[wmm] Reminder: WMM Dec 28, 2011 8am at Mo's
Vetter, George
georgevetter at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 19:27:20 CST 2011
Reminder: Tommorrow is Wednesday and the WMM at 8am at Mo’s. Please bring your coffee cup and your laptop.
Wednesday Morning Meeting (round-table discussion, everyone welcome)
Date: 12/21/2011 8am
Location: Mo’s
Number in attendance: 14
Present: BobNer, LisaS, StephanieA, BrentD, BrianO, JohnB, SusanB, GaryH, LindaD, WendyH, JerryM, MichaelF, TracyMc. GeorgeV
Absent: Everybody else
Notes by George Vetter
Discussion Items:
1. Cannon Refurbishment
2. Annie at Coaster Theatre
3. Whale Watching Spoken Here
4. Tolovana Chamber Music Jan 3
5 Lecture Series at Libary
6. Senator Merkley in Cannon Beach Jan 12
7. Chamber website ready for action
8. Chm Board position open
9. Business After Hours
10. Seaside Visitors Guide is at printers
11. Savor Cannon Beach March 8-11
12. Prime Retail/Gallery Space For Lease
13. EVOO Post Christmas Dinners Mon-Wed
14. Social Media Time
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 28, 2011, Mo’s, 8am Bring an Internet device (wireless is available) and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s
1. StephanieA: The History Center is fundraising to come up with $20K needed to send our cannon to Texas A&M for refurbishment. No they don’t plan to use it, just preserve it. www.cbhistory.org.
2. GaryH: Annie Get Your Gun play at the Coaster till the end of the month. See www.coastertheatre.com.
3. GaryH: Oregon State Parks will have interpreters at lookout points Dec 26 to Dec 31 with Whale Watching Spoken Here signs posted. The whales are headed south. http://whalespoken.org
4. GaryH: Tickets are on sale for a Jan. 3 concert at the Coaster Theater. The Tolovana Arts Colony presents a chamber music concert with pianist Mitchell Vines and others. http://www.tolovanaartscolony.org
5. GaryH: Haystack Rock Awareness Program Lecture Series: Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 Katie Volke, Executive Director, N C Land Conservancy “Conservation Connections: NCLC celebrates 25 years on the Oregon Coast” http://friendsofhaystackrock.org
6. BrentD: Senator Jeff Merkley will be here for a town hall meeting at the Chamber on Jan 12 from 4-6pm.
7. BrentD: The new Chamber website is ready for member to jump in and enhance their listings, add events, and give feedback to the Chamber. Contact Brent to get your member login. The members sections will contains committee information including minutes. brent at cannonbeach.org.
8. LisaS: Lori Courtwright has left her employ at Bank of Astoria after 13 years for health and family reasons and has therefore resigned her position on the Chamber Board. Any member interested in serving is encouraged to state their desire in a letter or email to chamber at cbor.us The term runs till the next election in June.. The Board consists of Carol Hungerford (Pres), Brian Olson (VP), George Vetter (Treas), Lisa Sarish (Secr) Tracy Abel, Jim McDonald, Christen Allsop, Rich Mays.
9. LisaS: The monthly Business After Hours schedule is open. Contact chamber at cbor.us if you would like to host an event. It does not have to be extravagant. Several businesses could join together to host one.
10. GaryH: The 2012 Seaside Visitors Guide is off to the printer leaving Gary and his staff focused on Cannon Beach Magazine. You may still be able to coax Gary into letting you place an ad even though the deadline has come and gone. Gary and staff are now doing all the creative and promotional materials for the City of Seaside’s Visitors Bureau.
11. GaryH: Savor Cannon Beach 2012 is building. Festival tickets ($99) are limited to 100 and have sold out in advance in past years, so tickets to individual events will only be available at the door if space permits. Up to 400 additional tickets will available for just the Saturday Wine Tour (20+ Wineries) and will be available at a later date. http://savorcannonbeach.com. Let Gary know what you have planned info at savorcannonbeach.com
12. GeorgeV: The former El Mundo space at Village Centre is for lease. 1700 sq ft right on Hemlock with double-door entry, skylight, vaulted ceiling, storeroom, bathroom and good karma. Other Village Centre spaces also available – george at cannon-beach.net. 503-739-1415. See some Village Centre images in a slideshow at www.cannon-beach.net/vcinn/slideshow
13. BobNer: EVOO has 6 seats remaining for each of the three days after Christmas – Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. www.evoo.biz.
