Speaker 1: Now for our community connection.
Speaker 2: And Judy Williams with this and she is with the
Speaker 2: Greater Bartlesville Area Chamber of Commerce. And my goodness sakes,
Speaker 2: we've had a busy month. We got another busy went ahead.
Speaker 2: Let's just remind folks that the Chamber is busy, but
Speaker 2: they're working for you.
Speaker 3: We are, we are.
Speaker 4: It's part of our vision statement, which I can't remember
Speaker 4: exactly how it is, but to provide an atmosphere and
Speaker 4: a platform for business success and development.
Speaker 3: We want businesses to succeed.
Speaker 4: I told somebody, you know how you don't like to
Speaker 4: be taken advantage of Tony.
Speaker 3: You don't want people, but we do.
Speaker 4: We want you to take advantage of all the things
Speaker 4: that we offer. So come and take advantage of the
Speaker 4: chamber benefits. They're available to.
Speaker 2: You, and there are plenty of benefits. You know, when
Speaker 2: you belong, you're a part of something greater, and you
Speaker 2: find yourself working with each other and the common goal.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is so true.
Speaker 4: And what I have figured out is that when a
Speaker 4: business leader recognizes that that they're part of something greater,
Speaker 4: they're Chamber members forever. We want it to work for them.
Speaker 4: We want because people will say, well, what's in it
Speaker 4: for me? And there is so much that's in it
Speaker 4: for you, but the biggest thing that's in it for
Speaker 4: you is to be a part of something bigger. And
Speaker 4: once they recognize that, they're chamber members forever because they
Speaker 4: want to be. They want Bartlesville and the surrounding area
Speaker 4: and Dewey and Nowada and Wan and lin Upon and
Speaker 4: all those places.
Speaker 3: We want them all to be successful.
Speaker 1: Now we've got a business after hours coming up.
Speaker 4: Real quick, coming up real quick, a week from tomorrow
Speaker 4: is our business after hours. The business after hours is
Speaker 4: always the first Thursday of each month, and it's always
Speaker 4: at four o'clock, four to five thirty usually, And this
Speaker 4: next one will be at Career Employment. Career Employment is
Speaker 4: located at twenty three fifty southeast No Water Place, and
Speaker 4: so so that is going to be fun thing. Business
Speaker 4: after hours always has plenty of food and beverages and
Speaker 4: door prizes, but a great opportunity to meet and greet
Speaker 4: other business leaders in the community. So business after hours
Speaker 4: is always wonderful. But that's August the seventh. But then
Speaker 4: August the nineteenth is a busy day. That morning, at
Speaker 4: eight o'clock at the chamber office is pastries and perks.
Speaker 1: I hear, that's really a sweet way to start the day.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, and well. And the
Speaker 4: pastries are provided by the eatery. Any saltsman at the eatery.
Speaker 4: It doesn't get a whole lot better than that, I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what.
Speaker 3: Oh and she always.
Speaker 4: Gives us some great pastries to begin our perks. And
Speaker 4: then Sherry gives an it's about an hour long slide presentation,
Speaker 4: and she talks about all the perks of chamber membership,
Speaker 4: the tangibles and the intangible perks. There's some things that
Speaker 4: go on behind the scenes at the state level, you
Speaker 4: know at the capitol, and you know within the county
Speaker 4: and for businesses that that Sherry can talk about and
Speaker 4: share and tell you what we do, what she does,
Speaker 4: what the chamber does, not just this chamber, but the
Speaker 4: chambers in Oklahoma do behind the scenes. And then the afternoon,
Speaker 4: actually it's later in the morning at eight at eleven
Speaker 4: thirty at Tri County Tech is the Economic Forecast Forum.
