Happy Holidays! I wish you and yours the best this Holiday Season!
It’s that time of year when a lot of us are closing our year end books and looking to the future by planning our budgets for the coming year. I invite you to take another look at the type of marketing the Chamber has to offer your business and decide if it fits into your marketing plans for the new year.
Web Ads
are great if you want your message to be available to a large audience. The Chamber website receives almost 1,000,000 visitors per year. Great news for your advertising message to be seen by a lot of people. Web ads are $200 for six months, they average 37,682 impressions and 12 clicks.
Display ads
in the Chamber Community Guide are a great way to get your marketing message into every home and business in our community. 41,000 copies of the Guide are produced each year with approximately 38,000 copies mail delivered to seven zip codes in our area. The Community Guide is more than a magazine with limited shelf life. The Community Guide is a publication that most people keep in a handy location all year round until the new one is published. Tourists use the book to find out where to eat, shop, play, learn about our community’s history and other interesting facts about our community. People who are thinking of moving here use the book to get information about “what’s happening” in our towns and demographics. Locals use the book to know “who to call for what”. The book has something for everyone which makes it a publication that has a long shelf life. Display ads cost from $500 to $3000 a year, depending on size and placement.
Breakfast Sponsors
are the spotlight of our monthly meeting. By sponsoring a breakfast, you can give a live presentation/demonstration to a captive audience. This event averages sixty-five attendees each month. In the month leading up to the breakfast you receive top billing on the Chamber’s weekly E-Blast. Our analytics through Constant Contact show that on the average Breakfast Sponsors receive an average of 24 clicks from the Chamber weekly E-Blast back to their websites. The question for you is,"how do I convert these potential clicks into customers for life”! This is an amazing value for $150 a month!
Mixer Hosts
can Introduce or make consumers aware of your products, services or store front by hosting the monthly Mixer. There is no cost to be a host but there is an expectation that attendees will be treated to light appetizers and beverages. This social event sees an average of fifty attendees each month. The host is formally introduced and has the opportunity to introduce their team, talk about their business, services, etc. Mixer hosts also receive an average of 24 clicks from the Chamber E-Blast back to their website. There is only availability for eleven hosts per year, so they book up quickly. The only available date in 2019 is August 14, If you are eager to be a host call the Chamber office to book your date in 2020!
Colleen, Jackie and I are committed to helping you be successful in your investments with the Chamber.
Happy Holidays!
Patty Villeneuve, President/CEO
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Accept no substitutions!
The official 2019-2020 Chamber Guide sales will begin next year.
Remember, the only people reaching out to you for advertising from the Chamber is The Chamber staff, Patty, Colleen or Jackie.
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Liberty Utilities Waste Water Treatment Plant in Carefree to close on November 30th
Liberty Utilities will be closing its Wastewater Treatment Plant in Carefree on November 30
th
. The Plant was constructed in 1978, and was originally designed to generate gray water for the golf courses in the Boulders, but over the years was expanded to handle the needs of residential and commercial customers from throughout Carefree.
Starting December 1
st
, all effluent processing will be handled by Scottsdale at their large Wastewater Treatment Facility located at Pima Road and Frank Lloyd Wright. This Scottsdale Plant was designed for maximum efficiency and utilizes state-of-the-art technology. Longer term, this will tie Carefree sewer rate increases more closely with those in Scottsdale, which should result in considerable savings versus what could be anticipated from a smaller system using antiquated technology.
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Welcome to the Holidays, a time to be thankful for what we have and the opportunities afforded to us.
I won't bore you with a lot of words here but just hope you have a wonderful Holiday Season.
Slow down and enjoy it. There is always something to celebrate. I'm very pleased with the following.
My wife and I have a place out of town. It is in brush country (scrub oak, manzanita, grasses) all very flammable. Last Summer the power would go out very frequently. When this happened it would take 5 to 6 hours for it to come back on. This was because APS (Arizona Public Service) had the "breakers" set so sensitive that a sparrow pooping on a line would cut the power. The reason it took so long to get power back was because they had a rented helicopter on call and would fly the lines and then drive them for a visual inspection to make sure nothing was wrong. Then, and only then, would they power them back on. In light of Pacific Gas and Electric's admission that there were sparking lines in Paradise California the day before the tragic fire started and also So Cal Edison lines near the Malibu fire I have to say here; Thank You APS for your diligent efforts to keep Arizona safe!!!!!!
Hoping you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Earth Care 23 years
Desert Foothills AC/ Heating 16 years
Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS 15 years
Andreas Schmalz -Liberty Properties & Associates 9 years
Foothills Caring Corps 9 years
Pepper’s Private car Service 9 years
Tyrol Insurance 9 years
Hospice of the Valley 8 years
First American Title 8 years
Network wellness 8 years
Republic Waste 8 years
Sanderson Lincoln 6 years
Bearnson & Caldwell 5 years
Carefree Consignment 3 years
Carefree Maintenance Group 3 years
L Skincare 3 years
Yoga Breeze Healing & Wellness Center 3 years
Annunciation Catholic School 2 years
Ciolim 2 year
DAR Black mountain Foothills 2 years
Stick’s Cigar Lounge 2 years
Carefree Christian Academy 1 year
Cave Creek Christmas Company 1 year
Cave Creek Christmas Market 1 year
Core Law 1 year
Welcome to the Chamber of Commerce community! We look forward to seeing you at our events.