14. GeorgeV: The last 15 minutes of today’s meeting was spent on FaceBook and Twitter. Mo’s new wireless service is working perfectly. GaryH led off by reminding everyone of the importance of using social media for more than just a way to broadcast your messages.”Like” people who “like” you and share and comment their postings. Think of it as a network where everyone is helping everyone else. Go to the pages of people who “like” you and look at the list of people who “like” them. “Like” those that you like. When you “like” a post, your “like” is not shared, only when you “share” a post is it shared. In order for social media to do us the most good, we need to spread our messages out over time and not all at once. For example, Gary posted about Savor Cannon Beach last week and for a short time it was shared everywhere, but then like a flash in the pan, it was gone. To get more exposure, we need to schedule out posts and “likes” and “shares” and comments so we keep the info in the current flow. This is something we can coordinate at our WMM sessions. Do come next week with your laptops and plan to advance your knowledge and understanding of social media. And your business!!
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 28, 2011, Mo’s, 8am. Bring your laptop and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Wednesday Morning Meeting (round-table discussion, everyone welcome)
Date: 12/14/2011 8am
Location: Mo’s
Number in attendance: 17
Present: LisaS, LindaD, KeithC, BrentD, TracyMc, KevinL, WendyH, BrianO, JohnB, BobNer, CarolHun, MikeF, RobertK, JerryM, RobS, JamieS GeorgeV
Absent: Everybody else
Notes by George Vetter
Discussion Items:
1. CEDR
2. Festival of Trees Concert Report
3. Business after Hours – Report
4. Coastal Harvest of Giving Report
5 Wireless Coming to Mo’s
6. Christmas Day Dinner at EVOO
7. CB Elementary Closure?
8. Intern at Chamber
9. Cannon Beach Lit Up
10. “Living Social” Alternative
11. Weather Reports
12. Tide Tables
13. Christmas Dinner at Local Restaurants
14. Shop Small
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 21, 2011, Mo’s, 8am Bring an Internet device (wireless will be available) and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s
2. KevinL: Working with Brent at the Chamber to come us with ideas for future seminars in Cannon Beach with CEDR (Clatsop Co Economic Development Resources) To Learn more about business counseling and workforce management services, contact 503.338.2402, or sbdc at clatsopcc.edu.
2. JohnB: Cannon Beach Chorus’ concert at the Festival of Trees in Seaside was a great success.
3. BrianO: Business after Hours by Cannon Beach Vacations Rentals was a big hit – 70-80 people stopped by for food drink and Holiday cheer.
4. BobNer: The 2nd Annual Coastal Harvest of Giving benefit for the Clatsop County Food Bank raised $45K. .
5. LisaS: As of later today, Mo’s will have wireless Internet. Bring your laptops next week for some social media posting and sharing
6. BobNer: There are just six seat remaining for Christmas Dinner at EVOO. 503-436-8555 info at evoo.biz.
7. WendyH: There was heated discussion last night at City Hall regarding the potential closure of Cannon Beach Elementary. It is estimated that the old structures and awnings would not stand in an earthquake of the magnitude expected. Even if it did, the short legs of the young children could not carry them to safety in time to escape an ensuing tsunami. The council feels obligated in light of the warnings being sounded by scientists to recommend to the School District closure of the school. Seaside could currently accommodate the students. The council will consider the resolution at its Jan 3 meeting.
8. GeorgeV: A new face can be seen at the Chamber on Tues and Thur pm’s – Chris Mullen – a CCC accounting student is doing his internship with Brent at the Chamber.
9. GeorgeV: Cannon Beach is lit up for the season. For a slideshow to share with your clients and friends find the link at www.cannon-beach.net. If you’re out after dark, drive by the Stephanie Inn. Awesome! An image of it posted on www.facebook.com/cannonbeachnet four days ago has already garnered 42 likes, 22 shares and 15 comments. Chime in. Spread the word.
