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Welcome to the Boulder County Independent Business Alliance Newsletter

Happy New Year,

Welcome to BIBA 2012. We are very excited about our plans and visions for this new year with more focus on BIBA member benefits. Your feedback, conversations, and engagement have helped define our goals. Join us for our events this month to learn more and to add your voice. We also invite you to email me your ideas.

'2011 in Review' below in this enews demonstrates some of the many successful events, campaigns, partnerships, and other efforts this past year. Thanks to everyone who has supported our local independent business community. We look forward to being more deeply involved with you and our community going forward.

Events This Month Boulder Outlook Hotel

Breakfast with BIBA: Sharing 2012 Resolutions

Tuesday, January 17, 8 - 9am

Boulder Outlook Hotel

You show me yours, we'll show you ours. Let's talk Resolutions...

At this month's morning social hour attendees will share their visions and goals for 2012 and BIBA will roll out our initial plans. Join us as we discuss ways to be more engaged and improve our involvement with each other and our community.

Also, we will introduce our "Hot Topics" segment, where we cover relevant news stories and other updates that pertain to giving your business the edge on local.

BIBA Gets Happy

Thursday, January 26, 5 - 7pm

Boulder Outlook Hotel

Campus Publishers, the publisher of 35 U.S. University Visitor Guides including CU, will host this month's get-together. Come learn how you can increase your business to the Buff Community through the University of Colorado's annual Official Visitor's Guide magazine.

Campus Publishers will also be offering a special discount for first-time BIBA advertisers, to find out more email Randy and mention BIBA.

2011 in Review

It is important to reminisce about the past year and look back at how much was accomplished in 2011. We had many successful events, campaigns, and partnerships with other organizations. It was impressive to see so much of the community come together to support our local economy and each other and we would like to thank you for your support of locally owned independent businesses in Boulder County. We would also like to take a moment to reflect on some of our efforts over the past year.

Our local campaign efforts included Buy Local, Eat Local, and Bank Local. Buy Local was supported by our media sponsors and Eat Local was led by Transition Colorado. The Move Your Money Campaign kicked off with our open forum event in May and we successfully inspired more residents to switch their banking to a local credit union or financial institution. We would like to thank Boulder Valley Credit Union and Elevations Credit Union for their support sponsoring the campaign.

In addition to our monthly networking and educational events we participated in many important partnerships and community-wide events:

Getting Down to Business (Small Business Week)
REAL Awards
Out Boulder
Home & Garden Fair
Boulder Green Streets
Farmers Market - Eat Local Week
CRC Solar Homes Tour
Boulderganic After Hours

Thanks to all our sponsors and hosts of last year's events:

BIBA Exchange

Send any updates, special events, discounts, promotions and business news directly to other BIBA members and friends. Take advantage of your member benefit this month.

How can you participate?

Submit a one page "PDF" file by January 7th, and it will be shared via enews, our website, and social media around January 10th.

Some important details:

The file must be a one-page, 8 ½ x 11" PDF file;
Maximum file size is less than 500k;
Reduce photo quality of your images, if necessary, to fit the file size maximum;
Do you need a pdf creator? Go to www.win2pdf.com for a free pdf creator program. (If you use this, do not worry that it adds a second page, the extra page will be deleted before it is included in the Exchange)
Send your submission to Mike