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November 7 4:30 - 8:00 p.m.  

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October 12 Luncheon "Fusion Marketing"   

At our luncheon October 12 at Spring Creek Church Diane Chamness of the Chamness Group

Diane Chamness,  414-271-7900

left us with a Fusion Marketing Template.  The template showed how to set up a fusion marketing arrangement with partners.

Koepp Realty Goes Back to Their Roots:  Koepp Realty     

Koepp Realty is celebrating over 65 years of Real Estate business in the Pewaukee, Waukesha County area.    

Koepp Realty was started prior to 1946 by Harry J. Koepp and was soon taken over by Harry J. Koepp, Jr., (commonly known as Jack Koepp). Jack operated as Koepp Realty from 1946 until 1979 when he decided to purchase a Century 21 franchise. In 1995 Bob Koepp took over management of the three generation family business. This year it was decided to drop the franchise and go back to their roots Koepp Realty.

Koepp Realty prides themselves on honest hard work. "you can't stay in business for over 65 years without satisfying your customers."

Bob, we hope to celebrate with you at this year's Christmas Party December 7 at Five O'Clock Club- see you there and at the Awards Dinner as well! You are our most loyal chamber member (since 1946).  

27 Pewaukee Chamber Members registered for Annual Multi Chamber Networking Event at Sheraton - Brookfield  

Executive Directors Pat Ornberg, Oconomowoc Chamber, Kathryn Wagner, Sussex Chamber and Events Coordinator Carolyn Hahn, Waukesha Alliance, registered their chamber members.  Kathy Eckhardt, Pewaukee Chamber, took the picture.

• American Republic Insurance
• Bank Mutual - Pewaukee
• Business Journal
• Freeman Newspaper
• Hau & Associates
• Innovative Client Solutions
• Inspired WebWorks
• Integrated Payroll Services, Inc.
• John's Duct Cleaning
• Lake Country Travel
• Lakeview Insurance
• Mangold Creative
• Maynard & Belt, CPA's
• Neighborhood Welcome 
• River Hills West Health Care Center
• Send Out Cards - Michele Feltz 
• Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group
• Zimmerman & Steber Law Firm 
   

Motif's Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Celebration      

The Pewaukee Chamber of Commerce hosted Costco's Grand Opening with additional support from Waukesha County Business Alliance and Brookfield Chamber of Commerce.  County Executive Dan Vrakas officially welcomed Costco to Waukesha County.  On hand were Village of Pewaukee President Tom Calder, former Village President Jeff Knutson and Village Trustees Dean Flowers, John Laimon and Paul Evert.  In addition, Senator Rich Zipperer (Pewaukee) and Representative Paul Farrow (Pewaukee) were present to greet customers. 

Costco's General Manager Doug Peters cuts the ribbon on Thursday October 27 at 7:30 a.m. signifying the Grand Opening of the new Village of Pewaukee Costco Store.  Costco is the third largest retailer in the world.

Alaska Cruise  offered by  Lake County Travel, 101 W. Wisconsin  

    Mt. McKinley in Alaska 

August 25, 2012

$1,575/pp excluding airfare

10 Nights - Land and Sea Vacation

Princess Cruise Line

Proceeds from this cruise will support Pewaukee Chamber of Commerce programs/activities. 

Print Flyer with details

First off, I think I can say this is official -  I'm on the Radio every Wednesday afternoon.  I am on WRJN - AM 1400 at 3:07(ish) to discuss what's going on in Social Media.   The segment is on Ted Ehlen's show and lasts approximately 10 minutes.  It does stream live on the internet www.wrjn.com     

Sue Gresham's firm, Innovative Client Solutions, provides social media training, speaking and consulting services.  

Grow Your Business  -

with help from Vince Lombardi

It's amazing how these Vince Lombardi Quotes apply to Growing Your Business as well as football!

"As soon as an error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.  Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.  Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten.  If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal."

"Figure out what you must control, and then control that."

"Don't succumb to excuses.  Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible."

"The big picture is your road map and rudder.  It can't change in response to minor setbacks."

"Every little knowledge about ourselves calls for corresponding endeavor and improvement."

"A goal without a purpose is like a boat without an anchor.  Remember why you chose that goal."

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

"Success comes from good judgment.  Good judgment comes from experience.  Experience comes from bad judgment." 

New Chamber Benefit Coming for Renewing Chamber Members (two years plus)   

Patty Gale of Inspired WebWorks announces a brand new benefit for 2nd year Chamber Members!  Be sure to read next month's newsletter for additional details.

