Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce
Business Monthly
July 2014
Issue 49
Save Local Now:
A ‘SHOP HILLIARD’ mobile site The Hilliard Chamber has partnered with Save Local Now which offers nine different products to help small businesses compete with large marketing budgets. The public can download this free app onto their smart phones to see local deals! You can check out the deals that Hilliard businesses are putting up and get discounts on cupcakes, meals, health clubs, fencing, trips, etc! They change daily so check your app often! Is there a business not on the site that you wish had a deal? Ask them to contact the Chamber to
learn more! This service is only for members of the Hilliard Chamber which is another member benefit! If you aren’t familiar with these nine products you could always set up a one-toone training with Save Local Now to learn how these products could benefit your business. In a nutshell, Save Local Now offers you Deal of the Day Publishing (Groupon & Living Social without losing 50% of the revenue), Event Market-
ing; Analytics; 1-click social media sharing; SEO Services; iPhone and Android apps and Email Marketing! If you own or work in a business, this is a FREE value added to your business just by being a Hilliard Chamber member! This app improves your presence on the web so that you stand out among others in your field. If you have ever done a Groupon or Living Social add, do that with Save Local Now without out giving any
money away! Keep all the money in your pocket! When you tell people about Save Local Now, your business, as well as the whole community benefits! So make sure you remember this one key tip and spread the word! Save Local Now has trainers ready to show you how to use this FREE digital marketing platform. You can contact Chelsea at Chelsea. lindau@savelocalnow. com to schedule training or contact the Hilliard Chamber at (614) 8767666 or info@hilliardchamber.org
Come to The Taste on August 6!
Taste of
Presenting Sponsor
Platinum Sponsors
illiard
& Business Expo It won’t be long now before you can come and taste the wonderful foods of our restaurants! The Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at the Makoy Center, 5462 Center Street from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Cash admission will be $12 and $8 for children ages 3 to 10. There will be People’s Judging of four categories: Best Pizza, Best Appetizer, Best Entrée, Best Dessert. Our member businesses will be showcased so that you can learn about the great services and products they can provide to you.
Website improvements and Community Calendar The Hilliard Chamber website continues to be improved. Businesses are now able to have a variety of ways to advertise on the site. The tabs at the top of the website have been changed to better reflect the different categories that visitors to our website have been going to in search of member businesses. There are now landing pages with direct links to business categories. Members are having banner ads on multiple pages of the site as well as having enhanced listings
which advances their listing ahead of others in the same category. Our Community Calendar has a lot of activity on it and it is available for the community to add their events to it such as: business open houses, seminars that a business or group is presenting; activities that non-profits are promoting, etc. Currently, there are events on there for the Franklin County Fair business lunch discount, carnival at Goddard School, and others. Get your events noticed!
Volunteers Needed for Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo—Aug. 6 The Taste of Hilliard & Business Expo is a huge event and would not be possible without the help of volunteers! Volunteers are needed to assist with parking, set-up, admissions and other duties. Volunteers can arrive in shifts that will be between the hours of 4 and 7:30 p.m. Please reply via email to info@hilliardchamber.org, or call 876-7666 to confirm that you are able to help out!
Morning Business Network Exchange Don’t forget the Morning Business Network Exchange will meet on Friday, July 11 from 8 to 9 a.m. at Kitamu Coffee, 3221 Hilliard Rome Road in the Tinapple Plaza. The group meets for coffee, networking and information sharing. Come with lots of business cards!
Gold Sponsors
August 15 Luncheon Speaker: Curtis Stitt, President/CEO of COTA We are excited to have the following restaurants and meeting facilities participate and provide ‘tastes’ for the event: A Matter of Steak, Average Joe’s Pub & Grill, Carriage Court of Hilliard, Crumbz Cakery, Cate’s Steak & Barbecue, Culver’s, Domino’s Pizza, Flyers Pizza & Subs, Heritage Golf Club, Jet’s Pizza, Justin’s Bar & Grill, Kelly’s Cakery, LLC, Little Caesars Pizza, Makoy Center, Max & Erma’s, McDonald’s, Mill Run Gardens & Care Center, Nasty’s Sports Bar & Grill; Papa John’s Pizza, Pulp Juice and Smoothie Bar, Rusty Bucket-Dublin, Sam’s Club, Schmidt’s, Submarine House Bar & Grill, Texas Roadhouse, The Little Ice Cream Shoppe, The Olive Tree Café, Tom + Chee, Which Wich? and Whit’s Frozen Custard-Hilliard.
Silver Sponsors ACE Hardware National Church Residences at Mill Run Sam’s Club SBS Management, LLC, Susan E. Thomas CPA, Ltd.
We are very excited to have Curtis Stitt be our speaker at our August 15 luncheon to bring us the update on the transportation services provided by Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA). Our luncheons are open to the public and are $18 for Chamber members and $21 for the public. More information will be on our website, www.hilliardchamber.org.
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