Speaker 4: This man Mark Snead is his name, and he as
Speaker 4: an economist and he is going to share with us
Speaker 4: some of the insights from the last year, from this
Speaker 4: last year and economically what has happened. But then he's
Speaker 4: also going to give some forecasts, not just for Bartlesville,
Speaker 4: this is for Oklahoma and northeast Oklahoma. Oh, And he's
Speaker 4: going to talk about some of the economic indicators that
Speaker 4: impact business performance in the coming months. And so to
Speaker 4: just give us an idea of what needs to be tweaked,
Speaker 4: what we need to look forward to, maybe what we
Speaker 4: need to save, what we need to invest in, you know,
Speaker 4: all the things. He's the economist, he'll he'll tell us.
Speaker 4: But that's at eleven thirty on August the nineteenth at
Speaker 4: Tri County Tech. It's twenty five dollars and includes lunch
Speaker 4: and it will be very good.
Speaker 3: Oh, I wanted to.
Speaker 4: Go back to Pastries and Perks. Oh, Pastries and Perks
Speaker 4: is a free event. We have so many free events
Speaker 4: at the Chamber that people can take advantage of. Business
Speaker 4: after Hours is a free event and it's meant to
Speaker 4: help businesses interact with other businesses, get ideas, meet people,
Speaker 4: make new customers, make new friends, and of course eat
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 3: And we do that.
Speaker 2: One thing that comes from that is that some folks
Speaker 2: have heard of other you know business providers or managers
Speaker 2: or folks who may be, you know, the faceman of
Speaker 2: the company, but they've never met them, right, And then
Speaker 2: the a lot of times they find out that there's
Speaker 2: some commonalities and maybe there's an opportunity to partner, to
Speaker 2: maybe meet a challenge and to do great.
Speaker 4: For oh absolutely, and to do great things for each other.
Speaker 4: That business B to B is such, it is so
Speaker 4: important and to put a face to the name. And
Speaker 4: then the other exciting thing that we've got, well, we've
Speaker 4: got a couple of other exciting things, a lot of
Speaker 4: other exciting things coming up. But Business Expo is coming
Speaker 4: up September, the seventh September, the fourth September, fourth, yeah, fourth,
Speaker 4: not yeah, And that will be at the Hilton Garden
Speaker 4: and it's in conjunction with Business after Hours that day.
Speaker 4: But this is a grand opportunity to come and set
Speaker 4: up your display and showcase your business. We will have
Speaker 4: a lot of other business people there and it's seventy
Speaker 4: five dollars to get your space and it's from four
Speaker 4: to six that evening that afternoon, but you need to
Speaker 4: come a little early and set up your display and
Speaker 4: get it all ready to go and and it's going
Speaker 4: to be a great time. We're getting close to selling
Speaker 4: out already. So Kim Whitmore at the Chamber is the
Speaker 4: person you need to call at three nine eight three
Speaker 4: three six eight seven zero eight and talk to Kim
Speaker 4: and she will get your place reserved for you for
Speaker 4: business Expo. And you know this, it was great last year.
Speaker 4: It is going to be even greater this year. It
Speaker 4: really is. We've got more people signed up and it's
Speaker 4: going to be fun and you will meet a lot
Speaker 4: of new people and have an opportunity to showcase what
Speaker 4: you do.
Speaker 1: I'm always a great to you. It's always great to
Speaker 1: see things grow.
Speaker 2: You know. I'm gonna kind of take you off the
Speaker 2: path here, okay, because usually when it gets to be
Speaker 2: like really hot like this, I start getting sherry about Christmas.
Speaker 1: In the Bill.
Speaker 3: I know, I know we're ready for Christmas.
Speaker 4: We are getting ready for Christmas in the vill you know,
Speaker 4: we're start getting ready for Christmas in the Ville long
Speaker 4: about January fifteenth. It just it just it's no pun intended.
Speaker 3: It snowballs on you, it really does.
Speaker 4: It comes around and all of a sudden, there's so many,
Speaker 4: so many pieces of it, but you know what we've
Speaker 4: done it for. This will be our ninth year, and
Speaker 4: it is. It's easier, It's gotten easier every year. The
Speaker 4: one thing we really have to be careful about we
Speaker 4: don't have any control over it is how warm it
Speaker 4: gets in December sometimes, and it's like no, no, no,
Speaker 4: we don't want.
