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AERIAL PHOTO AND VIDEO
ENGAGING WEB DESIGN
VIDEO MARKETING
PROFESSIONAL HEAD SHOTS
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Have you ever attended a Coffee with the President?
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Come with us to beautiful, sunny, Costa del Sol, Spain!
October 18-26
$2,799 i
ncludes Granada, Alhambra Palace, Rock of Gibraltar, airfare, hotels, 13 meals, professional tour manager, transfers, baggage handling...and more!
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Plan now and save!
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GIVE A LITTLE TO THOSE WHO HAVE GIVEN A LOT
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Share the story of your business with others.
Why did you start, keep, and/or expand your business into the region?
Any unexpected benefits? Drawbacks that you overcame?
Would you do it again?
Anything you would change the next time?
We'll publish your story in an upcoming E-Weekly newsletter!
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SAVE $25
on your next qualifying purchase of $100 or more when you use your Chamber Program Account
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We only had four responses to our question about whether your business is currently - or planning to - recycle. But all four do!
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May 26 - Coffee with the President
June 2 - GovConnects BizBreakfast - APG Procurement
June 14 - Legislative Meeting - Paid Sick Leave
June 16 - Business After Business - Bertucci's
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| News from Chamber Members |
When I was a kid, my brother and friends and I would gather around my mom's tape machine and record ourselves telling corny jokes and doing little skits with funny voices. As a middle school class clown, I would routinely knock 'em dead with my Howard Cosell impersonation. I later dabble
d in college radio and started singing.
My career path led to "newspapering," including 23 years as a reporter, editor, columnist and blogger with the Columbia Flier and Howard County Times.
But my voice was always there.
With newspapers rapidly heading the way of the telegraph, I decided to start monetizing my pipes. I got some coaching and a condenser microphone and set out to talk my way into a new career.
Voiceover work goes well beyond commercials and movie trailers. From outgoing phone messages for businesses (aka IVR) to training videos to game characters, you can find the recorded human voice in more places than you can imagine.
Since I started the Voice of Doug (
www.voiceofdoug.com), I've done a commercial and was the voice of Elvis in a game app. That's my voice you hear on the Howard County Chamber of Commerce's
promotional video, and I again worked with fellow Chamber member Dan Medinger when he produced a web video for a monastery outside Philadelphia.
Mostly, I've worked on audiobooks, everything from presidential history to zombie apocalypse. The latter required me to do more accents than death moans.
The work itself is a blast. Getting the jobs, not so much. I've never been much of a salesman, and hustling potential clients is a skill I've been slow to acquire. But the Chamber's been helpful in that regard, bringing me into contact with people like Dan, and offering programming that's given me some marketing insights.
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The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services are a combination system of almost 900 career and volunteer providers at twelve stations across the county. The following services companies are showing their thanks to these dedicated life-savers by providing
discounts
and free food to EMS workers this week:
- AIDA Bistro
- The Ale House Columbia
- Bertucci's Columbia
- Carrabbas (Ellicott City)
- Corner Bakery Cafe
- Grotto Pizza
- Iron Bridge Wine Co.
- MeLong Ling (Yoga)
- Nalley Fresh
- Outback Steakhouse
- Papa Murphy's Take 'N' Bake Pizza
- Shophouse
- Uno Restaurants (Columbia, Ellicott City)
- The White Oak Tavern
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Monday, May 23
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Since they opened their doors in 1965, St. John's Parish Day School has been committed to fostering the spark of lifelong learning and imagination in young children. Today SJPDS is attended by children
age three through Grade 5 from a variety of different religious, cultural and economic backgrounds. They have invited the community to help commemorate their 50 years of excellence in education in Howard County with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Find out more!
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 Grab your friends and colleagues to participate in the Superheroes Bowl-a-Thon, Junior Achievement's largest fundraiser of the year! With the involvement of more than 1,500 participants and 60 companies in a series of spring events across the area, the Bowl-a-Thon is a great networking and team-building activity-and a fun opportunity to support JA's quality programming in work readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship. JA makes it an easy way for area business to give back to the community. The Howard County Bowl-a-thon is June 1st from 6-8pm at the Brunswick Columbia Lanes. For more information on how to party with a purpose, please contact Meghan Collins at [email protected] or 410-753-3290
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Please join us at the
Waverly Woods Golf Course in Marriotsville for our annual Marriotts Ridge High School Boosters Annual Golf Classic to benefit all after school clubs, sports, and activities. The event will include a 4-person best ball scramble with a boxed lunch, dinner, and reception following the golf. If you would like to sign up as an
individual or a foursome, please visit those tabs.
Sponsors can sign up and be invoiced. Individual players and foursomes must pay on-line using a credit card at the time of sign-up.
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Chatbots to help you Buy Stuff
Chatbots - the name for robots that simulate human conversation - have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks amid a flurry of new experiments in how they might be used to shape the future of shopping. Retail heavyweights Sephora and H&M recently launched bots on messaging app Kik that help shoppers browse and buy their products. Taco Bell showed off its TacoBot, a way to use the messaging app Slack to place a meal order. And on Tuesday, Facebook announced that it has created a platform that allows companies to develop bots that run within its Messenger app, which has some 900 million users worldwide. More
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 2016 Maryland Chesapeake Business Forum: Linking Businesses and the Chesapeake Bay
May 24, 2016
2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Loews Annapolis
Ticket: $10
Gather with other regional business leaders, from organizations both large and small, to share environmental challenges and successes, learn more about environmental sustainability goals, identify needs, develop sustainable solutions that support Chesapeake Bay restoration, and learn more about the Businesses for the Bay membership association.
Engage with business, non-profit, and government leaders and network with Businesses for the Bay Members, Sponsors, and Partners. More information
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