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Michael Elaman
CPA, PC
Inside this issue:
Profile Magazine
2
Tobacco
2
Women’s Lunch
Candidate Forum
8 Enemies of Small
Business Success
Stop by for networking
and refreshments!
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3
Leading local businesses to succeed!
Calendar
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September 2010
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The Chamber Business
Tobacco 101
Only a few ads spots
remain!
Reserve a spot for your business today by
calling the Chamber at
547-2385!
Avoid smoke, save your sinuses!
Most people who suffer from
chronic sinus infections (aka sinusitis) blame them on allergies,
genetics or bad luck, but secondhand cigarette smoke is the main
culprit in nearly 40 percent of
cases, according to a recent study.
For every pack of cigarettes sold
in Indiana, Hoosiers spend $7.57
in smoking related healthcare
costs.
Each year Indiana has 9,800 preventable deaths (tobacco related).
1-800-QUIT-NOW
Sponsored by:
The Perry County Chamber of Commerce
and the Perry County News
Meet the
Candidates
Forum
Wednesday, October 13
6:00 pm
Schergens Center
1140 31st Street, Tell City
Join us at the forum to hear your candidates share
their reasons for running and respond to questions
submitted by the public. Vince Luecke, editor of the
Perry County News will serve as moderator for this
event. The forum will be aired on WTCJ 105.7 and
streamed online at www.tellcityradiocom.
Lunch & Learn
Will be held on the
Thursday, September 16th
Noon-1:00 pm At The Patio
(Lunch is on your own)
Juan Cornejo, MD
will be speaking on
“Women’s Health”
The new OB/GYN located at 148 13th Street.
Please join us as women learn together.
September 2010
Page 3
Have You Befriended These 8 Enemies of Small Business Success
1. Later. It never comes. Ever. Your ego just convinces you that it does. That way you don’t have
to take any personal responsibility, nor feel guilty for procrastinating. So, my suggestion is simple: Write the word ―later‖ on a sticky note. Then draw a big X through it. Look at it every day.
That should help eliminate that word from your vocabulary. How much money is procrastination costing you?
2. Maybe. This word is a total lie. Just a flimsy, cop-out term people use when they don’t feel
like committing to something. My suggestion: Scrap this word from your vocab. Replace it with ―I
will,‖ ―I commit to,‖ and ―I give you my word that…‖ People might actually start believing you.
What’s more, you might actually accomplish something! Which of your maybes are holding you
back from achieving greatness?
3. Passion. No, this isn’t all you need. Passion (only) works to the extent that it’s supported by
purpose. Passion without purpose burns you AND everyone you touch Plus you end up annoying
the bejesus out of people with your misguided inconsequentiality. Are you passionately incompetent?
4. Patience. As a virtue, this is a beautiful thing. But there IS some validity to experiencing
healthy instances of impatience. For example, check out the following definitions of the word impatient: Restless expectation. Eagerly desirous. Changeable, hot and passionate. Not accepting
delay or opposition. Intolerant of interruptions. Raring to go. Eager for change. Eager for something expected. Dislike of anything that causes delay. A constant desire for change and excitement. I wonder what would happen to YOUR business if you were a little more impatient?
5. Planning. Unnecessary. Total waste of time. Not to mention, if you set a plan, you might actually hit it. Yikes. That doesn’t leave much room for your creativity to blossom. That doesn’t
leave much time to get lost. Man, could you imagine a world where people couldn’t get lost anymore? Creepy. So instead, try this: plunge forward planless into the vortex of action. Stay in love
with WHY without being stopped by not knowing HOW. Are you willing to turn off the GPS and
just go?
6. Rational. The problem with this word is that it’s too safe. And safe is a very dangerous and
expensive place to be. I suggest you be totally unreasonable, completely irrational and utterly insane. I suggest you stop waiting for overwhelming evidence to trust yourself. And I suggest you
become the exception to as many rules as you possibly. Sure, it’s scary to stick yourself out there.