10. RobS: Here’s a new idea as a local alternative to “Living Social” and “Groupon” Example: Offer a room at a hotel for $100 with $100 worth of shopping/dining vouchers. The hotel would receive $50 of the $100 and each business whose voucher was used would receive 50% of its value. This is not a way to make money, but is a way to bring in new business that would hopefully become regular customers. Rob would also use theidea to subscriptions to his Oregon Coast Magazine. Wendy and some others said that people using these kind of promotions don’t come back except for another promotion of similar nature. Tracy said that this has worked for CB Hotel Lodgings.
11. RobertK: After a year of having CB Treasure Co here, it has become apparent that the Portland weather people often mistakenly report bad weather for the coast. Can we all begin to post and tweet what the weather really is? Send people to the live web cam for Channel 6 located at Tolovana Inn - http://weather.weatherbug.com/OR/Cannon%20Beach-weather/weather-cams/local-cams.html
12. GeorgeV: Several years ago, after considerable research and observation by various people it was concluded that the tides that correspond most closely with Cannon Beach are those measured by NOAA at the North Jetty of the Columbia River. Because of the many factors that influence tides from one location to another, they cannot be predicted by interpolating. NOAA only predicts tides where they measure them. They do not measure them in Cannon Beach. The North Jetty of the Columbia River are the tides published in the Cannon Beach Magazine, the Chamber website and on www.Cannon-Beach.net.
13. JerryM: The Wayfarer Restaurant will be open for Christmas Dinner. Make reservations now 503-436-1108. Other restaurants to be open are the Pig and Morris’s
14. GeorgeV: There has been considerable attention paid to campaigns to “Shop Local”. If these campaigns were 100% effective, most of us would be out of business. There aren’t enough residents to support all of us. What we should be campaigning for is to “Shop Small”. Wal-Mart, Kmart, Costco, Target, etc, etc, etc have succeeded at the expense of millions of small retailers. Put some signs up in your store that encourage people to “Shop Small”
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 21, 2011, Mo’s, 8am. Bring an Internet device and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s.
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Wednesday Morning Meeting (round-table discussion, everyone welcome)
Date: 12/07/2011 8am
Location: Mo’s
Number in attendance: 17
Present: JimK, BrianO, JohnB, DebbieN, BrentDm, LenoreEm, BobNer, DanM, GaryH, WendyH, SusanBo, GenevieveJ, AlexK, CarmenS, KathyK, JeffT, GeorgeV
Absent: Everybody else
Notes by George Vetter
Discussion Items:
1. New at today’s Meeting
2. Chamber’s New Website
3. Business after Hours – Thurs 4p
4. CB Chorus Concert at SS Conv Ctr
5 Coastal Harvest of Giving – Thurs 5-9p
6. Holiday Open House
7. Holiday Body Products Class
8. ‘Venues’ – Event Space Guide
9. Savor Cannon Beach Mar 8-11
10. Savor NW
11. CB Mag Final Notice
12. Push those 2011 CB Magazines
13. Lodging Tax Revenue up 4% for Qtr
14. City Potluck Mon Dec 12
15. Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
16. Interacting on Facebook
17. WiFi at Tolovana Inn
18. Christmas Promotion at George Vetter FotoArt
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 14, 2011, Mo’s, 8am Bring an Internet device and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s
3. New at Today’s Meeting – Alex Kang – new manager at Mo’s. Alex is living in Beaverton and commuting to Cannon Beach. He has managed at Shari’s and Jack In The Box. 503-436-1111 moscan at pacifier.com
2. BrentD: New Chamber Website is a work in progress. Feedback is needed. Members are to contact Brent to get their username and password and to receive training (approx ½ hour). Training in ongoing on Monday mornings – brent at cannonbeach.org 503-436-2623. Member info will go on live as members add content to their area. Members can submit events. Event submissions will be filtered by Brent and Sharon. www.cannonbeach.org
3. BrianO: Tomorrow, Dec 8 will be the CB Vacation Rentals Business after Hours at Linda’s Christmas house at 3663 S Hemlock at Tyee St in Tolovana – 400p.
4. JohnB: Cannon Beach Choral Concert Dec 9 at 7pm during Festival of Trees at SS Convention Ctr. Saturday night is the Festival of Trees event.
