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Advantage Spring cleaning tips for businesses By Sean Donovan Just like homes, businesses can benefit from a little spring cleaning. It’s a great opportunity for clearing out the cobwebs, shaking out the carpets and throwing open the windows to let in the fresh air. Here are a few quick and easy ways to reinvigorate your business with some basic housekeeping. 1. Clean up your online presence by getting more engaged in social media and keeping your website current. A website with old information tells people that you’re out of the loop. Instead, make sure that your news, event listings and contact information are current. The same goes for your Twitter profile and Facebook page. By sharing timely, relevant and interesting news and information, people will actually want to hear what you have to say. Online upkeep helps you pop up higher in the search rankings as well. 2. Polish up your networking skills. Go to mixers and events to meet new people and learn
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Hundreds participate in Tempe Cares workday event
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ore than 300 volunteers participated in Tempe Leadership’s 21st annual Tempe Cares workday event on March 10. Tempe Leadership is a program of the Tempe Chamber of Commerce, whose purpose is to identify a diverse group of emerging leaders and foster their leadership skills through education, experience and exposure and service to the community. Mayor Hugh Hallman, along with Councilmembers Robin Arredondo-Savage and Corey Woods, greeted early morning volunteers as they registered for the event. Councilmember Joel Navarro visited busy wall painters on Rural Road to thank them for their service. The event brought families, social and service groups, neighbors, businesses and individuals together as teams to improve the community. Visitors to Benedict Park will now be shaded by new trees and will enjoy a cleaner park with the addition of 170 tons of granite rock. Tempe residents will see approximately 5,000 square feet of freshly painted walls along Rural and Kyrene roads, and Pepperwood neighbors now have cleaner alleys thanks to several dozen volunteers that walked the alleys picking up weeds and trash. Street numbers were painted
on the curbs of the Celaya Park Neighborhood to aide emergency response vehicles, and the Tempe Fire Department and volunteers from the Community Emergency Response Team installed or replaced smoke detectors in 180 houses. Tempe Cares would like to thank their dedicated group of volunteers: Architekton, Kiwanis Club, Tempe Youth Leadership, Tempe Leadership, Edward Jones, Del Rio LDS, Frontiers, Laura Kajfez and Group, Christ Life Church, Islamic Community Center, Faithfully City Church, Tempe High Key Club, Marcos de Niza High School I.C.E. and many other Tempe residents that assisted with the cleanup efforts. Tempe Cares would also like to thank the sponsors for all their donations without whose kind contributions this event would not have been possible: Tempe Leadership, Campus Corner, Wildflower Bread Company, Rosita’s Fine Mexican Food Restaurant, Islamic Community Center, Edward Jones, Caliente Construction, Home Co ACE Hardware, Chompie’s, Kaleidoscope Screen Printing, U.S. Waste, Quick Trip, City of Tempe, City of Mesa, Einstein Bros Bagels and Tempe Schools Credit Union. For more information about Tempe Cares, please visit www.tempeleadership.org.
Sean Donovan, Vice President Media and Program Development
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