Calendar of Events
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November 2012
13-21 Word of Life Accepting Turkey Donations 13 10a - Free Car Seat Inspection - CTMC
13 4:30p - Viper CrossFit Ribbon Cutting
14 11:30a - Luann Sandahl, LPC's Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
17 10a - Home"made" for the Holidays - St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
17 10:30a - FREE Community Work Out - Viper CrossFit
18 10a - Free Holiday Photo Day - Texas Old Town
19 11a - Applebee's Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
22 Happy Thanksgiving!
23 Kyle Chamber Office Closed
27 11:30a - Kyle Chamber Monthly Luncheon - Hays CISD Performing Arts Center
29 4p - Laugh & Learn Mother's Day Out Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
December 2012
5 12p - Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group - Provident Memory Care
5 5:30p - CTMC Free Healthy Cooking Demo
6 7p - Holiday Social & Toy Drive - Duchman Family Winery
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5k Photos on Sale!
| Did you participate in this year's 5k Kyle-O-Meter Run/Walk/Roll? If so, make sure to purchase your commerative photo at Charles Quinn's Photography!
Results from the 5k have also been posted on Athlete Guild's website.
Thanks to everyone who participated and made this year's 5k a success! Please make sure to check our calendar for more information about next year's Kyle-O-Meter! |
Kyle City Council Seeking Applications for Community Support Grant Dollars
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The Kyle city council is taking applications for allocations of $30,000 set aside in the 2012-13 fiscal year's budget for supporting service organizations in the City of Kyle. Applications will be available beginning November 1, 2012 and must be submitted by January 4th, 2013.
The City of Kyle Community Relations Committee will review the applications and submit their recommendations to the city council in February 2013.
Application forms can be downloaded at the City of Kyle web site at CityofKyle.com. The forms are also available at the Kyle City Hall, Kyle Public Library or by requesting them by calling the City of Kyle at 262-1010.
For more information, contact the City of Kyle Communications Department at 512-262-3921 or jhendrix@cityofkyle.com. |
Comptroller's Economic Outlook
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Job growth, sales tax collections - both from business and consumer purchases - as well as automobile sales, signal that the Texas economy has emerged from the recent recession.
Another indicator that the state's economy has been comparatively healthy was the U.S. Census Bureau report that Texas added more people (421,000) than any other state from 2010 to 2011. Although Texas has only 8 percent of the nation's population, the state added nearly 19 percent of the nation's population growth for the year.
By December 2011, Texas employers replaced all 427,600 jobs shed during the recession as our economy rebounded more quickly than the U.S. as a whole, and continues to add jobs. Nationally, through August 2012 only 48 percent of recession-hit jobs have been recovered.
Texas and the nation returned to economic growth in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, Texas real gross domestic product grew by 2.4 percent, compared with 1.6 percent GDP growth for the nation. Read more. |
Promote with Us!
| Are you a local business that has a product, service, or event you want our community to know about?
The Kyle Chamber offers sponsorship space on our website (KyleChamber.org) and in our weekly Chamber Chatter.
Our goal is to promote your business and help it grow!
Website Banner
$60/month
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$600/year
Chatter Ads
$30/week
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$90/month
If you're interested in placing an ad with the Kyle Chamber, please contact Christina at info@kylechamber.org for more information. |
Refer a Friend!
| Do you know a local business that wants to join an ever-growing business community and network? Then fill them in about all the benefits they would receive by joining the Kyle Chamber!
Please tell them to visit the Kyle Chamber Members' Benefits page to find out more information!
Together, we can make Kyle a "Simply Charming" place to live and work! |
Volunteer with the Kyle Chamber!
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Are you interested in volunteering with the Kyle Chamber? Then you've come to the right spot!
BASH's are a free event that happen once a month that allow the members to have an informal get together to network and meet new people in the business community. The chamber team is always looking for an extra set of hands to help with loading/unloading, setting up and cleaning after the event. If you have an hour to spare before or after the event, we'd appreciate the help!
Through out the year, the chamber plans several events. If you'd like to be invloved with an event but can't serve on a committee, we still have a spot for you! Duties include registering guests, day-of-event tasks etc.
If you'd like more information on volunteering with the chamber, please email Caitlyn Pesl at membership@kylechamber.org or call our office at 512-268-4220. |
Kyle Chamber
| 103 S. Front Street
PO Box 900
Kyle, TX 78640
512-268-4220
info@kylechamber.org
www.kylechamber.org
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To promote, empower, and be a valuable resource to the business community and chamber members; and to position our community as a tourism location and ideal place to live.
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The Kyle Chamber of Commerce is proud to feature Vitalogy Skincare as our Member Monday! Vitalogy Skincare was founded by Dr. Eric Adelman, right here in Texas in 2007.
Just down the road in San Marcos, the doctors at Vitalogy Skincare, Dermatology and Skin Cancer centers specialize in Mohs Micrographic skin cancer surgery, Skin Cancer prevention detection and education. Skin Cancer is the most common form of cancer, outnumbering lung, breast and prostate cancers combined.
"Preventive medicine has always made sense to me. When you find a skin cancer early it is has a very high cure rate, but when found late and has progressed it can be much more difficult to treat and even deadly," Dr. Eric Adelman says.
In regards to their chamber membership, they had this to say, "Kyle is such a great community to be a part of, it really has a personal feel, especially because of the way the chamber brings local business creating opportunities for partnerships and networking."
To schedule an appointment or get more information about Vitalogy Skincare, please see the contact information below:
Vitalogy Skincare
1320 Wonder World Drive, Ste. 108
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The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification
Simply asking "what job is the customer trying to get done?" can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase and use to zero in on frustrations and desires that motivate purchase and use.
Seductive simplicity hides a rich, robust set of opportunity identification tools. Through our experience utilizing the "jobs-to-be-done" concept in a range of settings, my colleagues and I have developed five tips for would-be innovators: the five Cs of opportunity identification (modeled after marketing's famous four Ps - price, product, place, and promotion). Read more.
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