5. BobNer: Eight volunteers for plate up (servers) are needed tomorrow (Thurs Dec 8) from 5-9p at the Surfsand Ballroom for Coastal Harvest of Giving. You’ll be fed. Contact Bob info at evoo.biz 503-436-8555
6. GenevieveJ: Holiday Open House at Acupuncture & Natural Medicine Clinic Monday Dec 12, 12-3pm.
7. GenevieveJ: Holiday Body Products Class Sunday Dec 11 12-330pm. $25 Call 503-436-2255 or email cannonbeachacupuncture at gmail.com to RSVP by Friday Dec 9. Bring a vegan dish to share.
8. SusanB: Ad deadline for space in the VENUES is Dec 20. 10K copies to be printed by Coast River Business Journal. www.crbizjournal.com
9. GaryH: Savor Cannon Beach is March 8-11. Send your info to info at savorcannonbeach.com. Find info on twitter – savorcb and on Facebook – savorcannonbeach.
10. GaryH: Savor NorthWest is an idea that Gary is rolling out today. It is a wine competition to crown the best wine. It will precede Savor Cannon Beach and serve as a lead into it. www.savorNW.com
11. GaryH: The ad deadline for Cannon Beach Magazine is past, but if you get to Gary now, you can still get in. gary at coastexplorermagazine.com
12. GaryH: It’s time to push the remaining CB Magazines out the door. Ideally, the 2011 magazines are gone up just as the new ones arrive. Pick up a stack for your business at the Chamber and get them into the hands of visitors so they don’t end up at the Cannon Beach Recycle Depot.
13. WendyH: The quarter ending Sept 30th saw a 4% increase in Lodging tax. Some of this increase is because it was just a year ago that the tax was increased by 1% and rooms that were booked prior to the effective date were exempt from the increase.
14. WendyH: The City potluck is Monday Dec 12 at 6pm at the Chamber Community Hall. Learn more about the Tsunami options.
15. GeorgeV: The last 15 minutes of WMMs will be devoted to social media/networking. The goal is to better leverage social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) for our events and our businesses. Part of the time will be spent learning from each other and part posting and sharing info.
16. GaryH: Using Facebook as a broadcast station for one’s own business is not enough. It’s important to “like” other businesses, “comment” on their sites and “share” posts from their sites. This serves to spread the info to many more people. You are helping yourself at the same time you are helping others.
17. GeorgeV: Mo’s does not have WiFi. Alex says there are no plans to get it. George will ask Jim at Tolovana Inn if WMMs can take place there so WiFi can be used for the social networking.
18. Shop Small, Shop Local. Mention this promotion at George Vetter FotoArt for some very special locals pricing. Ask for Lo.
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 14, 2011, Mo’s, 8am. Bring an Internet device and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s.
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Wednesday Morning Meeting (round-table discussion, everyone welcome)
Date: 11/30/2011 8am
Location: Tolovana Inn
Number in attendance: 21
Present: WendyH, JohnB, BrianO. RobS, LisaS, BrentD, JamieS, ShandaB, JonR, SusanB, JimMc, MichaelF, KathyK, CarolH, LindaD, JoyceS, StephanieA, MargoD, CarmenS, MelodyC, GeorgeV
Absent: Everybody else
Notes by George Vetter
Discussion Items:
1. New at today’s Meeting
2. Business After Hours
3. CB Choral Concert at SS Conv Ctr
4. Chamber Website Launches today
5 1st Saturday Art Walk in SS
6. Mo’s Construction postponed
7. Mimosa Madness Recap
8. Live Channel 6 TV cam at Tolovana Inn
9. WOW Recap Mtg Tues 10am Ocean Lodge
10. Maggie & Henry Gently Used Clothing Promo
11. Lamplighting this Saturday
12. Online Calendar at Northwest Magazines
13. QR Codes in CB Mag
14. Holiday Parties at Pizza a Fetta
15. Photo Competition – Seaside
16. North Coast Rotary Organizational Mtg tomorrow
17. Melody’s Nursing Museum Featured in OR Home Mag
18. December Dinner Shows at EVOO
19. Christmas Promotion at George Vetter FotoArt
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 7, 2011, Back at Mo’s, 8am Bring an Internet device and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s
4. New at Today’s Meeting – Jamie Spainhower – new editor at the Cannon Beach Gazette. Jamie has a history of working at weekly publications. She comes to us from Eugene. She is living in Cannon Beach with her dog.
