FRIDAY, November 7, 2014
TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM / 1
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NOV•2014 EVENTS
CALENDAR
BUSINESS NETWORKING BREAKFAST Sponsored by: Wednesday, Nov. 12 6:45 am Location: Temple Chamber of Commerce
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY Nov. 29 Location: Your Local Community
DEC • 2014 BUSINESS LUNCH Tuesday, Dec.. 2, 12:00 pm Location: Temple Chamber of Commerce Sponsored by:
BUSINESS AFTER HOURSSponsored by: Tuesday, Dec. 2 5:00 pm Location: Frank W. Mayborn Civic & Convention Center
Salute to Business Speaker Announced Andrew Card, Jr., the second longest tenured White House Chief of Staff, will be the featured speaker during the Temple Chamber of Commerce Salute to Business, scheduled for Friday, January 30. This annual event will be held at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic & Convention Center. “We are extremely excited and grateful Mr. Card has accepted our invitation to address the Chamber membership and to join us as we honor all of our members who have contributed to our community’s growth, development and progress,” noted David Nix, The David Nix Agency, who serves as chair of the board for the Chamber of Commerce.
About the Salute to Business: Salute to Business is the business organization’s annual meeting where the leadership of the local chamber symbolically transfers from Nix to 2015 Chair of the Board, Harry Macey, Perry Office Plus. Sponsorships for the 2015 Salute to Business are now available by calling Mikie Cummings at the Temple Chamber of Commerce. For more information, please contact Sheila Poling, Temple Chamber of Commerce Events Coordinator, at (254) 773-2105, or email sheila@templetx.org.
“We are extremely excited and grateful Mr. Card has accepted our invitation to address the Chamber membership and to join us as we honor all of our members who have contributed to our community’s growth, development and progress.” - David Nix, Temple Chamber of Commerce Chair of the Board
Additional event details can be found on the Chamber’s website or by visiting their Facebook page.
www.templetx.org www.facebook.com/temple.chamber
Get Ready for Small Business Saturday! On Nov. 29, Help the Chamber Keep Holiday Shopping Local By: Vane Hugo, The Entrepreneur Center of Central Texas
BUSINESS NETWORKING BREAKFAST Wednesday, Dec. 10 6:45 am Location: Garden Estates of Temple Sponsored by:
Small Business Saturday is a shopping holiday held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
It is part of one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. First observed on November 27, 2010, it fits nicely between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Black Friday features big box retail while Cyber Monday supports ecommerce stores respectively. By contrast, Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local. In 2010, the holiday was conceived and promoted by American Express via a nationwide radio and television advertising campaign. That year, AMEX bought advertising inventory on Facebook, which it used to help promote to its small merchant account holders, by offering them free promotional advertising. AMEX also gave rebates to new cardholders to promote the event. American Express publicized the initiative using social
media, advertising, and public relations. A number of local politicians and many small business groups in the United States issued proclamations concerning the campaign. All-in-all the Small Business Saturday concept generated more than one million Facebook "likes" and about 30,000 tweets. The count now is over 3.33 million likes. The story of America is written in small businesses. It’s written in the cafes where we met our first love. And in the boutiques where we buy our babies’ clothes. On Nov 29, be there for the businesses that are there for you to help write the next chapter.
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