I keep stumbling across the word "engagement" - as in working with your team, getting through to a specific audience, and of course, in marketing and advertising efforts.  The truth is, engagement is very difficult to achieve due to everyday distractions such as relentless email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media. We almost exclusively watch what we've pre-recorded on TV, so we can forward through the commercials that teach us about a lot more than we want to know about bladder control, bi-polar disorder, dry eye syndrome and so much more.

     It's the multi-media, 24/7 world we live in today. But we all can and should make an effort to both be engaging and engaged, especially in our personal interactions with those we love and spend time with every day.   I have to remember to immediately put down my phone when Bob, my husband and partner, wants to talk.

     And as for us at Welcome Neighbor, we go in person to welcome new homeowners so that we can engage with them in a warm way and help them find good connections to not only the businesses and the welcome gift offers they give, but to the many community resources we share.  We get fully engaged!   

     Last month I helped a woman get a really low-priced monitoring service when she needed to upgrade her unmonitored alarm system, at about a third of the usual monthly cost.  I helped someone else get directed to a dog park appropriate for her very small dog (the Concord park has the play areas separated by dog size), the local library and a book club to join. We helped another nice couple find an electrician, a dentist, and a landscaper who can enlarge their patio and put in some planting beds.

     How about you?  Will you engage with me to tell me what you've had enough of, and what you want more of, both in our welcome visits and in the "media messages" being hurled your way?   Let's truly engage on Facebook - please 

and make a comment on this topic. I would LOVE to hear from you!  Thanks for traveling with me on the Welcome Trail.