2. BrianO: Dec 8 will be the CB Vacation Rentals Business after Hours at Linda’s Christmas house at 3663 S Hemlock at Tyee St in Tolovana – 400p
3. JohnB: Cannon Beach Choral Concert Dec 9 at 7pm during Festival of Trees at SS Convention Ctr.
4. BrentD: The new Chamber website will launch today. www.cannonbeach.org. The site is a work in progress and feedback is encouraged. Member usernames and passwords are not ready yet. A web app tied into the main site/database will be brought out as soon as Weblinks can get to it. Probably a month or more. JonR: Seaside rolled out their app in June and has had approx 3000 downloads.
5. JonR: This Saturday is the 1st Saturday Artwalk in Seaside.
6. LisaS: We can meet again next week at Mo’s. Their construction has been postponed till next year.
7. WendyH: Retail stores appeared to be busy when Wendy was downtown early on Friday. John and Brian said they had lodging guests here for the event and really liked it KathyK: The media weather people were not on our side. GeorgeV: The Mimosa Madness shoppers did not show up in my gallery. Those few that came in were out sipping their morning coffee and were not shopping or interested in mimosas.
8. JimMc: See the live web cam for Channel 6 located at Tolovana Inn - http://weather.weatherbug.com/OR/Cannon%20Beach-weather/weather-cams/local-cams.html.
9. WendyH: There will be a WOW recap meeting Tuesday Dec 6 at 10am at the Ocean Lodge. All are welcome.
10. MargoD: Maggie and Henry’s is accepting gently used clothing which will be donated to a local charity (probably Women’s Resource Center). Receive 20% off your purchase in exchange for your donation.
11. MargoD: This Saturday at 4pm is the Annual Lamplighting at Sandpiper Square. Two 5th Graders will light the lamp again this year. Post this on your Facebook – www.facebook.com
12. RobS: Submit events to the Oregon Coast calendar at http://www.northwestmagazines.com/oregon_coast_events_calendar.php. Mimosa Madness was not on the calendar because it was not submitted.
13. GeorgeV: In a recent CB Magazine Review, I suggested including a QR code next to the Chamber web address. All business should be including QR codes on their printed materials. (explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code) I generated one for Cannon-Beach.Net at http://qrcode.kaywa.com. To get a QR Code Reader for your smartphone, go to your app store. The free one I downloaded has ads at the bottom of the screen. Google “QR Code generator” to find a site to generate a QR code for your site. JonR: Try to find a site that includes analytics so you can track usage. Note: The site Rob and Jon mentioned – www.bit.ly, it not a QR Generator, but rather a site to shorten a URL – similar to www.tinyurl.com
14. KathyK: James at Pizza a Fetta sent flyers encourages businesses to consider an affordable Holiday Party in their upstairs banquet room. 503-338-2294. www.pizza-a-fetta.com
15. JonR: Call for submissions – Still Photography and Videography. See http://bit.ly/ONCPhoto.
16. JoyceS: Want to help in your community? And give back. Organizing meeting Thursday Dec 1, 530 pm at South Campus of CCC. 1455 N Roosevelt Dr, Seaside. Joyce.Stuber at steerlingsavings.com 503-738-8341
17. MelodyC: The Nursing Museum will be featured in the Feb-Mar Issue of Oregon Home Magazine. The Museum is not yet open but plans to do so on May 12, 2012
18. ShandaB: For EVOO’s December dinner shows and their Christmas Eve menu see www.evoo.biz
19. Shop Small, Shop Local. Mention this promotion at George Vetter FotoArt for some very special locals pricing. Ask for Lo.
Next Wednesday Morning Meeting – Dec 7, 2011, Back at Mo’s, 8am. Bring an Internet device and bring your own coffee cup. Coffee and tea provided courtesy of Mo’s.
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Note: For notes to prior meetings go to www.cannon-beach.net/wmm
If the link fails, type the address into your address bar.
George Vetter
Cannon-Beach Net
231 N Hemlock, Box 164
Cannon Beach, OR 97110
503-436-1520 cell:739-1415
george at cannon-beach.net
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