Our Entrepreneur of the Year - "Becky's Blissful Bakery" adds Whole Foods to their client list

Spotlight on 2011 Pewaukee Chamber Ambassadors

The Ambassador Committee meets first Tuesday of each month over lunch at Chamber Office from 12-1.  We would love for you to join us.  Ambassadors orient new members and make calls to current members.  This month two new Ambassadors joined the Committee: James Wilde, Lake Country Travel and Patti Maynard, Maynard & Belt

featuring this month....  Alisha Schulz

Alisha and her husband, Jesse with their cat, Jasper, live in Mukwonago

I am the Assistant Manager at Associated Bank - Pewaukee. Because of the size of my branch, my role is to actually act as branch manager to allow the manager to be out pursuing new business. I enjoy working with people and helping them with their financial needs. My philosophy is always to put the customer first. I love my customers as well as my colleagues. My ongoing goal is to create a positive environment within my branch, which in turn creates a positive experience for our clients.

I graduated from UW-Milwaukee with a B.S. in Architecture and I'm looking to pursue an MBA. My husband, Jesse, is a Doctor of Physical Therapy at ProHealth. We live in Mukwonago, with October marking our 2nd year in our new home. We have been married almost 4 years and are starting to think about having children. We have a cat named Jasper, who loves fruit and always keeps us entertained. We enjoy spending time with family and friends, usually with a bottle of wine. And I am the all-star for Dance Central on Xbox Kinect. (Dance Central is a video game where you mirror the motions of the character on the tv, read by motion sensors.  It's pretty cool!)

Meet our Newest Chamber Members

MC Services

Ava Waterhouse, Marketing Manager
(262) 522-6950
www.mcservices.com

MC Services is a technology consulting firm that helps businesses of all sizes increase productivity and profitability with comprehensive technology solutions and support services.  Our specialties include Mac/PC integration, Apple technical training and Apple certification, network/server installation and support, Mac repair and FileMaker database development and training.

NX Level Sport Performance

Mary Konavaluk

W229 N1687 Westwood Drive

Waukesha, WI   53186

(262) 522-7888

www.nxlevelathletics.com  

NX Level is a family of athletes and adults who work in small groups with our performance coaches.  The holistic training methods used at NX Level enhance total body development, flexibility and conditioning; additional benefits include enhanced cardiovascular health, improved self-confidence, and a more positive attitude and self image.

SendOutCards

Michele Feltz

mfeltz3@wi.rr.com

(262) 719-5825

www.sendoutcards.com/michelefeltz 

SendOutCards is a greeting card service that allows you to create quality custom postcards/greeting cards from the convenience of your home/office computer with your own handwriting and signature.  We print, stuff, hand stamp and mail them for you!   

Allstate Insurance -  

Costigan & Associates   

James Costigan, Agency Principal

601 Ryan Street, Pewaukee

(262)695-1600

www.allstateagencies.com/jamescostigan   

Costigan & Associates is your local Allstate Agency looking to provide excellent service and help local families protect their businesses, cars and homes.

Neurological Wellness Clinic -

Dr. Sean Jochims, MC

2347 Silvernail Road, Pewaukee

(262) 522-3070

www.neurologicalwellness.com  

Neurological Wellness Clinic provides the latest in neurological technology and the highest quality care for adults, teens and children.  Neurological Wellness Clinic treats a wide variety of neurological conditions, from sleep disorders, epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease to peripheral neuropathies, muscle disease, neck and back pain.  

Thank You for Renewing Your Chamber Membership and Supporting Us!

The following Chamber Members are celebrating their one year anniversaries and have renewed their membership with us.  Thank you for supporting us!

Oakton Avenue Law Offices  

Salsa Cafe & Cantina

Inspired WebWorks

Frett Barrington, Ltd.

Arbor View of Pewaukee

Judson & Associates  

NovoPrint 

Lindy Enterprises, Inc. (Jim Lindenberg)

New 2011 Chamber plaques are still available if you want to update yours!    

Seeking Sponsorships for Community and Business Awards

Big Guy's Magic 

2011

Pewaukee Chamber Board of Directors 

2011 Pewaukee Chamber Board

November Calendar 

Picture:  L to R:  Representative Paul Farrow and Senator Rich Zipperer (both from Pewaukee) posed in this picture with Costco General Manager Doug Peters and Pewaukee Village President Tom Calder.  Paul Farrow and Rich Zipperer will entertain questions from the audience as part of their panel discussion, "Looking Ahead for Wisconsin"  at our November 9 luncheon at Country Springs.

