In The Know
The Weekly Newsletter of
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
Friday, September 24th, 2021
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This Week's Featured Video
Why Warby Parker’s Physical Retail Became Key to Its Strategy
From Wall Street Journal: Warby Parker was one of the original direct-to-consumer brands, but now, the eyeglass-maker’s sales are split about evenly between its more than 140 brick-and-mortar locations and its online store. WSJ’s Charity Scott explains why this split is Warby Parker’s secret sauce.
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Chamber Ambassadors Elect New Leadership
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The 2021-2022 Ambassador year began September 1st with the election of new officers. Chris Orris, from Valley Hospice, Inc. was elected President, with Adam Perzanowski as Vice President and Jess Elias, Secretary.
The Ambassadors program dates back to the 1980s when it was formed under, then President, Curt Klein, to assist the chamber with membership growth, retention and special events.
The complete Ambassador list is below. Feel free to reach out to these important volunteers with questions or to learn more about Chamber membership.
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Chris Orris, President
Adam Perzanowski, Vice President
Jess Elias, Secretary
Michael Vok
Nicole Adamski
Melanie DiCarlo
Jim Kosikowski
Laura Rauch
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Kate Sedgmer
Jenn Cesta
Patricia Fletcher
Retired Community Advocate
Jess Kelley
Jeffrey Schuetz
Shana Wydra
Jackie Coniker
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113th Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner Set For October 20th
Impressive Duo Of Speakers to Address Guests
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The past 18 months have put unimaginable challenges in front of business and industry worldwide, with two of the hardest hit being travel and food service. With that in mind, The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that the theme for its 113th Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner is "The Long Road Back: Business In A New World."
Even more exciting is the duo of speakers lined up for the evening: Cameron Mitchell of the Columbus, Ohio-based Cameron Mitchell Restaurants and Paul Hoback Jr., Chief Development Officer for the Allegheny County Airport Authority that operates both the Pittsburgh International Airport and the Allegheny County Airport. These dynamic and interesting business leaders will discuss how they navigated through the past 18 months and what the future looks like in a post-COVID world.
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Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: St. Florian Event Center, Wintersville
Cost: $65 per person
Tables of 8 available for $500.
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The Chamber would like to thank the 2021 Gold Sponsors of this important Chamber event that include:
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Silver Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors:
Voto Manufacturers Sales Co., First Choice America Community Federal Credit Union, Barium & Chemicals, Inc., Capital Healthcare Network, Exquisite Creations by Joel, Valley Wine Cellar, Inc., Main Street Bank, Encino Energy, and M & M True Value Hardware.
A limited number of sponsorships are still available for Chamber member businesses. Please call the Chamber offices for details at 740-282-6226 or click the button below.
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Stay up-to-date with the Chamber's Updated 2021 Event & Promotional Calendar!
Don't miss any of the events or programs coming up for the remainder of the year! Click below for a printable event and promotional calendar so that you may take advantage of all the Chamber is offering. It includes dates & times for Coffee & Connections, provides information on Eblast packages, In The Know blurbs, has the latest Chamber social media info, and important holiday shopping, buy-local, and promotional programs that are just around the corner!
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Sycamore Concert Series
Come join the Ohio Valley Youth Network at the Sycamore Youth Center this Saturday, September 25th, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for this week's Sycamore Summer Concert, featuring Teresa Kropka and Michael Manocchia. This event is free and open to all ages. "Cafe Sy" Coffee House will provide coffee, tea, soda, and baked goods (donations welcome).
For more information, please contact Bobbyjon Bauman via email here or 740-409-2986. Sycamore Youth Center is located at 301 North 4th Street in Steubenville.
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The Disappearance of
Jeremiah Pickman
The overnight game "The Disappearance of Jeremiah Pickman" will return to the Weirton Holiday Inn Saturday, October 23rd, 2021. The new adventure is a brand-new take on the old "escape room" template. We're no longer confined by the standard one-room, one-hour tradition. Pack a bag -- you're staying overnight!
Now taking reservations for this ghost-hunting overnight adventure. LIMITED space available!
To Reserve Your Spot, please click the button below.
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Member Morsels are free and an easy, fast way to reach hundreds each week. It reaches the entire Chamber database each Friday - that's over 850 local business owners, managers, and employees.
Remember to visit individual member websites by clicking on the business name or logo. Submit your Member Morsel by clicking the button below.
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AROUND THE STATE. AROUND THE COUNTRY.
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Senate Begins Work on House Bill 126 - Improving the Real Property Valuation Appeal Process
On Tuesday, the Ohio Chamber testified in support of House Bill 126 during a hearing held in the Senate Ways & Means Committee. As readers of the blog may recall, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce made HB 126 a key vote when it was voted out of the House this past April, because it addresses a portion of a tax administration public policy priority of the Ohio Chamber.