Spur Cross Stable
Bringing Out the Best in You
United Real Estate Success
Thunderbird Artists Gallery
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THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR OUR MENTORING! Our conversations with you are confidential!
If you are considering starting another business, growing your business or improving the management of your business and want face to face mentoring then come to SCORE!. Our focus is assisting the small business owner in becoming more successful!
WE NOW ARE MENTORING IN THE CAREFREE/CAVE CREEK AREA on the third Wed. of every month from 1:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. at
We are a resource partner to your Chamber!
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From the Cave Creek Museum
Kraig Nelson, historian
Anyone who has dined in Cave Creek may have heard of Cartwright’s Modern Cuisine. The street that separates two of Cave Creek’s venerable pubs, Harold’s and the Buffalo Chip, is called Jack Cartwright Pass. The name Cartwright is addressing one of Cave Creek’s most important ranching families, many would say
the
most important ranching family. The Cartwright Ranch was established at Seven Springs in 1887, although, they started “running cattle” there in 1884. Seven Springs is the headwater for the Cave Creek Stream and is located about nineteen miles past Carefree on Cave Creek Road (changes to Forest Road 24 eventually). The 56,000-acre ranch (some historians say 65,000 acres) with over 5,600 head of cattle was sold in 1980. In the Maryvale area of the Valley, we find the Cartwright Elementary School District. Any correlation? Yes! The Cartwright family first arrived in Phoenix in 1877, eventually homesteading 800 acres from 51
st
to 59
th
Avenue near Thomas Road. The family donated two acres and funds for a school house. Today’s Cartwright School District #83, and over 18,000 students, can thank the formidable cattle ranchers for their generosity.
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Are you aware of all the many benefits membership offers? Are you taking full advantage of your benefits?
Website Information:
CarefreeCaveCreek.org has 765.000
+
visitors annually. 70% of these visitors are from the greater Phoenix area. 3.2 million+ pages were viewed last year.
The Chamber's Events page is one of the most viewed pages on the Chamber Website and has the most people clicking multiple links. Are you having an open house or special evening for your clients/customers? How about a festival or fundraiser? All of these can be advertised on the events calendar!
Send any events you would like to add to our events calendar to Jackie@carefreecavecreek.org.
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January 15 @ 5pm. 748 Easy street
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Realty Reality
December 2018
Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS) data published November 2018
Kraig R. Nelson, Associate Broker
Carefree-
Sold volume (dollar amount) was 71.12% higher; active listings [74] were 29.52% lower; and the median sold price [$567,481] was 2.58% lower, compared to one year ago. Average days on market were 146. 10 residential units closed escrow.
Cave Creek-
Sold volume (dollar amount) was 16.92% higher; active listings [220] were 21.71% lower; and the median sold price [$510,000] was 20.97% higher, compared to one year ago. Average days on market were 88. 55 residential units closed escrow.
Scottsdale-
Sold volume (dollar amount) was 9.70% higher; active listings [2,400] were 11.41% lower; and the median sold price [$465,000] was 10.98 higher, compared to one year ago.Average days on market were 89. 590 residential units closed escrow.
Phoenix
(city only)
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Sold volume (dollar amount) was 8.67% higher; active listings [3,996] were 0.10% higher; and the median sold price [$250,000] was 4.34% higher, compared to one year ago. Average days on market were 61. 1,761 residential units closed escrow.
Kraig’s Comments-
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Distressed sales (short sales and lender owned) represent 1.60% of the total sales volume.
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There is a 3.03-month supply of residential inventory in the Phoenix Metro Area. Generally, a balanced market for buyers and sellers is about 6 months; however, all accurate statistics are neighborhood specific.
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Total residential inventory is 5.80% lower [21,742 units] than one year ago.
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Entire Phoenix Metro Area
:
median sold price is $262,000; 6.90% higher than one year ago
. Average days on market were 61.
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Average sold price compared to original list price is 96.95% in the Phoenix Metro Area. This means a home listed for $400,000 sells for about $387,800.
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Production new-home “spec” (or speculation) count is 2,331; 302 more than 6 months ago. New-home subdivisions: 585: 6 more than six months ago. (from
Ultimate New Homes Newsletter
)
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Total Phoenix Metro residential units sold and closed last month: 7,182. This is 1,20% lower than one year ago.
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Total dollar amount for Phoenix Metro
residential units
sold
and
closed:
$2,298,752,186. (
that’s 2 billion, 299 million
- rounded for conversation).
This is 8.40% higher than one year ago.
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748 Easy St., P.O. Box 734
Carefree, AZ 85377
480-488-3381
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