Speaker 3: The ice to melt.
Speaker 4: But Serve pros great about coming out and sucking the
Speaker 4: water off the rink. But yes, Christmas in the vill
Speaker 4: is coming. It will be Our kickoff night is November
Speaker 4: twenty ninth. It's a Saturday night, and and we will
Speaker 4: be open for five weeks.
Speaker 3: You know, it's exciting.
Speaker 2: I just love opening night. I really do the little
Speaker 2: train out there with the kids. Yeah sometimes we have fireworks,
Speaker 2: sometimes we don't, but we always have the tree and
Speaker 2: all the lights in the park.
Speaker 4: Oh and the music and the hot chocolate and the
Speaker 4: kids laughing.
Speaker 1: You were doing hot chocolate last year, by yes, I did.
Speaker 3: All I saw was high passed out a lot of
Speaker 3: hot chocolate.
Speaker 4: It was awesome and and it is is absolutely every year.
Speaker 4: I go out there and I just stand and listen
Speaker 4: and look at the lights and the and the tree
Speaker 4: and the hot chocolate and the skaters and the kids,
Speaker 4: and you hear the kids laughing, and it is like
Speaker 4: being in a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 3: Crazy, awesome and all of it.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: Every year we get seemingly more and more people. You know,
Speaker 2: when I was kind of surprised. Even during bit we
Speaker 2: were packed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, wonderful. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Maria at visit Bartlesville did some ransom stats.
Speaker 3: I don't know how she does it. She's remarkable, but
Speaker 3: I know she's crazy. She's awesome.
Speaker 4: But we brought between twenty one and twenty three thousand
Speaker 4: people downtown Bartlesville. Now, not all of those people skated,
Speaker 4: but almost ten thousand of them did. And but but
Speaker 4: they were downtown. They they ate downtown, They walked around
Speaker 4: and saw the lights downtown.
Speaker 3: They had we have the carriage rides.
Speaker 4: They rode the carriage around downtown and downtown just and
Speaker 4: all of Bartlesville does this. But downtown is so incredible.
Speaker 4: They all put up lights. It's just it's just a
Speaker 4: whole event. And and so, boy, you did take me
Speaker 4: off track, didn't you. We really talked started talking about Christmas.
Speaker 4: I do want to talk about this real quick. September fifteenth.
Speaker 4: We're working really hard at make that the deadline for
Speaker 4: being having your ads in for the twenty twenty six
Speaker 4: Community UH Chamber guidebook.
Speaker 1: That is a big, beautiful Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: A big beautiful book. I was going to bring it
Speaker 3: today and I left it out in the car. That
Speaker 3: was real smart. But but.
Speaker 4: That is if you if you want to put anything
Speaker 4: in the book, you can. Again, We'll call Kim at
Speaker 4: nine one eight three three six eight seven zero eight
Speaker 4: pro Sorry Kim, but anyway.
Speaker 3: But she won't be she'll be happy.
Speaker 4: And it is just a it's it's a great book
Speaker 4: and it's just a wonderful time. And if we can
Speaker 4: get those things in by September fifteenth, boy, it makes
Speaker 4: it so much easier to send off and get ready
Speaker 4: for the printer and and have back and by our
Speaker 4: by the time we need to get these out to
Speaker 4: all of our members.
