BY: RACHEL SMTIH It’s a fact of life, really: Everyone loves free stuff, and everyone loves to win. The Harvest Festival bags have always been awesome. It’s kind of like Christmas when you stop in to the Chamber that week to pick up your bag. Someone always grabs the whole lot for our group, and then we go through them...
Month: August 2017
A Goal Without a Plan is just a Wish
BY: RACHEL SMITH Have you ever thought of an amazing idea for a new business in town? Or ever looked around our community and longed for a certain type of business? Ideas are a dime a dozen, really. Concepts floating through our subconscious as the ‘what if’ or ‘wishes’ that seem so far out of reach. It is the...
One Last Hurrah to End the Summer
BY: RACHEL SMITH I knew it was coming. I’ve been posting about it on the event page for weeks. Still, as the final Thursdays on Main of the summer season quickly approaches, it just doesn’t seem possible that it’s over already. Seriously… is it an age thing? Does the fact I get older every year mean time moves...
7 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Grow Your Small Business
Grow your small business with LinkedIn by using these seven proven tactics. Content was provided by LinkedIn Search Marketing Specialist Amber Bockman. There are nearly 30 million small businesses in the United States, but only half of them will make it past five years. To ensure your small business is in the successful...
Once in a Lifetime
**photo credit: wtvq.com** BY: RACHEL SMITH The media has been flooded lately with talks of the upcoming solar eclipse. Apparently, as this happens every so often around the world, it is the first time to cross the entire continental United States in almost a century. They’re saying it will be the biggest Astronomical...
Dare to Dream on the upcoming Open for Business Tour
Dare to Dream on the upcoming Open for Business Tour BY: RACHEL SMITH Have you even dreamed of owning your own business? Sitting around with friends and you say, “You know, Clear Lake really needs a ______.” Everyone agrees. Everyone decides it would be the perfect addition to our quaint lake town. Everyone thinks you...
TEAMWORK – In union, there is strength.
BY: RACHEL SMITH As a kid, I used to love getting new school supplies. Opening a fresh box of never-used crayons gave me goosebumps. I’d spend hours lining up my notebooks, all color-coded for each subject before I organized them perfectly inside my new backpack with all the other supplies. It was an...