part of their marketing plan for over a year now. Here is a great blog posting by Amber MacArthur outlining 5 social media tools for small businesses.

- Posted by Cheri

Being Unemployed Is Not The Reason To. . .

. . .start your own company, says Jory Des Jardins at Forbes.com. Good article on Five Bad Reasons To Become An Entrepreneur.

Found it at Client K through Nicholas Bate. He always seems to find the good stuff out there.

- Posted by Cheri

212

Go from 211 to 212 with Patrick.

Very powerful.

- Posted by Cheri

NOT My Morning To-Do List

Here are 29 things I'm not willing to do before 7:00 a.m. Guess I'm NOT a "blogger" after all.

- Posted by Cheri

New Photo Blog

For the past five years, we have contracted with Journal Communications to publish our community magazine, Images of Licking County.

They have now unveiled a new blog that contains photo images of different places around the country where their photographers have visited. Check it out here.

Welcome, New Blogger!

Congratulations to Steve Layman for starting his blog, Anderson Layman's Blog.

I love to discover new blogs, especially local ones.

I look forward to your future posts Steve.