Register Online for Nov 9 Luncheon 

Date:          Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Location:    Country Springs Hotel, 2810 Golf Road

Time:          11:15 Registration/Open Networking

                    11:45 Luncheon/Program Begins

Fee:             $20/members; $30/nonmembers

Topic:          Looking Ahead in Wisconsin

Panel Discussion with:Senator Rich Zipperer (R/Pewaukee), Representative Paul Farrow (R/Pewaukee), Senator Leah Vukmir, 5th Senate District, Southeastern D.O.T. Director Dewayne Johnson

Moderated by:  Paul  Decker, Strategic Consultant, WCTC

They will present their positions on areas involving finance, tax exemptions, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, education, health, housing, transportation and entertain questions from the audience.

Menu:  Balsamic Ranch Grilled Chicken and/or Vegetarian

"Give to Get"  

It works both ways.  You must "give to get".  Share with the rest of the chamber your testimonial, encouraging members to support each other

According to networking experts, one must "give to get" to reap the benefits  resulting in referrals, leads and ultimately "growing your business".   Here's the Chamber Members who shared with us how they are actively working this process. We applaud them for exemplifying the old fashioned principles that chambers were founded on.  Here's our Current List of Chamber Members for you to patronize.

 Current List of Chamber Members  

Fred Miller, Atalanta Consulting, went to Composure Graphics to have his business brochures updated and printed.  They did a fantastic job for a great price!

I purchased  $48.30 worth of paper and office supplies at Office Max and saved $63.48 - what a deal!  And I purchased a new office chair there as well - now I look forward to coming to work and relaxing in my new chair.  Kathy Eckhardt, Pewaukee Chamber 

Mike Poelzer, Spring Creek Church, reports that Peter Drees, Moe's Southwest Grill, has been exceptionally generous and creative with promotions to Spring Creek Church, especially  his willingness to provide a free meal to every Upward Soccer or Basketball Player who shows up at Moe's in uniform on game day.  This promotion to our league offers substantial value to our families and hopefully sends more business his way that would otherwise happen.  Moes has also created numerous events here at Spring Creek and has delivered a great product and experience every time. 

I'd like to give a shout out to Rebecca Scarberry, Becky's Blissful Bakery!  I use her caramels for my new client and referral gifts - making a sweet first impression on these new business engagements! And, Rebecca makes the process easy - 1 email to her and she ships off the gift with a personal note and my business card!  Heather Mangold, Mangold Creative LLC.        

I would lik to give special notice to Christina Dollins, Lakeview Insurance who  went out of her way above

and beyond. After seeing Christina's  name written on her large picture window  I wrote it down and gave her a call. I had been with my previous agent 6 years.  I was amazed at how quickly I could get a quote from Christina. Her words were true.  "You do not have to worry about this anymore!" She is quick, very through and I had my first policy in my hands thru the mail within three days. We went from 2 to 3 vehicles and my insurance dropped over $800 a year. Same coverage-Crazy savings. Since this she has taken over all our policies except for one as I have not made the time to drop it off for her review.  I saved about 30% total and she is so nice and quick. I can not thank her enough.  Katie Guindon, Design Xchange and Wooden Hanger  

When Mike Poelzer, Spring Creek Church, had an idea to create "Dads and Kid's Fishing Day" he approached John and Loie at Smokey's Muskie Shop.  They were excited to help him with the planning and execution of the event.  He rented 8 boats for a couple of hours in the morning.  John's staff did a great job preparing the boats and had clear instructions for all participants.  The group caught over 180 fish that day and both dads and kids can't wait for next year's event. 

Lake Country Travel:wishes to thank Chris Sherman & Tony Stone at AmeriSign & Graphics for redesigning and printing a beautiful new tri-fold brochure for our business partner - Hotel on the Bay in St. Croix.

Lake Country Travel would like to compliment Kim at EmbroidMe for  assisting us in getting new apparel with our logo stitched on them.  The finished pieces are AMAZING!

Jodi Keene, Mary Kay Cosmetics, thanks Jim Wilde from Lake Country Travel for using her Mary Kay packages for client Holiday gifts.

