Weekly Chamber Update: Deal Armstrong, New web site Ads, Business After Hours With Habersham County

Hello this is Wendi Bailey, Chamber of Commerce President with your Weekly Chamber Update.

There are 2 new things I want to tell you about this week. First, the new exclusive Chamber Member coupon handout, in partnership with Deal Armstrong, is being distributed this week. Keep a look out for new deals & discounts or visit dealarmstrong.com or toccoagachamber.com to print your favorite one.

Second, your Chamber is providing a new way for member marketing to be measured. There are 15 new member ads on the Chamber’s web site to see. They are being hyperlinked directly to the member’s web site and those clicks are tracked and reported. We would be happy to come to your office and tell you more. Call us for an appointment at 706-886-2132.

I have a few announcements for you:

TODAY is the Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting ceremony for James Johnson and his Get Fit Boot Camp at 10am at the new location on Skyline Drive. Come meet James and learn more about his fitness services that will get you into shape this summer. 

The next Business-After-Hours is on Thursday June 26^th. Please do not miss this special summer Joint Business-After-Hours with the Habersham County Chamber of Commerce at the Currahee Vineyards and Winery. Come meet vineyard owner Marvin Dunson, meet new people from Habersham, make new business connections, and bring a door prize to promote your business across county lines.  

Our new Welcome Center Director Sharon Crenshaw wants me to tell you we have new “calendar cards” available for you in the Welcome Center to remind you about all the upcoming activities. Come a get them! Tonight’s movie at the Schaefer Center is Monsters U; this Saturday is the Currahee Club’s Farmer’s & Artisan Day from 10am to 4pm. With more than 50 booths the Welcome Center will be there with Toccoa T-shits and Toccoa Visors, priced to sell. Saturday evening you have Chuck Taylor live in concert at the Ida Cox Music Festival downtown Toccoa and spend Sunday afternoon at the Currahee Vineyards.   

For more information on these and other events please visit the community calendar at www.toccoagachamber.com.  That’s your weekly update! I’m Wendi Bailey, your Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce President!

Strategies for Obtaining Capitol and Funding Growth

The Chamber’s NEW Small Business Webinar Series continues this month with “Strategies for Obtaining Capitol and Funding Growth.”  It’s on Wednesday June 18^th from 12pm to 1pm and can be attended as a group, in the Development Authority office on Doyle Street, or you can link into the meeting from your home or office.

The webinar will cover why having a strategy in place is crucial for small businesses, strategies and sources for financing, and what businesses need to be doing now in order to navigate the process successfully in the future.

The webinar will be presented by Grace Fricks, President and CEO of Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Inc. (ACE), and Linda Davis Jameson, Chief Credit Officer at ACE. Bring your lunch and we'll provide drinks and dessert. Please call the Chamber to register at 706-886-2132. There will be six webinars in all and the three remaining are in August, October and December. 

I have a few announcements for you:

The Center for Natural Health and Optimal Wellness is having their grand opening next Monday June 9^th at their new location at the Toccoa Foothills Plaza.  The Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting ceremony is next Thursday the 12^th at 10am at their new location. Also, please save the date for Get Fit Boot Camp Ribbon Cutting on June 19^th and for Just Good Things on June 26^th.  

The next Business-After-Hours is on Thursday June 26^th. This is a special summer Joint Business-After-Hours with the Habersham County Chamber of Commerce at the Currahee Vineyards and Winery. The winery has a new wine to share called Blanc de Bleau which is made from a variety of grape that originated here in the 1600’s. Currahee Vineyards has acquired this special grape and is now the only winery in NEGA to have it. Come meet owner Marvin Dunson, meet new people from Habersham, make new business connections, and bring a door prize to promote your business cross county lines.  

Our new Welcome Center Director Sharon Crenshaw wants me to remind you about upcoming activities: tonight is the “kick off” of the summer move series at the Schaeffer Center with the movie Frozen, on Saturday morning there is a Nature Walk at Tugaloo Bend, Saturday evening you have the first concert of the Ida Cox Music Festival downtown and the Toccoa Motor Speedway has “Ultimate Late Model” racing.  

For more information on these and other events please visit the community calendar at www.toccoagachamber.com.  That’s your weekly update! I’m Wendi Bailey, your Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce President!