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23
Jan
12

Knowledge Nook Toys the Toy Place Featured in this week’s Business Chronicle

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Supporting and promoting business in the Longview trade area is a core competency of the Longview Chamber of Commerce.  Our Chamber understands in order to have a healthy economic climate we must have a strong and diverse business base that creates jobs.

This week’s business feature is on Knowledge Nook Toys the Toy Place — a premier teaching supply store, PLUS toy store! Knowledge Nook the Toy Place opened for business in 1975. Attributes for their success range from providing great customer service, free gift wrapping, follow up phone calls after a purchase, and offering personable care.  “We take great pride in providing a friendly loving atmosphere for each and every customer.  I believe that is why we’ve not only stayed in business but have grown our business to provide a wider variety of in-stock products,” explained store manager,   Nick Rogers.

What makes the Knowledge Nook the Toy Place unique is their ability to target two different markets, the toy and educational industry.  They offer new teaching alternatives for today’s educators as well as provide innovative gifts for parents. 

Diana Northcutt asked Nick, Knowledge Nook the Toy Place, what do you like about doing business in Longview?  Nick explained, “We opened in 1975, our first goal was to create a close knit family feel with our customers.  Establishing these types of relationships allow us the opportunity to provide products/services that meets the needs of all generations; grandparents, children and grandchildren.”

Diana also visited with Nick about Chamber benefits and what he has enjoyed taking advantage of.  Recently, I had the chance to attend a customer service webinar on “Delivering WOW” with Myra Golden at the Chamber.  I enjoyed meeting other business professionals while being able to take advantage of a great AFFORDABLE training.  I’m glad the Chamber offers business education programming to help me be a better store manager…that’s customer service.

Knowledge Nook Toys can be found at:

114A Johnston St

Longview, TX 75601

Ph:  (903) 753-8741

Check them out on Facebook:

facebook.com/KnowledgeNook

07
Jan
12

Longview’s Business Chronicles Features Sweet Treats and Gifts

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Promoting our members is one of the core competencies of the Longview Chamber of Commerce.   Recently, we kicked off a new strategy called Longview’s Business Chronicles to help promote Shop & Dine in Longview.

This week’s business feature is on Sweet Treats and Gifts.  They offer a variety of sweet goods.  As the only candy store in our community, they are the only store that offers 24 flavors of Jelly Belly’s, 18 flavors of saltwater taffy, a Pucker Powder Machine with 12 flavors, novelty candies, Zots, 6 flavors of Pop Rocks, 11 flavors of caramel/chocolate apples that be dipped into just about any candy, and a line of gourmet chocolates.

Owners Belinda Freeman and Teresa Boyce credit the Small Business Development Center, research and finding a preceptor for their success.  “The SBDC can guide you in the right direction.  They have a wealth of knowledge and know where to guide you in the community.” Teresa stated.

Belinda and Teresa said that they joined the Chamber because the Chamber’s vision reiterates their own values, “To be recognized as an effective resource, provide relevant, innovative and impactful programming that ensures a healthy business climate and an enhanced quality of life for Longview.”  They cannot wait to jump into the knowledge and experience the Chamber has to offer because they see that one day they can give those experiences back to others.

If you are looking for shop that offers an array of sweets and exceptional treats, stop by Sweet Treats and Gifts.  They are located in the French Quarter shopping center beside Starbucks.

Sweet Treats and Gifts is open Tuesday – Thursday: 10:00am to 6:00pm and Friday – Saturday: 10:00am to 7:00pm.

Sweet Treats

409 W Loop 281, Suite 102

Longview, TX  75605

Sweettreatsgifts.com

22
Sep
11

Maximizing LinkedIn for Your Biz! Register Today…

By Longview Chamber of Commerce 1 Comment
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Benefits:

In this is live training session for beginner and intermediate users, you will learn what the LinkedIn social network is and how it can benefit you and your business.

Summary:

LinkedIn is the largest and fastest growing social network for business people. There are currently over  101 million users and it is growing every day.  It is a great platform to: find new employees, find a job, build your professional reputation and find business partners.

Join us to see a live demonstration of:

  1. Creating an account on LinkedIn
  2. Finding business connections
  3. Join groups
  4. Participating in Question and Answer forums

How do I make LinkedIn work for me?

  1. Give and Ask for Recommendations
  2. Join or Create Groups
  3. Participate in Question and Answer forums
  4. Applications – add interaction to your profile
  5. Add your profile to Facebook

Instructor:

Chamber member Rod Arnold is the Programs Director and Social Media Manager for Complete Business Systems, and he’s also the ‘go to’ social media expert in East Texas. Rod boasts a connection to well over 15 million people on LinkedIn, has been featured in Ricoh’s “Convergence” magazine, and is the author of “The Social Biz Buzz.” Search for any one of several different positions on LinkedIn and you will find him at the top of the pack. Let him show you how to leverage the power of social media to grow your business connections on LinkedIn as well.

 

How to Register:        Online (www.longviewchamber.com ) or via phone (903.237.4000)

Cost:                                   $15.00 per person – MC/VISA/AM EX/Discover accepted

Cancellations:            Reservations require payment unless cancelled by September 27, 2011.

29
Apr
11

4 Area High School Students to be recognized with the Spirit of Entrepreneurs Award!

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SwiftSharing Team Leaders

The Longview Chamber is proud to showcase a new recognition award – “The Spirit of Entrepreneurs” at the upcoming small business celebration luncheon on Tuesday, May 3rd.  Recently, TexasWideOpenForBusiness.com reported small firms are attractive destinations for elite inventors, plus small businesses employ 40 percent of U.S. high tech workers. So when chamber staff learned of a young dynamic team who had developed and launched SwiftSharing they thought these entrepreneurs need to be spotlighted amongst our community business leaders in the hopes to spawn more entrepreneur activity.

Entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to marshal resources in order to seize new business opportunities which have uncertain outcomes, has gained renewed importance. It has become central to economic growth in light of the rapid advancement of information technology and growing importance of knowledge.  Alaxic Smith and Paul Henry exemplify this definition.  They embraced an innovative idea and took the initiative to explore Facebook as a method of sign-up and “like” our Facebook Fan Page!  The team quickly grew from (2) two to (4) four when Spencer Smith and Magan Tyler joined their team. After a few attempts of launching other programs SwiftSharing was birthed.  Currently, there are (6) six team members including Nickson Ariemba and Neil Parikh.

 SwiftSharing officially debuted as a beta on January 11, 2011. SwiftSharing is a categorization concept which integrates with Facebook.  Facebook is setup where one sees a wall post in a news feed format while SwiftSharing allows sharing by default categories such as of movies, photos, games, videos etc.   The organized manner in which the platform is designed has attracted well over 9,000 sign ups with nearly 7,000 verified members.

The team’s goal is to be out of beta testing by the end of summer with 100,000 verified members.  Realizing this is a large task they are willing to take risk to grow their business. Their business plan also includes securing investors over the next several months.  They have plans to visit with potential investors in California this summer.

For more information about the small business celebration luncheon please contact 903.237.4000 or visit www.longviewchamber.com.

 

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