This will be the third attempt to enact modest but necessary reforms in the real property valuation appeal process. The Ohio Chamber is hopeful that the recent hearings in the Ohio Senate are a sign that the measure may make it to the finish line before the 134th General Assembly concludes its business next year.
Ohio is one of only four states that allows school districts to initiate an appeal to contest a taxpayer’s real property valuation, and Ohio may be the only state to grant such broad appeal rights to third parties.
Read the article in its entirety
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New Poll Shows Small Businesses Turning More Cautious
The Q3 2021 MetLife and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Index (SBI) finds that small business owners are increasingly cautious when it comes to plans for hiring and investing. The poll taken July 16 – 30, 2021, and released this week by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and MetLife also found that small business owners see generating revenue as their biggest post-pandemic challenge.
Pulling Back on Future Plans
The survey shows that plans for future investment are plateauing. Almost half (48%) of small business owners say they plan to keep investments in their business the same over the next year, 11 percentage points more than earlier this year in Q1 (37%). Fewer (29%) plan to increase investment, a drop from 35% in Q1.
Also, small business owners who plan to keep their current staffing levels over the next year (as opposed to hiring more) is at 62%, an increase from 52% last quarter.
Read the article in its entirety
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Great Books About Business With Just A Click
Your link to success begins at the library. With each week of "In The Know,"
you to a business book or magazine that will inspire, teach, inform, or elevate you, professionally and personally. This week:
Inside Money:
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
by Zachary Karabell
A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global power
Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a devastating financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength, propping up the U.S. financial system at crucial moments and catalyzing successive booms, from the cotton trade and the steamship to the railroad, while largely managing to avoid the unwelcome attention that plagued some of its competitors.
In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former financial executive Zachary Karabell offers the first full and frank look inside this institution against the backdrop of American history. Blessed with complete access to the company's archives, as well as a thrilling understanding of the larger forces at play, Karabell has created an X-ray of American power--financial, political, cultural--as it has evolved from the early 1800s to the present.
Click here to borrow a copy of this book.
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The Chamber is excited to announce that its podcast series, "In Good Company," is now live on the iHeartRadio app and site! Click below to listen or tune in via your cell phone or laptop at www.iheart.com by searching, "Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce." And watch for new episodes in the coming months. Have someone you'd like to have as our guest? Email suggestions to [email protected].
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Questions about Oil & Gas?
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Today in History
- September 24, 1948 -
Honda Motor Company is incorporated
From History: Motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda incorporates the Honda Motor Company in Hamamatsu, Japan. In the 1960s, the company achieved worldwide fame for its motorcycles (in particular, its C100 Super Cub, which became the world’s best-selling vehicle); in the 1970s, it achieved worldwide fame for its affordable, fuel-efficient cars. Today, in large part because of its continued emphasis on affordability, efficiency and eco-friendliness (its internal motto is “Blue skies for our children”), the company is doing better than most.
Before he founded the company that bore his name, Soichiro Honda was a drifter and a dreamer. He bounced from one mechanic’s job to another, and also worked as a babysitter, a race car driver and an amateur distiller.
Even his wife said he was a “wizard at hardly working.” In 1946, he took over an old factory that lay mostly in ruins from wartime bombings, though he did not have much of a plan for what he would do there. First he tried building what he called a “rotary weaving machine”; next he tried to mass-produce frosted glass windows, then woven bamboo roof panels. Finally, after he came across a cache of surplus two-stroke motors, he had an idea: motorbikes.
Honda adapted the motors to run on turpentine and affixed them to flimsy cycle frames built by workers at the Hamamatsu factory.
To read this entire article, please click here.
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Did You Know?
Today is National Punctuation Day, "[a] celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotation marks, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis."
Here are the 10 common punctuation mistakes people make. Click the link below to find out how to correct them.
- Extraneous Apostrophes
- Unnecessary Quotation Marks
- Missing Commas
- Too Many Commas
- Excess Exclamation
- It's versus Its
- The Oxford Comma
- Hyphen (-) vs. Dash (–)
- Semi-colons versus Colons
- Quotation Mark Placement
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Tricia Maple-Damewood
President
Contact Tricia with suggestions, input or feedback on member programming, how to get involved on a committee or special project or with questions related to Chamber membership.
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Hannah Ward
Administrative & Membership Coordinator
Contact Hannah with changes to your membership information, questions regarding events or programs, or assistance with scheduling an Eblast or Member Morsel.
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Craig Cribbs, Reso, Inc.
Billing Support
740-275-4940
Contact Craig with invoice or billing questions and to make a dues, event or sponsorship payment.
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Contact Us
The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce
630 Market Street
Steubenville, OH 43952
Phone: 740.282.6226
Fax: 740.282.6285
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