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Chamber Members- M2M is almost here!!
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M2M, Member to Member, is a unique discount program available only to current Chamber Member Businesses and their employees. The program allows Chamber Member Businesses to offer exclusive discounts to fellow member businesses and their employees. Participation in this program helps you maximize your membership investment in several ways:
1) Increase Visibility: All participating businesses will have the M2M logo added to their current online directory listing, as well as a secondary listing added to the M2M homepage!
2) Free Advertising: Participating businesses and their exclusive discount offering will be highlighted in all "Prospective Member" and "New Member" kits. Take advantage of this direct marketing opportunity!
3) Support Local Business: Employees of member businesses can help create a strong, local economy by patronizing Chamber Member Businesses AND save money by taking advantage of these exclusive discounts!
M2M will be launching in early June. If you are interested in participating in this program, send an e-mail to dianna@chambermv.org including the following information: Your business info, contact info and the discount you would like to offer.
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Welcome New Members
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Alpine Animal Hospital
Avid Technology, Inc
Color Story Studio, LLC
Cubes & Crayons, LLC
East West Bookstore
Jumpstart Medicine
Innovae Designs
Mr. Nate Schloss
Office Depot
Prosperity Focus, LLC
Sakoon
Send Out Cards
Spectrum Fine Homes, Inc
Team Logic IT
The Car Doctor
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Community Events |
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May 8
Spring Employee Benefits Symposium
8:00am - 2:00pm
Double Tree Hotel in San Jose
Contact Rhiannon for more details at rhiannon@schuins.com
May 9
Community Yard Sale
Rengstorff Park, located at 201 S. Rengstorff near Central Expressway. Join over 100 vendors in the park for hot food and bargains! Info
May 14
FREE Educational Breakfast: Using the Business Journal in your JOB SEARCH
8:00am-9:00am
Red Rock Coffee House
201 Castro Street, Mountain View
May 16-17
A la Carte & Art
10:00am - 6:00pm
Castro Street, Mountain View more info
May 23
Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration
3:30pm- 6:30pm
Civic Center Plaza, beteween City Hall and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
May 30-31
Mountain View Relay for Life
Cuesta Park, Mountain View
June 6
"Thrill of the Hill" - Silicon Valley Soap Box Derby
9:00am - 5:30pm
100 Dana Street, Mountain View
Community News
Hats Off to Teachers Members of the Mountain View Chamber are invited to become a part of the Hats Off to Teachers program which is a new initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network.
You can make a public statement of support for teachers and at the same time receive free online advertising. This website www.Hatsofftoteachers.org will offer discounts and services to teachers in the Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. You simply indicate the type of discount you are offering to teachers and once signed up, your business and your website will be featured... more
View the latest issue for a quick command of community happenings that are related to business development in the City of Mountain View.
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How to Outperform & Outlast your Competition by Embracing Change
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 11:00am-1:00pm
Location: Chamber Boardroom
Join us in this month's workshop, presented by David Joud of Dynamic Strategic Alignment, that will help improve some of the most crucial aspects of becoming a successful business professional. In this workshop you will learn:
- What are the obstacles that you are facing in your company or industry that your competition is not?
- How do you define your competitive edge in your industry and in your business?
One strategy that will yield additional business.
How to plan using this strategy for your business and set it in motion.
Results: several methods to stay focused and motivated to reach the results you are planning for.
Also coming up... May 21, 2009
Filling your sales funnel and keeping it full! No more roller coaster!
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Chamber Takes Positon on Special Election Propositions
As the state approaches the Special Election Day on May 19th, many Californians will be casting their votes for the propositions introduced as an attempt to stabilize the state's unprecedented budget crisis. With much review and consideration, the Chamber's Business Interest and Public Policy Committee took a supporting stand on proposition 1A, 1B and 1C and decided to take no position on proposition 1D, 1E and 1F. During our legislative day in Sacramento on April 29th, our delegation met with several... more
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Logo Unveiled for 2009 Mountain View Art & Wine Festival
 The Chamber of Commerce Mountain View is pleased to unveil the official logo for the 2009 Art & Wine Festival created by Duarte Design.
"We're delighted with this year's logo and appreciative of our partnership with Duarte Design," said Chamber of Commerce CEO/President, Oscar Garcia.
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Women in Business Annual Scholarship Luncheon
Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 11:45am - 1:15pm
Michaels at Shoreline - 2690 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View
Join us Tuesday, May 12th at the Women in Business Annual Scholarship Luncheon Dreams Come True When You Believe in YOU hosted by the Santa Clara Valley Water District & Microsoft.
Sharon Williams, Executive Director of JobTrain, will talk about her experiences at JobTrain with people whose lives were in downward spirals, but who turned their lives around to succeed. Life's turning points emerge from almost any circumstance, but real change is launched when a person becomes confident in his or her own potential.... more |
Business Mixer
Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 5pm - 7pm
Location: Crestview Hotel - 901 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View
 Together with Crestview Hotel, we invite you to this month's mixer to enjoy an evening of making new contacts in a relaxed, fun, and friendly environment, while enjoying cocktails and appetizers. Admission is $5 for Chamber members & $20 for non-Chamber members; payable at the door or RSVP here.
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What do Business Need Today? More Business.
Chamber of Commerce Mountain View proudly presents Business ConneXions, a forum for our members to grow their businesses by exchanging leads and referrals while building their network of business connections... Learn more |
YIPEE Networking Mixer @ Cubes & Crayons
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Cubes & Crayons - 152 E. Dana Street, Mountain View
 Come out to the YIPEE networking mixer at the Cubes & Crayons on Thursday, May 28th. Enjoy an evening of cocktails and appetizers.
This YIPEE mixer will help you network - by mixing with colleagues and making new contacts in a relaxed, fun, and friendly environment, creating professional business connections and building your array of power partners -- businesses that compliment yours. Remember to bring plenty of business cards! RSVP here
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Chamber Offers Trip to China
 There is still space available in our upcoming trip to China. The trip is from October 19 - 27, 2009. The nine day trip is $1,799.00 and includes airfare, 4 or 5 star hotel rooms, 3 meals per day and entrance fee into numerous tourist attractions. We will visit a jade factory, a pearl farm and a green tea farm. We will see how silk-worms make strands of silk and how it is turned into silk comforters. We will climb on the Great Wall, walk across Tiananmen Square and go inside the Forbidden City. Don't miss this chance to go on the trip of a lifetime. RSVP Today!
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Making the "Impossible" by Thinking Possible
David Joud, Dynamic Strategic Alignment
"For the world is full of zanies and fools who don't believe in sensible rules, and don't believe what sensible people say," wrote Rodgers & Hammerstein, in their lyrics to the 1964 movie Cinderella. "And because these daft and dewey-eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes, impossible things are happening everyday!"
While most of us are not concerned with turning pumpkins into carriages, our businesses and our lives could be transformed just as powerfully by thinking "impossible" thoughts... more
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Ambassador of the Month Spotlight
 Name: David Joud Business: Dynamic Strategic Alignment
Web: www.dsalignment.com
Tell us more about your business: We are a Business coaching company, and we focus on developing Local businesses, as well as corporations in High Tech, Bio-Tech and pharmaceutical industry.... more about David
*We thank David for his commitment to the Chamber.
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Sincerely,
Chamber of Commerce Mountain View
The Chamber of Commerce Mountain View is a business organization working for the mutual benefit of its members and the community by enhancing an environment in which business can succeed. |
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