But there is a direct correlation between how uncomfortable you’re willing to be and how successful you ultimately become. What’s the most irrational thing you could be doing in this situation?
7. Ready. Don’t wait until you are. Just go. TODAY. Who cares if you’re not ready anyway? Nobody is ever really ready. After all, failure doesn’t come from poor planning – but from the timidity to proceed. What are you waiting for?
8. Well-roundedness. Totally overrated. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be amazing at
one thing then average at three things. Think about it: Would you rather have your double lung
transplant performed by the most renowned lung transplant specialist in the world; or by some
general surgeon who read a few books on lung transplants so he could perform them with a
modicum of confidence? Don’t be well rounded. Specialize, specialize, specialize! What are you
the world heavyweight champion of?
- Adapted from a business article.
September 2010
Sun
Mon
Tue
1
UWPC Fundraiser
Campaign—
September 1-30
7
Going Local Week
5-11
Labor Day
12
13
St. Pius Fall Festival
19
Tell City Historical Society
Museum open
Sundays 2-4
26
Noon-Smoke Free PC
2:00-Farmer’s Market each
Wednesday
5:30pm - TCPC Library Bd
6:30pm-Commissioners
6
5
Wed
6:00-Cannelton Bd of
Public Works & Safety
7:00 pm—Cannelton
Common Council
7:00 pm-TC Parks
20
6:00pm - Tell City Bd. of
Public Works & Safety
7:00pm - TC Water Bd.
27
7:00pm-Tell City Historical Society
Bingo VFW Post 2939
each Monday
8:30am-CVB Board
5:30pm - Tell City Bd. of
Public Works & Safety
6:00 pm-TCR Arts
7:00-Tell City Council
14
5-7:00 pm-Candidates
Reception-Schergens Ctr.
7:00 pm—TC Optimist
7:00 pm—Daughters of
Isabella
21
5:30 pm—United Way
Board of Trustees
6:00 pm - Tell City
Electric Bd. Of Directors
28
6:00 pm—PC Community Foundation Board
7:00pm - Amer. Leg.
Bingo Every Tuesday
8
5:00p—PC Parks & Rec
Thu
2
5:00pm-Table of Blessings, each Thursday
5:30pm-Leadership PC
6:00-PC Captain’s Club
9
5:30p-Annie’s Project
6:30p-TC Plan Comis.
15
16
8:00a-Commissioners
6:00p-Power of Youth mtg.
Noon-Women’s Lunch &
Learn, Patio
5:00p—Table of Blessings—EUCC fellowship
22
23
Noon - Kiwanis every Wed.
7:00 pm - K of C Bingo
every Wednesday
4:30 pm—PC Council
29
30
Fri
3
Sat
4
Farmer’s Market
Each Saturday 7:00 am
5:00 —Music in the Park
6:00—Wine Over Water
Kiwanis Fish Fry
10
11
CPR & First Aid Training
17
18
8-5 daily—Eagles Bluff
Park & Overlook (weather
permitting)
Chamber Bd.
Meeting
24
25
SIHC Fall Ride
Bingo Cannelton Legion
every Friday
Falling Leaves Bike Ride
Please see our website for details on events listed and an up-to-date event list - www.perrycountychamber.com
Ambassadors
Sonia Ress, Chair
Don Etienne
Jamie Fulkerson
B. Louis Heitkemper
Joan Hess
Dot Kessner
Paul Malone
Leading local businesses to succeed!
Board of Directors
Colleen Smith, President
Tina Malone, Vice-President
Randy Fischer, Secretary/Treasurer
Lynn Fulkerson
David Lynch
Missy Noble
Jeff Rogers
Marlow Smethurst
Jennifer Scherzinger
Mary Snyder
Jennifer Tuggle
Phone: 812-547-2385
Fax: 812-547-8378
perrychamber@psci.net
www.perrycountychamber.com
Cheri Taylor, Executive Director
PO Box 82—601 Main Street, Suite A
Tell City, IN 47586
Perry County Chamber
of Commerce
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