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February
19, 2008
From the
President’s Desk
Greetings
everyone!
We’re “winding
down” here rapidly approaching TCBRA’s
TWENTIETH YEAR with a Home Show! Jim Alo, our
Show Chairman is working day and night on
filling up the space provided by TC3 at their
new Field House Facility. I’m hearing the ads on
the radio as I write this letter, so we’re
getting our exposure needed to make this a
success! For those of you that have contemplated
on whether to enter or not, Success and Exposure
is what it’s all about! This gives us as vendors
a chance to “Show our Stuff” and “Talk the Talk”
with potential clients, as meeting them face to
face is… (as they say in the credit card
commercials)…”Priceless”.
There is still
time to sign up for some booths, but I wouldn’t
wait too long to do so. Go to the “Home Show” tab, and click your way to
a registration and contact information for Jim,
to set up with us there at the Show! We’re once
again taking part with the Chambers of Commerce
for a “Business After Hours” Social on the
opening night, and this is the time that we as
Association Members can gather with the
businesses in our area for some very special
networking. It’ll be awesome!
In other news,
with the help of our “webmaster” Marty, we
now have not just a new look, but new
capabilities as members for information that is
key to running successful businesses. We now
have a comprehensive data base on line that will
be useful to visitors and to members searching
for folks within the Association according to
specialty categories. This new search engine
within our own site will be able to take simple
entries of one or more words, and find our
members that fit the profile for anyone looking.
From there, we now have the ability to send them
to member’s websites at the click of a mouse!
For members without sites, people visiting will
still get all of the contact information that we
have for each member searched. As an extra
benefit for our Members, we can also provide
them a website at a substantially reduced fee.
How cool is that?!
Many hours have
gone into setting this new website up, and no
different than Remodeling and Construction, it’s
a work in progress. Very soon we’ll be sending
out to our members, an electronic form to fill
out with words that best describe your business,
and once received back here, the data will be
entered and the search for particular members,
both Builder and Associate, will be used to make
our website one of the best around! I encourage
anyone (member or not), that has comments or
ideas to please forward them to our comment
page, because this website is about our Members,
for our Members, and promoting our Members while
being our portal to the Community.
Please plan on
attending our Dinner Meeting coming up this
Thursday, the 21st at the Dryden VFW
to hear Bryan Miller from NYSBA talk about our
State Associations involvement with the Work
Force Program to promote the Skilled Trades with
proper job training programs. Meet and greet is
at 6:30 pm and Dinner cost is $20 member, and
$25 for non-members. Let us know when Ruth from
Michael May Construction calls you, how many
from your Company will be in attendance so we
can plan accordingly.
We’re here to
work for you as Members, and to promote Proper
Practices for Remodeling and New Construction,
as the “Go-To People” within our Communities!
Yours truly,
Kevin Mchon-CGB/CAPS
President TCBRA |
