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Blood Drive

 

Dirty Hands Garden Center
Donate blood with The VIRGINIA BLOOD SERVICES Friday June 26th at the Dirty Hands Garden Center.
The Blood Mobile will be there from 11am to 3pm 
Please sign up for an appointment  to donate with Claudia Swanson at 598-8945
Also visit www.vablood.org
 
Each week three donors will be selected to receive a $200 VISA gift card.

Performing Arts Foundation

 Applause Unlimited
presents
 "The Magic of Hans Christian Andersen"
Saturday, June 27th 11am at
the Village Building
3900 Old Buckingham
Tickets $5 for ages
5 yrs - Kindergarten
and Families
Free Cartwheels Bus and a sweet treat after the show
 
call 598-5553
 
 
Appreciate your Customers!!!!!!!
 4th Friday Vouchers for Chamber Businesses
voucher sample 
 Do you want to show your customers how much you appreciate the
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Chamber businesses are now able to gift
 4th Fridays tickets to their customers and only be billed for those actually used.
The tickets are only $3 and your customers feel like a VIP when they arrive.
A great customer appreciation gift and a wonderful way to spread the word about our newest Chamber Event!!
 
Contact James Babcock with Richardson Harris Boatwright Insurance for more information on how to get your vouchers
 
 James Babcock
387-9149
Chamber Monthly Luncheon

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Thursday,July 16

 Join us  at the County Seat Restaurant for our monthly Chamber Networking Luncheon
 
July 16th starting at 11:30 and lunch buffett starts at 12 noon. 
Lunch is $8.00 a person paid to the County Seat Restaurant. 
RSVP please to this email or to the office 598-2636
Our networking begins when you walk in the door and put on your name tag.  Have your business cards ready and any other promotional materials you would like to share. 
 
Our Speaker this Month will be
Tom Davidson
 
Tom Davidson is a leadership coach and professional speaker on leadership and communications; his most requested topic is "Boomers, Geeks and Geezers:  Leadership and Communications across the Generations."  
 
As always if your business would like to donate a door prize for the luncheon contact Diane and Tina  Chamber office
598-2636 
June 26, 2009 
Powhatan 4th Fridays
 anne conCome Join the FUN!!
 
Our Second 4th Fridays event will be this Friday at Friday Park behind the South Creek Food Lion.
Tomorrow, Friday June 26th!
The band playing will be  E3 
 
http://www.choiceentertainment.com/band_info.cfm?bandID=179
E3 pic
Our non-profit organization this month is
Blessed Sacrament Huguenot.
Sponsors for this month are
Mikkon Construction
Richard McMinn III CPA
Napier Realtors
Jord Construction 
Admission
$3.00
($1 of this goes to the non profit of the month) )
 
James River Cellars Winery at 4th Fridays
Take a bottle of your favorite wine home
To reserve any of their 16 wines call 550-7516 before 12 noon on Friday and reference 4th Fridays event
They will have it for you to take home with you.
 
Interested in showing your clients how much you appreciate their business: see the information about the VIP vouchers in this email.
 
SPOTLIGHT
 James riverJames River Grounds Management 
 
James River Grounds Management, Inc. has been providing quality landscape management to a predominately commercial client base since 1989. Our team approach heightened by our focus on customer service and full accountability has made us the leading private landscape management provider in Virginia.

Our services include:

  •  Grounds Maintenance
  •  Ornamental Plant Health Care
  •  Landscape Installation
  •  Landscape Enhancements
  •  Landscape Design
  •  Grading
  •  Horticultural Consultation
  •  Irrigation
  •  Holiday Decorating
  •  Snow Removal
  •  Arbor Care
  •  Drainage
  •  Parking Lot Sweeping
  •  Soil Testing & Analysis

Jason Strohman is the Branch Manager of our Powhatan Office. He has been in the landscape business for over 15 years and is an ISA Certified Arborist.

 
Our Powhatan Branch is located at
2408 New Dorset Circle
Phone 598-2725. Fax 598-3054

Customer Appreciation Week

Mary Kay Logo

 
 
3rd Annual Customer Appreciation Day
June 25th
 
Here's the SCOOP for AWESOME savings!!
Place your order between 6am-9am......30% discount
Place your order between 9-am-12pm.....20% discount
Place your order between 12pm-3pm....15% discount
Place your order after 3pm......10% discount
**Refer a friend (new MK customer) and receive $5 off each referral
**Receive a FREE gift with purchase for each order of $40 or more
**Special promotions/discounts will not be applied
 
Place your orders by:  phone, email, text, or website
(804) 615-1348
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Mary Kay Cosmetics
Independent Future Sales Director
Tickled Pink Unit in-the-making
Cell 615-1348 or
 Office 598-5896
www.marykay.com/michellewalters 

 
Chamber Seminar

 The Powhatan Chamber of Commerce is excited to offer you a free seminar about one of our most favorite and most affordable tools: 
8: 00 am to 9:30 am

The Power of Email Marketing:
Best Practices in Email Marketing
for Entrepreneurs, Associations, Chambers, Non-Profits, and Small Business
 Gina Const Cont
Gina Watkins of Constant Contact 
Please join us Wednesday, July 8
 
Powhatan Public Library-large conference room
8:00 am to 9:30 am
and
9:45 am to 11:15 am 

Build the relationships that are the key to your business success with easy, inexpensive and highly effective email marketing! In this seminar, we will provide tips to increase your email deliverability and open rates, write good headlines and content, and perhaps most importantly, strategies for getting -- and keeping -- high quality prospects, customers and members. You will learn how to:
* Become a trusted email sender in the eyes of your prospects, customers, and members.
* Build your list! How to find and keep email list subscribers.
* Get your sent emails opened and read.
* Turn your readers into more frequent buyers/supporters/donators.
* Target your communications -- how to get the right message to the right people at the right time
* Use email communications to improve customer/member loyalty.

9:45 - 11:15
Getting Started with Email Marketing & Constant Contact (Live Demo)

You've learned about best practices - now take the next step! Getting Started will help you create and enhance your first email marketing campaigns - we'll provide tips, techniques and guide you through the tools and features in the Constant Contact system. You'll learn how to set up account options, add signup boxes to your website and emails, load a list, build a campaign, brand your email to match websites and logos. We will also go over text editing and other shortcuts to save time and give your emails a polished, professional look. You'll also learn tips on how to develop content, get your email opened, and track results.
 
RSVP by responding to this email
or call Diane and Tina at the Chamber office
598-2636 

Powhatan Chamber of Commerce

598-2636
 
Tina Bustos Executive Director
Diane Mishico Assistant Exec. Dir.