Speaker 2: You know, this thing is such a good resource, and
Speaker 2: especially with so many people that we have coming in,
Speaker 2: with many of the new businesses that are coming in
Speaker 2: bringing employees. Yeah, this is a really good guide. If
Speaker 2: you've never been to Bartlesvilt, maybe you've seen it on
Speaker 2: the Google map or something like that and you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm moving all the way from Pennsylvania to yeah out west. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: well it is welcome home and it'll get you where
Speaker 2: you need to go. It's very easy to navigate and
Speaker 2: on top of that, looks pretty good on the coffee table.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 4: And then in the back of the book, we have
Speaker 4: all of our businesses listed by category. So now all
Speaker 4: of our members are listed in our member directory online
Speaker 4: all the time, but the book comes out once a
Speaker 4: year and our members can be in the back of
Speaker 4: that book. So if you're not a chamber member, but
Speaker 4: you've always wondered about what one of the what some
Speaker 4: of the benefits are one of two of the great
Speaker 4: benefits are being listed where people can find you online
Speaker 4: and then also in our community in our chamber guidebook.
Speaker 2: This works well for folks who've been here for maybe
Speaker 2: all their lives.
Speaker 1: New businesses are popping up just like these.
Speaker 4: It's all over the place, yep, which takes me back.
Speaker 4: That made me there was one thing about pastries and perks. Sorry,
Speaker 4: I keep going back to pastries and perk. Why not pastries?
Speaker 4: I know in the perks the pastries are really good,
Speaker 4: But pastries and perks is for It was designed for
Speaker 4: members that have been members for maybe a long long
Speaker 4: time and don't remember all of their benefits that are available.
Speaker 4: Kind of like me and you Tom, you get to
Speaker 4: where you don't remember everything, like I left the book
Speaker 4: in the car. But it's for members that maybe have
Speaker 4: been a member just a short time but don't didn't
Speaker 4: get all the gist of their membership benefits. But what
Speaker 4: about those new people that aren't a member yet and
Speaker 4: they wonder what the benefits are? So pastries and perks
Speaker 4: is for everyone.
Speaker 1: Wow, wonderful.
Speaker 2: Now all you got to do is go to the
Speaker 2: website at Bartlesville dot com.
Speaker 1: It's really easy to remember.
Speaker 2: And I don't know who does your your stuff, but
Speaker 2: that you make it really easy to navigate and it's
Speaker 2: really kind of cool. We've got some video in there,
Speaker 2: and yeah, really just a nice, easy little way to
Speaker 2: kind of spend some time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tresa does a great job of She did a
Speaker 4: year d a recap because you know, we're a fiscal year,
Speaker 4: and she did that and put it on our website,
Speaker 4: so you can kind of get an idea of all
Speaker 4: the things that we did throughout the course of the year.
Speaker 3: And your face may be on some of it.
Speaker 2: It might just be Yeah, Yeah, anything else we need
Speaker 2: to tell folks about.
Speaker 4: I just I just one other thing that I didn't
Speaker 4: get to talk about September seventh. That's September seventh. We
Speaker 4: will start women in Business again good and that is
Speaker 4: always exciting.
Speaker 3: And it is just a grand opportunity.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we will have a guide that is really and
Speaker 4: he'll come in and come to women in Business with us,
Speaker 4: and that's great. We always love that. But we always
Speaker 4: have lunch at Hill Chris Country Club, and we like
Speaker 4: to offer maybe an opportunity for businesses, different women's businesses
Speaker 4: to set up a little booth as we go into
Speaker 4: the ballroom to eat, they can set up a little
Speaker 4: table there and kind of showcase what they're doing and
Speaker 4: there's no charge for that. It's we can only do
Speaker 4: maybe two businesses at a time, but it is a
Speaker 4: great opportunity for them. But it's just also great opportunity
Speaker 4: to get together again, put a face to some of
Speaker 4: the names that we know.
Speaker 3: And there again we have lunch.
Speaker 4: And we have door prices and we always have a
Speaker 4: good guest speaker to give us great information about Sometimes
Speaker 4: it could be fashion, sometimes it can be business, it
Speaker 4: could be different things that women need to have help
Speaker 4: with business and so women in Business will start back
Speaker 4: up September seventh. We took the summer off.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea because owners get pretty busy.
Speaker 3: For a lot of time. It's hot.
Speaker 1: It's hot. Set that right, Judy, Thank you for being.
Speaker 3: With Thank you, Tom. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 1: Folks.
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