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Calendar of Events

October

October 12, 2016 ● 8:30am Business Killers Workshop Chamber Office October 18, 2016 ● Noon Ambassador Meeting Chamber Office

October 20, 2016 ● 3-7pm Consumer Expo Summit on the Park October 26, 2016 ● 8:30am Board Meeting Chamber Office

November November 2, 2016 ● 5-7pm After Hours Showroom of Elegance November 9, 2016 ● 8:30am Membership to the MAX Chamber Office November 15, 2016 ● Noon Ambassador Meeting Chamber Office November 16, 2016 ● 5-7pm Multi Chamber After Hours USA Hockey Arena November 17, 2016 ● 8:00am Speed Networking Heartland Health Care Center of Canton November 23, 2016 ● 8:30am Board Meeting Chamber Office

Canton Chamber of Commerce 45525 Hanford Road, Canton MI 48187

NETW RKER Canton Chamber of Commerce

www.cantonchamber.com October 2016 • VOLUME 10

Join us for our annual Consumer Expo. The Expo gives you the opportunity to showcase your company while connecting with potential customers and promoting your products and services. This is also a great event for networking with other chamber members. Two Men and A Truck Movers for Meals program has averaged nearly 16,000 pounds of donated food for food banks across the country with a mission of helping families facing hunger this holiday season. Please bring non-perishable food items to the expo to ben-efit the Canton Goodfellows in time for Thanksgiving.

Booths are still available. Please contact the Chamber office, 734-453-4040.

Sponsored by Community Financial Credit Union, Two Men and A Truck, Siegrist & Siegrist CPA, PC and Twisted Rooster.

Business Development Workshop AVOIDING the Six Common Mistakes That Can Destroy Your

Business and Your Future

Date: Wednesday, October 12th Location: Canton Chamber of Commerce

Time: 8:30 am Cost: FREE

Presented by Karl Carter of Thunder Bay Protection With your business as your livelihood you need to make sure your income continues, no matter what happens. This workshop will cover the ways to avoid the six most common mistakes made by business owners that destroy their companies and cut off their income flow from the business.

Call the Chamber office at 734-453-4040 to register

The Networker is published monthly to provide

Canton Chamber members with information on

Chamber and Community events.

This edition of the Networker

is proudly

sponsored by:

October 20, 2016, 3:00pm –7:00pm

Summit on the Park 46000 Summit Parkway

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Hole Sponsors

All Saints Catholic School, Alpha-graphics, Bagger Dave's, Barone Law, Blackwell Ford, The Burek Agency, Burton Manor, CertaPro Painters, Community Financial Credit Union, Emagine Canton, Flagstar Bank, Fellows Creek Golf Club, High Velocity Sports, Hor-ton Plumbing & Remodeling, Kroger Co. of Michigan, LaJoy Group, Michigan Community In-surance, Monroe Bank & Trust, Neely-Turowski Funeral Home, Pat Williams for Canton, Schoolcraft College, Sheldon Road Auto Service, Signarama, Siegrist & Siegrist CPA, PC, St. Joseph Mercy Health, St. Mary Mercy Health, Tammy Brown Agency - Farm Bureau Insurance, Vibe Credit Union and Wings Fi-

nancial Credit Union.

Clubhouse Sponsor - Fraza Forklifts, Registration Sponsor - WF Whelan Company, Putting Green -Atchinson Ford Sales, Inc., - Golfer's Aid Package Bovitz CPA, P.C., Gift Giveaway - Sam’s Club & Wayne County Community Col-lege District , Driving Range - The Mannik & Smith Group, Inc., Din-ner Sponsor - Hines Park Lincoln, Schoolcraft College & Toll Broth-ers Westridge Estates - Canton, Hole In One - Dick Scott Dodge & Showroom of Elegance, Beverage Cart - Mayflower Towing, Inc. & Twisted Rooster, Chipping Con-test - Gil-Mar Manufacturing, Clos-est to the Pin - Buffalo Wild Wings , 50/50 Sponsor - Four Sea-sons Sunrooms, Longest Drive Men - Republic Services and Longest Drive Women - USA Hock-ey and Photo Sponsor - The Vil-

lage Dentist

Congratulations to Hines Park Lincoln

Ryan Kolb, Andy Hargreaves

Darrell Kennedy and Brett Reinhart

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Schoolcraft college offers a program for seven of the states fastest grow-ing jobs including biomedical engi-neering technology, certified home health aide, computer networking systems administrator, environmen-tal technician, medical assistant, nurse & pharmacy tech.

18600 Haggerty Rd., Livonia, MI 48152 (734)4624400

www.schoolcraft.edu

How to Create a Great Business Announcement

Prioritize your Content If your business is moving in a few months, for instance, you would want your announcement to say something along the lines of “Guess What? We’re Moving!” first and foremost. All the details, logistics, and less important content should follow. Just make sure to start off on the right foot.

Use Your Best Writing Skills Any piece of content you show your customers is a direct repre-sentation of your business. No matter what kind of business you run, you definitely want to use proper grammar, parallel struc-ture, and a tone that suits your business image.

Make It Visually Appealing This way, your announcement will grab people’s attention and they will be more likely to read on. Take the time to experiment with colors and fonts that represent your business, but also ap-peal to the eye.

Use a Variety of Mediums

If your business has something important to say, then you need

to do everything you can to be heard. This means sending the

announcement via mail, email, social media platforms, etc. If

you are unsure where to begin, start with us. On SLN, we allow

you to share your content with just the click of a button.

A formal business announcement is the best way to help

customers through a change within your business. Keep

them informed, and your business is sure to flourish.

Tucker Insurance Agency 11752 Belleville Rd. Belleville, 48111

(734) 697-5544

Tucker Insurance Agency is a family owned business. Our founder,

Tom Tucker and staff believe in building solid, long lasting relation-

ships with our clients and community. We are active sponsors,

members and volunteers for several events and organizations. We

have proudly served the Southeast Michigan area since 1970. We

are very excited about our upcoming move to Canton, MI. Our fam-

ily serving your family with your best interest in mind.

Christie Digital Dan Mitchell dan.mitchell@christiedigital.com (269) 370-8920 Christie Digital is building out advertising networks of digital signage in the cinema environment around the country. Our roots are here in Michigan, being our first and most successful network in terms of growth for Christie, and successes our advertisers are having as a result of running on our signage. Locally, in partnership with Emag-ine Theatres of Canton. Our signage can handle static images, full animations, video sequences, sound enabled ads, and much more. In addition to the visual abilities of our signage, we offer in-teraction. Some of our signage is touch and gesture enabled, any sign can facilitate a text messaging response campaign, and we are currently working on the ability to automatically send coupons out to moviegoers walking by our signage via their cell phones.