Placemats, Internet, or both… local and effective, getting the word out for less

I just took some placemats over to the County Seat Restaurant and had a turkey stacker and cherry-flavored beer while I was there. Terry recommended both and I’m glad he did – THUMBS UP x 2!!

A journalist is taught to check his or her writing over and over again because they only have one shot to get it right. My newer philosophy is to get ‘the basics’ out where people can see it and let them help me get it right. If there’s information missing I try to find it but sometimes I’ll leave a blank so someone can be my hero and feed me the right word or person’s name. So….

Tip #4. Don’t worry so much about being perfect because in this electronic age, we get do-overs in edit mode.

And I need to take my own advice because I’ve had two-minute posts that took me over an hour to “get it right”.

Be well!
Carl

Yesterday was a good day, not that any day isn’t good when you can wake up, put your shoes on, and meet the world outside. Even during the worst of the snow storms in February, I needed to either be out or connect outwards through the phone or computer.

What were the highlights? Besides the beautiful weather, it was “people”.

Sandra Larsen posting pictures of the fire at Grove City’s Wendell August Forge (#waforge) and Rich _______, a Grove City Borough councilman who posted pictures of the cleanup. A slew of “people” posting supportive comments on their FaceBook Page and saying what a blessing it was that nobody was hurt. A later post saying they had found a place where their workers could resume production THIS WEEK! God is great.

One thank you goes to Paul Simpkins of Paragon Printing who called me to say our CSLB placemats would be started early Thursday AM so they would be ready for BUD Transport to pick them up and get them to Kittanning by Friday morning. CSLB is really running low and I ran a mini-route yesterday so everyone had enough to tide them over until Friday’s delivery. Thank you Bill Crytzer of BUD Transport for being reliable. We sure do appreciate it and thank you from our restaurant owners too.

Another thank you goes to Paul of Clementine’s Family Restaurant for trusting me to get him covered instead of running out and buying a box, the same to Alan at Hometown Restaurant in Tarentum. Mogies had a few extra so I pulled 200 which went to Clementine’s, Burrell Inn was ok so I left them alone… Creighton Hotel was low (Thank you Cary for calling me Monday – three days advance notice was GREAT!!!) and I gave them an extra 300 FNS mats to carry them to Friday.

NEW RESTAURANT OPENING! The Deer Lakes Diner was a mess but that’s a phase restauranteers go through when opening day is only a couple of weeks away. Watch for more about them later.

Special! I’ve enjoyed paddling out from River’s Edge Canoe & Kayak and yesterday I found Neill and Evelyn there getting ready for the upcoming season. Hooray, that’s as good as seeing robins in the yard – summer is coming! I really enjoy talking with both of them.

And then there’s you, my esteemed visitor. Never sure what you might find here because I have such a variety of passions and appetite. THANK YOU for visiting and feel free to leave a comment even if just to say hi.

Thanks,
Carl

As I sit perusing what others have done with their blogs compared to my own efforts, I am appalled I didn’t think of this earlier… icons as bullets in my list of links.

Although it’s best use is below, clicking on the icon above will play Habitat for Humanity’s 60-second commercial from their website, but the link itself is a customized Local4All redirect… my pointer URL is a slim 29 keystrokes [http://] “myfavoritevideo.local4all.com” instead of about 60 characters which I can’t even find now in their video gallery.

First time seeing this video? Let me know what you think. If the link ever stops working, please tell me.

If you have a business or favorite organization to promote, do it! Good community content is hard to find, “good” meaning ALL the questions are answered – who, what, where, when, and why. If you take the time to share information with others with win-win in mind, there’s no objection from us against you promoting yourself just a little or maybe a lot.

Our #1 mandate, keep everything family-friendly and child-safe. Happy posting!

Posted by Carl Bromley, community volunteer

Did you post something on Local4All and then want to add new information or make changes?  If you were logged in, you’re in luck… you can go to the Toolbox page and click for a list of your events, etc.   From the list, you can add, edit, copy, or delete.

It’s easy!

1. Go to http://login.local4all.com and, if you want, create a bookmark to the page if you really want to make it easy for future posts.
2. Click on “Create an account” or log in, whichever applies.
3. After creating your account, log in each time you post so our system can track your work and give you easy access – from any Internet connection, anywhere.
4. Online brochures and similar content will be listed on the left side of the Toolbox page.  On the right, you can click on links to create lists of your events, classified postings, etc.
5. Happy posting!

If you don’t log in, figure we’re going to be playing phone tag because there are only a few of us that can edit other people’s content.  We will, but it’s obviously way easier to empower YOU!

Local4All forms are VERY easy to use, just follow the directions for each step and use either the preview button or SUBMIT button when you’re done. Use email to promote the unique URL of the page you created, or you can use Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn,  ? ? ? ? ?, or all of them.

For business owners, don’t be shy. Even if what you post is for your church or community, you can take credit. Example below:

Posted by

Carl Bromley, Local4All Advertising
Local4All Forms
Search Local4All

Note: both links are clickable and will open in a new window!

While cruising the Internet, I found a heart-warming story in Carol Deckerts’ blog: Paying It Forward

Hello, all, and welcome to the month of March 2010. It seems like just yesterday I was putting new calendars on the wall for Jan 1st, has it been two months already?

Re Olympics, I want to congratulate all the Olympic athletes and their coaches for all the hard work getting ready for what might be the ultimate moment in a person’s lifetime. Not winning a gold, silver, or bronze… COMPETING on a world-wide stage!

Beyond the athletes and coaches, congratulations to all the Moms and Dads who put up with crazy schedules, scraped up knees, and broken bones to get their kids ready for a momentous time – representing their country.

And one more mention…. kudos to Procter and Gamble for their advertisements focused on Moms. Simply a great choice of theme.

I just had a chance to install FireFox for Linda of Lingrow Farm. First we had to capture some photos from a persnickety CD and copy them to her hard drive. Then it’s off to wherever we want, but we bring up her slide show whenever folks drop by.

The Beatty’s were just here and said hello – been married for 54 years and I suggested a party for all happily married folks in the area… at Lingrow Farm, of course.

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