Andy Falk, owner of Lake Country Auto goes the extra step to service his customers.  My husband, Fred, brought in his Toyota Tacoma since it was making a stramge noise.  Andy discovered the problem - one that the Toyota dealer's computer couldn't find.  Thank you Andy for saving us a lot of money.  Kathy Eckhardt, Pewaukee Chamber  

Christina Dollins, Lakeview Insurance  would like to personally thank everyone who came to our open house, it was a HUGH success! I especially want to Thank Tat's from Big Guy Magic for coming and performing for us for a couple of hours, also Big Guy Magic for donating a TON of raffle prizes. Also, Kathy Oleinik for donating a gift certificate from Neighborhood Welcome.  I also would like to thank Kathy Johnson and North Shore Bank for the backpack cooler and Bank of Memories and Flowers for the BEAUTIFUL flowers that were delivered to our office on the day of our Open House, they are BEAUTIFUL!! 

Christina  also would like to thank Cathy Zmudzinski from Waukesha State Bank for placing her personal homeowners insurance with our agency, we appreciate her business and trust!  I would also like to thank  James Wilde at Lake Country Travel for solving our dilemmas for our Las Vegas trip. Without his assistance we might not be departing! 

Show us you support our Chamber Businesses by sending  your BUSINESS XCHANGE to info@pewaukeechamber.org to be included in the next newsletter         

From September biz Times - submitted by Jim Sajdak, President/CEO, Stan's Fit for Your Feet 

This is why we have created our own Pewaukee Chamber Coupon Book - to encourage our members and community to support each other! 

Keep the dollars in the community defines the unique character of Pewaukee.

We are putting together a "Chamber Member" only Value Book that will be sold by local non-profit organizations and business associations to the community of the Lake Country area to encourage consumers to "buy local".  The more money that stays in our community, the more we all prosper!

The only way this Value book will be possible is with Pewaukee Chamber Members advertising in it.  The cost is affordable for all size business, only $100 per year (valid through 12/31/2012), and your business will be exposed to current and potential new customers.  For every ad you place in the book you will receive 2 free books to hand out!  A minimum of 2,000 books will be printed and distributed.   

If you offer a serve that can't be discounted - think about cross marketing with another Chamber Business.  That's what we learned in the October Fusion Marketing luncheon.  We can give you ideas how to do this.

Please email your coupon to Christina Dollins. Actual coupon size will be 3x6" with an additional 2" tear off area to keep your information in the book after the coupon is used.  If you need help designing your coupon, please contact Christina Dollins at 262-264-0077 for referrals.

Print Flyer 

DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 30, 2011 

Article Written by Molly Newman, Staff Writer with BizTimes, Sept. 30 issue

Many would not expect yacht hardware amnufacturing to be a growth industry in the weak post-recession economy.  However, through a bold expansion and diversification plan, Pewaukee based Harken, Inc. is defying expectations.    Read on...    

" Our Chamber Heroes"

We thank the following Chamber Members for their outstanding support of the Pewaukee Chamber of Commerce

Christina Dollins, Lakeview Insurance, and Katie Cianciolo, Cruise One who together are creating our New Pewaukee Chamber Value Coupon books and hope to have them ready for the Holidays.  They also are spearheading the Fund Raising Committee for the Awards Dinner soliciting sponsorships, raffle and silent auction items.

Dinner Award Sponsorship Form 

Bonnie Lemmer and Yvette Bjorklund who volunteered to head the Theme, Sponsorship and Program Committee for the Awards Dinner. LaVonne Beecher, Abby Lorenz and Cathy Zmudzinski who also are heading up Award Dinner Committees. 

Fred Miller, Atalanta Consulting, who came to our rescue again going through the steps to troubleshoot our printer resulting in a free new one for us!

Kelli Belt, Maynard & Belt, who accepted our Treasurer position, is making many Quickbooks improvements (she also teaches Quickbooks at WCTC) and recently integrated our membership application into our website so that new members can sign up and pay online.  She soon will have us able to invoice and pay renewal dues from Chambermaster, our software.

Our New Membership Committee:  Chaired by Kathy Oleinik, Neighborhood Welcome with Members Jodi Keene, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Donna Armstrong, Conley Publications and Heather Curley, Composure Graphics.  

Ron Wurm, Design Wurm and Peter Fenelon, Composure Graphics, who create many of the advertisements and graphics in our monthly newsletters. 

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Our very own Abby Lorenz, PAAC, will entertain us with Christmas Carols at the piano.

Register Online for Christmas Party 

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

from Bree Ellefson (cat) &  

Melanie Thorne (bee) -

Judson & Associates 

   Pewaukee Kiwanis

Eric's Music and More 

Lakeview Insurance

Sara Investment Real Estate LLC

Questions to the Editor   

Young Scholars

Pewaukee Pediatrics

NX Level Sport Performance 

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