Anti-Cruelty Society Blessing

Bishop James Alan Wilkowski led a blessing over all the adoptable animals at the Anti-Cruelty Society. The dogs whined in their excitement and many of the cats started purring and meowing for his attention.

First of our Summer Walkathons

On June 14th, 2012 at 6 pm, we will be meeting in front of Quest Network Services to kick-off our first monthly walkathon! 

The purpose of the walkathon is to promote Rogers Park businesses and tourism, something that is rarely done. RSVP to (773) 850-0049.

$3.00 a person, $5.00 for a couple. Water and a snack will be provided.

20 person limit, so RSVP soon!

Taste Food and Wine- Wine Tasting

Bill Morton, Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce President, and Autumn Davids, Chamber volunteer, attended the wine tastings and as they both agreed, the wines were delicious, unique, and the experience was well worth it. The owners were helpful and gracious, the workers checking on those looking at the wines, and the place was crowded with great people, having fun and chatting about the wines, everyblock.com and so much more.

Photography by: Autumn Davids

Youth and Job Center Event

Bill Morton, Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce President, and Autumn Davids, Chamber volunteer, attended the Youth and Job Center event in Evanston. They exchanged information and participated in networking, as well as accumulating information to gather data and ideas to assist the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce. 

Visit their site.

Photography by: Autumn Davids and Bill Morton

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Small Business Week- Customer Loyalty

At the Constant Contact event, Small Business Week on May 23rd, the final speaker we were able to listen to was Carol Roth who spoke of Customer Loyalty. 

Here are our notes:

• social media needs to have a goal outside of social media
• instead of return on interest, it becomes return on ego
• how do you get loyalty out of media?
• it's easy to reach people, but hard to engage them
• customers advertise
• volunteers, free advertising 
• two types of customers
• spenders and senders
• you want to hit both types
• customer loyalty is built on relationships
• bridges > connections > relationships
• every customer has a different agenda

5 pillars

1. product/service
2. customer service
3. community and affinity groups
4. experiences
5. bridges

Small Business Week- Engagement Marketing

At the May 23rd Constant Contact event, we had a series of speakers ranging from a Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce representative to Steve Robinson, to Carol Roth.

Steve Robinson was our speaker on Engagement Marketing. Here are our notes:

• Difficulties
• #1 getting new customers
• repeat customers
• engagement
• social media
• word of mouth marketing online
• people don't trust advertising
• people listen to online opinions 
• customer engagement
• customers friends are our next clients
• provide relevant content
• use blogging
• engage- discussion, promotions, events, polls/surveys, sharing information
• engagement= participation
• do so in frequent, consistent, small doses
• use facebook.com in appropriate ways

Fresh Start Monday- TOMORROW

Tomorrow is the first Monday of the month... and that means Fresh Start Mondays! This Monday, June 4th, is our fifth event at 6pm located at the corner of Estes Avenue and Clark Street by the location of the old Adelphi Theater. 

We have plenty of supplies and are ready for some work! We hope you can make it out there and have some fun, light-hearted conversations and enjoy a summer day!

Small Business Week- Score Information

On Wednesday, May 23rd, Constant Contact held an event that the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce President, Bill Morton, and Chamber volunteer, Autumn Davids, attended. Some excellent information was gathered and the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce would like to share it with you!

Over the next few days, we will be posting notes from the event so that this information gets around to everyone!

Today's notes from the information we gathered is about SCORE. visit www.score.org to see the site for yourself, or look at our notes below for more information about Score before you visit the site.

• involves business mentors
• over 25 locations
• they do workshops 2-3 times a week
• visit youtube.com and look for score Chicago video  http://www.youtube.com/user/scorechicagovideo?feature=results_main

We Want You for Fresh Start Mondays!

Fresh Start Mondays have been occurring the first and third Monday's since this April. The event has been a success, having a variety of people attend and even more express interest. 

So far, we've covered 7315 N. Sheridan Road, following that, we worked on Jarvis Plaza, then we worked on Ravenswood Center and this past Monday we covered Rogers Plaza on Morse Avenue. Our next event will be June 4th at our standard 6 pm. We will be working on the corner of Estes Avenue and Clark Street where the Adelphi Theater was once located.

If you can't make it out to the events for whatever reason, you can still help! We would gladly take donations for the event. Charmers Cafe, for example, gave us some trash bags to assist us in our endeavor and Quest allows us use of their recycle bin, broom, and dust pan. 

Some of the items we need are:

Broom

Dust Pan

Trash Bags

Aprons

Face Masks

Trash Can

Recycle Can

If you'd like to donate any of these items, please, contact us at (773) 850-0049 .